Experiental Courses
In the Classroom
The psychology department has courses that offer experiential learning.
- As a Psychology major, you'll take a required lab course in your junior or senior year that gives you hands-on experience with research in human or non-human animal behavior. There are lab courses in Social Psychology, Behavioral Neuroscience, Cognitive Psychology, Developmental Psychology, and Animal Communication and Cognition.
- Psy 334 Practicum in Human Services. Students spend 6 hours a week as interns in a mental health, child, family, or social service setting.
- Psy 336 Child Development in the Navajo Nation. Students travel in January to learn and serve in the Navajo Nation.
- Psy 500 Students who are eligible may apply to work with a faculty member to complete a 2-semester senior honors thesis.
Game Boy: Ian's Story
Does annihilating aliens or slaying dragons in the virtual world affect your real-life ability to think, react and perceive?
Object Substitution Masking: What is the Neural Fate of the Unreportable Target?
Assistant Professor of Psychology Jason E. Reiss' new book focuses on his event-related brain potential (ERP) research.
Visualizing Possibilities in Autism
Grace Baron celebrates 30 years of work with Groden Center with publication of new book, Stress & Coping with Autism
A Look at Religious Conservatism
Wulff delivers world-famous Cadbury Lectures at Univ of Birmingham
What's AAADS?
Sociocultural developmental psychologist, Peony Fhagen-Smith coordinates African, African American, and Diaspora Studies
Got illusions?
Learn more about perception, learning, consciousness in Psychology's Experimental Laboratory
Education Gone Wild
Wheaton's longtime relationship with Southwick's Zoo gives students an opportunity to study animal and human behavior in some unique ways.