Bachelor of Arts - Psychology

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Program Description Northeastern’s Department of Psychology offers an undergraduate program that leads to a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology. Their comprehensive Psychology program exposes students to various areas of psychology as well as opportunities for hands-on research and optional field experience. The department faculty members represent a number of theoretical approaches as well as a wide range of content areas, enhancing your opportunity to become acquainted with the full scope of this broad and complex subject. Because of the need to create a combination of courses consistent with their career goals, students are urged to form a continuing relationship with a faculty advisor in the department early in their major. The interdisciplinary nature of psychology requires familiarity with other fields. Students intending to pursue graduate studies should have a strong background in mathematics and the natural sciences. All psychology majors will benefit from course work in philosophy, physiology, literature, history, the social sciences, and computer science.