• Enhance students' understanding of themselves and others.
  
• Provide an understanding of the psychological principles and theories that are needed in people-oriented careers such as education, business, and the social services.
  
• Prepare students for graduate study in psychology and related fields.
  
• Be a highly compatible second major for students in Social Work, Criminal Justice and Human Resources.
  

Core Courses
Psychology majors must take the core courses (listed below) and three additional psychology electives:

• PY 110, Introduction to Psychology
  
• PY 190, History and Systems of Psychology
  
• PY 225, Infancy and Childhood
  
• PY 230, Behavioral Statistics
  
• PY 290, Abnormal Psychology
  
• PY 301, Research Methods
  
• PY 302, Experimental Psychology
  
• PY 315, Theories of Personality
  
• PY 430, Memory and Cognition
  
• PY 498, Senior Seminar
  

The Psychology minor requires 21 credit hours including:

• PY 110 Introduction to Psychology (3)
• PY 190 History and Systems of Psychology (3)
• PY 225 Infancy and Childhood (3)
• PY 230 Behavioral Statistics (3)
• PY 301 Research Methods (3)
• plus 6 credit hours of Psychology electives, one of which must be at the 400 level

Professors
Dr. Deborah Dalke,
Associate Professor
Phone: 419-783--2449
email: ddalke@defiance.edu

Frank Sanders,
Associate Professor
Phone: 419-783-2337
email: fsanders@defiance.edu