The psychology curriculum is designed to encourage students to view psychology and human behavior across multiple levels, using a variety of theoretical and empirical models. We offer our students a solid foundation in methodology, 历史, 传统的, 非传统的方法, 我们提倡批判性思维.
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心理学专业的目标
目标概述: The psychology curriculum is designed to encourage students to view psychology and human behavior across multiple levels, using a variety of theoretical and empirical models. We offer our students a solid foundation in methodology, 历史, 传统的, 非传统的方法, 我们提倡批判性思维:
目标1:研究培训—Students will 理解 and apply basic research methods in psychology, 包括研究设计, 数据分析, 写作, 和解释.
Goal 2: Integrating experiential and scientific knowledge—Students will be able to integrate hands-on work in communities and social service organizations with the major concepts, 理论观点, 实证研究结果, 以及心理学的历史趋势.
目标3:多样性-学生会认出, 理解, and respect the complexity of sociocultural and inter国家 diversity.
目标4:终身学习—Students will develop an interest in life-long learning and an interest in psychological issues in all areas of their personal and professional lives.
目标5:沟通技巧—Students will be able to effectively communicate about the complexities of psychological research.
目标6:道德考量-学生将能够权衡证据, 容忍歧义, 行为道德, and reflect other values that are underpinnings of psychology as a discipline.
目标7:社会责任-学生会认出 and 理解 the connection between their psychology training and social issues, and will use this knowledge in their efforts to improve the world in which we live.
目标8:怀疑—Students will respect and use skeptical inquiry in interpreting, 理解, 运用心理学研究.
学生学习成果
目标概述:
The psychology curriculum is designed to encourage students to view psychology and human behavior using a multiplicity of theoretical and empirical models. We offer students a solid foundation in the methodology, 历史, and 传统的 非传统的方法 to the discipline. 我们提倡批判性思维. Listed below are the eight goals for the psychology major at Pitzer College.
- 科研训练
- Integrating experiential and scientific knowledge
- 理解不同的观点
- 终身学习
- 沟通技巧
- 道德的考虑
- 社会责任
- 怀疑
目标1:研究培训
We intend the graduating psychology major to have learned to carry out research projects in psychology. The skills they should acquire include 理解 issues of experimental and non-experimental methodologies, 伦理问题, and developing a theoretical/conceptual basis for a research project. We would like the psychology degree to prepare our students for being producers and/or critical evaluators of research.
Goal 2: Integrating experiential and scientific knowledge
We intend the psychology major to provide students with an ability to integrate hands-on work with communities and social service organizations with the theoretical and methodological 理解s of the discipline. Students acquire depth and breadth in 理解s of the discipline. We encourage students to be able to examine psychological issues through a bio-psycho-social-cultural framework.
目标3:多样性
We intend for our students to have a deep appreciation for diversity, and for the multiple cultural perspectives in psychology. 我们的学生应该发展得更广泛, 非种族中心主义的心理健康概念, 个性, and interpersonal and intercultural communications. 学生会认识到, 理解, and respect the complexity of sociocultural and inter国家 diversity.
目标4:终身学习
We intend for our students to develop an interest in life-long learning, and that their coursework in psychology will generate a broad interest in psychological issues in all areas of their personal and professional lives. We hope they will continue to be discriminating and skeptical readers of psychology-related issues as they arise in current events and the popular press.
目标5:沟通技巧
We intend the psychology major to provide students with excellent training in various forms of written and oral communication. Because the students come to 理解 the discipline of psychology in depth, we expect that they will acquire the skills required for communicating clearly – but without oversimplification – about the complexities of psychological topics.
目标6:道德考量
We intend the psychology major to provide students with the ability to think deeply about ethical considerations in carrying out and disseminating psychological work, 并以道德的方式行事. 学生将能够权衡证据, 容忍歧义, 行为道德, and reflect other values that are the underpinnings of psychology as a discipline.
目标7:社会责任
We intend for our students to see a connection between their psychology training and social justice issues. We hope they will feel some responsibility to use their psychological 理解s to better the world in which we live, to support and give voice to persons who are disenfranchised or left at the margins of our social systems, 纠正社会错误, 并回馈他们的社区. We intend for our students to use the perspectives that they have learned to become engaged members of, 提倡, 这些社区, and to be able to assess the psychological factors that are affecting their communities.
目标8:怀疑
We intend the major to leave students with a healthy skepticism about research findings, 以及整个研究事业. Students will respect and use skeptical inquiry in interpreting, 理解, 运用心理学研究.
