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Educational Psychology

This concentration includes courses that apply psychology to understanding how people learn in various settings. This would be of interest to students who plan to work as providers of educational services in business, industry, health or school-related settings. There are many graduate programs that offer specific training in areas such as testing, program evaluation, educational research, as well as more learning-oriented areas such as cognition and/or neuropsychology.

Requirements:

PSY 1400 Child Development  
PSY 2070 Motivation  
PSY 2161 Educational Psychology  
PSY 2200 Behavior Disorders of Children  
PSY 2250 Psychology of Family Life  
PSY 2500 Behavior Change: Theory and Practice  
PSY 3020 Psychological Tests  
PSY 3100 Psychology of Learning  


Associated courses which students are encouraged to consider:

PSY 3400 Peer Teaching  
ED 3980 Philosophies of Learning  
SOC/ED 2162 Sociology of Education  

  
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