Psychology

Psychology majors will take research-based fundamental and advanced courses in basic and applied psychology including biological psychology, cognition, social psychology, personality psychology, sensation and perception, clinical psychology, learning and motivation, developmental psychology, and more.

This combined major educates students in cognition psychology, psycholinguistics, and the structures of human languages in general and American Sign Language.

This combined major educates students in both business and psychology, focusing on their intersection. Graduates will understand how these fields relate to explaining and addressing human behavior and business practices.

The computer science and cognitive psychology combined major provides a foundation in general psychology, psychology of language, cognition, and statistics and is geared toward students are interested in human psychology or artificial intelligence or human-computer interaction.

In this combined major students learn how these fields relate to understanding and addressing criminal behavior. Psychology courses provide a foundation in the biological and psychosocial bases of behavior, learning, personality, and cognition, while criminal justice courses cover criminology and justice systems.

This program offers an integrative curriculum in the study of psychology and the  collection, manipulation, storage, retrieval, and computational analysis of data in its various forms. Students have an opportunity to augment such knowledge with skills in big data analysis, data science, and data analytics

This combined major integrates economics and psychology, focusing on their intersection. Graduates will understand how both fields jointly explain the complexity of human behavior in an economic context.

This program provides students with the opportunity to develop knowledge in health promotion and illness prevention by way of understanding people’s behaviors, perceptions, and emotions within the contexts of relationships and culture.

This combined major focuses on clinical and policy interventions promoting wellness at both individual and community levels. Grounded in social justice, it emphasizes the impact of structural forces on psychological well-being, treatment barriers, and mental health inequities.

This combined major educate students in psychology, linguistics, and the interface between the two disciplines, which are core areas within the field of cognitive science.

In this program, courses from both fields help lay the groundwork for strong basic training that seeks to prepare the student toward developing psychological models using mathematics.

The psychology and design combined major provides students with a foundation in psychology—focusing on sensation, perception, cognition, and social psychology—that enhances their understanding and application of design principles.

This combined major educates students in psychology and music and the interface between the two disciplines, specifically how they jointly contribute to explaining human behavior in the domain of music.

This combined major educates students in psychology and theatre and the interface between the two disciplines, specifically how they jointly contribute to explaining human behavior in the domain of theatre.

The minor in psychology involves taking five psychology courses, some required and some elective, that focus on the multidisciplinary study of mind, brain, and behavior. 

This doctoral program combines training in psychology with the ecological and geophysical sciences, producing boundary-breaking scholars who can accelerate sustainability solutions that are robustly informed by the results of scientific research.

The PhD in Psychology prepares students to become experts in research and teaching in psychology by offering a research-intensive curriculum and environment within a supportive community of faculty and students.