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Jacey Cook

"I am currently enrolled in graduate school, doing both therapy and diagnostic testing with a multitude of age ranges. In therapy, I work with children, adolescents, adults and also provide marriage counseling, parent guidance and family therapy. Diagnostic testing gives me an opportunity to work with a wide range of referral questions such as learning difficulties, attention difficulties, gastric bypass evaluations, intellectual and personality measures. Lake Superior State University gave me a strong background in statistics and other courses that provided me with the skills to success and prepared me for graduate school."

Jacey Cook
Psychology Alum,
Graduate Student
University of Detroit Mercy

Psychology

Our program is unique in that we strive to train our graduates to continue on to graduate school and have designed a program aimed at each student generating their own empirical research project as an undergraduate. Where most universities only allow undergraduates a very rudimentary access to faculty research our undergraduate students produce their own research that is presented at national conferences.

Understanding of Behavior

Degrees

Psychology is defined by the American Psychological Association as “the study of the mind and behavior. The discipline embraces all aspects of the human experience — from the functions of the brain to the actions of nations, from child development to care for the aged. In every conceivable setting from scientific research centers to mental health care services, "the understanding of behavior" is the enterprise of psychologists.”

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The Lake Superior State University Psychology department strives to offer the best training in undergraduate psychology in the state of Michigan. Our heavily research focused program offers students the preparation that graduate programs desire most of all no matter what direction the student intends to pursue in psychology as a whole. Students receive the individualized attention you would find at a private small college at the price of a public University. Our graduates are successful in their many diverse graduate plans and careers.

My goal is to transform students’ approaches to their own education. I work through quizzes, in class laboratories, take home examinations, primary source readings, small group projects and discussions to empower students to learn material for them selves. Ultimately when students leave our program they should have a life long love of learning. They can read, understand, criticize the material, and even teach it to other students. In this I always see myself as a facilitator of the attainment of knowledge and not really a professor who writes material on the blank slates of their minds."

--Todd J Smith, PhD
Department Chair,
Assistant Professor of Psychology

Average Starting Salary of LSSU Graduates*

$22,349

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*Based on survey of 2004-2006 LSSU graduates

Personal education...

Caroline Demary-Elliott
Mathematics - Secondary Education

"Not only is LSSU close and convenient to my home in Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario, but the atmosphere is very welcoming. All of the staff and students seem to be really open, and the teacher-to-student ratio is very personal, unlike larger universities." [ more ]