Graduates often pursue careers in mental health programs, social services agencies, public health settings, education institutions, and personnel-related settings. Many majors go on to graduate work in such fields of psychology as: counseling, developmental, family, social, clinical or experimental.
Students may pursue a course of study which meets their individual needs and interests. Electives are selected by the student with the advice of the student's academic advisor.
Program Learning Objectives
- Appreciation of human diversity and multicultural perspectives
- Critical thinking and problem solving skills as applied to psychological issues
- Appreciation of psychology as science
- Understanding how attitudes, attributions, and social psychological principles explain behavior
- Knowledge of maturation processes and stages of individual development across the lifespan
- Understanding how conditioning, reinforcement, discrimination, and aversion affect behavior
- Knowledge of cognitive processes such as perception, memory, problem solving
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