Psychology Stories

Psychology

The Psychology Program is shaped by the concept of psychology as a liberal art as well as a rigorous science. To this end, it is engaged in the enterprise of questioning and rethinking the discipline of psychology. Such a broad and deep understanding of psychology places into perspective the value and limits of views that claim that psychology is the study of mind, or the science of behavior, or the interaction of mind and body, or the personal growth and enrichment of the person.

Active research and writing is expected of students; original reflection is as important as detailed scholarship. Research seminars during the junior and senior years provide the occasions for students and faculty to work together in close association.

4+1 Master's Program in Psychology

Psychology majors may earn a master's degree in psychology after approximately a full year of course work beyond the bachelor's degree. For more information on 4+1 Programs, click here. 

Spring 2024 BA Graduates' Stories
28 Graduating seniors responded to our departmental survey requesting their future plans:

• 64% of those responding indicated their plans included graduate school or Professional School,
• Respondents had applied to 2.71 graduate programs on average with a minimum of one and a maximum of seven programs applied to,
• Respondents were accepted to an average of 1.71 graduate programs with a minimum of zero acceptances and a maximum of six,
• 86% of respondents who applied to graduate school were accepted by their first choice program,
• 50% of those who applied to graduate or professional schools applied to Psychology programs with the vast majority of those, 75%, applying to counseling programs,
• Occupational Therapy programs and Speech Pathology programs were the choices of those who applied to graduate and professional schools other than psychology,
• 88% of respondents plan to or expected to work and 62% had already found a job.

Sample specifc plans:     

[I] will be getting married, then I will start my job as an intake coordinator for a Catholic therapy practice.

Working at a gym over the summer, and taking various trips to the beach and Colorado with my friends & family.

I would like to work immediately after graduation.  Then I would like to travel a bit outside of the country and maybe do volunteer work.  After saving up, I would like to return to grad school to get my masters.

Finish masters and hopefully pursue a [doctoral] degree.

I would love to learn more about special education and try to find/support solutions to the many problems that are in the school system.

Travel includes going to France May 28th to visit a friend staying at a convent.  I will be in France as well as Italy for two and a half weeks.  Outside of that, I go to regular spirtual direction and [discerning] marriage (it takes some time).

Volunteer work at hospitals, shadowing at clinics and working as EMT.

In addition to my employment, I intend to participate in volunteer work with seriously-ill children and their reincorporation into society.  After, I will be moving to Atlanta, Georgia for my employment and there I intend to volunteer with non-profits in the hopes to start my own.

I intend to become a pediatric occupational therapist.  I will take classes towards my associates in OT for a year, after that I will decide if I wuold like to apply to the OT doctorate program at TWU.  In my personal life I look forward to getting married, having a garden, painting and building community.

I plan to go to graduate school for counseling at Midwestern State University, and I hope to find a job or internship in human resources.

Testimonial from Recent Psychology Graduate

Aidah Drizin 
My years at UD have been some of the most informative and influential years of my life. I am not the typical college student, instead, coming to school once both of my own children left home for their own schooling careers. I spent time in the classroom with classmates who were the same age as my children and more often than not with teachers much younger than myself. And yet in spite of those things I could not have asked for a better schooling experience. I chose UD because I thought it would be an environment of respect, a place whose values closely aligned with mine and a place where respect and reverence for a higher power are woven into the fabric of the UD community. It was more like thousands of experiences at UD, all of them positive and safe and welcoming. Being an orthodox Jew at a Catholic university could have gone any number of ways but luckily for me, it was a beautiful experience.