The Prescott Department of Behavioral and Social Sciences prepares students to understand and predict human behavior across diverse settings, including workplaces, courtrooms, research labs and flight decks.
A Hands-On Approach to Learning
Guided by expert faculty, students apply psychological science to real-world challenges through research, consulting and community engagement. Coursework emphasizes evidence-based practice, analytical thinking and collaboration as hallmarks of the scientist-practitioner approach that defines our programs.
Preparing Tomorrow’s Innovators in Psychology
Through experiential learning, internships and faculty mentorship, students gain the knowledge and skills to make an impact in fields such as human factors, aviation psychology and forensic psychology. Graduates emerge ready to lead in human-centered industries or advance to graduate study in psychology and related disciplines.
Degrees and Programs
Study how human thoughts, emotions and behaviors connect with the law and criminal justice system. Explore the science of psychology — how people think, learn and make decisions — and apply it to real-world issues like investigations, trials and corrections.
Explore cognitive, physical and organizational factors that influence performance. You’ll study perception, decision making and system design to enhance human efficiency and safety.
Focus on how psychology supports workplace effectiveness. You’ll study motivation, leadership, assessment and organizational behavior to apply evidence-based approaches that improve performance and employee well-being.
Industrial-Organizational Psychology program photo
We believe in the importance of hands-on learning in addition to classroom instruction. Our campus has laboratories in every discipline where students have access to state-of-the-art technology that typical undergraduates don't, such as our planetarium, observatory complex, forensic science lab and more.
At the College of Arts & Sciences, students thrive in a dynamic research environment, mentored by faculty who actively publish, secure grants and drive innovation.
College of Arts & Sciences faculty stand apart due to their varied backgrounds and commitment to a comprehensive and global perspective on education. All faculty are adept at specialized learning concepts in our wide range of degree programs.
I fell in love with the campus and small class size. I knew coming to Embry‑Riddle meant I would be challenged in ways that would help me grow, and that is exactly what happened.”
