The psychology micro-credentials program allows students to build a customized experience that critically engages with the topic of diversity and inclusion, data-informed decisions, or mental health. Along with both required and elective classes on the chosen topic, students develop and complete an experiential project. With the support of a faculty member, students complete a project that ties into their chosen micro-credential as well as being tailored to their academic and career goals. In addition to their micro-credential badge, students will finish the program with a portfolio product that incorporates and showcases what they have learned through their courses and experiential project.
What Sets the Psychology Department Apart
Award-winning faculty who are prestigious researches and dedicated teachers
State-of-the-art laboratories and research equipment
Multiple opportunities beyond the classroom, including participating in psychology research, exposure to clinical career options and leadership in student organizations like Psi Chi Honors Society or the Psychology Club
Real-world, contemporary conversations in psychology from a range of experts in the Frontiers in Psychological Science Colloquium Series
Featured Courses
PSYC 3350
Cultural Psychology
About this Course
This seminar examines how people's sociocultural context shapes their thoughts, feelings and behaviors. To approach this question, we read and discuss classic as well as recent theoretical and empirical articles from the field of cultural psychology. Topics include defining culture; dimensions of cultural variation; culture-biology interactions; methodological considerations; cultural influences on cognition, emotion, the self, moral judgment and health; cultural neuroscience; cultural approaches to race and ethnicity; and mechanisms of cultural influence. Throughout, this course emphasizes sociocultural diversity in psychological processes. Students are encouraged to develop empirically tractable ways of asking and answering questions relating to cultural psychology and to apply concepts of cultural psychology to their own research.
ASEM 2405
Decision-Making and Neuroeconomics
About this Course
How do you decide what to buy, who to trust, which job to take or what you'll want to eat tomorrow? This seminar-style course integrates perspectives from psychology, neuroscience and economics to understand decision-making, how it is affected by emotions or social contexts, and how it is implemented in the human brain. The course emphasizes active participation, and relies upon primary scientific sources (i.e. peer-reviewed empirical articles). Recommended: a familiarity with at least one of cognitive psychology, human neuroscience or behavioral economics.
PSYC 3530
Child Psychopathology
About this Course
Child Psychopathology surveys the latest theory and research in the field of developmental psychopathology, which is the study of abnormal behavior from a developmental perspective. Students learn about what the emotional and behavioral disorders of childhood and adolescence are, what causes them and how they are treated. Additionally, the course covers how we judge what is considered to be abnormal or atypical, how we classify abnormal or atypical behavior and how we acquire knowledge about developmental psychopathology.
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