The School of Psychology at Florida Tech has the atmosphere of other private-college, liberal arts majors. Classes are small, typically no more than 22 students, and all but Introductory Psychology are taught by doctoral-level faculty who are experts in the subject. Lower-division classes (1000-level and 2000-level) include a mix of Psychology majors and students from other departments, whereas upper-division classes (3000 and above) are taken almost exclusively by Psych majors. Every professor brings a different style to the classroom, but the small class sizes and concentration of majors in the classes accommodates a great deal of focused interaction between teachers and students.
In contrast to larger universities, every student is known to the instructor. Small classes also make it possible to follow, within the constraints of covering important material, the interests of the students in a particular class. Just as the teacher brings something unique to the classroom, so does the unpredictable mix of student personalities in each class.
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