As part of a review of its Psychology department, William Rainey Harper College in Illinois conducted a study of 400 students who had taken at least 3 courses in the department from fall 1989 to fall 1993. Questionnaires were sent to the students in spring 1995, requesting information on their perceptions of the effectiveness of courses in the department and benefits received from completing them. Study findings, based on responses from 156 former students, included the following: (1) 24% of the students had earned a bachelor's degree and 58% had transferred to another college; (2) of those who had transferred, 28% transferred as psychology majors and 44% as one of the social science majors; (3) 8 of 12 psychology courses included on the survey were rated as higher than beneficial, while the three highest rated courses were Human Development, Human Adjustment and Abnormal Behavior, and Child Psychology; (4) 30% of the former students had participated in volunteer work with a community service agency as part of a psychology course, and close to three-fourths indicated that volunteering helped them learn to appreciate some of the real problems faced by society; and (5) students judged the use of lectures and classroom discussions as the most effective instructional methods, while they judged the use of media as less effective. The survey instrument is appended. (BCY)