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Assist.org is a website dedicated to helping transfer students in their transfer from one school to another. This site lists the articulation agreements between various schools and CSUSM and is a handy tool for any transferring student. This means that if a course that you have taken at another college is listed as equivalent to a CSUSM course on Assist.org, it will automatically be accepted without additional advisor approval.

Guidelines

This section is meant to give important information towards successful transfer of your courses from your school to CSUSM.

Lower division classes do not count as upper division classes. Upper division courses must be taken in order to count as completion of this course. For example, if a you take a lower division abnormal psychology course at a community college, it will not count for our upper division abnormal psychology course.

In order to transfer classes towards the psychology major/minor, students must obtain a grade of a C or better in the course.

Although some other majors on campus (e.g. Human Development, Social Sciences, etc.) accept other statistics and methods courses to meet their particular degrees requirements, Psychology will ONLY accept the designated courses as prerequisites for Psychology courses and requirements for the Psychology major/minor. Please see your department for further information regarding these requirements.

Approved Classes

The following are guidelines only: Final assessments are conducted by Psychology Faculty Advisors. Below is a list of classes and guidelines to knowing if your class will be accepted or not accepted as a transfer class:

Psyc 100 (Introduction to Psychology). In most cases, we accept Psyc 100 (Introduction to Psychology, General Psychology, or Survey of Psychology) from any college or university however, there may be rare cases where this is not true. Check assist.org for articulation agreement with CSUSM and your school. If you do not find an articulation agreement through assist.org, please contact a Psychology Advisor for help.

We also accept AP Psychology for our Psyc 100 course if the student passes with a 3, 4, or 5.

Psyc 220 (Behavioral Statistics). We only accept stats courses that are behavioral statistics courses. Most math departments do not offer behavioral stats and most math stats courses will not be approved for the major or for a prerequisite for Psyc 230. The following classes are accepted if the class was passed with a C or better:

                Palomar College: Psyc 205
                Mt. San Jacinto College: Math 140 or 140A
                Mira Costa College: Psyc 104
                Mesa College: Psyc 258

Check assist.org for articulation agreement with CSUSM and other schools not listed above. If you don't find the information you need here, please contact a Psychology Advisor for assistance.

Note: Although the University accepts AP Statistics for either general education credit if the student earns a 3, 4 or 5 and the AP course was taken before July 1, 2006, the Psychology Department does NOT accept AP Statistics for a Behavioral Statistics course. To determine whether an AP course counts for University credit, click here.

Psyc 230 (Research Methods).  We accept the following research methods courses from local community colleges:

                        Palomar College: Psyc 230
                        Mt. San Jacinto College: No research methods equivalent
                        Mira Costa College: Psyc 205
                        Mesa: No research methods equivalent

Check assist.org for articulation agreement with CSUSM and other schools not listed above.

Note: you MUST complete Behavioral Statistics before you take Research Methods. You must have earned a C or better in the course. You may not take them concurrently.

AP Psychology Classes

We accept AP Psychology for our Psyc 100 course if the student passes with a 3, 4, or 5.

The Psychology Department does NOT accept AP Statistics for a Behavioral Statistics course.

We do not accept any other AP courses/tests for the Psyc major.

For more information on AP courses, click here.

Non-Psychology Majors (e.g. Human Development, Social Sciences, etc.)

For further information regarding specific requirements for non-psychology major/minors, please visit their website and or contact the program director/department chair.

Human Development

Program Director: Fernando Soriano, Ph.D.
Email: fsoriano@csusm.edu
Website: www.csusm.edu/human_development

Social Sciences

Program Director: Dr. Michael McDuffie
Email: mcduffie@csusm.edu
Website: www.csusm.edu/Social_Science

Liberal Studies

Department Chair: Dr. Kimberley Knowles-Yanez
Email: kyanez@csusm.edu
Website: www.csusm.edu/liberalstudies

Kinesiology

Department Chair: Kara Witzke, Ph.D.
Email: kwitzke@csusm.edu
Website: www.csusm.edu/kinesiology

Prerequisites

Prerequisites are in effect for everyone, regardless of major/minor. Please see the current course description for a list of prerequisites required for each class.