Quantitative Psychology Minor
Admissions Requirements
- Interested students must be accepted into one of three eligible concentration areas within the USC Psychology Ph.D. Program: Clinical-Community, School, or cognitive and neural sciences
- Students must be in good standing in the Psychology Ph.D. Program
Degree Requirements (12 hours)
Students must make a B or better in four, 3-credit hour advanced quantitative courses that are 700-level or higher and have 710 (or comparable course) as a pre-requisite. Assessment classes do not count toward this requirement.
At least three of the four courses are required to be taught in the Psychology Department. Up to one the four courses may be taught in another department, chosen from the list below:
| Course | Title | Credits |
|---|---|---|
| BIOS 754 | Discrete Data Analysis | 3 |
| or STAT 770 | Categorical Data Analysis | |
| BIOS 761 | Survival Analysis | 3 |
| BIOS 820 | Bayesian Biostatistics and Computation | 3 |
| STAT 824 | Nonparametric Inference | 3 |
| or EDRM 712 | Nonparametric Statistics | |
| EDRM 728 | Technical Aspects of Tests and Measurements | 3 |
| STAT 778 | Item Response Theory | 3 |
| or EDRM 828 | Item Response Theory | |
| PUBH 791 | Special Topics Public Health | 3 |