Research methods is a required course for psychology majors.
The prerequisites for the course are Psychology 101, Introduction to Psychology, and Psychology 230, Statistics. Please see the instructor if you have not fulfilled these requirements. By the end of this course, you should be familiar with the research methods used in the science of psychology and the principles that underlie the application of these methods. More generally, you should be able to critically analyze scientific experiments and evaluate the claims based upon them. Finally, you should be able to design your own experiment, from hypothesis generation all the way to reporting the results to the scientific community.