Mission

The Department of Psychology seeks to train competent people in various fields of study: cognitive, clinical, pathological, social, labor and development psychology. This education aims at giving human behavior a scientific explanation, and an understanding of the psychic functioning that underlies it. The training helps students command, on the one hand, theoretical, methodological and practical knowledge. On the other hand, it prepares them to practice the profession of psychologist and researcher. These skills empower them to enter the labor market and gain access to higher education and research.

Program Educational Objectives

1. Graduates will be qualified, professional and ethical psychologists, and will make a career in the field of orientation, counselling, support and guidance within a pluralistic team in the various institutions of human resources and public or private companies.
2. Graduates will be psychologists of sensitive work with psychopathological phenomena experienced and felt at work, to better contribute to the development of a workplace culture that changes employer/employee relations towards better conditions of reception and protection.
3. Graduates will demonstrate all the necessary skills to pursue a postgraduate course and excel in research.

Program Outcomes

a. Students will define key concepts of the different fields of psychology and locate the psychology of work with respect to its history, its evolution and the different areas of intervention of work by the psychologist.
b. Distinguish between the different theoretical perspectives of social psychology, develop conceptual skills of communication and practice group functioning.
c. Rigorously pursue an appropriate methodological and statistical analysis of the scientific approach in psychology, which combines the epistemological, ethical, technological and static principles.
d. Examine the personality across the different theoretical and psychometric perspectives of psychology and personal development, to correlate the level of psychological guidance counseling, and professional development, in making the necessary link between personality and professionalism.
e. Appreciate models and methods of counseling consultation and referral to education training and careers.
f. Put into practice an objective and scientific evaluation using instruments, trials and tests and interpret results in a dynamic way.
g. Put into practice the fundamental concepts of ergonomics while placing them as priority work­health and work­time relations.
h. Analyze, starting from cognition, the psyche and human behavior; normal as pathological in its environment.
i. Develop psychological management of management issues, developments of labor and their consequences.
j. Sociologically analyze a real organization and institutional environment.
k. Recognize legal studies related to the law at work in a comprehensive manner.
l. Put into practice the acquired knowledge and evaluate training.