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Educational Psychology
Educational Psychology is a concentration of the Psychology major
This concentration includes courses that apply psychology to the 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.
Prerequisite:
| PSY 1400 | Child Development |
Requirements:
| *PSY 2200 | Behavior Disorders of Children |
| PSY 2500 | Behavior Change: Theory and Practice |
| PSY 3020 | Psychological Tests |
| *PSY 3100 | Psychology of Learning |
| *PSY 3150 | Neuropsychology of Learning Differences |
| *PSY 3160 | School Psychological Services |
Associated courses which students are encouraged to consider:
| PSY 3400 | Peer Teaching |
| ED 2161 | Educational Psychology |
| SOC/ED 2162 | Sociology of Education |
Congratulations to members of the Curry psychology faculty for their on-going professional accomplishments!
Here is a list of links to sites that are useful to psychology students. In particular, both the American Psychological Association (APA) and the American Psychological Society (APS) provide a great deal of useful information for undergraduates.
