Social Psychology
Study human behavior and its influences to positively affect people’s lives.
Study human behavior and its influences to positively affect people’s lives.
Social Psychology is a hybrid of psychology and sociology. This discipline studies how our behavior is influenced by our social environment. This adaptable major will prepare you for meaningful work in business and industry, government, social science, data analysis, public policy, service professions or graduate study.
Chair, Department of Culture & Society
Professor of History
tim.westcott@park.edu
Associate Professor of Sociology
mbrannon@park.edu
Professor of Psychology
ajohnson@park.edu
Professor of Psychology
brian.cowley@park.edu
Assistant Professor of Psychology
Alivia.Zubrod@park.edu
As a Social Psychology major, you’ll study the discipline within the context of a broad liberal arts education. You’ll take courses in psychology and sociology, professional writing, research methods and statistics.
Choose from a number of compelling electives, like Psychology of Gender; Influence and Persuasion; The Study of the Family; Social Deviance; Cross-cultural Psychology and Race and Ethnicity, to name a few.