Psychology Department
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The Psychology Department is one of eighteen academic departments at Knox. It offers one major and one minor. The department is located in SMC E-wing.
Contents
Department Faculty[1]
Current
- Heather Hoffmann, Department Chair, Robert M. & Katherine Arnold Seeley Distinguished Professor
- Patricia Xi, Assistant Professor
- Frank McAndrew, Cornelia H. Dudley Professor
- Jeffery Grimes, Assistant Professor
- Morgan Snyder-Olson, Visiting Professor
- Kelly Shaw, Instructor, cross-listed in Gender & Women's Studies
Former
- Audrey Klein, Assistant Professor
- Colleen Conley, Assistant Professor
- Kei Kawashima-Ginsberg, Assistant Professor
- Sara O'Brien, Assistant Professor
- Tim Kasser, Professor
- Andy Hertel, Assistant Professor
Cooperating Faculty From Other Programs
- Diana Beck, Associate Professor of Educational Studies
- Fred Hord, Professor of Black Studies
- D. James Mountjoy, Associate Professor of Biology
- Esther Penick, Assistant Professor of Biology
- Jennifer Templeton, Assistant Professor of Biology
Psychology
See main page at Psychology.
The department offers one psychology major and one psychology minor.
Psychology Bachelor of Arts (major)
This major allows advanced study in psychology.
Courses Required for the Psychology major[2]
10 credits:
- All of the following:
- One of the following (Group A):
- One of the following (Group B):
- One of the following (Applied Psychology):
- PSYC 215 (Black Psychology)
- PSYC 234 (Political Psychology)
- PSYC 265/PSYC 300D (Psychological Assessment)
- PSYC 266 (Psychology and Law)
- PSYC 267 (Organizational Behavior)
- PSYC 268 (Freud, Jung, and Religion)
- PSYC 270 (Psychology and Film)
- PSYC 271 (Human Sexuality)
- PSYC 272 (Industrial/Organizational Psychology)
- PSYC 273 (Psychological Foundations of Education)
- PSYC 275 (Psychology of Gender)
- PSYC 276 (Behavioral Pharmacology)
- PSYC 277 (Psychopathology)
- PSYC 278 (Stereotypes and Prejudice)
- PSYC 279 (Health Psychology)
- Two of the following (Advanced Psychology):
- PSYC 312 (Animal Behavior)
- PSYC 362 (Psychology of Addiction)
- PSYC 363 (Self-Regulation)
- PSYC 364 (Behavioral Neuroscience)
- PSYC 366 (Language and Memory)
- PSYC 367/PSYC 300B (Theories and Methods of Psychotherapy)
- PSYC 369 (Evolution and Human Behavior)
- PSYC 376 (Behavioral Pharmacology, Adv. level)
- PSYC 377 (Cognition and Aging)
- PSYC 378 (Personality Pathology)
- One of the following (addresses human diversity):
'The course used for the diversity requirement may not also count for other requirements in the major.'
Two credits from outside the department may be counted toward the major with the chair's permission.
Psychology Bachelor of Science (major)
Dependent upon the completion of the B.A. in Psychology (see section above) as well as the requirements below.
14 credits:
- One of the following (additional Group A course):
- One of the following (logic/math):
- Two additional science courses selected from one of the following departments; both courses must come from the same department:
- Biochemistry
- Biology, except BIO 101, 150, 160, or 201
- Chemistry
- Computer Science, except CS 127
- Mathematics, except MATH 121 or 123
- Neuroscience, except NEUR 240
- Physics
Psychology (minor)
This minor allows for intermediate study in psychology.
Courses Required for the Psychology minor[3]
5 credits:
- All of the following:
- One of the following (Group A):
- One of the following (Group B):
- One of the following (Research Methods and Statistics):
- One of the following (Applied or Advanced Psychology):
- PSYC 265/PSYC 300D (Psychological Assessment)
- PSYC 266 (Psychology and Law)
- PSYC 267 (Theories and Methods of Psychotherapy)
- PSYC 270 (Psychology and Film)
- PSYC 271 (Human Sexuality)
- PSYC 272 (Industrial/Organizational Psychology)
- PSYC 275 (Psychology of Gender)
- PSYC 276 (Behavioral Pharmacology)
- PSYC 277/PSYC 300A (Psychopathology)
- PSYC 278 (Stereotypes and Prejudice)
- PSYC 279 (Health Psychology)
- PSYC 362 (Psychology of Addiction)
- PSYC 363 (Self-Regulation)
- PSYC 364 (Behavioral Neuroscience)
- PSYC 366 (Language and Memory)
- PSYC 367 (Theories and Methods of Psychotherapy)
- PSYC 369 (Evolution and Human Behavior)
- PSYC 371 (History and Systems of Psychology)
- PSYC 376 (Behavioral Pharmacology, Adv. level)
- PSYC 378 (Personality Pathology)
Meeting the Competency Requirements [4]
- Writing Requirement: PSYC 361, PSYC 365
- Oral Requirement: PSYC 271, PSYC 282
- Information Literacy Requirement: PSYC 100, STAT 200, PSYC 282, PSYC 360, PSYC 361
