Career Category: Art Therapist

With a B.S. in speech-language pathology from Trinity, you will be prepared for the next stage of your educational journey. And your education won’t be just theoretical. Our students get the opportunity to do serious research, guided by our caring professors. Our location just 25 miles from downtown Chicago means that you will also have the opportunity do internships and gain field experience in a variety of settings.

This degree program is highly interdisciplinary, and your courses will span biology, chemistry, English, mathematics, psychology, and special education.

A minor in neuroscience and behavior will provide invaluable insights the brain and nervous system. Your coursework will encompass basic research skills, the brain and cognition, emotion and motivation, and behavioral pharmacology. The neuroscience and behavior minor can be paired with a major in biology and other degrees.

With a psychology degree from Trinity Christian College, you will gain insights into humanity, based on the Creator’s teaching. You will learn to blend natural science approaches with studies of the human experience, selfhood, and relationships among individuals. You will not only receive a strong, liberal arts based approach to psychological science–you will also be able to apply that knowledge to the art of understanding the self and relating to the contemporary world in all its complexity.

And your education won’t be just theoretical. With our 11-to-1 student to faculty ratio, our students get the opportunity to do serious research, guided by our caring professors. Our location just 25 miles from downtown Chicago means that you will also have the opportunity do internships and gain field experience in a variety of settings.

Our graduates develop the theoretical insight and professional skills for graduate school or to serve in a variety of psychology-related careers and professions. And through our 3+2.5 program, you can earn a bachelor’s degree and a master’s degree in psychology in just five and a half years.

If you love art and want to help others, you can combine your passions with a degree in Art Therapy. Art therapists use drawing, painting, and other creative outlets to help children and adults deal with grief and loss.

Trinity’s Art Therapy degree builds on the strengths of our dedicated Art and Psychology faculty. Art Therapy majors complete their field education through the Psychology department and their Capstone work in the Art department.

With Trinity’s small class sizes, you get to work closely with your professors and are never just a number. And Trinity’s location just 25 miles from downtown Chicago means you have world-class museums and galleries in your backyard.