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Psychological Services Concentration Major/Minor
Applied Psychology & Rehabilitation Counseling

Major in Applied Psychology: Psychological Services Concentration

The Psychological Services option is a career oriented program directed towards undergraduate students in psychology, preparing those students for graduate training in psychology. The program also encourages communication between the College and community agencies in order to facilitate adequate professional preparation of students. In addition the Psychological Services program trains students to perform effectively as employees of various governmental and private agencies by offering the students:

  • The appropriate training in interviewing, psychological assessment, abnormal psychology, and research.
  • Information about human needs and problems.
  • Opportunities to develop the needed competencies for communicating or reporting psychological information and statistics.
Minor in Psychology

The objectives of the Psychology minor program is to:

  • Enable students from a variety of disciplines to gain an understanding of human behavior.
  • Familiarize students with the variety of ways in which psychological principles are applied in the modern day world.

Students must take Twenty-one (21) Credit hours including general psychology.


Suggested Curriculum Plan

Freshman Year

First Semester
ENGL 101 English Composition I
MATH 101,110,125 College Algebra
PSYC 201 General Psychology
IDIS 102 Music and Dance
SPCH 101 Speech Communications

Second Semester
ENGL 102 English Composition II
PSYC 207 Behavioral Statistics
PHIL 102 Logicor
PHIL 201 Intro. to Philosophy
SOCI 201 or GER options Intro. to Sociology
HLTH 101 Personal Health

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Sophomore Year

First Semester
PSYC 210 Applied Psychology
HIST 201 or 203 or 205 History
MNSC 150  Technology Fluency
BIOL 101 Biological Science
WLIT 203 World Literature I

Second Semester
HIST 202 or 204 or 206 World History II
ENGL Option200 level Engl, journ or WLIT
PSYC 335 Developmental Psychology
PSYC 306 Personality
PHSC 103 Technology & Human Affairs

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Junior Year

First Semester
PSYC 341 Psychological Assessment & Evaluation
PSYC 343 Research Methods
PSYC 345 Behavior Modification
PSYC 351 Counseling Techniques

Second Semester
PSYC 342 Psychological Assessment & Evaluation
PSYC 352 Counseling in Groups
PSYC 411 Abnormal Psychology
PSYC 440 History & Systems of Psychology

Senior Year

First Semester
PSYCFree Electives
PSYC 451 Field Placement I
Free Electives

Second Semester
PSYC 452 Field Placement II
Free Electives

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