-----Original Message----- From: Marc Carter [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, September 18, 2007 10:13 AM To: Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS) Subject: RE: [tips] Categorizing Psychology as a major
One day! One day we shall achieve parity with the natural sciences! -------- Oh, yes ... sometimes I fantasize about a psychology major with a curriculum that resembles that of the other natural sciences in which psychology majors are required to have a solid background in those areas. Students would have to take a year of calculus, a year of biology and chemistry with labs and a year of physics. The general psychology course would no longer be taught as a one semester course, but as a year-course with human and animal labs. The major offerings would be better grounded in biological principles and would include additional required courses in neuroscience, genetics, and perhaps advanced design and multivariate statistics. But, then I start to wonder ... would we be the thriving major that we tend to be at most institutions? Would psychology faculty even agree that this is what's good for the discipline? etc. etc. Miguel ---
