Administrator: Chair, Department of Behavioral Sciences and Cultural Studies

Learning Objectives:

1. Graduates of this emphasis and general education students will understand the scientific method in social science and graduates will be able to carry out a research project.  (Academic Excellence and Creative Engagement)
2. Graduates of this emphasis will exhibit basic interpersonal skills; an understanding of a variety of professional roles; the purpose of at least one community agency, the clients it serves, and the intervention methods it uses.  (Creative Engagement and Social Responsiveness)
3. Graduates of this emphasis and general education students will be able to use a variety of information technologies to research topics in the literature of the field.  (Academic Excellence and Creative Engagement)
4. Graduates of this emphasis and general education students will be able to identify the major theories and contributors to the discipline. (Academic Excellence)
5. Graduates of this emphasis will be able to meaningfully discuss the nature and behavior of human beings from Christian and social scientific perspectives, and to recognize the points of consensus and tension between the two.  They will understand how to integrate issues of faith and values with the theories and practices of psychology. (Christlike Character)

Requirements: 51-56 credits: 24 core credits of which 18 shall be numbered above 2999, and the requirements for one area of emphasis (27-32)

Core courses: 24 credits

Industrial and Organizational Emphasis

Interdisciplinary Emphasis

Scientist/Practitioner Emphasis

Neuroscience/Neuropsychology Emphasis