Bachelors in Psychology

Hampshire's cross-disciplinary approach to psychology offers a range of viewpoints from which to consider human behavior, emotion, and thinking. Courses span clinical, cognitive, critical, cultural, developmental, political, and psychoanalytic psychology; cognitive and affective neuroscience; and the psychology of language, music, and perception. Students are encouraged to explore psychology from multiple perspectives, since integrating a range of approaches will lead to richer investigations and the construction of new questions.

Courses in psychology employ a variety of methods. Some use ethnographic and other interpretive/participatory research methods to explore psychology in relation to society, culture, and subjective constructions of human experience. Others focus on observational and experimental research approaches, introducing students to a range of methodologies for exploring attention, language, memory, neuroscience, emotion, social cognition, and music perception while providing opportunities for students to become involved in the research process. Students are encouraged to formulate critical questions about the field of psychology itself and to evaluate how we come to understand psychological processes.