Program Competencies

Upon completion of their academic and internship requirements, graduates of Champlain College's undergraduate Psychology Program will:

1. Intentionally integrate content and skills learned outside the discipline of psychology into professional practice.
2. Assess their own communication skills and behavior in professional situations, including analysis of underlying contributors to behavior.
3. Develop the habit of questioning their own and the profession's assumptions and current practices with the goal of personal and professional improvement.
4. Interpret observations of human behavior in case studies, naturalistic settings, and internship settings by applying language, concepts and theories of human behavior, including consideration of normal and abnormal development across the lifespan.
5. Locate, evaluate, interpret, and conduct basic and applied research.
6. Apply foundational psychology principles and intentionally integrate into practice in therapeutic, industrial/organizational, criminal justice or other fields of interest to the student.
7. Differentiate among factors that influence individual and group behaviors.
8. Apply conflict management skills to internal and external situations of conflict at individual and group levels.