Saint Michael's College

Oh, what
the mind
can reveal!
The psychology major at Saint Michael's will expose you to psychology in its many forms, from neuroscience, to cognitive, to clinical.

As a result, you will find yourself studying a diverse array of subjects like addiction, hunger and eating, media's effect on children, sports psychology, and psychology and the law.

Our students are frequently out in the field working in alternative school classrooms, mental health agencies, and crisis centers, or back in campus labs researching issues such as the effects of stress on health, or of video game playing on thinking skills.

This program builds a foundation of useful knowledge and thinking skills that will prepare you to pursue a wide variety of positions, such as case managers, crisis counselors, research assistants, probation officers, resource counselors, and many more. Our major also prepares you to enter diverse psychology graduate programs that train individuals for careers from licensed psychologists to  university researchers.

Knowledge into practice
By the time you reach your junior and senior year, you’ll have opportunities to apply what you’ve learned to internships and to research projects.

Our Practicum program offers a two-semester internship experience that combines classroom work with in-depth service work at a local community agency.

• This year, one of our students interned at Winooski High School, tutoring students and helping to supervise an alternative classroom for students with behavioral and learning differences.
  
  
• Another student interned at Women Helping Battered Women, answering the 24-hour hotline, participating in the one-on-one mentor program, and helping to organize and create events to promote awareness.
  
  

Grant-funded research opportunities are available to our students during the academic year or over the summer. Many of our students are invited to national academic and professional conferences to present their work.

• For one recent project, two students and a faculty member used virtual reality simulations to examine how people learn and remember new places. Their work was published in the prestigious journal, Computers in Human Behavior.
  
  
• Another project analyzed how stress may affect the immune response in occasional cigarette smokers.
  
  

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To contact the Department of Psychology:

View a complete list of faculty in the Department of Psychology

Jeffrey Adams
Department Chair,
Associate Professor of Psychology

Susan Kuntz
Professor of Psychology

Dave Landers
Visiting Associate Professor of Psychology

Anthony Richardson
Associate Professor of Psychology

Psychology Professor Dave Landers

Christine Amoresano '11