{"id":1605,"date":"2026-05-18T16:04:28","date_gmt":"2026-05-18T23:04:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bellevuecollege.edu\/psych\/?page_id=1605"},"modified":"2026-05-19T11:23:22","modified_gmt":"2026-05-19T18:23:22","slug":"why-study-psychology","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.bellevuecollege.edu\/psych\/why-study-psychology\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Study Psychology?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"601\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bellevuecollege.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/32\/2026\/03\/Psyc-Club-Peter-sheep-brain-horizontal-1.jpg\" alt=\"Pysch Club\" class=\"wp-image-1569 img-fluid \" style=\"aspect-ratio:16\/9;object-fit:cover\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bellevuecollege.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/32\/2026\/03\/Psyc-Club-Peter-sheep-brain-horizontal-1.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.bellevuecollege.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/32\/2026\/03\/Psyc-Club-Peter-sheep-brain-horizontal-1-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.bellevuecollege.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/32\/2026\/03\/Psyc-Club-Peter-sheep-brain-horizontal-1-768x577.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>The psychology department offers student engagement opportunities, including a student-led psychology club and engagement in undergraduate research through the Psi Beta national organization.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Psychology classes are interesting and have real life applications, regardless<br>of the profession you pursue.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>The discipline of psychology offers tools to enhance your own happiness<br>and positively impact the world.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>All psychology courses fulfill Bellevue College social science requirements<br>for the AAS-DTA.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Psychology has one course that fulfills BC\u2019s Diversity Degree requirement<br>and one course that fulfills the national science requirement for the AAS-DTA.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Psychology at BC offers two tracks to get you major-ready to transfer:<br>\u2013 Applied Psychology<br>\u2013 Research<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The psychology department offers student engagement opportunities, including a student-led psychology club and engagement in undergraduate research through the Psi Beta national organization. Psychology classes are interesting and have real life applications, regardlessof the profession you pursue. The discipline of psychology offers tools to enhance your own happinessand positively impact the world. All psychology courses <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bellevuecollege.edu\/psych\/why-study-psychology\/\">...more about Why Study Psychology?<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":626,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"class_list":["post-1605","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bellevuecollege.edu\/psych\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1605","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bellevuecollege.edu\/psych\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bellevuecollege.edu\/psych\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bellevuecollege.edu\/psych\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/626"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bellevuecollege.edu\/psych\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1605"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.bellevuecollege.edu\/psych\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1605\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1612,"href":"https:\/\/www.bellevuecollege.edu\/psych\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1605\/revisions\/1612"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bellevuecollege.edu\/psych\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1605"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}