Undergraduate Studies at Howard

• Founded in 1867, Howard University is a comprehensive, private, predominantly African American institution located in the nation’s capital, Washington, DC. The university has 12 schools and colleges with approximately 11,000 students from every state in the US and nearly every continent, and approximately 2,000 faculty members.

• Howard University has been designated Doctoral/Research University-Extensive by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching.    It is one of only 89 universities in the nation; one of 25 such private universities, one of two universities in the Washington, DC area, and the only historically black educational institution with this distinction.

• The University’s Libraries System encompasses the Founder’s Library (the central research library), the Undergraduate Library, and the branch libraries in all of the professional schools. The Association of Research Libraries, of which the Howard University system is a member, ranks it among the top 100 research libraries in the nation. The University is also home to the Moorland-Springarn Research Center, one of the largest and most important collections of materials by and about African American people.

• The University’s numerous research and instructional laboratories provide a state-of-the-art computer and high technology environment. Additionally, Howard is a member of the Consortium of Universities in the Washington Metropolitan area.

• Aside from campus research facilities and resources, other educational opportunities are available in the various national governmental agencies, on Capitol Hill, in the Library of Congress, and in a host of other area research facilities, such as the National Institutes of Health.

Psychology Undergraduate Curriculum

• Courses in the department provide students knowledge of psychology through the study of significant research, theories, and applications.

• The major in psychology consists of a minimum of 39 semester hours of which the following courses are required:

  Introductory Psychology                                PSYC 050                 3

  Experimental Psychology                              PSYC 051                  4

  Research Methods and Statistic I                  PSYC 063                 4

  Research Methods and Statistic II                 PSYC 064                

             or      

  Psychological Testing                                      PSYC 120                 4

  Cognition                                                           PSYC 119                 3

  Brain and Behavior                                           PSYC 110                 3

  Personality Theory                                            PSYC 123

             or

  General Social Psychology                                PSYC 125                3

                                                                                                                                                                                                                  

                               TOTAL REQUIRED                                                 24

   

• Students should take Research Methods and Statistics I (PSYC 063) by the end of their sophomore year.  Majors must also choose a minimum of five additional course in the 100 series.  Majors who plan to attend graduate school in psychology are strongly advised to elect psychology courses in learning, perception, and motivation as well as courses in biology, chemistry, and mathematics.

• The minor for psychology majors requires completion of five courses in any single undergraduate department of the university.

Psychology Undergraduate Courses

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Faculty Members

Linda Berg-Cross, Ph.D., Columbia University, Clinical: family psychology; 

A. Wade Boykin, Ph.D., University of Michigan, Developmental; psychology of the black experience; 

Alfonso L. Campbell, Ph.D., Pennsylvania State University, Clinical; laterization of cognitive processes; 

Kellina M. Craig, Ph.D., Tulane University, Social; diversity and intergroup and interpersonal relations in work settings; aggression including: domestic violence and hate crime; 

Stefanie Gilbert, Ph.D., University of South Florida, Clinical; sociocultural perspectives of eating disorders, body image, fear of success; 

Jules P. Harrell, Ph.D., University of Illinois, Personality and Clinical; psychophysiology; 

Leslie H. Hicks, Ph.D., University of Wisconsin, Neuropsychology; brain and behavior; 

Hope M. Hill, Ph.D., Columbia University, Clinical; community violence and the social emotional development of African American children; 

Ronald Hopson, Ph.D., Michigan State University, Clinical and Personality; substance abuse, severe mental illness, and theology and psychology; 

Donald L. King, Ph.D., Stanford University, Experimental; gestalt-related research on pattern perception; 

Jerome Kravitz, Ph.D., New School for Social Research, Experimental; perceptual learning, cognition and language; 

Ometha Lewis-Jack, Ph.D., Howard University, Clinical; diagnosis and treatment of substance use disorders: neuropsychological assessment: drugs and behavior; 

Serge Madhere, Ph.D., New York University, Developmental; psychometrics and statistics, cognitive and cross-cultural psychology; 

Michael Myslobodsky, M.D. Kharkov State University Medical School, USSR; Ph.D., D.Sci. Institute of Higher Nervous Activity and Neurophysiology, Moscow, USSR, Neuropsychology; midline abnormalities and psychopathology, hemispatial neglect, MRI with psychologically disordered patients, the biological psychiatry of self-deception; 

Debra D. Roberts, Ph.D., Temple University, Developmental; ethnic/cultural identity and the normative development of children of African descent; 

Albert Roberts, Ph.D., Emory University, Developmental (life-span); 

Lloyd R. Sloan, Ph.D., Ohio State University, Experimental and Social; 

Dominicus So, Ph.D., University of Maryland, Clinical; alternative medicine, psychology and spirituality; 

B. James Starr, Ph.D., State University of New York at Buffalo, Social; cross-cultural psychology; justice;

Sandra S. Tangri, Ph.D., University of Michigan, Social; psychology of women; 

Yolanda V. Van Horn, Ph.D., Duke University, Clinical; developmental psychopathology, cognitive and personality assessment, prevention of childhood psychological disorders.

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