WHo is a psychology major...anyone?

I want to know what it demands, because I want to do that!

You can do a google search on different colleges and universities to see what classes are offered.

Much of it depends on what you have under your belt already for classes (if any).

Just google "psychology major" and all kinds of things come up for you to research Good luck!

sabby

I am... though really I should say "I will be" because I start my upper division transfer next semester. I took the lower divisions at a community college, but I was a different major (Exotic Animal Trianing and Management). Decided to go further in school and picked psych as a very good major. Different colleges have different requirements and different focuses. Figure out what you want along with what kind of college you want to go to and the location you want to be in along with what you can afford and what kind of financial aide you can probably get for it. I'm going to CSUN in the spring. The undergraduate degree is pretty general, but I can focus my graduate degree on what I am really interested in.

You best be prepared for more school once you are done with your BA. There is very little you can do with a Psych BA that you can't do with an English BA.

If you want to be some sort of therapist, you have to go on for a Masters (and get licensed) or a go for a Doctorate.

Good luck.

Campy

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I agree. I'm a psych major as well, in my 3rd year (BA Honours)

http://www.ncsu.edu/registrar/curric...***/16psy.html

there's an example of one from my old school

I have already completed my degree in psychology.

You might want to visit this site to get answers :http://forums.studentdoctor.net/forumdisplay.php?f=57

Thanks guys, I know that geting a psych major will be a challenge, but hey its tottaly worth it, is it not? I mean nothing is more important than the mind and helping people, well that is what I think.

The American Psychological Association (APA) has good student resources/website:

http://www.apa.org/students/

Psychology is a broader field than most people realise. Abnormal (clinical) psychology forms just part of the undergraduate curriculum. Precisely what fills up the rest of the curriculum depends on where it is that you go to do your psychology degree. Some theorists have said that the field of psychology is so diverse (and embraces such different paradigms) that it doesn't deserve to be considered a unified field. Consider the following:

- advertising strategies
- organisational structures
- driving safety
- neuroscience
- concept acquisition
- language
- vision
- theories of human development

they are all part of psychology. You have behaviourists (study laws of reinforcement etc in chickens and pigeons and rats) and neuroscientists (study the mathematical or bio-chemical properties of single cell firings, or the anatomy of neurones, or populations of neurones) and social psychologists (study voting practices and racism and mass hysteria etc) and organisational psychologists (study group size and how to maximise productivity of employees) and... so on and so forth.

An undergraduate degree in psychology is typically designed to give you a taste of all the different areas of psychology that one might continue on with.

And continue on with one needs to do...

It can be a worthwhile experience, don't get me wrong. But people typically do discover that the experience is a little different from what one had supposed. I remembered thinking this while worrying about visual rotation tasks with perceptual processing... And worrying about how to analyse the stats of Chomsky the Chicken's preference for puffed wheat over wheat... Abnormal psychology forms a tiny little part... And it isn't until grad school (maybe 4 years down the track or even 7 years down the track that one gets to do what one thought about doing...) That being said... One does have to start somewhere. And... One does have to learn to communicate with others (and with the established literature) in order to have others understand (and take) your views seriously. You might even get to have clients (to help) in about 7 years...

It is a long haul. That being said: Is it worth it? You bet. :-)

You sure are wise

I have my B.S. in psychology and I'll be done with my Master's Degree this May. PM me if you have any questions; I'd be happy to answer.