It provides a basic understanding of the changes that occur throughout the years, and examines the factors that promote healthy development as well as variations from the norm. Psychology is the systematic and scientific study of behavior and experience. It seeks to explain how physiological, personal, social, and environmental conditions influence thought and action. The Public Administration major is designed to prepare students for a variety of challenging careers in public and nonprofit organizations, as well as for further study in a variety of graduate programs. A major in Social Change and Development addresses the problem of why and how societies and cultures around the world change and the question of whether those changes promote justice, equity, democracy, and development of human potential.
Sociology is the systematic study of social organization and social life in society.
It uses both scientific and humanistic approaches to understand social behavior and social systems. Urban and Regional Studies provides an understanding of the social, spatial, economic, and political activities of individuals and groups within cities and regions of various sizes and locations.