Word: psych
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Many students enter the Psychology Department with what psychologists would call "incorrect expectancies." While most concentrators expect a more patient and therapy-oriented course of study, the department emphasizes the empirical, quantitative approach to Psych...
...they're often the wrong ideas," Brendan A. Maher, professor and former chairman of the Psychology Department, says. "It's a combination of scholarly and scientific skills in understanding and working with the problems of human behavior." The rationale behind the empirical bias, Maher explains, is that Harvard's Psych Department stresses the areas in which it's strongest. "We've got considerable strength in the research areas," he says, "but Psychology is a very large field, and to be strong in everything you'd have to have a faculty of about...
...Charles M. Judd, assistant professor and head tutor, says that the department offers students a number of course options in clinical studies such as abnormal psychology, adding that both Maher and George W. Goethals '43, another professor, teach courses in psych-pathology each semester. "There's always the possibility of taking some pretty good courses in clinical Psychology," Judd says...
However, many Psych Faculty do admit that clinical material might be neglected, yet they stress the value of a strong empirical background. Martha Danley, a tutor, says that, although the department "does not have a clinical bias, the quantitative emphasis gives students a good background for clinical Psychology. You can't do anything with a B.A. in clinical Psychology anyway," she adds...
...semester course. Beginning next fall, the department will require concentrators who haven't already taken the two intro courses to fulfill a distribution requirement. Students will have to take at least one half course in experimental Psychology, plus two additional half courses in either social, personality or developmental Psych, Judd says...