Liberal Arts and Sciences: Humanities and Social Sciences — Psychology concentration

SUNY Adirondack offers a Liberal Arts: Humanities and Social Sciences concentration in Psychology. Study in psychology gives context to the importance of data to help your understanding of human behavior and experiences. Enhance your experience of the world around you with the backdrop of psychology. Communication, thinking for yourself and problem solving are at the core of this program.

Degree
Associate in Arts
Program Type
Career-oriented degrees
Pathway
Humanities and Social Sciences
Credits
64

Learning outcomes

  1. Develop sufficient background in a psychology discipline to qualify for upper-level study.
  2. Demonstrate the skills and knowledge needed to think critically.
  3. Employ effective communication skills, both written and verbal.
  4. Articulate the presence and influence of diversity within societies such as the United States and those in Western Europe, as well as throughout the world.
  5. Demonstrate the skills and knowledge related to personal health and fitness, lifelong sports, and recreational wellness.
  6. Examine expression and the creative process in one or more of the areas of humanities.
  7. Demonstrate an understanding of the scientific method.
  8. Identify basic factors relevant to the analysis of human behavior. 
     

Curriculum and requirements

Students choose from a variety of courses that meets program requirements and satisfies your interests in psychology. Electives in philosophy, ethics, the arts, foreign languages, theater, literature and writing enrich learning. 

Degree requirements and sample schedule

Two colleges, one campus

SUNY Adirondack offers a dual acceptance program with SUNY Plattsburgh at Queensbury. Earn a bachelor's degree right at SUNY Adirondack's beautiful campus in fields that include Psychology.

SUNY Adirondack President Kristine D. Duffy and SUNY Plattsburgh President John Ettling sign a dual acceptance agreement

Deep dive

Students choose from a variety of courses that meet program requirements and satisfy your interests in psychology. Electives in philosophy, ethics, the arts, foreign languages, theater, literature and writing enrich learning. Advisors and instructors work with graduates to achieve their goals as they transfer.

A SUNY Adirondack graduate flips a peace sign at Commencement 2024

Looking ahead

SUNY Adirondack's Psychology concentration prepares graduates for further education. The most popular transfer institutions include: University at Albany | SUNY Plattsburgh | SUNY Potsdam | Siena College

Lifelong interest

SUNY Adirondack alumna Alexandrea Scarchilli smiles at the camera
Quotation

In seventh grade, we were asked ‘What do you want to be when you grow up?’ and I remember writing, ‘I want to be a psychologist.' My father fought in Vietnam and has pretty severe PTSD, so that always fascinated me — what makes people tick, what about the brain makes people act the way they do, what’s behavioral and genetic, what goes right and what goes wrong.”

Alexandrea Scarchilli Library assistant and coordinator of Family and Children Services at Stillwater Public Library 2022