Policies

Department of Psychology policies

  1. Accommodations to course requirements for psychology courses
  2. Access to psychology programs
  3. Access to psychology courses
    1. Courses needing application forms
    2. Priority enrolment:
      1. advanced statistics (PSYCH 391)
      2. advanced research methods courses: PSYCH 389, 390,
      3. honours seminars: PSYCH 420, 451, 453, 454, 455, 457, 458, 459, 461, 463)
    3. Repeating psychology courses
  4. Concerns about a psychology course or the instructor (informal stage)
    1. Grade appeal procedures for psychology courses
  5. Conditional standing - current psychology Majors
  6. Course outline - official version
  7. Ethics clearance for research
  8. Residency requirements for degree
    • At least half of the total number of psychology courses required for the Psychology plan (major or minor) must be successfully completed at the University of Waterloo on a numerical grading basis and the final grades for those courses must be included in the cumulative psychology average (e.g., at least 4.0 units PSYCH for the Honours Psychology (BA)).