>> Undergrad, do whatever you want.
So as an undergraduate student, you could be communications, you could be business,
you could be marketing, you could be film, if you wanted to.
As a grad student, you need to decide what type of specialization.
There's a lot of fields within the public health realm.
So one of the fields is you could get a PSD, it's a doctorate in clinical psychology.
And usually it's 5 years plus additional hours.
And at that point, you do intensive therapy, long-term therapy with clients.
Another route is marriage and family therapy.
It's usually a 3-year program, but it requires about 3,000 hours
of internship experience before you actually become a licensed therapist.
And then another realm is school counseling, getting a master's in counseling.
And usually it's a 2, 2 1/2 year program, with an additional year of field work experience.
But my recommendation to any student starting out, pick whichever specialization you want,
pursue that, see if you like it, and then you can always change or adapt as needed.
Specific classes: human development would be one of them,
I would say abnormal psychology would be another one.
If there's an emotional behavioral class you can take
as an undergraduate, I would take that as well.
I would take a communications class, you need to know how to communicate with people.
Maybe an interpersonal or intrapersonal communications class where you're learning how
to like talk and relate to people.
I would say that those would be the more specific classes.
Most grad programs want you though to take abnormal psychology and human development
to at least qualify for their master's programs.