Bachelor of Arts - Psychology - Forensic Psychology

Students will learn to understand, and arrive at explanations for, a person’s thoughts and emotions. They will examine psychology from clinical, cognitive, developmental, personality, physiological, and social perspectives. Students classroom studies will then be brought to life in the laboratory and the clinic as well as in personal settings.

One of the primary jobs of a forensic psychologist within the legal system is to determine competency to stand trial. This requires the forensic psychologist to understand mental competency not just in a psychological sense but also in a legal sense and present the determination of sanity or insanity in a way that the court can understand. Trial lawyers, law enforcement agencies, and crime victims are some of the people that forensic psychologists come into contact with, besides criminal and juvenile offenders.