All We considered such an orientation course. But we thought it was too much a "skills course" and wondered exactly what we'd be teaching and how in the world we'd assess it. Then there is the issue of being one of the top three majors (which due to our slow policies on new positions has resulted in our having the highest ration of campus of majors to faculty- i.e., who wants to teach this without compensation). So we settled (maybe not the right word) for a course called Introduction to Psychological Science. In that course we included some content on a) interacting with your faculty and other psychological professionals, b) how to get involved in internships and research, and c) understanding that psychology is a science and those practicing the craft are scientific practitioners. I can't tell you if it has helped very much in terms of etiquette yet as we only offered this course for the first time this term. (We completely revised our major at the same time that our College revised it's general curriculum- smart huh!?!?) We also decided, after much weeping and gnashing of teeth, that we'd include some common features on syllabi in the department. Things like ADA, the College honor code, a description of plagiarism, etc. But we also agreed to put some common sections that would remain "open to the personality of the instructor" - like personal introduction, course policies, etc. For example, I never allow/encourage first name use by first or second year students but often allow it with students who are TAs or working with me in the lab. The faculty member who teaches clinically related courses has never, to my knowledge told anyone to call him anything else besides his first name- which, of course, has lead to the students deciding to refer to him only by his last name. _______________________________ Timothy O. Shearon, PhD Professor, Department of Psychology The College of Idaho Caldwell, ID 83605 email: [email protected]
teaching: intro to neuropsychology; psychopharmacology; general; history and systems "You can't teach an old dogma new tricks." Dorothy Parker ________________________________________ From: [email protected] [[email protected]] Sent: Friday, March 25, 2011 1:47 PM To: Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS) Subject: Re: [tips] orientation to major Me too, as our department is currently considering such a course. Miguel ----- Original Message ----- From: "Carol DeVolder" <[email protected]> To: "Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS)" <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, March 25, 2011 3:16:32 PM Subject: Re: [tips] orientation to major I would appreciate reading responses to Annette's question too. Carol On Fri, Mar 25, 2011 at 2:06 PM, Annette Taylor <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: Do any of your psychology programs have a course that orients students to the psychology major as a whole? At some institutions this is a sort of omnibus course that allows students, as soon as they declare a major, to prepare a program of study that will maximize their immediate and long term goals, with a fail safe in there someplace in case plans change. Some look at how to maximize psych goals in terms of core requirements. As well, it seems to often times be a combination careers course combined with an orientation to psychology as a science, with some information literacy components, APA style components, graduate school preparation components and others. If your department or program does, (or if you know about institutions that have such as program) can you please tell me about it, or better yet, send me a syllabus. There is only one on project syllabus for the course taught by Drew Appleby at Indiana Purdue. There are also a couple of careers courses but I am more interested in an omnibus course such as the one at Indiana. Thanks Annette Annette Kujawski Taylor, Ph. D. Professor, Psychological Sciences University of San Diego 5998 Alcala Park San Diego, CA 92110 [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>. To unsubscribe click here: http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13545.bae00fb8b4115786ba5dbbb67b9b177a&n=T&l=tips&o=9582 (It may be necessary to cut and paste the above URL if the line is broken) or send a blank email to leave-9582-13545.bae00fb8b4115786ba5dbbb67b9b1...@fsulist.frostburg.edu<mailto:leave-9582-13545.bae00fb8b4115786ba5dbbb67b9b1...@fsulist.frostburg.edu> --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: [email protected]. To unsubscribe click here: http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df5d5&n=T&l=tips&o=9585 or send a blank email to leave-9585-13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df...@fsulist.frostburg.edu
