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
