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Psychology

Program Chairman: Starkey Duncan, Br 204, 702-8862
Student Affairs Coordinator: Marjorie Wash, Br 109, 702-8861

Program of Study

The requirements of the Bachelor of Arts in psychology, together with the department's broad range of course offerings, allow students to tailor programs specifically to their own talents and goals. The program may serve as preparation for graduate work in psychology or in related fields such as sociology, anthropology, linguistics, or the communication and information sciences. Courses in psychology are also suitable for biological sciences concentrators interested in the relations between physiology, mind, and behavior, and for mathematics concentrators interested in the applications of quantitative methods. Those who foresee a profession in law, public health, urban planning, personnel management, social work, education, or journalism will also find the program of considerable value. Finally, psychology may interest students who are still focusing their career goals and are considering the social sciences or a public service profession. Because research experience and contact with faculty are important requisites for professional development, students who plan to pursue a career in psychology are advised to contact a compatible faculty member by the end of their third year, with a view toward consultation and joint research.

Program Requirements

Eleven courses are required for the concentration. Up to three of these may be reading and research courses. With the exception of the reading and research courses, all of the others require a letter grade.

Summary of Requirements

Concentration 1 Psych 200 (introductory survey)

1 Stat 200 or 220

1 Psych 202 or Sociol 202 (methods course)

1 course in the biological or environmental determinants of behavior (Area A): Psych 210, 211, 215, 217, 280

1 course in cognitive or individual

psychology (Area B): Psych 213, 238, 256, 275, 276, 333, 372

1 course in personality, social, or cultural psychology (Area C): Psych 221, 230, 234, 240, 285

5 additional psychology courses

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Honors. Students who have a grade point average of at least 3.0 overall and 3.5 in the concentration and who wish to write an honors paper in the senior year may do so by arrangement with a faculty sponsor by the end of the junior year. The honors paper must represent a more substantial project than the average term paper. It must be read and approved by the faculty sponsor and a second faculty member.

Faculty

JEANNE ALTMANN, Professor, Department of Ecology & Evolution, Committee on Evolutionary Biology, and the College

LAWRENCE BARSALOU, Professor of Psychology (Cognition & Communication) and the College

MIRIAM BASSOK, Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology (Cognition & Communication) and the College

R. DARRELL BOCK, Professor Emeritus and Faculty Fellow, Departments of Psychology (Human Development and Research Methodology & Quantitative Psychology) and Education

ABRAHAM BOOKSTEIN, Professor, Department of Psychology (Research Methodology & Quantitative Psychology) and Center for Information & Language Studies

NORMAN M. BRADBURN, Tiffany and Margaret Blake Distinguished Service Professor, Department of Psychology (Human Development and Research Methodology & Quantitative Psychology); Professor, Irving B. Harris Graduate School of Public Policy Studies, Graduate School of Business, and the College; Senior Vice-President, National Opinion Research Center

ROBERT A. BUTLER, Professor Emeritus and Faculty Fellow, Departments of Psychology and Surgery and the College

BERTRAM COHLER, William Rainey Harper Professor, the College; Professor, Departments of Psychology (Human Development), Education, and Psychiatry and the Divinity School

MIHALY CSIKSZENTMIHALYI, Professor, Departments of Psychology (Human Development and Mental Health) and Education and the College

STARKEY DUNCAN, Professor, Department of Psychology (Cognition & Communication and Developmental Psychology); Chairman, Psychology Program in the College

RAYMOND D. FOGELSON, Professor, Departments of Anthropology and Psychology (Human Development) and the College

DANIEL G. FREEDMAN, Professor, Department of Psychology (Human Development) and the College

SUSAN GOLDIN-MEADOW, Professor, Departments of Education and Psychology

WILLIAM GOLDSTEIN, Associate Professor, Department of Psychology (Cognition & Communication and Research Methodology & Quantitative Psychology) and the College; Chairman, Committee on Research Methodology & Quantitative Psychology

SEBASTIAN P. GROSSMAN, Professor, Department of Psychology (Biopsychology) and the College

KRISTIAN J. HAMMOND, Associate Professor, Department of Computer Science

ERIC P. HAMP, Robert Maynard Hutchins Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus, Departments of Linguistics, Psychology (Cognition & Communication), and Slavic Languages & Literatures; Director, Center for Balkan & Slavic Studies

