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Millsaps psychology students
benefit from the department's dedication to an applied scientific
focus that emphasizes the application of psychological knowledge
and methods to real life issues and problems. We encourage our students
to engage in research with faculty mentors and maintain as extensive
internship program. Majors annually score in the top one percent
of students nationwide who take the Major Field Area Test in the
subject. Approximately 70% of Millsaps psychology graduates go on
to graduate or professional school within a year of graduation.
Only the biology and chemistry departments send more students to
medical school each year.
Opportunities abound for in-depth study in areas such as:
- cognitive and sensory
processes
- counseling psychology
- developmental psychology
- experimental analysis
of behavior
- psychobiology and
social psychology
Research
In the
last five years, student research has resulted in nine journal publications
and 24 conference presentations involving 51 students.
To further
enhance understanding of how new information is obtained in the
field, Millsaps psychology students have special research opportunities
in the areas of:
- cognitive psychology
(memory, perception and attention)
- behavioral neuroscience
(appetite, taste physiology, development of feeding behavior)
- social psychology
(repressed, false and flashbulb memories, and suicide)
Internships
In 2002-2003,
35 students were placed by the department in internships at local
clinical, counseling, forensic, developmental and psychiatric facilities.
Psychology
Department Facilities:
The psychology department offers three main research facilities:
- Cognitive Research
Lab:
for projects involved in identifying the interconnectedness
of memory, perception and attention
- Animal Lab:
for projects involved in the regulation of feeding and taste
behaviors in rodents
- Human Subjects Lab:
for projects involved in the determination of Repressed,
False, and Flashbulb memory as well as studies on Suicide.
Life
After Millsaps
Millsaps'
professional preparation in psychology is outstanding: 15% of the
2003 graduating class has been accepted directly into Ph.D. psychology
program at institutions such as Clemson, Kansas State and Louisiana
State Universities. Another 15% have been accepted into master's
level programs ranging from law to communications and social work.
Psychology
majors enjoy a variety of professional careers from law and medicine
to clinical psychology. No matter what their subsequent career choices,
Millsaps psychology majors have a deep understanding of how to think
critically and psychologically about the events and concerns of
their own lives. Graduates have learned how to apply psychological
knowledge to raising children, coping with life's tragedies, and
making life decisions.
For more
information visit the Psychology
Department Website.
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