Saint Michael's College

Psychology, alongside philosophy, theology and literature, strives to understand people better.  Psychology’s specific contribution to this universal inquiry is our use of the scientific method to learn how people think, feel and act. Majoring in psychology means agreeing to examine what makes us tick.

All psychology majors at Saint Michael’s begin with General Psychology, an introductory overview of the discipline that teaches the types of questions psychologists ask and how they search for answers. The next two-course sequence in research methods helps you apply the scientific methods you used in high school science classes to the study of human behavior.

After that, “survey” courses introduce you to psychology’s specialty areas: clinical (helping mentally troubled people), cognitive (just what goes on up there inside your skull?) developmental (studying how we change over time), physiological (the link between the mind and body) and social (“no man is an island”) and so on. Junior and senior level courses cover still more specialized topics in psychology. Finally, the department’s capstone course, History of Psychology, helps fit all the pieces together.

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