Psychology - Marlboro College

Psychology from Marlboro College is a Campus Bachelor Personality Psychology degree that prepares you for a Psychology career. Psychology is one of the offerings in the social sciences. Psychology is distinguished from other fields by its emphasis on a person's individual experience in understanding phenomena. Historically, a number of perspectives have arisen and thus there are many sub-fields in and approaches to psychology. Psychology is an offering within a traditional liberal arts curriculum; thus it is not necessary to prepare for it as if it were a major. It may be for some, but it is not necessarily for many. Students are encouraged to study broadly, to follow issues, phenomena and problems across disciplines in the social sciences, and even across fields as in interdisciplinary projects. For example, students have combined psychology and the arts, especially theater, dance and the visual arts. Other combinations have included biology and psychology, humanities and psychology?especially literature, history and philosophy. Those students who choose to prepare for a graduate program find that there are different requirements, depending on the kind of graduate work intended. Those studying to be counselors have a different set of priorities than those studying developmental psychology . Students who want to study education also have different priorities. 1. If you are just beginning psychology, and you have a liberal arts agenda, sample from the list of introductory and intermediate courses, and sample from history, literature, philosophy, biology and any of the other social sciences. 2. If you have some focus, then some combinations will make more sense than others. Do not try to do it all; you will miss too many opportunities to broaden out your interest. Your focus may lead to one of four tracks: counseling, developmental psychology , experimental psychology or education. 3. If you are thinking of graduate school, you need some basic, intermediate and advanced courses and tutorials. A graduate school will want to see history and theory of psychology , two classes in perception, cognition, or linguistics, social psychology and statistics. 4. Talk to the faculty about your interests. Begin with any basic introductory offering in the social sciences (e.g., anthropology, sociology or psychology). If you want a specific introduction to psychology , consider Persistent Problems of Psychology, an introductory history and theory course focusing on four major perspectives of the field. Otherwise, jump in to a specific area of interest at the introductory or intermediate level. Study broadly; you will most likely end up using courses you never thought were connected (e.g., economics, American studies, religion, literature, philosophy, and color seminar.) View more details on Marlboro College . Ask your questions and apply online for this program or find other related Personality Psychology courses.