Undergraduate

When you choose to study psychology and neuroscience, you will join a cohort of peers who are all committed to improving interpersonal relationships in families, at work, and in society as a whole.

There is high need and high demand for counselors, therapists, social workers, and psychologists and many students aspire to these careers. While each of these career paths require a graduate degree and often state licensure, they can be deeply fulfilling.

A bachelor’s degree in psychology can also lead to other jobs that involve human relationships and behavioral choices such as human resources, marketing, law enforcement, and social services.

Our faculty are actively engaged working with bachelor’s students as advisors, mentors, and research partners. Your faculty advisor will help you navigate course requirements in psychology and provide advice about potential career paths and graduate school options. Building a relationship with faculty members is especially critical for students planning to attend graduate school since letters of recommendation are required.

Psychology majors take classes in statistics, research methods, and the physiological bases of behavior and get to choose electives that most interest them – for example developmental psychology, perception, abnormal psychology, psychopharmacology and addiction, and psychology of aging.

Students interested in graduate school or a research-oriented career can get involved with one of our faculty-directed research labs. Some students will even find themselves becoming a published author in a peer-reviewed journal as part of their research team.

Field placement is our version of an internship where students step out of the classroom to get real-world experience with a company or organization that has a psychology-relevant mission. The field placement can help you determine whether a specific career path is right for you and may help you secure a position after graduation.

If a major doesn’t fit within your academic plan, psychology as a minor pairs well with almost any other subject area and requires just six courses.

As a student in our department, you can expect to us to help you achieve these learning goals and objectives.