BS Psychology at Santa Clara: Fees 2026 Dates & Requirements

Major requirements are designed to provide students with a strong background in theory, methodology, and the core content areas of contemporary psychology. Psychology majors take classes in each of five key sub-fields within the discipline. However, majors also select classes from a wide variety of electives, which allows students to focus on and develop specific areas of interest.

The department also encourages students to apply psychological knowledge in ways that improve the quality of people’s lives and promote the common good. Many classes include opportunities to work with various populations in need. And our active internship program assists majors interested in obtaining hands-on experience through extended community placements. In a recent survey, graduating seniors identified the department’s strengths as the wide range of courses offered , the diversity of thought represented among the faculty, the passion faculty bring to their teaching, and the excitement they as students felt in learning about what's important and getting to study it empirically.