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Psychology

Overview 

King College offers a comprehensive program in scientific psychology that prepares students for graduate school in a variety of applied and research fields and for immediate employment in government, church, or business settings.

Career Opportunities

Psychology, as the crossroad science of the cultural mind, individual behavior, and the organic brain, prepares students for a wide variety of careers. Psychology at King College is a nationally recognized program that provides a unique blend of action with reflection and of Christian spirituality with broad intellectual growth. Before graduation students will conduct their own original research project, be encouraged to participate in an internship that serves the community with whom they hope to work, and make naturalistic observations of children and/or adolescents. Combined with traditional classroom activities, such hands-on learning experiences students develop a unique view of human beings: one that is critically aware of the limitations and biases in current knowledge, one that is constructively able to seek out new approaches to understanding others, and one that knows how to observe, record, analyze, discuss, interpret, and explain to others what humans do and why. Such knowledge has proven useful to our graduates who have succeeded

1. in graduate school in all types of psychology (child, clinical, educational, experimental, human factors in design, industrial, personnel, social, and several types of counseling and social work);
2. in graduate programs in medicine, law, ministry, education, special education, and other fields where further study is required; and
3. in careers that do not require further study, such as youth workers, case workers in social welfare programs, child care workers, technicians or trainees in state institutions, personnel officers, government specialists, business managers, and other people-oriented careers.

Required Coursework

Academic Catalog: (To download this Acrobat PDF: Windows OS > Right click; MAC OS > Control click)

2007-2008 King College Academic Catalog