Industrial and Organizational Psychology — ABM
Accelerated Bachelor’s/Master’s Curriculum for Industrial and Organizational Psychology
The Accelerated Bachelor’s/Master’s Program (ABM) offers outstanding students in the Department of Psychological Sciences an opportunity to earn both the bachelor's and the master's degrees in less time and at less cost than usual. The ABM program allows these exceptional psychology or neuroscience students to count up to nine hours toward both the bachelor's and master's degrees. The Bachelor of Arts in Psychology undergraduate major or the Bachelor of Science in Neuroscience can lead to a Master of Science in Industrial and Organizational Psychology in the ABM track. Please see the Department of Psychological Sciences website for additional information.
Below are two charts of all the approved courses that can be taken in the ABM program and what course that replaces at the undergraduate level.
Chart 1: Undergraduate Psychology Majors
| Code | Title | Hours |
|---|---|---|
| PSYC 7700 | Foundations in Industrial and Organizational Psychology (Replaces PSYC Elective) | 3 |
| PSYC 6690 | Advanced Analytics for Social and Behavioral Sciences | 3 |
| PSYC 7720 | Personnel Selection (Replaces General Elective) | 3 |
Junior and Senior Year for Students in ABM Program - Psychology
Courses marked with an asterisk are those that can be substituted by graduate level courses by students enrolled in the ABM program to meet nine undergraduate hours during their junior and senior year and nine graduate hours to be used toward their graduate degree.
| Junior | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Fall | Hours | Spring | Hours |
| Core Humanities | 3 | Core Fine Arts | 3 |
| *Group A and B Psychology Electives | 6 | *Group A and B Psychology Electives | 6 |
| *Electives | 8 | *Electives | 8 |
| Senior | |||
| Fall | Hours | Spring | Hours |
| COMM 1000 Public Speaking | 3 | *Group C Psychology Electives | 6 |
| *Group C Psychology Electives | 9 | *Electives | 10 |
| *Electives | 3 | UNIV 4AA0 Achieve the Creed | 0 |
Accelerated Master of Science in Industrial and Organizational Psychology
| First Year | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Summer | Hours | Fall | Hours | Spring | Hours |
| PSYC 7910 Practicum in Applied Psychology | 3 | PSYC 7710 Training and Development in Organizations | 3 | PSYC 7730 Research Methods in Industrial/Organizational Psychology | 3 |
| Graduate PSYC Electives | 6 | PSYC 7750 Ethics and Professional Issues in Industrial/Organizational Psychology | 3 | ||
| Graduate PSYC Electives | 3 | ||||
| 3 | 9 | 9 | |||
| Total Hours: 21 | |||||
Chart 2: Undergraduate Neuroscience Majors
| Code | Title | Hours |
|---|---|---|
| PSYC 6690 | Advanced Analytics for Social and Behavioral Sciences | 3 |
| PSYC 7730 | Research Methods in Industrial/Organizational Psychology | 3 |
| PSYC 7700 | Foundations in Industrial and Organizational Psychology | 3 |
Junior and Senior Year for Students in ABM Program—Neuroscience
Courses marked with an asterisk are those that can be substituted by graduate level courses by students enrolled in teh ABM program to meet nine undergraduate hours during their junior and senior year and nin graduate hours to be used toward their graduate degree.
| Junior | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Fall | Hours | Spring | Hours |
| PSYC 3520 Psychology of Learning | 3 | COMM 1000 Public Speaking | 3 |
| BIOL 3000 Genetics | 3 | PSYC 3540 Cognitive Psychology | 3 |
| BIOL 3001 General Genetics Laboratory | 1 | PSYC 3620 Cognitive Neuroscience | 3 |
| Core Literature | 3 | PHIL 1030 Ethics and the Health Sciences | 3 |
| Core Social Science | 3 | Core Social Science | 3 |
| *Electives | 3 | ||
| Senior | |||
| Fall | Hours | Spring | Hours |
| PSYC 5620 Neuropharmacology and Behavior | 3 | Core Foreign Language | 4 |
| BIOL 4100 Cell Biology | 3 | Core Fine Arts | 3 |
| BIOL 4101 Cell Biology Laboratory | 2 | *Electives | 6 |
| Core Foreign Language | 4 | ||
| *Electives | 3 | ||
Accelerated Master of Science in Industrial and Organizational Psychology
| First Year | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Summer | Hours | Fall | Hours | Spring | Hours |
| PSYC 7910 Practicum in Applied Psychology | 3 | PSYC 7720 Personnel Selection | 3 | PSYC 7710 Training and Development in Organizations | 3 |
| Graduate PSYC Electives | 6 | PSYC 7750 Ethics and Professional Issues in Industrial/Organizational Psychology | 3 | ||
| Graduate PSYC Electives | 3 | ||||
| 3 | 9 | 9 | |||
| Total Hours: 21 | |||||