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Welcome to the College of St. Catherine
Psychology Department Website

Our department features:

  • an energetic faculty specializing in the areas of clinical, cognitive, developmental, educational, industrial-organizational and social psychology.
  • a broad-based curriculum grounded in psychological theory and empirical research that is both writing and information technology intensive, beginning in General Psychology
  • renovated laboratory facilities, equipment and faculty offices on third floor of Mendel Hall.

L to R: Tom Thieman, Andrea Olson, Joanne Floyd, Gil Clary, Jamie Peterson, Lynda Szymanski, David Schmit

Congratulations to our May 2008 Graduating Psychology Majors:
Jill Belde, Erin Blommel, Sherri Coons, Laura Hultman, Jessica Jacques, Danielle Traczyk Johnson, Stacey Kleinendorst, Jenna Laska, Ashly Schuette, Barbara Schwartz, Shantel Steen, Anna Tews, and Jamie Weber.

Recent events:
  • The CSC Chapter of Psi Chi, the national honor society in psychology, inducted 13 new members on Thursday, April 24. The guest speaker was Dr. Kshanika Anthony (CSC, 1994), an I/O psychologist at Personnel Decisions International (PDI), Minneapolis.
  • The 2008 Minnesota Undergraduate Psychology Conference (MUPC) was held on Saturday, April 26 at Hamline University. Six CSC psychology students presented research at the conference.

Several recent psychology graduates began graduate education in Fall 2007: Jessica Barth and Courtney Kellerman Wells (MPH program, U. Minnesota); Kirsten Kringle (PhD program in philosophy, U. Minnesota); Amy Matteson (DPT program, Mount. St. Mary, CA); Sarah Niehorster (PhD program in I/O psychology, University of Albany, SUNY); Jessica Raymond (JD, William Mitchell College of Law); and Laura Schmitt (PsyD program, Argosy U.).

In January 2008, Jolene Hisdahl began the MA program in Industrial Relations (U. Minnesota Carlson Business School), and Kim McIntyre started an MA in Marriage and Family Therapy program (St. Mary's U. of MN).

Accepted for Fall 2008 admission are: Kari Trad, MA program in Counseling and Student Personnel Psychology (U. Minnesota); Danielle Grambo, Alyssa Hageman, Molly Hall and Jessica Tice, CSC Doctor of Physical Therapy; Jill Belde, MSW program at CSC/UST; Danielle Fischer, MSW at the University of Minnesota, Duluth; and Danielle Traczyk, MA in School Psychology, U. Wisconsin, River Falls. If you aspire to complete a graduate degree, it is never too early to begin planning and discussion your options with your psychology academic advisor.

Supporting materials from the January 2008 Teaching-Learning Network presentation by Psychology Faculty:

TLN Handout.docTLN Table.doc