Courses offered

Find a full list of undergraduate and postgraduate courses currently taught in the School of Psychology.

On this page:

1. 100 level
2. 200 level
3. 300 level
4. 400 level
5. 500 level
6. 600 level

100-level courses

• PSYC 101: Popular Psychology (2025, 2024, 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015)
• COGS 101: Kinds of Minds (2025, 2024)
• PSYC 121: Foundations in Psychology 1 (2025, 2024, 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016)
• PSYC 122: Foundations in Psychology 2 (2025, 2024, 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015)
• STAT 193: Statistics in Practice (2025, 2024, 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015)

200-level courses

• PSYC 201: Brain, Behaviour and Cognition (2025)
• COGS 201: Foundations of Cognitive Science (2025)
• PSYC 202: Culture in Psychology (2025)
• PSYC 212: Body, Mind and Well-being (2025)
• PSYC 213: Te Kura Mātai Hinengaro and Western Psychology (2025)
• PSYC 214: Psychology and Law (2025)
• PSYC 221: Social and Personality Psychology (2025, 2024, 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015)
• PSYC 232: Survey and Naturalistic Research Methods (2025, 2024, 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016)
• PSYC 238: Special Topic: Lifespan Development (2016)
• PSYC 239: Special Topic
• PSYC 242: Experimental Research Methods (2025, 2024, 2023, 2022, 2021)

300-level courses

• PSYC 317: Special Topic: Evolutionary Psychology (2021, 2020, 2018, 2017)
• PSYC 318: Special Topic
• PSYC 321: Clinical Applications of Psychology (2025, 2024, 2023, 2022)
• PSYC 322: Memory (2019, 2018, 2017, 2016)
• PSYC 324: Child Cognition and Development (2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015)
• PSYC 326: Discourse and Social Psychology (2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016)
• PSYC 327: Cognitive and Behavioural Neuroscience (2025, 2024, 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015)
• PSYC 331: Perception and Attention (2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016)
• PSYC 332: Behaviour Analysis (2025, 2024, 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016)
• PSYC 333: Applied Social Psychology (2025, 2024, 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016)
• PSYC 334: Industrial and Organisational Psychology
• PSYC 335: Psychology, Crime and Law (2025, 2024, 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015)
• PSYC 336: Special Topic
• PSYC 338: Culture in Psychology (2025, 2024, 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016)
• PSYC 339: Special Topic: Applied Developmental Psychology
• PSYC 340: Special Topic: Advanced Cognition (2025, 2024, 2023, 2022, 2021)