GILBERT H. HERDT, Professor, Department of Psychology (Human Development and Mental Health) and the College; Chairman, Committee on Human Development; Director, Center for Research on Culture & Mental Health

JANELLEN HUTTENLOCHER, William S. Gray Professor, Departments of Education and Psychology (Cognition & Communication and Human Development) and the College; Chairman, Committee on Developmental Psychology

PHILIP W. JACKSON, David Lee Shillinglaw Distinguished Service Professor, Departments of Education and Psychology (Human Development), Committee on Analysis of Ideas & Study of Methods, and the College

BOAZ KEYSAR, Associate Professor of Psychology (Cognition & Communication) and the College

SUSAN C. LEVINE, Professor, Departments of Psychology (Biopsychology and Cognition & Communication) and Pediatrics and the College; Chairman, Committee on Cognition and Communication

JERRE LEVY, Professor, Department of Psychology (Biopsychology and Cognition & Communication) and the College

FREDERICK F. LIGHTHALL, Professor, Departments of Education and Psychology (Social & Organizational Psychology) and the College

DANIEL MARGOLIASH, Associate Professor, Department of Organismal Biology & Anatomy

MARTHA K. MCCLINTOCK, Professor, Department of Psychology (Biopsychology, Developmental Psychology, Human Development, and Mental Health) and the College; Chairman, Committee on Biopsychology

DAVID MCNEILL, Professor, Departments of Psychology (Cognition & Communication and Developmental Psychology) and Linguistics and the College; Chairman, Department of Psychology

HOWARD MOLTZ, Professor Emeritus, Department of Psychology (Biopsychology) and the College

HOWARD NUSBAUM, Associate Professor, Department of Psychology (Biopsychology and Cognition & Communication) and the College

JOEL M. POKORNY, M.D., Professor, Departments of Ophthalmology & Visual Science and Psychology

ALLAN RECHTSCHAFFEN, Professor Emeritus, Departments of Psychiatry and Psychology and the College; Director, Sleep Research Laboratory

TERRY REGIER, Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology (Cognition & Communication)

ROBERT J. RICHARDS, Professor, Departments of History, Philosophy, and Psychology and the College; Chairman, Committee on the Conceptual Foundations of Science; Director, Program in History, Philosophy, & Social Studies of Science and Medicine (HiPSS)

MILTON J. ROSENBERG, Professor, Department of Psychology (Social & Organizational Psychology and Research Methodology & Quantitative Psychology) and the College; Chairman, Committee on Social & Organizational Psychology

STEVEN K. SHEVELL, Professor, Departments of Psychology (Biopsychology, Cognition & Communication, and Research Methodology & Quantitative Psychology) and Ophthalmology & Visual Science and the College

RICHARD A. SHWEDER, Professor, Department of Psychology (Human Development and Mental Health), Committee on South Asian Studies, and the College; Chairman, Committee on Human Development

MICHAEL SILVERSTEIN, Samuel N. Harper Professor, Departments of Anthropology, Linguistics, and Psychology (Cognition & Communication) and Committee on the Analysis of Ideas & Study of Methods

VIVIANNE C. SMITH, Professor, Departments of Ophthalmology & Visual Science and Psychology (Biopsychology)

NANCY L. STEIN, Professor, Departments of Education and Psychology (Cognition & Communication, Developmental Psychology, and Human Development) and the College

SUSAN S. STODOLSKY, Professor, Departments of Education and Psychology (Human Development)

THOMAS R. TRABASSO, Stella M. Rowley Professor, Departments of Education and Psychology (Cognition & Communication, Developmental Psychology, and Human Development) and the College

EVE VAN COUTER, Research Associate (Professor), Departments of Medicine and Psychology (Biopsychology)

HUGH R. WILSON, Professor, Department of Ophthalmology & Visual Science, Committee on Neurobiology, and the College

AMANDA WOODWARD, Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology (Cognition & Communication and Developmental Psychology)

BENJAMIN D. WRIGHT, Professor, Departments of Education and Psychology (Research Methodology & Quantitative Psychology); Director, MESA Psychometric Laboratory

MARVIN ZONIS, Professor, Department of Psychology (Human Development and Mental Health), Graduate School of Business, and the College

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