The Department of Psychology at the University of Michigan's LSA (Literature, Science, and the Arts) college offers a comprehensive program for undergraduate students. The department provides academic advising, both in person and online, to help students navigate their studies. It is a hub for foundational knowledge and creative thinking, engaging with a complex, diverse, and changing world.
The University of Michigan's LSA Department of Psychology is committed to a broad mission of excellence in research, teaching and apprenticeship: To advancing the understanding of human behavior and mental processes, and to create new scientific knowledge about psychological processes through first rate scholarship. To teach innovative courses and engage students in our research and service activities. To maintain our record of outstanding graduate training that produces tomorrow's leading researchers. We strive to accomplish these goals as a large, diverse and interdisciplinary community of scholars.
The field of Psychology first emerged at Harvard in the late 1800's under the scholarship of William James, and ever since then Harvard has been at the forefront of the field. The Department has a long and rich history, and its past faculty and researchers have included some of the most famous names in psychology, including B.F. Skinner, Gordon Allport, Jerome Bruner, George Miller, and Henry Murray. Psychology is one of the most popular courses of study among undergraduates at Harvard.
An important overarching research interest in psychology at Heidelberg University is currently the analysis of (self-) regulation processes.
For over 60 years, the Department of Psychology has been at the forefront of research into clinical practice. Its research interests span a wide range of mental health disorders and physical health problems, including anxiety disorders, trauma, somatoform disorders, pain, psychosis, depression, antisocial personality, disorders in childhood and adolescence, emotion and personality, and neurodegeneration.