Dec 10, 2024  
2020-2021 Catalog and Student Handbook 
    
2020-2021 Catalog and Student Handbook [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

Psychology Emphasis (Tennessee Transfer Pathway), A.A.


The Psychology emphasis provides students with the freshman and sophomore-level course requirements leading toward a baccalaureate degree. Students completing the Psychology emphasis will be ready to move into upper-division psychology courses at four-year institutions.

To facilitate success in this program, all students should enroll in ORN 1010 - Orientation: Learning to Succeed  during their first semester at DSCC.

Major/Concentration Codes: UTPA-UPSY

Use DegreeWorks to view a sample degree plan.

To view a sample degree map by semester for this area of emphasis, go to Degree Map.

Area of Emphasis Requirements:


 

Additional Degree Requirement:


Total: 60 Semester Hours


*For lists of eligible electives, see the appropriate section of the General Education Core Curriculum Requirements .

**Students who plan to transfer to UT Knoxville are strongly encouraged to take non-U.S. history courses to fulfill the General Education history requirement.

***General electives must be selected from courses which are part of a Tennessee Transfer Pathway. Consult the Course Descriptions section of this catalog. Courses which are designated as **Not Part of a Tennessee Transfer Pathway** should not be taken as general electives.

****Students transferring to ETSU are required to complete a natural science sequence.

*****At UT Chattanooga and the University of Memphis, Social Psychology will be counted an elective and not as a course for the major.

*****Students who intend to transfer to UT Martin should take MATH 1710 - Precalculus Algebra to fulfill the mathematics General Education requirement.

Additional information regarding foreign language:

Requirements for a Bachelor of Arts degree at universities include demonstrated competency in foreign language at the intermediate level. Community college students are encouraged to attain intermediate-level competency in foreign language before transferring.

Complete information regarding foreign language requirements at each university may be found on the transfer and articulation websites of the Tennessee Board of Regents and the University of Tennessee Systems. Community college students are encouraged to be familiar with foreign language requirements at the universities and, if applicable, complete the requirements before transferring.