Overview & Academics

The Psychology program focuses on the development of writing, critical thinking and quantitative reasoning skills. Students learn key concepts and theories in cognitive, emotional, developmental and social processes along with research methods and strategies for psychological assessment. The curriculum is designed to prepare students for a variety of employment settings and further graduate study.

Career Options

• Professional counselors or psychologists (with graduate training)
• Public agencies that coordinate services for people or families.
• Social and mental health agencies
• Companies/agencies that provide child development services
• Helpful Career Exploration Tools:
  • Learn Psychology
  • Scoutie’s Careers in Psychology
  • The American Psychological Association
  • Careers in Psychology

Major Requirements

Minimum of 30 semester hours in Psychology required:

• Introduction to Psychology*
• Psychological Development in Childhood or Psychological Development in Adolescence
• Abnormal Psychology or Theories of Personality
• Research Design and Analysis I
• Research Design and Analysis II
• Social Psychology
• Physiological Psychology
• Info. Processing, Cognition and Memory or Conditioning and Learning
• Senior Seminar in Psychology
• One psychology elective (3 semester hours)
• Mathematics Requirement**

*Also counts toward PSY/SOC Social Science requirement

**Also satisfies major requirement

Minor Requirements

• Introduction to Psychology*
• Research Design and Analysis I
• Physiological Psychology or Info. Processing, Cognition and Memory or Conditioning and Learning
• Social Psychology or Industrial and Organizational Psych. or Abnormal Psychology or Theories of Personality
• PSY elective (three semester hours, any upper level psychology course)
• PSY elective (any Psycology course) (18 semester hours)