Psychology and Child Development

College of Liberal Arts

Undergraduate Students

PSY&CD Student Advising

Welcome, psychology and child development students! Below, you will find:

When in doubt, meet with a peer guide!

Quick Links

Questions about General Education (GE) - If you have a question about a course that does not have a CD or PSY prefix, it is likely you will need to see a college-level advisor (https://cla.calpoly.edu/advising). They advise on GE, Cal Poly Policies, and on-time graduation. Useful campus-wide academic resources can be found on Cal Poly's Enrolled Students web page, (including the Cal Poly catalog, registration information, academic records and evaluations, finals schedules, etc.)

Permission Numbers - please contact the course instructor because decisions about enrollment for PSY&CD courses are handled by the instructor. We will post here and in the Tuesday Newsday when there is an exception and the department office is handling enrollment for a particular course.

Course Substitution Requests - please submit your course substitution requests at this PSY&CD department form. If you fill out the university-wide form, you'll be redirected to our form (this is where we track all requests to make sure we respond to every student).

Semester Conversion . Please look at our current info on semesters for PSY&CD which we will continue to update. To answer the question of which courses to take this year that will meet semester curriculum requirements, see the "Major Equivalency Guides" (for Psychology and Child Development). These show you the translation of courses between the quarters catalog and the semesters catalog. You can find these sheets and other college-wide information on the CLA Semester Conversion website. 

What are Internships and Senior Projects in PSYCD? Please check out this FAQ document for more information.

Flowcharts and Curriculum Sheets for the PSY major, CD major, and minors 

Career Planning questions can be answered at the Career Center and if any of our student clubs hold a career panel, it will be advertised at the Tuesday Newsday.

For Change of Major please start HERE, and for Double Majoring please start HERE.

Meet with a PSY&CD PEER GUIDE 

For most questions, your first step will be to meet with one of our Psychology & Child Development student guides. These student interns work with the department chair to get up to date information to our students quickly and identify which students need an additional meeting with a faculty advisor. They have drop-in Zoom hours 5 days/week (zoom link: https://calpoly.zoom.us/j/8853114713):

Mondays 10am-4pm 

Tuesdays 9-11am & 2:15-3:30pm 

Wednesdays 10am-4pm

Thursdays 9-11am & 2:15-3:30pm 

Fridays 10am-12 [no drop-in hours on 9/25, Friday hours resuming on 10/3]

 

Curriculum Updates!

 

GENETICS SUPPORT COURSE OPTIONS

All of the following courses will count for your genetics support course whether you are a CD or PSY major and whether you are on the 22-26 catalog or if you switch to the new semesters catalog. All of these courses also fulfill an upper-division area B (for GE).

BIO 302 
Human Genetics (will be 3312 on semesters)

ES/WGQS 350
Gender, Race, Culture, Science & Technology 

FSN 305
Nutrition & Exercise for Health & Disease Prevention 
 
IME 320
Human Factors and Technology
 
ISLA 305
Topics in Public Engagements with STEM
 
NR 310
Global Climate Change

PSY 344
Behavioral Genetics
 

 

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