Navigating the Major

Old Major Requirements: 10 courses including
- 3 Core + 3 Topics+ 2 Labs + 2 Seminars
New Major Requirements (already declared students can chose current or new requirements): 10 courses including
- 3 Core + 3 Topics + 1 Labs + 2 Seminars + 1 elective (any course including indep. studies and Honors)
Minor Requirements: 6 courses including
- 3 Core + 1 Topics + 1 Lab + 1 elective (any course including indep. studies)

Three Core Courses (all 3 required)

PSYC 1101 Intro to Psychology (every semester)
PSYC 2510 Research Methods (every semester)
PSYC 2520 Data Analysis (every semester)

Topics Level Courses (3 required)

PSYC 1101/AP/IB required for each topics course

PSYC 2010 Infant and Child Development (every fall)
PSYC 2012 Educational Psychology (F’25, S’27)
PSYC 2025 Psychopathology (every fall and S’27)
PSYC 2030 Social Psychology (every spring)
PSYC 2034 Prej. and Stereotype (every fall)
PSYC 2035 Political Psychology (nonstandard rotation)
PSYC 2040 Cognition (every spring)
PSYC 2050 Biological Psychology (every spring)
PSYC 2060 Cognitive Neuroscience (every fall)

Lab (1 required)

3 CORE courses required for each lab

PSYC 2710 Developmental Lab (S’27)
PSYC 2725 Clinical Lab (S’27, S’28)
PSYC 2735 Social Lab (F’25, F’26, F’28)
PSYC 2740 Cognitive Lab (F’25, F’27)
PSYC 2750 Behavioral Neuroscience Lab **Also requires or 2050 or 2060 (every fall)
PSYC 2775 Cognitive Neuroscience Lab **Also requires 2040 or 2050 or 2060 (every spring)

Seminars (2 required)

3 Core + selected topics required for each seminar

PSYC 3010 Soc Dev (every spring)
- Prerequisite: PSYC 2010 or PSYC 2012
PSYC 3019 Nostalgia (F’25)
- Prerequisite: PSYC 2010 or PSYC 2030 or PSYC 2040
PSYC 3025 Psychotherapy (every fall)
- Prerequisite: PSYC 2025
PSYC 3035 Existential Social Psychology (every spring)
- Prerequisite: PSYC 2030 or PSYC 2034 or PSYC 2035
PSYC 3043 Minds & Machines (F’26, F’27, F’28)
- Prerequisite: PSYC 2040 or PSYC 2060
PSYC 3054 Sex and the Brain (S’26, S’28)
- Prerequisite: PSYC 2050 or PSY 2060
PSYC 3055 Cognitive Neuroscience of Memory (F’26, F’28)
- Prerequisite: PSYC 2040 or PSYC 2050 or PSY 2060
PSYC 30XX Diversity Science (S’27, S’28)
- Prerequisite: PSYC 2034

*Any one developmental seminar (3010, 3011), any one social seminar (3035, 30XX), and any one neuroscience seminar (3050, 3054, 3055) may count toward the seminar requirement.

Classes taken abroad typically count as topics or elective courses. They rarely satisfy requirements for lab, seminar, research methods or data analysis.

Curriculum Map

Psychology Curriculum Map: Bowdoin College Psychology Curriculum (2024-2028)

Worksheet to track progress in the psychology major: Navigating the Psychology Major

Worksheet to track progress in the psychology minor: Navigating the Psychology Minor