Overview

The Department of Psychology in the College of Arts and Science assembles the talents of more than two dozen faculty members actively engaged in advancing the scientific study of brain, behavior, and cognitive processes. The undergraduate program introduces students to the major areas of contemporary psychology: clinical science, human cognition, developmental psychology, social psychology, and neuroscience. Clinical science studies human personality, emotion, abnormal behavior, and therapeutic treatments. Human cognition includes the study of processes such as perceiving, learning, remembering, attention and awareness, decision making, and the neural mechanisms underlying these processes. Developmental psychology examines human development from conception through adulthood. Social psychology examines interpersonal and intergroup relations and the influence of social conditions on behavior, cognition, and emotion. Neuroscience studies the structure and function of the brain and how nerve cells process sensory information about the environment, mediate decisions, and control motor actions.

Research involvement is encouraged as it provides direct experience with the important questions and methods associated with contemporary psychological science.