Tailoring your Psychology Major

A Field of Many Opportunities

Many courses allow you to study a topic that you are interested in, in small classes with individual attention:

  • Directed Individual Reading - read book chapters and articles on a topic of your choice.
  • Research Practicum - conduct research with a professor.
  • Senior Thesis - conduct a study on a topic of your choice. Previous topics include depression, shopping behavior, adolescent drug use, and marketing of children's toys.

Psychology is a great fit with many other majors and minors. Courses relevant to various majors are listed below.

Biology/Chemistry

  • Intro to Biopsychology
  • Drugs & Behavior
  • Health Psychology
  • Biological Foundations of Behavior
  • Neuropsychology
  • Sensation and Perception

Child Development or Education

  • Psychology of Personality
  • Developmental Psychology
  • Experimental Child Psychology
  • Experimental Learning
  • Human Cognition
  • Introduction to Educational Psychology
  • Psychological Aspects of Human Sexuality
  • Teaching of Psychology

Communication

  • Social Psychology
  • Human Cognition
  • Industrial/Organizational Psychology

Criminal Justice

  • Intro to Social Psych
  • Psych of Personality
  • Children, Media, and Technology
  • Drugs & Behavior
  • Forensic Psychology
  • Legal Psychology
  • Abnormal Behavior
  • Psychology of Trauma

Health Sciences or Occupational Therapy

  • Introduction to Biopsychology
  • Sensation and Perception
  • Psychological Aspects of Human Sexuality
  • Abnormal Behavior
  • Neuropsychology
  • Drugs and Behavior

Management/Business/Marketing

  • Social Psychology
  • Human Cognition
  • Industrial/Organizational Psychology
  • Human Factors in System Design

Mental Health, Counseling, Social Work
or other helping professions

  • Abnormal Behavior
  • Psychology of Personality
  • Experimental Learning
  • Child Psychopathology
  • Tests and Measurement
  • Family Psychology
  • Psychological Aspects of Human Sexuality
  • Psychological Study of Trauma
  • Drugs and Behavior
  • Legal Psychology
  • Supervised Field Placement

Research/Statistics

  • Research Methods in Psychology
  • Experimental Learning
  • Experimental Child Psychology
  • Basic Applied Statistics
  • Tests and Measurement
  • Directed Individual Reading
  • Directed Individual Research
  • Senior Thesis