We would like every applicant to have access to the application conventions and expectations that we will apply during our review process. For that reason, it is worth telling you a little more about ourselves as a department and about what we are looking for in your application materials.
Please read the following guidelines prior to contacting the department chair regarding your request for course approval. When submitting a request, please specify whether you are seeking approval for psychological science major/minor credit or general Colgate course credit.
PsychoPy is an open-source program for building stimulus-response and reaction-time experiments.
Frequent collaboration between students and faculty is one of the department’s distinctive strengths. Students have numerous opportunities for high-level research in partnership with professors who are experts in their fields.
Below are resources pertaining to general operating procedures for working with human research participants. Also included are several helpful templates, ranging from participant sign-up sheets to poster templates for research presentations.
The lab facilitates both intradisciplinary and interdisciplinary work among researchers who may not otherwise collaborate.
Faculty in the Colgate University Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences are exceptional researchers, scholars, and teachers. With specialties ranging from animal learning and cognition, to human information processing and alcohol use disorders, they support an academically rigorous learning experience and significant undergraduate student research opportunities.
Members of the Center for Language and Brain at Colgate University.