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>> UW Stout Psychology Program provides students with a strong foundation in psychological theory and a wide variety of view points for understanding human behavior.
The psychology program enables each student to select the courses and experiences that best enhance personal interest and career paths.
This popular major prepares students for graduate school or for entering directly into the work force.
>> We have a major with I believe close to 300 students in the major.
We also have a psychology minor and then we have several programs within the department as well.
>> My four years here at Stout have been really beneficial for me as a student.
My teachers have been really involved with me and maybe all of the students in the psychology department and also in my other areas of study.
>> We really have all kinds of opportunities for students to get supervision and assistance and also technical expertise associated with doing real world practice and research in psychology and related subjects.
>> I really do enjoy the research aspect of psychology.
>> One of our really great strengths are the wonderful facilities that we have for helping students to learn about research and to become capable researchers and possibly also practitioners of psychology.
>> Another study that I did was for experimental psychology, which is a requirement for psychology students and I just studied how executive functioning is different for individuals that are bilingual in comparison to people that are monolingual so it has given me a lot of stuff to work with like that applies to the real world and my research focus if I wanted to go on for my doctoral degree I know that
and the research experience that I've gotten here will definitely prepare me for that.
>> All the students in UW Stout psychology program get experiential training and that can take one of many different forms and it could take more than one form.
They have a lot of freedom to choose how they will do that so some students might do something that's very laboratory intensive, such as conducting their own research project.
Some other students might fulfill the same requirement by doing something out in the community.
>> The professors at Stout are really invested in their students and they care about the future successes of the students.
>> In the four years since I've been here at UW Stout, the kinds of things that I've seen our students go on to do after finishing our programs have really been remarkable.
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