Students enrolled in Honours or Four-Year General Majors in the Faculty of Arts, or in Honours Majors in other Faculties, may pursue a Minor designation in Psychology.
The Psychology Minor requires successful completion of a minimum of five academic course units (ten courses) in Psychology with a minimum cumulative average of 65%, including:
- PSYCH 101
- three of PSYCH 207, 211, 253, 257, 261 including at least one of PSYCH 207, 261
- two PSYCH courses from the following: PSYCH 304 through 380 (excluding PSYCH 323R)
- four additional PSYCH courses at any level
Students who are pursuing the Psychology Minor academic plan should submit a Plan Modification/Application for Internal Transfer Form (www.registrar.uwaterloo.ca/forms/PlanModification.pdf) to the Psychology Department for approval prior to their final school term.
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Residency Requirements:
Students enrolled in academic plans in Psychology must successfully complete at least half of the total number of academic course units required in Psychology for their academic plan from UW with numerical grades. Please refer to the Residency Requirement section
for the Faculty of Arts as well as the
Psychology Undergraduate Student Handbook
(www.psychology.uwaterloo.ca/ugradprog/UG_Handbook.html#residencyrequirements) for further details regarding the residency requirements.
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Only Psychology labelled units (i.e., PSYCH) may be used towards the Psychology Minor requirements.
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Double Counting Rules: No more than three of the ten PSYCH courses for the Psychology Minor can be used to satisfy PSYCH course requirements in another individual academic plan (i.e., Major, Minor, or Option). Under no circumstances can an individual PSYCH course satisfy PSYCH course requirements in more than two academic plans.