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PAGE  PAGE 5 UNDERGRADUATE PROGRAM ASSESSMENT PLAN, 2008-2009 WICHITA STATE UNIVERSITY Date: Fall 2008 Program Name: Psychology – Undergraduate Program School/College: Fairmount College of Liberal Arts Sciences Campus Box: 34 Undergraduate Coordinator: Paul Ackerman University Mission Wichita State University is committed to providing comprehensive educational opportunities in an urban setting. Through teaching, scholarship, and public service, the University seeks to equip both students and the larger community with the educational and cultural tools they need to thrive in a complex world, and to achieve both individual responsibility in their own lives and effective citizenship in the local, national, and global community. A. Program Mission Program Description Undergraduate psychology majors take four required courses (General, Statistics, Research Methods, and Systems Theories) plus two electives from each of the basic, social/cultural, and applied areas. The department of psychology offers four academic programs in psychology, including bachelors (BA) and three doctoral (PhD) programs: clinical, community and human factors. Thirteen full-time, 1 three-quarter-time, and 1 research-associate/faculty members, plus 15 adjunct psychologists support these degree programs. Program Mission The Wichita State University undergraduate program in psychology is designed to provide a solid research orientation in experimental and quasi-experimental design and analysis with balanced attention to basic psychological processes (learning, cognition, perception, motivation, emotion, consciousness, physiology, etc.); social/cultural dimensions (social, developmental, personality, developmental, etc.); and applied issues and perspectives (clinical, community, substance abuse, testing measurement, etc.) Psychology students learn critical thinking and problem-solving skills by developing competence in the methods of scientific research, psychometric principles, and data