Approximately half of Mills's psychology majors go on to graduate work in psychology, counseling, or social work. Others go to law school or medical school, able to use their knowledge in family medicine, psychiatry, pediatrics, or family law. Those who do not continue to graduate school use their majors in a variety of careers including personnel work and counseling. The department has a strong research emphasis. One measure of the department's strength in research techniques is that in the past decade, more Mills psychology majors have been invited to present their independent research projects at the Western Conference for Undergraduate Research in Psychology than have psychology students from any other college.
Students also have the opportunity to participate in faculty research.
Fall John Ruch 80 Adolescence Physical, cognitive, and social-emotional aspects of human development from puberty to maturity. Fall Prerequisite Psychology 49. Carol George 84 Analytical Methods in Psychology Quantitative methods in psychology with an emphasis on applications and statistical reasoning. Frequency distributions, percentiles, measures of central tendency and variability, linear correlation and regression, power, probability, hypothesis testing, t-tests, analysis of variance, and nonparametric statistical tests. Fall Elizabeth Bachen 109 Health Psychology Examination of the links between mind and body, focusing on the ways in which psychosocial factors influence the prevention of, course of, and adaptation to illness.