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 students to count up to nine hours toward both the bachelor's and master's degrees. The Bachelor of Arts in Psychology undergraduate major 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 is a chart of all the approved courses that can be taken in the ABM program and what course that replaces at the undergraduate level.
| Code | Title | Hours |
|---|---|---|
| PSYC 7700 | Foundations in Industrial and Organizational Psychology (Replaces PSYC Elective) | 3 |
| PSYC 7720 | Personnel Selection (Replaces General Elective) | 3 |
| PSYC 7730 | Research Methods in Industrial/Organizational Psychology (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 | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fall | Hours | Spring | Hours | Summer | Hours |
| PSYC 6690 Advanced Analytics for Social and Behavioral Sciences | 3 | PSYC 7710 Training and Development in Organizations | 3 | PSYC 7910 Practicum in Applied Psychology | 3 |
| Graduate PSYC Electives | 6 | PSYC 7750 Ethics and Professional Issues in Industrial/Organizational Psychology | 3 | ||
| Graduate PSYC Electives | 3 | ||||
| 9 | 9 | 3 | |||
| Total Hours: 21 | |||||