Why Psychology?

Students studying psychology gain valuable insights about humans—how they think, act, feel, speak, and perceive the world around them. Through interdisciplinary coursework, hands-on research, and immersive experiences, students gain knowledge that prepares them to succeed in a wide range of careers, including science, medicine, law, business, education, consulting, and more.

Psychology majors obtain the following marketable skills in their courses:

Scientific Literacy

Courses in quantitative methods, experimental design, and directed study research provide the skills for designing, developing, executing, and reporting scientific experiments to test the human condition.

Explaining and Predicting Behavior

Courses in neuroscience, cognition, and social and personality psychology give students the ability to recognize the underlying forces that describe individual and group behavior.

Effective Learning Strategies

Courses in neuroscience, perception, and cognition offer students specific, usable techniques for improving memory acquisition and recall.

Emotion Management

Courses in health psychology, emotion, and abnormal and clinical psychology give students skills and coping strategies for regulating emotions, handling stress, building resilience, and sustaining happiness.

Discerning and Mitigating Biases and Prejudice

Courses in social and cognitive psychology provide students with an awareness of common biases and techniques to avoid letting it impact decisions.

Understanding Individual Differences

Courses in personality and social and abnormal psychology emphasize how to identify another person’s strengths and weaknesses to recognize their unique value.

Evaluating the Impact of Life Changes

Courses in neuroscience and developmental and health psychology give students the ability to understand stages of personal development through the lifespan and how that interacts with a healthy lifestyle.