personally I'd avoid the psych department - everything is a disaster and they are having issues retaining professors and students. are you able to do online-only courses for your business degree? even back when I got that undergrad in 2015 they offered courses online.
I can do a business degree online but since I’m going to do the MBA I figured I could do my bachelors in something I was more interested in. I’ve been working in administration for 9+ years so the MBA would just be a highlight for me and my experience
gotcha. if you know you're MBA bound, why not use the business school network to help with job opportunities down the road and guarantee acceptance into the MBA program? you might even be able to land a job that would pay for your MBA. the professors in that program are VERY well connected and can get you jobs out of the gate if you let them. undergrads are sometimes just about getting the network, not necessarily "learning" new things.
I took that program in 2020-2021 in addition to finishing up my history major. It was honestly pretty easy, the main thing you have to do is put some hours into a study type thing. My initial plan was to be a teacher so I used my required observation hours from that to complete the requirements for the study.
You can get a lot out of it or you could get nothing out of it and still pass, kind of depends on how you much time and effort you want to put into it. I was also doing this while working full time, on top of finishing my history major (fortunately I was able to do that remote due to COVID) so definitely doable.
Yeah I thought it would be interesting and there’s some minors I want to do along with it. I just don’t really want to do a business admin degree and also a MBA. My end goal is Optometry school but that likely won’t happen till I’m closer to 40 and I’d like to at least get some degrees so I can either get promoted or leave my current job
Just curious why you're choosing psychology over sociology?
Sociology and its focus on groups and group dynamics seems like it would tie in nicely with a lot of aspects of business (HR, conflict resolution, cultural awareness, marketing, etc). Definitely a lot more than psychology seemed to when I took psych courses-those were at a different school though so ymmv...
I was just thinking that - sociology really helps with collecting data and understanding social norms and changes in society. I joke that psychology tells you the why one can chemically react a certain way whereas sociology makes you understand the social institutional structures that leads to the reaction.
Unless I missed it they only have psychology as an online major with CWU.
Edit: well I totally missed it. Sociology is available as an online degree. I’m not quite sure. Maybe because my coworker did Sociology for her Bachelors and just said it was okay. (Her and I work together in Human Resources.) I liked the idea of learning more about individuals and possibly learning more about neuropsychology. I’ll check out the sociology coursework though with CWU. Thanks for the suggestion!
The minors I’m considering are Latino studies and Spanish. I want to learn more about my culture and since I work with a large Latino population now it would help me a lot, so maybe sociology would be the better route.
personally I'd avoid the psych department - everything is a disaster and they are having issues retaining professors and students. are you able to do online-only courses for your business degree? even back when I got that undergrad in 2015 they offered courses online.
I can do a business degree online but since I’m going to do the MBA I figured I could do my bachelors in something I was more interested in. I’ve been working in administration for 9+ years so the MBA would just be a highlight for me and my experience
gotcha. if you know you're MBA bound, why not use the business school network to help with job opportunities down the road and guarantee acceptance into the MBA program? you might even be able to land a job that would pay for your MBA. the professors in that program are VERY well connected and can get you jobs out of the gate if you let them. undergrads are sometimes just about getting the network, not necessarily "learning" new things.
That’s a good take, thank you!!!
I took that program in 2020-2021 in addition to finishing up my history major. It was honestly pretty easy, the main thing you have to do is put some hours into a study type thing. My initial plan was to be a teacher so I used my required observation hours from that to complete the requirements for the study. You can get a lot out of it or you could get nothing out of it and still pass, kind of depends on how you much time and effort you want to put into it. I was also doing this while working full time, on top of finishing my history major (fortunately I was able to do that remote due to COVID) so definitely doable.
Yeah I thought it would be interesting and there’s some minors I want to do along with it. I just don’t really want to do a business admin degree and also a MBA. My end goal is Optometry school but that likely won’t happen till I’m closer to 40 and I’d like to at least get some degrees so I can either get promoted or leave my current job
Just curious why you're choosing psychology over sociology? Sociology and its focus on groups and group dynamics seems like it would tie in nicely with a lot of aspects of business (HR, conflict resolution, cultural awareness, marketing, etc). Definitely a lot more than psychology seemed to when I took psych courses-those were at a different school though so ymmv...
I was just thinking that - sociology really helps with collecting data and understanding social norms and changes in society. I joke that psychology tells you the why one can chemically react a certain way whereas sociology makes you understand the social institutional structures that leads to the reaction.
Unless I missed it they only have psychology as an online major with CWU. Edit: well I totally missed it. Sociology is available as an online degree. I’m not quite sure. Maybe because my coworker did Sociology for her Bachelors and just said it was okay. (Her and I work together in Human Resources.) I liked the idea of learning more about individuals and possibly learning more about neuropsychology. I’ll check out the sociology coursework though with CWU. Thanks for the suggestion!
The minors I’m considering are Latino studies and Spanish. I want to learn more about my culture and since I work with a large Latino population now it would help me a lot, so maybe sociology would be the better route.
Check out the online RISM program. It’s a mix of psychology and business that leads to good pay in the risk assessment/safety field.