1. Navigating the New Psychology Catalog
Dr. Rebecca Cameron, Psychology Department Chair
Cheryl Lugo, Student Services Professional II

2. Agenda Catalog-why and how does it change? Catalog Rights
Psychology Catalog
Psychology Catalog Fall 2018
How does this affect me?
PSYC 101/PSYC 9 GE

3. Why change the catalog at all?
Recession-induced changes to curriculum
Continual evaluation and updating to stay current with field
Changes in Community College curriculum, including ADT
Impaction, faculty composition, and optimizing our resources
Chancellor’s Office Executive Orders

4. How does the catalog change?
Self-study, program review, assessment
Faculty-driven (faculty governance and expertise)
Department committee
Department faculty
College committee
University committee
Senate, etc.
Catalog implementation

5. Catalog Rights
“’Catalog rights’ is a term used to define the specific set of requirements…as established in the catalog for a specific year, which the student must satisfy to qualify for a degree, certificate, etc.”
“Students may choose to qualify for graduation under the requirements in effect either (1) at the time they began attending any California community college or CSU campus, or (2) at the time they entered the CSU campus from which they will graduate, or (3) at the time they graduate from the CSU. In order to maintain their ‘rights,’ students must remain in continuous attendance.”
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6. Psychology Catalog FA 12 – SP 18
The requirements for the FA 12 – SP 18 catalogs were the following:
Total 7 units of lower division: PSYC 2, PSYC 8, and PSYC 4
PSYC 100 and PSYC 101
One upper division methods
One biological processes
Two cognitive and learning processes
One developmental processes
Two individual and social processes
One human diversity
One capstone
Total of 6 units of upper division Psychology electives
Total units: 46 – 50
39-43 upper division units required
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7. Psychology Catalog Fall 2018
The requirements for the Fall 2018 catalog will be the following:
Total 13 units of lower division: CHDV 30, PSYC 2, PSYC 4, PSYC 8, and PSYC 9
PSYC 100 and PSYC 121
One upper division methods
One biological processes
Four courses from the Cognitive/Learning and Individual/Social processes categories with at least one course from each category
One human diversity
One capstone
Total of 3 units of upper division Psychology course electives
Total units: 46 – 50 (33 – 37 upper division units required)
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8. How does this affect me?
Current Psychology Majors will remain in their current catalog year and will not be automatically switched to the Fall catalog.
Students that choose to be in the new catalog as well as incoming students will now be required to take:
CHDV 30 – Human Development
PSYC 9 – Introductory Statistics instead of PSYC 101 – Statistics for Psychology
PSYC 121 – Methods and Statistics in Psychological Research
Students that want to remain in their current catalog can take new classes towards the 6 units of upper division electives in the major:
PSYC 129 – Behavioral Research Methods
PSYC 183 – Teaching of Psychology

9. PSYC 101/9 FAQs
The former upper division PSYC 101 – Statistics for Psychology is now a lower division course, PSYC 9 – Introductory Statistics for Psychology
If you need to take or repeat PSYC 101, you will be able to use PSYC 9 instead (we are working with the registrar on logistics)

10. PSYC 101/9 FAQs
Current students that still need to take PSYC 101 can do one of the following to fulfill it:
Determine if you already took a community college course that we will substitute (we will facilitate this)
Take PSYC 9 at Sac State
Transfer it from a community college (discuss options first)
Submit a Course Substitution Form
Must have been passed with a C- or above
Colleges that have a equivalent course are: American River College – PSYC 330, De Anza Community College – PSYC 15/SOC 15, Foothill College – PSYC 7/SOC 7

11. Pre-requisites have changed …
…for many courses. We will work with the registrar and the department office to problem-solve this issue.
Stay tuned and more information will be available before registration begins.
We will need to partner with students to overcome any logistical challenges.

12. Upper Division GE Requirements FA 18
Beginning FA 18, students with new GE catalog rights will be required to complete their 9 units of upper division GE in Areas B – D
For now, PSYC 134 and PSYC 151 will remain as GE Area E
We anticipate that PSYC 135 and PSYC 137 will be changed to GE Area D beginning next Spring.
Current students that still need to take upper division GE courses to fulfill your current catalog GE requirements can still take any of the four classes listed above.

13. Contact Information
Psychology Department: Amador Hall 350
To schedule appointments with Dr. Cameron please the Psychology Department at with your student id number, name, contact information, reason for the meeting, and availability for the next two weeks.