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 syllabus; we discontinued it after a few years, the primary culprit was that it was team-taught. Nobody owned the course, and interest in volunteering to do a stint in it declined and we canned it for lack of interest. Some people used their time to discuss their research, others talked about grad school, there was no consensus on what/how to grade it. The experience soured me on team teaching.
========================== John W. Kulig, Ph.D. Professor of Psychology Director, Psychology Honors Plymouth State University Plymouth NH 03264 ========================== ----- Original Message ----- From: [email protected] To: "Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS)" <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, March 25, 2011 3:47:28 PM 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] > 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] --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: [email protected] . To unsubscribe click here: http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13338.f659d005276678c0696b7f6beda66454&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-9582-13338.f659d005276678c0696b7f6beda66...@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=9598 or send a blank email to leave-9598-13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df...@fsulist.frostburg.edu
