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Psychologists study human behavior and the behavior of nonhuman animals,
with the goals of (1) building a science of behavior, (2) building
a science of the biological foundations of nature, (3) understanding
how people and nonhuman animals function in their respective natural
worlds, and (4) improving the delivery of mental health care through
development of clinical theory and method. Students and faculty investigate
how humans and animals adapt to the everyday problems that confront
them, and how maladaptive everyday behavior creates various personal,
interpersonal, cultural, and species difficulties, and how these difficulties
can be avoided or removed. Psychology is one of the broadest fields
of academic study and practical application. Some branches of psychology
deal with personal behaviors, such as a single individual's mental
life and personal development, while other branches deal with more
abstract and philosophical issues such as the nature of knowledge
and how that knowledge depends on individual and cultural experience
and on biological variables. Basic research overlaps biology (behavioral
neuroscience, neuropsychology, comparative cognition, and behavioral
ecology), medicine (e.g., health psychology, and cognitive and clinical
neuropsychology), cultural anthropology (ethnographic and contextualistic
approaches), and in one way or another with virtually every academic
department.
We invite you to explore careers for psychology majors in the Career
Library, 390 SSB, University of Utah. We're open from 8-5 Monday through
Friday and until 7 pm Tuesday evenings during Fall, Spring and Summer
semesters. You will find that jobs for psychology majors fall into
three categories:
1. Jobs which are related to psychology, such as mental health technician
in a private psychiatric ward, volunteer coordinator of community
social services, parole and probation officers, researcher in U.S.
Dept. of Health & Human Services (requires strong quantitative
skills), teacher in a private school or "provisional" teacher
in public school, junior market research analyst (requires strong
quantitative skills), employment interviewer, etc.
2. Jobs which require a degree but are not specifically related to
a major in psychology, such as corporate management trainee, customer
service representative for financial investment firms, retail store
manager, trainee leading to "Buyer" positions, sales representative
for large companies such as Nabisco leading to other management positions,
insurance claims representatives, U.S. government investigation, law
enforcement or administrative careers; administrative jobs in nonprofit
organizations such as the Boy Scouts of America, Public Interest Research
Groups, or the Sierra Club, etc.
3. Jobs which require advanced training or education in fields such
as psychologist (Ph.D. required for most college teaching or clinical
psychologist positions), law, paralegal work (certificate programs
requiring a bachelor's degree), medicine, library science, business
management (MBA), social work, health administration, etc.
For information on the above and other job possibilities,
we encourage you to explore the following resources in our
CAREER LIBRARY, 390 SSB:
COLLEGE MAJORS & CAREERS PSYCHOLOGY
(located in the Occupations A-Z section)
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