Mission:
The Department of Psychology is committed to educating the next generation of scholars in the psychological and behavioral sciences. We are dedicated to creating and fostering a diverse educational environment with a scientific and culturally sensitive approach to understanding human behavior and mental processes.The Department meets students’ academic needs by 1) providing a comprehensive and challenging curriculum that increases students’ knowledge and understanding of the field of psychology and of psychology as a science, through a curriculum that is evidence-based and empirical in approach; 2) offering hands-on opportunities, research and academic internships, service learning, and community services activities, to apply theoretical background obtained from courses in practical experiences; and 3) providing academic and career development opportunities that facilitate successful acceptance to and matriculation in graduate school or gainful employment into the workforce. Faculty, who have diverse backgrounds in social, clinical/ community, counseling, neuroscience, health, experimental, developmental, educational, and personality psychology, endeavor to strengthen their individual teaching expertise through developing innovative and leading edge curriculum and foster their individual research enterprises through publications, research collaborations, intra- and extramural funds, and professional activities.
The Department offers a Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Degree in Psychology.
College-wide Requirements:
In addition to meeting the requirements in General Education and in the major, students must also complete six (6) credits in the Liberal Arts Core (LAC) required of all majors in the College of Liberal Arts. Options for satisfying this requirement are outlined under the LAC section in the College of Liberal Arts. To qualify for graduation, students must pass the Senior Departmental Comprehensive Examination with a score of 70 or higher; must have taken two-thirds of their junior- and senior-level requirements in the major at Morgan (unless granted prior written permission by the Dean to take courses elsewhere); and must have earned a cumulative average of 2.0 or better and a major average of 2.0 or better, with no outstanding grades below “C” in the major (which includes all courses required for the major and required supporting courses).
Department Requirements:
As stated above, in the college-wide requirements, one requirement for graduation is passing the senior departmental comprehensive examination. You must meet two requirements in order to be eligible to take the examination. First, you must be classified as a senior, with 90 or more completed credit hours. Second, you must have successfully completed the following core departmental course requirements, which include PSYC 101 , PSYC 102 , PSYC 108 , PSYC 210 , PSYC 213 , PSYC 219 , PSYC 231 , PSYC 300 , PSYC 316 , PSYC 317 , PSYC 320 , and PSYC 322 . You need not have completed PSYC 480 - Psychology Internship/Service Learning I , PSYC 481 - Psychology Internship/Service Learning II , PSYC 487 - Senior Thesis I , or PSYC 497 - Senior Thesis II .