A good major should give you:
- analytic skills,
- communication skills,
- a broad substantive knowledge of the field,
- some degree of concentration in an area of interest within the field, and
- familiarity with how the field produces new knowledge.
The Psychology Major is designed to help students accomplish these goals. Some majors stress effective written and oral communication. Other majors emphasize training in empirical research techniques. However, psychology provides students a unique mix of training in all of the above (critical and coherent reasoning, application of the scientific method, and effective communication) and thus provides an ideal undergraduate training.
Add to these skills a general knowledge of why people think, act, and feel the way they do and you have a foundation that will prepare you for the challenges of the future whether you decide to pursue a career in business, law, medicine, religion, politics, or psychology and related fields.
Important: After declaring a Psychology major, students should go to the Dean's office in Gasson Hall to be assigned an academic advisor.
