Bachelor in Psychology
Lawrence University
Key Information
Campus location
Appleton, USA
Languages
English
Study format
On-Campus
Duration
4 years
Pace
Full time
Tuition fees
USD 61,500 / per year *
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Introduction
Psychology is the science of mind and behavior.
The psychology curriculum at Lawrence is well-balanced to represent the breadth of the core areas of psychology, including clinical, cognitive, developmental, health, neuroscience, personality, and social psychology. The psychology department also provides an in-depth study of specific topics, such as psychopharmacology, music, language, psychopathology, adolescent development, prejudice, and emotion.
Lawrentians sometimes pair psychology with
- Anthropology
- Biology
- Cognitive science
- Economics
- English
- Gender studies
- Government
- Linguistics
- Music education
- Neuroscience
- Philosophy
- Religious studies
- Studio art
- Spanish
Curriculum
Learn to think like a researcher
Our psychology major progresses from a broad overview in year one, followed by a rigorous two-term research methods sequence along with intermediate and advanced courses, culminating in your Senior Experience project. You’ll learn to think like a researcher, generate hypotheses, conduct original research, and analyze and interpret data.
Collaborate early and often with your professors
In your Research Methods class, you will engage in original empirical projects, closely mentored by your professors, building skills for later work in independent studies and your Senior Experience. Faculty-student collaborations regularly lead to poster presentations at regional/national conferences and peer-reviewed publications with student co-authors.
Access extensive on-campus laboratory facilities
In neuroscience, child development, acoustical analysis, animal and human learning, social, personality, and clinical psychology.
Get clinical training
After taking a course on psychopathology, you can take a course with a laboratory focused on clinical assessment and treatment (child or adult), after which you may earn further credit through a field course or internship working with youth or adults in a community mental health setting. These opportunities help prepare you for applied work in mental health fields and for graduate school in clinical psychology.
Components of the Major
- Principles of Psychology
- Research Methods I and II
- Two courses from the following areas: psychopathology; developmental psychopathology; developmental psychology; health psychology; social psychology
- Two courses from the following areas: cognitive psychology; learning & conditioning; psychopharmacology; brain and behavior; perception
- Elementary Statistics or Introduction to Probability and Statistics
- One psychology course with a diversity focus
- One lab course in psychology
- At least one advanced psychology course requiring a literature review
- Senior capstone course
The Chandler Senior Experience
The centerpiece of the capstone experience is an original senior project—your Senior Experience—allowing you to pursue your own interests in-depth, encouraging autonomy and creativity. In consultation with the faculty mentor, you will choose one of the following types of papers: a critical review of past theory and research, an original empirical study report, a theory development paper, or a paper that integrates your own applied work (e.g., in an internship) with its wider scholarly contexts.
To prepare for your Senior Experience, you will take a senior capstone course where you and your classmates will meet in small independent seminar sections supervised by a faculty mentor. You’ll meet to discuss common readings, provide constructive criticism of each other’s work, and present work in progress to your peers.
Recent Senior Experiences include:
- Justice For All: Depression and Suicide in Wrongfully Convicted African American Males
- Motivating the Unmotivated: Transformational Leadership Style in the Services Industry and Employees’ Job Performance
- Using Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy to Treat Sexual Deviancy and Reduce Recidivism in Adult Male Sex Offenders
- Cognitive and Affective Empathy in Autism: Problems and Interventions
- Choosing to Wake Up on the “Right Side:” Purposeful Appreciation, Sense of Control and Subjective Well-Being
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Ideal Students
You might enjoy this if you're interested in
- How the brain functions
- How people sustain social relationships
- How people think, remember, solve problems, and create
- How the mind shapes behavior, and how behavior shapes the brain
- How mental disorders develop and are best treated
- Deciphering people’s buying habits
- Individual social behaviors in a group setting
- How medicine and chemicals influence behavior
- Improving lives individually (e.g., treating psychopathologies) and collectively (e.g., addressing large scale social problems)
Career Opportunities
Life After Lawrence
Lawrentians can enjoy careers in
Mental health, law, medicine, social work, research, economics, finance, campaign managing, counseling, psychology, consulting, education (secondary and higher education), research administration,
Recent employers include
Thrivent Financial, Behavioral Dimensions, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Medtronic, Pima County District Attorney’s Office, Compass Health Center, The Daily Press, Regional Parkinson’s Center, AmeriCorps
Lawrentians can earn advanced degrees in
Psychology, clinical psychology, educational psychology, business/management (MBA), English, philosophy, nursing, medicine, social work
Recent schools include
Yale, University of Wisconsin, Marquette, University of Chicago, Iowa, Ohio State, Northwestern, Washington University.
Psychology –One of our most popular majors, in psychology you will learn to think like a researcher, generate hypotheses, conduct original research and analyze and interpret data. Recent graduates enjoy careers in: mental health, law, medicine, social work, research, economics, finance, campaign managing, counseling, psychology, consulting, education (secondary and higher education), research administration.
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