Overview
We are one of the largest departments at CSUSB, with 35 full-time and 15 part-time faculty, 140
graduate students and over 1200 undergraduates. The department offers three undergraduate majors:
Psychology, Biological Psychology, and Human Development, and four master's level programs: Child
Development, Clinical/Counseling, General Experimental, and Industrial/Organizational Psychology
Each of our programs offers first-rate classroom and research education, as well as opportunities to
collaborate with faculty on a variety of research projects, many funded locally or federally. Among the
research projects currently underway are inquiries into mate selection processes; gender issues in the
workplace; emotional intelligence; multicultural issues in mental health; animal and human models of
drug addiction; reading acquisition; older worker/retirement issues; domestic violence and victimology;
self-concept and identity, implicit social cognition, and health disparities in minority communities.
In joint efforts with Biology, Nursing, Education, Business, Kinesiology, and Social Work, many of
our faculty and students are involved in transdisciplinary research through campus centers and
institutes. In addition, applied work is available through community internships in a variety of
city, county, school, and corporate settings.