MS in Psychology Program

Pre-Requisites: Non-matriculated students may take most courses offered in the MS curriculum for credit or audit providing they have met the prerequisites at the appropriate academic level (auditors may be waived from the prerequisites with the instructor’s permission). Students must have completed the four prerequisite courses required for admission to the program:

Developmental psychology
Physiological or biological psychology
Personality or abnormal psychology
Statistics

Prerequisites may be waived with department approval.

Course Restrictions: Students may take up to 12 units of coursework. Students may not register for clinically oriented classes (i.e. Clinical Interviewing or Introduction of Psychotherapy: Evidence-Based Approaches) until 2nd year of their selected concentration.

Transition to Degree: Up to 12 units of academic work which have been taken for credit at PAU, may be transferred into PAU upon formal admittance and matriculation. An exception is made for Early Start students in PAU undergraduate programs.