Psychology Department

The Psychology Department is one of eighteen academic departments at Knox. It offers one major and one minor. The department is located in SMC.

Department Faculty

Current

• Heather Hoffmann, Department Chair, Professor
• Colleen Conley, Assistant Professor
• Tim Kasser, Associate Professor
• Kei Kawashima-Ginsberg, Assistant Professor
• Frank McAndrew, Cornelia H. Dudley Professor
• Kelly Shaw, Instructor
• D. Alexander Varakin, Assistant Professor

Former

• Audrey Klein, 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 (major)

This major allows advanced study in psychology.

Courses Required for the Psychology major

10 credits:

• All of the following:
  • PSYC 100 (Introduction to Psychology)
  • STAT 200 (Introductory Statistics)
  • PSYC 282 (Research Methods and Statistics II)
  • PSYC 360 (Research Experience in Psychology I)
  • PSYC 361 (Research Experience in Psychology II)
• One of the following:
  • PSYC 201 (Cognitive Psychology)
  • PSYC 202 (Conditioning and Learning)
  • NEUR 240 (Neuroscience I)
• One of the following:
  • PSYC 203 (Developmental Psychology)
  • PSYC 205 (Social Psychology)
  • PSYC 206 (Adolescent Development)
  • PSYC 207 (Theories of Personality)
• One of the following:
  • PSYC 215 (Black Psychology)
  • PSYC 271 (Human Sexuality)
  • PSYC 272 (Industrial/Organizational Psychology)
  • PSYC 273 (Psychological Foundations of Education)
  • PSYC 274 (Environmental Psychology)
  • PSYC 275 (Psychology of Gender)
  • PSYC 276 (Behavioral Pharmacology)
  • PSYC 277 (Clinical and Abnormal Psychology)
  • PSYC 278 (Stereotypes and Prejudice)
  • PSYC 279 (Counseling Processes)
• Two of the following:
  • PSYC 312 (Animal Behavior)
  • PSYC 364 (Behavioral Neuroscience)
  • PSYC 365 (The Study of the Person)
  • PSYC 366 (Human Memory)
  • PSYC 369 (Evolution and Human Behavior)
• One additional department credit, excluding PSYC 206, PSYC 215, PSYC 248, PSYC 250, PSYC 273, PSYC 312, PSYC 348, PSYC 350, PSYC 355, PSYC 380

Two credits from outside the department may be counted toward the major with the chair's permission.

Psychology (minor)

This minor allows for intermediate study in psychology.

Courses Required for the Psychology minor

5 credits:

• All of the following:
  • PSYC 100 (Introduction to Psychology)
  • STAT 200 (Introductory Statistics)
• One of the following:
  • PSYC 201 (Cognitive Psychology)
  • PSYC 202 (Conditioning and Learning)
  • PSYC 203 (Developmental Psychology)
  • PSYC 205 (Social Psychology)
  • PSYC 207 (Theories of Personality)
  • NEUR 240 (Neuroscience I)
• One of the following:
  • PSYC 271 (Human Sexuality)
  • PSYC 272 (Industrial/Organizational Psychology)
  • PSYC 273 (Psychological Foundations of Education)
  • PSYC 274 (Environmental Psychology)
  • PSYC 275 (Psychology of Gender)
  • PSYC 276 (Behavioral Pharmacology)
  • PSYC 277 (Clinical and Abnormal Psychology)
  • PSYC 278 (Stereotypes and Prejudice)
  • PSYC 279 (Counseling Processes)
• One of the following:
  • PSYC 364 (Behavioral Neuroscience)
  • PSYC 365 (The Study of the Person)
  • PSYC 366 (Human Memory)
  • PSYC 369 (Evolution and Human Behavior)

Meeting the Competency Requirements

• 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