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 literacy); advising for the major (students develop a degree plan for their undergraduate major in psychology), planning for the job / graduate school market (what can you do with a BA/BS in psychology?, in any BA/BS (using skills acquired in psychology)?, an MA?, a PhD? - which includes a threaded discussion based on current job postings students find), expectations for admission to graduate school in psychology. (the course is described in a chapter in the book Teaching critical thinking in psychology (Dunn, Halonen & Smith, Eds., 2008). A colleague (Joan Duer, jd...@uwf.edu) has modified this a bit and sometimes includes conversations with psychologists from the community to illustrate the various career/work options available and answer student questions (this during a face-to-face run for the course). Claudia J. Stanny, Ph.D. Director Center for University Teaching, Learning, and Assessment Associate Professor School of Psychological and Behavioral Sciences University of West Florida 11000 University Parkway Pensacola, FL 32514 – 5751 Phone: (850) 857-6355 or 473-7435 csta...@uwf.edu CUTLA Web Site: http://uwf.edu/cutla/ Personal Web Pages: http://uwf.edu/cstanny/website/index.htm On Fri, Mar 25, 2011 at 2:06 PM, Annette Taylor <tay...@sandiego.edu> 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 > tay...@sandiego.edu > > > --- > > You are currently subscribed to tips as: csta...@uwf.edu. > > To unsubscribe click here: > http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13144.1572ed60024e708cf21c4c6f19e7d550&n=T&l=tips&o=9579 > > (It may be necessary to cut and paste the above URL if the line is broken) > > or send a blank email to > leave-9579-13144.1572ed60024e708cf21c4c6f19e7d...@fsulist.frostburg.edu > --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: arch...@jab.org. To unsubscribe click here: http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df5d5&n=T&l=tips&o=9599 or send a blank email to leave-9599-13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df...@fsulist.frostburg.edu
