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Our curriculum embodies the philosophy of Boston College鈥檚 liberal arts education, providing students the opportunity for intellectual growth and a deeper understanding of the human condition. Students become critical thinkers as they read cutting-edge research and reflect on topics that are at the core of the human experience: how context influences everything from what we see to how we behave toward others; which aspects of behavior are easily controlled and which proceed without conscious awareness; which aspects of behavior and thought are universal and which are culturally and socially determined; how we learn through our experiences; how brain cells give rise to thought and behavior.
Students learn to critically read and integrate research in psychology and neuroscience, and they have opportunities to conduct research themselves, working in one of our many world-class labs. In our research laboratories, students can learn how many different methods鈥攆rom the study of networks of brain cells, to understanding social norms, to the study of eye gaze in infants鈥攃an be used to understand the mechanisms that give rise to human behavior.