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Faculty members cultivate critical thinking applied to problems spanning the neural, physiological, motivational, perceptual, cognitive, and social bases of behavior.
Within these diverse contexts, students pose and pursue questions through empirical inquiry. This engagement develops analytic, quantitative, and creative abilities, and hones writing and speaking skills.
The breadth of our curriculum, and its varied pedagogical approaches, prepare students to become perceptive, responsible decision-makers, and effective communicators.
Use these links to learn more about our curriculum:
Major requirements
Minor in psychology
Honors and awards
Course offerings
Research
Research activity is a major activity in the working day of our students and faculty in psychology and in neuroscience.
Students can participate in research in numerous ways. Some students work as research assistants on projects being conducted by faculty. Many of those students become published co-authors on articles in professional journals.
Students also are required to participate in research projects during their senior year in a research seminar or in a senior thesis research project. Other students do research for independent study course credit.
Some students do a research internship during the summer in the laboratory of a faculty member. For a look at the types of research being conducted by faculty and their students, click on individual professors' names on the faculty page.