Psychology minor
Minor
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.
This course offers a social-developmental, multidisciplinary overview of issues related to the expanding age population in the United States. Students examine aging stereotypes, characteristics of aging populations, and the impact of age-related forces on individuals in American society. The course is geared toward students in a variety of disciplines and provides a knowledge base that can be applied to other areas of study.
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.