Psychology Emphasis, Associate in Arts Direct Transfer Agreement (AA-DTA)

Program Overview

This Associate in Arts Degree in Psychology explores human behavior and offers career paths in counseling, clinical work, brain-behavior relationships, decision-making, and information processing. Students must complete credits from Natural Sciences, Social Sciences, and Humanities distribution lists. Career opportunities include clinical psychologist, cognitive scientist, counseling psychologist, human factors specialist, and school psychologist.

Program Outline

Outline:

• Complete your Associate in Arts Degree, Direct Transfer Agreement (AA-DTA) while exploring psychology, the science of human behavior.
• Psychology offers opportunities for students interested in counseling and clinical work as career paths, but also offers career pathways focused on studying the relationship between brain and behavior, how people make decisions and solve problems, and how people process information in their environments.
• Transfer Institution Information Students must select credits from three distribution lists: Natural Sciences, Social Sciences, and Humanities.
A specific course may be credited toward no more than one distribution requirement. A minimum of fifteen credits in two separate subject areas must be selected from each list. For Natural Sciences, at least five credits must be a lab. For Humanities, no more than five credits can be a Humanities-Performance course and no more than five credits may be applied in world languages at the 100 level.
• Program outcomes are listed on the Area of Study webpage.

Careers:

• Clinical psychologist
• Cognitive scientist
• Counseling psychologist
• Human factors specialist
• School psychologist