Psychology

Trent’s program in Psychology ensures that students acquire both research skills and a broadly-based background in the basic content of the discipline, combined with the opportunity at upper levels to focus on more specialized topics.

The first-year introductory courses lay the foundation for second-year courses in the major content areas of Psychology (e.g., personality, cognition, learning, social, physiological, developmental, abnormal). Specialized upper-year courses — on such topics as emotion, gender, intelligence, neuropsychology, life-span and exceptional development, health, education, and human relations, in addition to advanced treatments of the major areas — build on the foundation laid in the first two years.