Apr 18, 2024  
2020-2021 Undergraduate Catalog 
    
2020-2021 Undergraduate Catalog

Behavioral Cognitive Neuroscience Minor


Introduction

Please click here  to see Psychology department information.

These degree requirements are subject to periodic revision by the academic department, and the College reserves the right to make exceptions and substitutions as judged necessary in individual cases. Therefore, the College strongly urges students to consult regularly with their major advisor and CLAS advisor to confirm the best plans of study before finalizing them.

Program Delivery

  • This is an on-campus program.

Declaring This Minor

  • Please see your advisor.

General Requirements

To earn a degree, students must satisfy all requirements in each of the areas below, in addition to their individual major requirements.

Program Requirements


  1. Students must complete a minimum of 15 PSYC credit hours.
  2. Students must complete a minimum of 9 upper-division (3000-level and above) credit hours in the minor.
  3. Students must earn a minimum grade of C- (1.7) in all major courses taken at CU Denver and must achieve a minimum cumulative minor GPA of 2.0. All graded attempts in required and elective courses are calculated in the minor GPA. Students cannot complete minor or ancillary course requirements as pass/fail.
  4. Students must complete a minimum of 9 PSYC credit hours with CU Denver faculty.

Program Restrictions, Allowances and Recommendations


  1. If a student is a Psychology major (either a Bachelor of Arts or Bachelor of Science), their PSYC 1000 and PSYC 2220 courses do not count toward this minor. Additionally, if a student is a Bachelor of Science Psychology major, the PSYC 4054 course does not count toward this minor, nor do the two upper division Psychology elective courses they are using to fulfill their Psychology Department major requirements. As a substitution, for these courses Psychology (B.S.) majors must take an additional 3 courses from either the Cognitive Neuroscience and/or Behavioral Neuroscience category lists.
  2. To fulfill this minor a non-Psychology major must successfully complete a total of 5 courses, including PSYC 1000, 2220 and 3 of the upper division courses from the 2 lists, with at least one course from each of the lists. Psychology majors must complete a total of 5 courses from the two lists with a minimum of 1 from each category. None of the 5 courses used toward the minor can also be used toward their Psychology major requirements.
  3. Students can take both PSYC 4054 Behavioral Neuroscience and BIOL 4165, but only one can count toward this minor.
  4. Students must complete 9 upper-division (3000-level and above) credit hours with CU Denver faculty.