Psychology Department
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Our diverse faculty teach a range of courses reflecting the discipline's major subject areas: social, developmental, cognitive science and memory, learning, behavioral neuroscience, personality and clinical psychology. Psychology classes stress the importance of data analysis, and encourage students to keep theoretical, "big picture" issues in mind. We support the traditional aims of liberal arts education, and help students learn to how to think clearly and critically, challenge orthodox assumptions, organize and present complicated information, make use of both qualitative and quantitative methods, write well, and develop a commitment to ideals of scholarship and lifelong learning. |
| Initial course requirements for the major in psychology include Introduction to Psychology; Mind, Theory & Method; Research Methods; and Behavioral Statistics. Students choose from a menu of elective courses, some focused on basic processes, some strictly theoretical, and some applied. The major concludes with a required Senior Capstone project in which students reflect over the field, consolidate knowledge from previous classes, and form hypotheses of their own. | |
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