心理学

背景信息

心理学家研究广泛的思想和行为, 从正常到异常, 在个人和社会群体中. What distinguishes psychology from other fields is its strong research orientation. 因为心理学几乎与所有职业都有关, 打算进入医学等专业的学生, 法律, 企业管理, 社会工作, 教育或咨询往往选择主修或辅修心理学.

职业发展机会

Most professional positions for psychologists require a master's or doctoral degree. 除了攻读心理学的研究生课程, 最近的毕业生进入了医学专业课程, 咨询与指导, 业务, 特殊教育, 社会工作, 法律, 牙科, 部和验光.

Many of our students seek employment immediately after completing their bachelor's degree. Employers seek out psychology majors for their combination of people and research skills. Some of our graduates have entered positions directly related to psychological services (e.g., 精神健康助理员, 心理测试技术员, 行为分析, 或医学研究助理). Others have taken positions not directly concerned with psychological services but related to psychology (e.g., 销售, 管理, 执法, 修正, 广告, 市场调查和统计咨询).

Alumni surveys by the NDSU Career Center have consistently shown that our graduates are very successful in obtaining good jobs or going on to graduate or professional school.

这个项目

本科学生可以在新大主修或辅修心理学. 心理学专业的学生可以攻读文学学士学位(B.A.)或理学学士学位(B.S.). 这两个学位项目的主要区别是，B.A. degree requires competency at the second-year level of a foreign language while the B.S. requires an approved minor or additional course work in either the natural 科学s or the 社会科学s instead of a language. Both the major and minor requirements within psychology allow each student to select the courses most relevant to his or her own interests.

建议

Freshman and transfer students receive introductory academic advising from the department’s professional advisor in conjunction with NDSU’s Career and 建议 Center. This preparatory advising continues until students are assigned to a faculty advisor to start their junior year. 除了这些专业和教师顾问, students can use our web-based advising center to obtain information about the psychology curriculum and career planning. 本署亦备有载有上述资料的印刷讲义.

一个有用的功能是职业方向叠加(COOL), which has been developed to aid students in selecting courses relevant to their career goals. 可用于行为神经科学(例如.g.(医学、医学研究)、工业心理学(e.g.例如，商业，工业)，人力服务(例如.g.临床心理学、社会工作)和实验心理学(e.g.、学术及研究事业).

研究及电脑设施

Students and faculty at NDSU are engaged in research on a wide variety of topics in psychology. 研究实验室包括用于人体研究的试验室, sound-attenuated钱伯斯, 小组实验室套房, 虚拟现实显示系统和驾驶模拟器. 实验室设施包括研究人类感知的先进设备, 大脑功能, 信息处理与社会互动.

Because the program at NDSU emphasizes the scientific approach to the study of behavior, 强烈鼓励学生进行研究. 本科 students often serve as research assistants working closely with faculty and graduate students. 目前的研究包括健康方面的项目, 愿景, 虚拟现实/多感官整合, 信息处理, 行为矫正, 情感, 抑郁症, 心理学史, 分组过程.

领域经验

The department maintains excellent relations with a number of service agencies in the Fargo-Moorhead community. Through these contacts, psychology majors can gain field experience in human service settings. 同时, they earn college credit and gain an understanding of the applications of psychological principles in community service agencies.

金融援助

研究 and teaching assistantships are sometimes available to advanced undergraduate students. Students can also receive support for work in the department through the NDSU work-study program. 除了, the 心理学 研究 Award Fund provides money to undergraduates for research projects and travel to professional conferences.

本科生也可以获得一些奖学金. 例如, the Patricia Beatty Scholarships provide funding for one to two junior and senior psychology students each year. 我们邀请学生申请这些奖学金, which are awarded based on grade point average and involvement in department research and activities. Many of our students also have participated in campus-wide programs that sponsor students to do research with faculty mentors (for example, 麦克奈尔学者项目).

高中准备

Basic college preparatory courses in high school are sufficient for NDSU psychology majors. 因为研究和写作技巧特别重要, 学生应该有良好的英语基础, 科学, 社会科学, 和数学. Do not be concerned if you have not had psychology in high school–you will get plenty of courses here. 事实上, we generally prefer that students take their introductory psychology course at NDSU rather than Advanced Placement 心理学 in high school.

未成年人心理

A total of 18 credits are required in psychology and must include PSYC 111 (Introduction to 心理学) and one 300 or 400-level course. 除了一般心理学的未成年人, 更专业的辅修课程有神经科学和管理心理学.

B.S. 行为统计学

This interdisciplinary major is the result of a joint effort between the Departments of 心理学 and Statistics. (Note: students in this major also complete the requirements for a degree in psychology.) 研究生s of this program will have skills in collecting and analyzing data on human behavior, 可以在处理医疗或医疗保险数据的公司工作, 消费活动, 市场研究, 等. 看看心理学网站，你的导师或者 NDSU公告 详细信息.