The Psychology minor offers students a deeper understanding of human behavior, cognition, and emotion. By exploring topics such as social psychology, abnormal psychology, cognitive psychology, and case management/counseling students gain valuable insights into the complexities of the human mind and human behavior. Students can choose to emphasize a particular area of Psychology within their selection of courses that can include research methods and data analysis. Students will gain skills and understanding of the complex situational individual factors that contribute to human behavior.
Psychology Minor - Course Catalog
This is an introductory course in descriptive and inferential statistics. Topics include: data analysis, and graphical methods of describing data, measures of central tendency and variability, probability, the normal distribution, sampling distributions, confidence intervals, hypothesis testing, correlation, and regression analysis.
In this course, students learn to think like psychologists as they study classic and contemporary topics in human behavior, feeling, and thought. Students learn to apply psychological perspectives of thought, including biological, cognitive, sociocultural, humanistic, psychodynamic, and behaviorist, to better understand the human experience. Students will learn to use these perspectives to explore how individual behavior is influenced by and influences one?s biology, family, community and society. Topics may include human development, personality, psychopathology, human relationships, language, memory, perceptual processes, and intelligence, among others.