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Psychology (Secondary Major)*

The Psychology major program will help you understand human behaviour and mental processes and allow you to better understand how people think, act, and feel – in other words, everything that people do. The first priority of the Psychology major is to equip dual-major students with specific skills and knowledge directly applicable to professional contexts across the most popular majors at AUBG.  

The Psychology major provides both the theoretical foundation and the practical empirical knowledge and tools necessary to understand and critically evaluate psychology research and their applications.

The Psychology curriculum is designed to help you achieve the following goals:

• Possess a general knowledge of psychology, the various fields of psychological study, and the role of psychology in contemporary society.
• Understand both quantitative and qualitative research methods, as well as the tools to do statistical analysis to report the results of psychological experiments.
• Possess basic knowledge of developmental psychology, psychopathology and mental illness, and human personality that influence behavior.
• Possess a general knowledge of how physiological processes influence psychology and behavior.
• Possess knowledge of organizational psychology, such as leadership, employee performance, team building, and human resources and compensation issues.
• Possess knowledge of and applied skills to do community-level research and to design social interventions, including the skills to evaluate social programs and the impact of social context on human behavior.
• Students are given the opportunity to clearly define an advanced, self-directed research topic or area of interest and be able to explore this topic thoroughly in both written and presentation formats.

The Psychology program trains students to thinking critically and apply psychology methods and knowledge to professional settings, such as business administration, economics, journalism, and media communications. These include understanding and predicting organizational behavior, leadership and team-building, conducting focus groups, interviewing skills and text analysis, community engagement, social change, and understanding human behavior in social contexts, and personality and psychopathology.

* Secondary majors are those that are accredited in the United States and result in an American diploma only.