400-level courses

• PSYC 401: Theory and History of Psychology (2025, 2024, 2022, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015)
• FPSY 401: Forensic Psychology Fieldwork/Internship 1 (2025, 2024, 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015)
• FPSY 402: Forensic Psychology Fieldwork/Internship 2 (2025, 2024, 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015)
• PSYC 402: Social Cognition (2021, 2020)
• FPSY 403: Forensic Psychology Fieldwork/Internship (2024, 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015)
• PSYC 404: Abnormal Psychology (2025, 2024, 2023, 2022, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015)
• PSYC 405: Environmental Psychology (2023, 2022, 2018, 2016)
• PSYC 406: Gender, Media and Identity (2019, 2018, 2016, 2015)
• PSYC 408: Consciousness and Cognition (2025, 2024)
• PSYC 409: Fundamentals of Behaviour Analysis (2024, 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016)
• PSYC 411: Behaviour Analysis: Translating from Experiment to Application (2025, 2024, 2023, 2021, 2020, 2019)
• FPSY 411: Special Topic
• PSYC 412: The Psychology of Criminal Conduct 1: Basic Concepts in Criminal Justice and Crime (2025, 2024, 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016)
• PSYC 413: Advanced Cognitive Psychology (2018, 2017, 2016)
• PSYC 415: Early Cognitive Development - Theory of Mind in Children and Adults (2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016)
• PSYC 417: Cognitive Neuropsychology (2025, 2024, 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2017, 2016, 2015)
• PSYC 418: Advanced Discursive Social Psychology (2016, 2015)
• PSYC 420: Affective Neuroscience (2025, 2024, 2023, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016)
• FPSY 420: Introduction to Clinical Psychology for Forensic Practitioners (2025, 2024, 2023, 2022, 2021, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015)
• PSYC 421: False Memories
• PSYC 422: Drugs, Brain and Behaviour (2025, 2024, 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016)
• PSYC 423: Culture and Social Behaviour (2025, 2024, 2023, 2022, 2021)
• PSYC 424: Drug Addiction
• PSYC 425: Personality and Motivation
• PSYC 426: Social Psychology and Well-being (2019, 2018, 2017, 2016)
• PSYC 427: Discursive Social Psychology (2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016)
• PSYC 428: Feminist Psychology
• PSYC 429: Psychology of Superstition (2024, 2022, 2016)
• PSYC 430: Political Psychology (2025, 2023, 2020, 2017)
• PSYC 431: Culture and Human Development (2024, 2023, 2022, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015)
• PSYC 432: Applied Cross-Cultural Psychology (2017, 2016, 2015)
• PSYC 433: Current Issues in Cross-Cultural Psychology (2017, 2016)
• PSYC 434: Conducting Research Across Cultures (2025, 2024, 2023, 2022, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016)
• PSYC 435: Traumatic Memories and Repression (2016)
• PSYC 436: Autobiographical Memory
• PSYC 437: Advanced Human Memory (2025, 2024, 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2015)
• PSYC 438: Theories of Violent Offending (2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016)
• PSYC 439: Sexual Offending: Theories and Research
• PSYC 440: Directed Individual Study (2025, 2024, 2023, 2022, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015)
• FPSY 440: Directed Individual Study (2025, 2024, 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015)
• PSYC 441: Family Psychology
• PSYC 442: The Psychology of Criminal Conduct 2: Areas of Application (2025, 2024, 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015)
• PSYC 444: Evolutionary Psychology (2025, 2024, 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015)
• PSYC 445: Cognitive Neuroscience of Face Processing (2025, 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015)
• PSYC 446: Social Cognitive Development in Infants and Children (2025, 2022, 2019)
• PSYC 447: Special Topic: Open Science and Meta-analysis in R (2023, 2022, 2021, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015)
• PSYC 448: Special Topic: Psychology of Emotion (2024, 2023, 2022, 2021, 2017, 2016, 2015)
• CBNS 448: Special Topic: Cognitive and Behavioural Neuroscience: Consciousness and Cognition (2022, 2021, 2020, 2019)
• PSYC 449: Special Topic: Gender, Sexuality, and Qualitative Research (2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2017, 2015)
• PSYC 450: Special Topic: Pasifika Psychology (2025, 2022)
• PSYC 451: Clinical Adult Assessment and Intervention (2025, 2024, 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015)
• PSYC 452: Clinical Child and Family Psychology (2025, 2024, 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015)
• PSYC 461: Advanced Research Statistics in Psychology: Structural Equation Modelling (2025, 2024, 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018)
• PSYC 462: Cultures in Contact: Acculturation and Intercultural Relations (2020, 2019, 2018)
• PSYC 463: Indigenous Psychology (2025, 2024, 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018)
• PSYC 464: The Science of Intimate Relationships (2025, 2024, 2023, 2022, 2021, 2019)
• PSYC 465: Research Methods in Cognitive and Behavioural Neuroscience (2025, 2024, 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019)
• PSYC 489: Research Project (2025, 2024, 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015)

500-level courses

• PSYC 561: Practicum (2025, 2024, 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015)
• PSYC 562: Advanced Practicum (2025, 2024, 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015)
• PSYC 574: Adult and Child Clinical Psychology: Advanced Intervention Skills (2025)
• FPSY 580: Research Preparation (2025, 2024, 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015)
• CPSY 580: Research Preparation (2025, 2024, 2023, 2022, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015)
• CBNS 580: Research Preparation (2025, 2024, 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015)
• PSYC 591: Thesis (2025, 2024, 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015)
• FPSY 591: Thesis (2025, 2024, 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015)
• CPSY 591: Thesis in Cross-cultural Psychology (2025, 2024, 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015)
• CBNS 591: Thesis (2025, 2024, 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015)

600-level courses

• PSYC 690: Psychology for PhD (2025, 2024, 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015)
• FPSY 690: Forensic Psychology for PhD (2025, 2024, 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018)
• CPSY 690: Cross-cultural Psychology for PhD (2025, 2024, 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015)
• CBNS 690: Cognitive and Behavioural Neuroscience for PhD (2025, 2024, 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015)