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Mission and Program Objectives for Psychology

The Psychology Department promotes the acquisition and application of psychological science and encourages both its faculty and students to pursue behavioral research and community service.

 The Department subscribes to the American Psychological Association’s Guidelines for the Undergraduate Psychology Major (2023) and to the Mission statement of the 日本一级片, especially emphasizing the personal development of students and commitment to academic excellence in the Ignatian tradition.

Knowledge of Psychology

Outcome 1: On the ETS Major Field Test in Psychology administered every third year, graduating psychology majors will score no lower than 65th percentile on total score for institutional comparisons.
Outcome 2: Graduating psychology majors will score at least at the 60th percentile on all four of the ETS Major Field Achievement Test subscores: Learning/Cognition/Memory; Sensory/ Perception/Physiology; Clinical/Abnormal/Personality; and Developmental/Social.

Scientific Inquiry and Critical Thinking

Outcome 1: Graduating psychology majors will score no lower than the 65th percentile on institutional comparisons on the measurement/methodology assessment indicator of the ETS Major Field Test in Psychology.
Outcome 2: Psychology majors will reach writing competence per scoring rubrics in the program’s two required writing-intensive (EPW) courses: PSYC 212, Research Methods & Statistical Analysis II, and PSYC 491, Senior Seminar II.
Outcome 3: All psychology majors will successfully produce a research paper or poster as part of the two-semester Research Methods & Statistical Analysis sequence.
Outcome 4: At least 12 psychology majors will present at external research conferences and/or coauthor publications each year.

Professional and Ethical Development

Outcome 1: All psychology majors will demonstrate a pre-post increase in their career knowledge and skills in PSYC 390: Career Development Seminar.
Outcome 2: All psychology majors will successfully pass (80% correct) the multiple-module CITI test on ethics in behavioral research.
Outcome 3: All psychology interns will demonstrate satisfactory ethical conduct in the field as assessed by their external supervisors’ written evaluations.
Outcome 4: At least 90% of graduating psychology majors will complete at least one transcriptable experiential activity in the Psychology Department; specifically, 30%+ each in Student Faculty Teaching Mentorship Program, Faculty Student Research Program, and Field Experience in Clinical or Applied Settings.
Outcome 5: At least 90% of the previous year’s psychology graduates responding to the Center for Career Development’s first destination survey will be either employed full-time or pursuing additional education.
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