Original questions from Louis Manza:
1. Do the General/Introductory psychology courses in your curriculum have a lab component (and I don't mean participation here--I'm looking at whether or not the students enrolled in these courses engage in research (in any form) as an experimenter)? Here the answer is no- we don't have them do research- There is a requirement to participate in research and write responses to that participation. In my course I require that they "design a policy or follow up study" to one of the ones they participate in and this is becoming "standard" in the department. 2. Do you have a capstone requirement (within the psych major) whereby upper-level students carry out data collection-based research projects? We are also making changes. Currently the catalog requires an independent study or internship that serves as a capstone. We are expanding to three options but will require a capstone project the senior year. Basically a) a thesis based on original research, b) a complete and thorough review of an area or problem from the literature, c) an internship (we haven't worked out the particulars on what constitute a capstone internship vs a "normal" internship but are getting close- the change was participated by problems with our current definitions for the internship resulting in very "uneven" examples). Tim _________________________________________________________________ Timothy O. Shearon, PhD Professor and Chairperson of Psychology The College of Idaho 2112 Cleveland Blvd Caldwell, ID 83605 teaching: Bio and neuropsychology, history and systems, general, psychopharmacology --- To make changes to your subscription contact: Bill Southerly ([email protected])
