心理学系
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By the time JSU officially gained university status from Mississippi’s state legislature in 1979, the 心理学系’s primary focus on research made its move to the School of Liberal Arts a natural transition. 然后,博士. 珍妮特圣. 劳伦斯, a faculty member and clinical psychologist at JSU, began to investigate HIV and STD issues in vulnerable populations during the advent of the AIDS epidemic. 和那些正在接受药物治疗的人一起工作, 与监禁抗争的人们, 或者其他高危人群, came the genesis of the Community Health 程序 (共和人民党). This program became the foremost research division within the Psychology Department and works to provide community service while training students and conducting original studies, 引起了全国的关注. 此外，在此期间，博士. Cynthia Ford designed a course to teach psychology from an afro-centric perspective. This type of enhancement to the curriculum highlights JSU’s focus on both cultural and individual diversity and remains a popular elective in the discipline.

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The mission of the Undergraduate Major in the Psychology Department is to expose students to the breadth and depths of the various fields of psychology. Students are encouraged and taught to think critically about psychological issues and to understand the value of empirical investigation. The department seeks to foster each student’s appreciation for the field of psychology and its applications to individual and social problems. The department is dedicated to high standards of original inquiry and personal growth. Students are taught that sound research and scholarship serve to expand knowledge and improve the quality of peoples’ lives. Our program provides students with the education needed to enter a variety of careers or to pursue graduate work in psychology or related fields.

“挑战思想，改变生活。.”

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After years of preparing undergraduates to pursue advanced research degrees, JSU began to develop its own plan for graduate study. Spearheading this movement was a working group whose goal was to design a program in clinical psychology that would provide multicultural training. The idea behind such multiculturalism is that the most effective clinical psychologists are those who have separated themselves from their personal biases and that this can only occur through in depth understanding of other cultures. In 1995, program was launched with a charter class of five students. APA accreditation then followed in 2001, and the first dissertation defense occurred in 2002. The concept of multicultural training remains a primary mission and requires the program actively to support those from diverse ethnic and racial backgrounds while ensuring that even the most traditional of graduate students becomes immersed in as many different environments as possible. 这是通过实践最直接实现的, 校外实习期, and field research experience with underserved people; in the area of Jackson, this most often means rural and African-American populations.

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Psychology majors have a plethora of career options after studying:

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For more information, please contact us at (601) 979-2371.  We look forward to meeting with you and seeing how our program can help you achieve your goals.