General Requirements
Research
Degree Requirements
Cognates
Miscellaneous
100
The amount of credits needed each semester to be considered a full-time student. If you drop below ______, you become part-time and your housing and financial aid can be affected.
What are 12 credits?
100
PSY or NEU 280, 380, or 480.
What is research for credit?
100
The number of credits you need to graduate with a Neuroscience degree. The number of credits you need to graduate with a Psychology degree.
What are 130 credits? What are 120 credits?
100
A group of at least 3 courses for at least 9 credits centered on a specific theme.
What is a cognate?
100
UASP is open from __________ to __________, Monday through Friday.
What is 9:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.?
200
Your academic contract with the school determined by the semester you enter UM. Yours is 2017-2018.
What is your Bulletin Year?
200
The three ways your can participate in research.
What is research for volunteer, for credit, or for pay?
200
Two required Psychology courses that are co-requisites.
What are PSY 290 and PSY 291?
200
Three areas that must be fulfilled by cognates.
What are Arts & Humanities, People & Society, and STEM?
200
An advising tool that outlines a student’s requirements and grades, and also helps a student plan for graduation.
What is a Degree Progress Report?
300
English Composition, Mathematics, and Languages.
What are the Areas of Proficiency?
300
A project in your final year at UM that is the culmination of your undergraduate research experience. It allows you to earn Departmental Honors in Neuroscience or Psychology.
What is a Senior Honors Thesis?
300
You need ____ writing courses to graduate. For NEU majors, the two required writing courses for your major include ______ and _____. For PSY B.S. majors, the three required writing courses for your major include ______ and _____.
What are 4, PSY 390 and NEU 403? What are 4, PSY 390, PSY 490, and PSY 400 level with writing?
300
Cognates have three different types of ____________.
What are Areas of Knowledge?
300
You need to fill out this form before you take classes at another institution for study abroad or summer terms to make sure you receive credit at UM.
What are Transfer Equivalencies?
400
If you get a D or lower (NOT a D+) in a course in your first 2 semesters at UM, you have the option to retake that course within the next calendar year. Your previous grade will still show up on your transcript, but only the new grade will be calculated into your GPA.
What is the Undergraduate Repeat Rule?
400
Summer research positions offered by the Psychology Department at UM where I will get paid to gain invaluable research experience one-on-one with my faculty mentor and his/her graduate student(s) - name one.
What is PRIME or Lois Pope?
400
Minimum grade you must receive in a course for it to count towards your major.
What is a C-?
400
Your NEU major fulfills this Area of Knowledge. Your PSY major fulfills one of these Areas of Knowledge.
What is STEM? What is STEM or P&S?
400
An on-campus career resource center. They offer mock interviews, resume critiques, internship programs, and networking events.
What is Toppel Career Center?
500
You must complete your last 45 credits at UM if you transfer courses from a four-year school or your last 56 credits at UM if you transfer courses from a two-year school.
What is the residency rule?
500
For NEU research, The Director of the Undergraduate Neuroscience Program. Contact her via e-mail to discuss your research interests and find a laboratory that is a good fit. For PSY research, you can visit this website to read about the different types of research projects.
Who is Dr. Helen Bramlett? What is psy.miami.edu?
500
For NEU majors, name one of these courses and match it to the correct course number: NEU 400, 440, 465, or 468. For PSY majors, name one of these courses and match it to the correct course number: PSY 190, 290, 291, or 390.
What is Neurogenetics, Neural Mechanisms of Psychiatric Disorders, Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience, or Developmental Neuroscience? What is FORUM, Introduction to Research Methods, Introduction to Biobheavioral Statistics, or Intermediate Biobehavioral Statistics and Research Methods?
500
Psychology cognates have the same __________ as your Neuroscience/Psychology major, so you cannot declare a Psychology cognate.
What is Responsible Academic Unit (RAU)?
500
The maximum number of credits students can take after their freshman year without a credit overload.
What are 18 credits?
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