Location
Online
Curriculum
60 credit hours
Program Length
as few as 24 months
Accreditation
Regionally Accredited by SACSCOC
The online Associate of Science in Psychology program at Columbia International University (CIU) will help you advance both your academic and career goals. Through this program, you will develop practical skills valued by employers and undergraduate schools. CIU's online Psychology program will fully equip you to live out God’s calling in your life by exploring evidence-based practice through a biblical worldview lens.
What You’ll Learn
As a graduate of CIU’s online Associate of Science in Psychology, you would gain practical skills that are valued by employers and open a wide range of career opportunities in entry-level positions where graduates would be professionally prepared to enter the workforce, or if preferred to obtain a higher-level education to further advance within the helping professions.
Why Earn a Degree at CIU Online?
- Flexible online program
- Integrates a biblical worldview
What Can I Do With This Degree?
Graduates with an Associate of Arts in Ministry Leadership are equipped with skills and biblically based ministry knowledge necessary to pursue a variety of entry-level positions in the local church or other ministry organizations, including:
- Case Manager
- Family Advocate
- Mental Health Technician
- Research Assistant
- Addiction Counselor
- Youth Counselor
What Will I Study?
Here are degree-specific courses you can expect to take:
- PSY 2010 Organizational and Industrial Psychology
In this course, you will study and apply the science and theory behind how people predict and manage human behavior within an organization. Students will cover theories of motivation, cognitive psychology, leadership theories, ethics, performance management, team management, and organizational development. (3) Limited to online program students.
3.00 credit hours
- PSY 2020 Developmental Psychology
This course is designed to explore human development from conception through death, looking at human development using the bio-psycho-social model from a Christian worldview. You will explore how we as humans share developmental similarities, yet are unique due to various factors such as temperament, personality, etc. (3) Limited to online program students.
3.00 credit hours
- SOC 2030 Marriage and Family
This course is designed to lay foundational principles for an understanding of biblical manhood, biblical womanhood, biblical marriage, and the nurture of children. Along with this will be a review of the stages of life involved within marriage and family. (3) Limited to online program students.
3.00 credit hours
- PSY 2110 General Psychology
In this survey of scientific psychology, you will focus on historical roots, human development, and the physiological basis of behavior, learning, motivation, perception, emotions, personality, socialization, and pathology. You will learn how to filter psychological data through biblical principles to help produce a biblically-consistent model of human psychology which can then be used in both Christian and non-Christian environments.
3.00 credit hours
- PSY 2300 History and Systems of Psychology
This course provides you an in-depth analysis of the theoretical, philosophical, valuational underpinnings of the major models/systems of modern and post-modern psychology.
3.00 credit hours
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