心理学文学学士

心理科学系的本科课程为全国领先的心理学研究生院提供了核心准备课程，同时还提供了全国领先的心理学专业学者和教师提供的高级课程和研究机会。学习计划可以针对心理学和医学，法律，商业或教育等多个专业领域的研究生院和未来职业而量身定制。在获得心理学专业的文学学士学位后，学生将能够：开发心理学及其内容领域的广泛知识库。他们将能够描述心理学中的关键概念，原理和总体主题。了解研究方法，发展和应用研究技能。他们将能够解释心理学家使用的不同研究方法，并设计和进行科学研究以使用适当的研究方法解决心理学问题。学生将遵循APA道德
The Department of Psychological Science's undergraduate program offers the core preparation found across the nation's leading graduate schools of psychology, combined with advanced courses and research opportunities offered by the nation's leading scholars and teachers in psychological science. Programs of study may be tailored to graduate school and future careers in several majors fields of psychology, as well as in medicine, law, business, or education. Upon completing the BA degree with a major in Psychology, students will be able to: Develop a broad knowledge base in psychology and its content domains. They will be able to describe key concepts, principles, and overarching themes in psychology. Understand research methods, and develop and apply research skills. They will be able to explain different research methods used by psychologists, and design and conduct scientific studies to address psychological questions using appropriate research methods. Students will follow the APA Ethics Code in the treatment of human and nonhuman participants in the design, data collection, interpretation, and reporting of psychological research. Students will be able to generalize research conclusions appropriately based on the parameters of particular research methods. Understand the applications of psychology. They will describe major areas (e.g., clinical, cognitive, counseling, human factors, industrial/organizational) and emerging applied areas (e.g., health, forensics, media) of psychology. They will identify appropriate applications of psychology in solving problems, such as: the pursuit and effect of healthy lifestyles, the origin and treatment of abnormal behavior, psychological tests and measurement, psychology-based interventions in areas such as clinical, cognitive, counseling, educational, human factors, and industrial/organizational psychology, and the resolution of interpersonal and intercultural conflicts. Students will articulate how psychological principles can be used to explain social issues and inform public policy. Students will apply psychological concepts, theories, and research findings as these relate to everyday life.