Build a Life of Service
Build a strong testimony of Jesus Christ and His gospel as you gain a desire for life-long learning and a quality education in the field of psychology. You will receive a solid foundation in research, theory, and application that will adequately prepare you for life and successful career opportunities within the exciting interdisciplinary field of health psychology by combining the strengths of psychology with other disciplines (e.g., health science, nutrition, biology).
Highlighted Career Paths
Graduates with a degree in Psychology have a wide array of rewarding careers before them. Check out some of the top psychology careers students get with this degree or explore more career options in I-Plan.
Further Education
A bachelor's degree in psychology also prepares you for additional graduate study in psychology, medicine, law, and business, to name a few. Dual programs in psychology and one of these other areas create powerful career paths.
Rehabilitation Counselors
Counsel individuals to maximize the independence and employability of persons coping with personal, social, and vocational difficulties that result from birth defects, illness, disease, accidents, aging, or the stress of daily life. Coordinate activities for residents of care and treatment facilities. Assess client needs and design and implement rehabilitation programs that may include personal and vocational counseling, training, and job placement.
Child, Family, and School Social Workers
Provide social services and assistance to improve the social and psychological functioning of children and their families and to maximize the family well-being and the academic functioning of children. May assist parents, arrange adoptions, and find foster homes for abandoned or abused children. In schools, they address such problems as teenage pregnancy, misbehavior, and truancy. May also advise teachers.
Probation Officers and Correctional Treatment Specialists
Provide social services to assist in rehabilitation of law offenders in custody or on probation or parole. Make recommendations for actions involving formulation of rehabilitation plan and treatment of offender, including conditional release and education and employment stipulations.
Getting Started in this degree
If you are interested in Psychology, start with one of the following major-specific courses
Related Majors
The Industrial Organizational Psychology emphasis prepares you to offer support and guidance to corporations and organizations in promoting mental health in the workplace.
Develop an interdisciplinary foundation for further psychological inquiry and application as pertaining to all facets of health, and use health psychology principles to improve life and give more meaningful service to others.
Help people improve their well-being through recreation! A degree in Therapeutic Recreation trains students to work at recreation centers, after-school programs, daycares, assisted living centers, retirement homes, and respite care centers.
Students will learn to engage with individuals, small groups, and communities to serve people who are disadvantaged, disabled, abused, or otherwise limited in their ability to live a fulfilled life.