About the Program
Director: Joslyn Cassady, Assistant Professor of Behavioral Science and Anthropology
Assistant Professor: Melissa Sloan (Department of Sociology)
Behavioral Science utilizes the theories and methods of anthropology, psychology, and sociology to engage in a holistic and comparative study of human behavior. This major emphasizes the psychological, social and cultural aspects of human functioning in a series of core courses and a number of elective courses. Students enrich their education with a mandatory internship in the public or private sector. Behavioral Science graduates have found employment in a wide range of fields including education, school psychology, social work, speech pathology, law, management and human relations. In addition, students have pursued graduate study in a variety of disciplines.
Behavioral Science majors who chose to declare a minor or an additional major cannot chose anthropology, psychology, or sociology.
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Requirements for the Major (60 credits)
The Behavioral Science program allows students considerable flexibility in completing the 60 credit major. However, students must take at least 12 credits in each of the three sponsoring disciplines (anthropology, psychology and sociology). Courses completed from the following list of required courses may apply toward this 12 credit requirement.
I. Required Foundation Courses (16 credits)
These courses should be taken by the end of the sophomore year:
ANTH 4/Cultural Diversity: Cultural Anthropology and Linguistics (4)
PSYC 3/Introduction to Psychology (4)
MATH 3/Introductory Statistics (4)
SOC 1/Introduction to Sociology (4)
II. Required Core Courses (24 credits)
INTR 50/Internship Project (4)
ANTH 113/Psychological Anthropology (4)
PSYC 113/Principles and Methods of Social Psychology (4)
SOC 19/Sociology of Inequality (4) OR SOC 27/Sociology of Families (4) OR SOC 110/Sociology of Mass Communications (4)
BHVR 121/Research Methods in Behavioral Science (4), usually taken in the sophomore year
BHVR 199/Senior Seminar in Behavioral Science (4), usually taken in the senior year
III. Biological Foundations (4 credits)
Each student must take one of the following:
ANTH 3/Human Evolution: Biological Anthropology and Archaeology (4)
BIOL 2/Biology of the Mind (4)
PSYC 109/Biological Psychology (4)
IV. Theory Course (4 credits)
Each student must take one of the following:
ANTH 28/History of Anthropological Theory (4)
SOC 125/Classical Sociological Theory (4)
SOC 126/Contemporary Sociological Theory (4)
V. Electives (12 credits)
Each student must take an additional 12 credits from among those courses offered by the anthropology, psychology, and sociology departments.
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