Degree Program Requirements

The concentration in Behavioral Sciences is an interdisciplinary program encompassing the disciplines of anthropology, psychology, and sociology. It is designed as a general preparation for a career in human services such as social work, counseling, criminology, or education.

The program is based on the belief that it is important for an individual who plans to work with or for people to understand human beings as individuals (psychologically) within a social context (sociologically) which varies across cultures (anthropologically).

These disciplinary perspectives offer different but complementary views of people. In order to understand, predict or influence human behavior, one needs some comprehension of how humans develop, the problems they confront, the organization or structure in which they function, and how and why these go awry.

It is also critical to have some exposure to the methods employed by behavioral scientists and some actual experience in the working world of the human services. These are featured offered in the Behavioral Sciences program.