My name is Jeanie Tsai and I'm an associate professor in the psychology department here at Stanford. And currently I'm also the director of the undergraduate program. So you might ask yourself, why should I major in psychology? And if you're interested in understanding human behavior and using that knowledge to solve some of today's most pressing problems, then I think psychology is really the major for you. Psychology is the study of human behavior. And whether you're interested in education, health, the economy, technology, politics, you have to have some understanding of why people think, feel, and act in the ways that they do. I can't think of a department that's better for answering those questions than the Stanford Psychology Department because we've been the number one psychology department in the world for the last 50 years. And that's really because we have an outstanding faculty. That's not only comprised of the most distinguished researchers in the field, but that's also comprised of people who are really committed to teaching undergraduates and graduates and mentoring them. And I know this from both sides, I'm saying it's not just because I'm currently a faculty member in the department, but also because I was an undergraduate here and a psych major. And this is something that I think is not always true for undergraduates, but it was certainly true of my experience in the department that there are so many opportunities that are available to undergraduates. You can become very active in a research lab and instead of just being a consumer of the psychological science, you can actually create the psychological science. You can be part of the process of answering some of the questions about human behavior that psychologists are trying to answer today. You can also become a teaching assistant and of course, if you've done really well in a course, it's not uncommon for a professor to ask you to then teach the course to be part of the teaching team for that particular course. And there are also a number of other ways you can get involved in the department. You can be one of the peer advisors. There are lots of different kinds of community building of events like faculty night and you're also welcome to attend departmental colloquia or a number of the different brown bags that we have in the department. So there is a very rich, vibrant community that undergraduates are a part of. There are specialization tracks that allow you to really study a particular topic in depth. So for example, if you're interested in cognitive science and what goes into people thinking and how they learn and how they remember things, you can go into the cognitive sciences track. And that's basically run by a particular faculty member who specializes in cognitive sciences and who can guide you through a particular curriculum, of course, is both in psychology and outside psychology. So that you can leave Stanford and leave the major with a real in depth understanding of cognitive science. There are other specialization tracks too. You could do one in neuroscience. You could do one in mine culture and society. How do you find out more about the psychology major? Well, I would encourage you to take an intro seminar with a psychology professor to take psych one and psych the stats class introductory to stats class. Those are sort of the beginning courses that you need to take on your way to majoring in psychology. And then if you're interested in learning more about the specifics of the major, you can go to the student services office or you could ask one of your professors of your classes. And they can give you more information. The student services office has all of the handouts and of course the website has a lot of information about what's required of the major. And then you'll be asked to come up with an advisor or have a faculty advisor and sometimes students don't really even know how to ask somebody to be their advisor. And typically you can ask an instructor of a course or somebody who's doing research on topics that you're interested in. But we have a really great student services staff. We also have great peer advisors and they're really there to help answer questions of existing majors and prospective majors. So to complete the major, you start out taking intro to psych one and intro to statistics class or something comparable to that. And then you need to take five what we call core classes. And so there's a total of 10 classes that you can choose from of the five to have to come from what we call the A side. And those include courses like intro to perception, intro to learning and memory, intro to cognitive neuroscience. You also have to take two from what we call the B side. That includes intro to developmental psychology, intro to personality and affective science, intro to cultural psychology. And then you can your fifth class can come from either the A or the B side. Then you take a number of other courses. Again, if you decide to do a specialization track, then you have to take courses that fall under that specialization track. And then 10 of the total number of units is 70 units for the major. And so 10 of those units can be independent study, directed research, or directed reading, or some sort of practicum like at the BING nursery school. So there are requirements about the basic courses that you take. And then there are a lot of other classes that you can take, advanced seminars, intermediate seminars. And then there's the opportunity to get involved in a lot of research or to do a practicum and all of those count toward the major.