Bachelor of Arts in Psychology (4 Year)

Thinking of counselling, clinical work or social work one day? Providence’s Bachelor of Arts with a Psychology Major (4 Years) gives you eight semesters at the Otterburne campus, a residential rural campus about 50 km south of Winnipeg, to study behaviour and mental processes from the nervous system to perception and cognition, with a full extra year for senior psychology.

Years one and two cover PSYC 1010 and PSYC 1020 Introduction to Psychology I and II, PSYC 2010 Child Development, PSYC 2040 Social Psychology, PSYC 2110 Research Methods and PSYC 2120 Statistics for Behavioural & Social Sciences. The upper years add PSYC 3020 Abnormal Psychology, PSYC 3010 Clinical Psychology, PSYC 3050 Brain and Behaviour, Forensic Psychology and Psychological Assessment, Measurement and Testing, and the fourth year opens senior work such as PSYC 4000 History and Theory of Psychology, which traces how the discipline’s ideas developed.

The four-year major is taught by coordinator Morgan Mulenga, Ph.D., and Stephan Bonfield, with research methods and statistics running through the degree. Compared with the three-year route, the extra year means more 3000 and 4000-level courses and a longer record of study for graduate applications. The page notes that many graduates go on to graduate studies in counselling, clinical psychology or social work, and it describes a Christ-like commitment to the common good and respect for human life.

This degree suits a student who wants the full four-year credential as a platform for graduate school, or roles in mental health care, child and family services, research, education, human resources or law enforcement. Expect it to reward curiosity about both the data and the people behind it.