Undergraduate Catalog 2024 - 2025 
    
    Oct 13, 2024  
Undergraduate Catalog 2024 - 2025

Behavioral Science, B.A.


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Program Chair: MaryJon Barrineau, Ph.D.

Available in Day and Online Colleges.

 

The interdisciplinary Behavioral Science major equips students to understand the causes and consequences of human behavior from multiple perspectives (individual, societal, and cultural) and to evaluate behavioral science research for a variety of graduate and professional applications.  

 

Student Learning Outcomes:

  1. Students will understand the continuum of human behavior and recognize deviations from normality.  
  2. Students will demonstrate understanding of the impact of membership in majority and minority social groups on behavior.  
  3. Students will demonstrate understanding of the impact of cultural structures on behavior.  
  4. Students will apply basic research methods and statistical analysis to behavioral data. 

Electives


Choose 9 hours of electives selected from Anthropology, Psychology, and Sociology courses numbered above 200 or Human Development and Family Studies courses numbered 300

OR

Notes(s):


No more than 6 hours may be selected from any one discipline.

Total Credit Hours: 33


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