Her questions: You talk about being spiritual in your teaching. What
does that mean? How can you be both an intellectual and spiritual? Isn't it
an either/or proposition?
My answer: Let me put it this way. A student once came up to me in
class on the first day of the
I'll start out by saying that existentialism is far from my field of expertise,
yet we do run across the topic occasionally in the textbooks so I gave the
topic a stab in the most recent episode of my podcast. I tried to make the
topic a bit more accessible by relating it to a very funny
We offered an introduction to the major class some years back at my suggestion:
it was called Psychology as a Discipline and Profession. We were amazed at how
many majors had misconceptions about careers, graduate school, etc well into
their college program. I will try to find the last
UWF has a course called Careers in Psychology
It is intended to be a course that students take around the same time they
take intro
When I developed this as an online course several years ago, it was a
combination of foundation skills (an introduction to using APA style, a
touch of information
I developed a class, based on faculty requests, called Scientific Foundations
of Psych. I've posted about this class before as it pertains to prepping our
majors for our research methods sequence. This was the central reason faculty
wanted the class. I jumped into it (owning it) because I
I want to thank everyone who has responded and even sent along syllabi.
I am facing two hurdles:
(1) Getting some of our department faculty on board who think that this is not
a content course and should, therefore, not carry any credit value to it.
(2) Getting it through curriculum committee
Hi Annette,
This was a very interesting post. I would like a copy of the syllabus.
Also you mentioned a reading or series of readings that points out the
difference between the resume and the CV - do you have those references as
well? Finally, I would be interested in obtaining your
Hi
I have to admit to reacting much like Annette's critics. Some of the things
(e.g., career advising) appear more appropriate for student services or the
like. Others do get covered, perhaps implicitly, in other courses (e.g., APA
in methods course?). Others I would think that university
I have been advocating for such a course in my department for a while now, but
without success. I see the need for our students because there is a tremendous
misconception about psychology. Even the best and brightest come in senior
year and say that they want to be a therapist and they do
- Original Message -
From: Gerald Peterson peter...@svsu.edu
To: Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS)
tips@fsulist.frostburg.edu
Sent: Saturday, March 26, 2011 2:00 PM
Subject: [tips] Orientation to major?
I developed a class, based on faculty requests, called Scientific
I agree with you completely. While I'm sure that many of us on TIPS were first
generation college students, I'm confident that most of us had family members
who went to college before we did, often parents. Therefore, we had some
awareness of what is needed for college success, trusted persons
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