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Why Psychology is the major for you

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Need Academic Advising?

The Psychology Advising Center (PAC) is your undergraduate advising resource. Visit the PAC office for more information and tools to guide your undergraduate career.

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Interested in an email, phone or virtual advising appointment?  Contact our Virtual Advisor at kate.keddington@psych.utah.edu

Bachelor's Program

The Department of Psychology offers a dynamic major, minor, Human Factors Certificate and Honors Track in Psychology. Coursework includes the study of psychology as a profession, cognition, intergroup relations, infancy, emotions, human performance, personality, sexuality, health and much more.

Various opportunities are available for undergraduate students in and outside of the classroom. Students may perform research as research assistants or receive hands on experience through a local organization as field experience participants.

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Ph.D. Graduate Programs

Clinical Ph.D. Program

The APA-accredited Clinical Training Program in the Department of Psychology at the University of Utah follows the principles of a clinical science model.

Social Ph.D. Program

The social psychology program explores major themes in the search for understanding human behavior in a social world, including close relationships, health and well-being, diversity, and culture.

CNS Ph.D. Program

The Cognition and Neural Science (CNS) program places a strong emphasis on merging basic brain and cognitive science with applied domains.

Developmental Ph.D. Program

The Developmental Program specializes in research on the development of social and interpersonal processes in real-world contexts from infancy through adulthood.

 

Highlight

Craig Bryan Craig Bryan receives Presidential Scholar award. The Presidential Scholar award is a prestigious award given out by the University of Utah to recognize excellence and achievement for faculty members at the associate professor level. Congratulations Craig!
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Events

  1. Aug 19

    Monday
    11am - 1pm

    CSBS 2019 Welcome Week

    Carolyn and Kem Gardner Commons (GC)

  2. Aug 20

    Tuesday
    11am - 1pm

    CSBS 2019 Welcome Week

    Carolyn and Kem Gardner Commons (GC)

  3. Aug 21

    Wednesday
    11am - 1pm

    CSBS 2019 Welcome Week

    Carolyn and Kem Gardner Commons (GC)

  4. Aug 22

    Thursday
    11am - 1pm

    CSBS 2019 Welcome Week

    Carolyn and Kem Gardner Commons (GC)

  5. Oct 15

    Tuesday
    10am - 3pm

    CSBS & Social Work Blood Drive

    Union - A. Ray Olpin (UNION)

  6. Oct 23

    Wednesday
    6:30pm - 8:30pm

    2019 CSBS Scholarship Celebration

    Alumni House (ALUMNI)

NEWS

  1. Jeanine Stefanucci Celebrate U Research Honoree

    Congratulations to Jeanine Stefanucci for being named a Celebrate U Research Honoree. Jeanine Stefanucci for her NSF project “Collaborative research: Designing virtual worlds for children: A developmental study of how children, act, perceive, and reason spatially”

  2. Craig Bryan was featured in Rolling Stone

    Craig Bryan was featured in Rolling Stone in the article "All-American Despair." The article talked about the suicide epidemic fueled by guns, poverty and isolation has swept across the West, with middle-aged men dying in record numbers.

  3. Congratulations to Luciana Salmi for Receiving a Fulbright Research Award

    Congratulations to Luciana Salmi, BA in Psychology, who received a Fulbright research award to Italy. Her project aspires to analyze the effects of stress and social support on a group of mothers with a high body mass index categorized as overweight or obese.

  4. Ed Diener Interviewed About Government's Role in an Individual's Happiness

    While being interviewed, Ed Diener was asked: is happiness the responsibility of the society or the citizen?

Last Updated: 7/26/19