Senate Document 39

                        APC Document #27

                          1985 - 1986            



PSYCHOLOGY DEPARTMENT

Catalog changes, Department of Psychology

I.  Catalog page 173:

    For Research Methods II (Psy 304), add to the list of 
prerequisites:  "Students enrolled at the university for the first 
time during or after the Fall of 1986 must complete the General
Education Math requirement prior to enrolling in this course."

RATIONALE:

     As an advanced research methods course, the content includes a 
considerable amount of statistical material.  The student would be 
better prepared for it after completing the General Education math
requirement.

II.  Catalog page 173:

     Change Psy 309 to Psy 409

RATIONALE:

     The course in question, "Advanced Social Psychology" has been 
taught as an upper-level course requiring some acquaintance with 
research methods and some hands-on experience in social 
psychological data-collection.  However, truly useful experience in 
the course requires greater methodological sophistication as well as 
a higher level of work expected in the course.  Accordingly, the 
course number should reflect its upper-level status.

III.  Add "Psy 304" to the list of prerequisites of the above 
      course.

RATIONALE:

The department lists Psy 304 as a prerequisite for all 400-level 
psychology courses.