The Department of Psychology offers in-person and phone advising options.
Prepare for your appointment. Be familiar with the required course work and recommended sequence of courses for the Psychology major.
Attention: When selecting courses, please use the Class Search. You will not be able to select courses in BOSS since your advising flag has not been lifted.
Resources for selecting courses include:
- CORE Curriculum Requirements
- Psychology Major Requirements
- Academic Minor Requirements
- Second Language Proficiency (up to 2000 intermediate-level)
- UA Little Rock Registration Guide
In-person advising appointment, complete each of the following:
- Click here to schedule an appointment.
- Use the Class Search to complete this Advising form. Bring this completed form to your appointment.
Phone advising appointment, complete each of the following:
- Click here to schedule an appointment.
- Use the Class Search to complete the Psychology online Advising Form
Freshman or 0-29 hours
Concentrate on completing the core. RHET 1311 is required before you can take the first Psychology class and College Algebra or College Math is required before you can take the first Statistics course. Click here for more information about advising for undergraduates.
Sophomore or 30-59 hours
If you have taken RHET 1311 and College Algebra or College Math, you are ready to take Psychology 2300 and PSYC 3335 (Statistics and Methods 1). In your second semester you are ready to take PSYC 3342 (Statistics and Methods 2) and PSYC 3320 (Applied Psychology).
Junior or 60-89 hours
Finish any of the above courses that you have left to complete. Take a course from the following groups:
One course from:
- PSYC 3341 Research Methods I
- PSYC 3350 Social Psychology
- PSYC 3356 Developmental Psychology
- PSYC 3360 Abnormal Psychology
- PSYC 3330 Health Psychology
One course from:
- PSYC 3370 Industrial Psychology
- PSYC 3375 Consumer Psychology
- PSYC 4325 Personnel Psychology
- PSYC 4363 Organizational Psychology
In addition, take 3 upper level hours of an elective in psychology.
Senior or 90-124 hours
Finish any of the above courses you have not completed.
In your first semester take one course from:
- PSYC 3305 Sensation and Perception
- PSYC 3380 Cognitive Psychology
- PSYC 4320 Physiological Psychology
- PSYC 4300 Learning and Memory
In your second semester take:
- PSYC 4100 Senior Synthesis
- 3 upper level hours of an elective in psychology
