So I am so pleased to introduce to you Suzanne McCuster,
is that right?
McCusker.
McCusker, again.
Yeah.
And Suzanne works at the University of Washington
Tacoma, as you know.
And she is a great advisor in psychology,
and she's a wonderful person to talk
to maybe after the workshop.
And she's going to cover all the requirements
you need for admission to the Psychology Program.
So Suzanne, thank you.
Thank you.
All right.
So what I tried to put together is
all of the information you need on transferring, declaring
the psychology major, and then other interesting information,
hopefully, that you'll find interesting about the program.
And a little bit more about what we do
and what opportunities there are and that sort of thing.
If you have any questions at any time, feel free, please ask.
And then we can certainly talk more at the end
as well, about any other things that you might have questions
about.
So there we go.
OK.
So your first question may be more about logistical.
How do you get to UWT?
Really, you have to meet some fairly reasonable admission
requirements.
You have to have a minimum of 45 credits.
You have to have intermediate algebra with at least a 2.0.
You have to have English proficiency, whether that's
through composition or perhaps the TOEFL or something
similar to that.
You've got to complete two years of world language.
And have a minimum 2.0 cumulative GPA.
Now, the two years of world language
can be satisfied in multiple ways, really.
If you completed two years of the same foreign language
in high school, we will accept that.
If you take two quarters of the same language
while you're here, we'll accept that also.
Or if you don't do it in either of those first two places,
if you don't take your world language until you get to UWT,
that's totally fine, too, as long
as you complete two quarters of the same language.
That's actually a requirement that
has to be completed prior to graduation.
So even though we list it as an admission requirement,
it's preferred that you have it done
by the time you get to UWT, but if you don't, that's OK, too.
The one thing that you may find that leads you to take it
here is that you will have more opportunities
for different languages here.
At UWT we only offer Spanish and Chinese at this point.
So if you want French or German or something else,
look for it somewhere else.
It makes it easier for you if that's what
your preferred language is.
Step number two, really, is to apply.
Even if you don't think you're ready, even if you don't
have your AA, feel free, apply.
If you meet these criteria, you're eligible,
you will receive an admission decision
based on your circumstance.
So each application is individually reviewed.
And really, if you meet these minimum criteria,
then there's no reason you wouldn't be admitted.
Now, of course, it's no official guarantee.
I don't speak for admissions or anything like that,
but that's really what their perspective is.
We are currently accepting applications
for winter, spring and autumn quarters of next year.
Priority deadline for winter I believe was two days ago.
But as far as I have heard right now,
applications are still being accepted.
If you are applying, if you're thinking
of applying for winter, I would do it yesterday--
I mean, as quickly as you possibly
can just so that we can try and get everything going for you,
because that's a short transition period from when
you finish classes here, to starting classes
right after the first of the year at UWT.
It's very, very quick.
So psychology is kind of one of those unique majors
where it doesn't actually require a separate application.
So you don't apply to UT-T and then apply to psychology.
Instead, you apply to UWT and you're accepted,
and then you finish up prerequisites.
Once you finish up the prerequisites,
as long as you've completed all the courses
and you've got the minimum 2.0 grade in each course,
you can declare the major.
There is no additional personal statement.
You don't have to fill anything else out.
You don't have to pay for anything.
So prerequisites, you must have five courses.
Your General Psych, which kind of makes sense.
Statistics, which is way better for you
to complete here if you can, because it
prepares you to go into one of the important courses.
Your two foundation courses, which
are your 200-level intro to a particular subject.
So you can see there's Lifespan, Abnormal, Social, and then
Biopsychology are all ones that we accept as well.
If you do decide to do a Lifespan or an Abnormal
and you take both of the classes that are listed here,
we will accept both classes, but only one
will count towards a prerequisite.
The other one counts as an elective.
And that's because they want you to have a background in two
different areas.
So let's say you choose one Lifespan and one Abnormal,
which is, honestly, the most common thing
that students choose when they're transferring in,
then you've got a Lifespan and an Abnormal
and you meet the two prerequisites.
Finally, you also have to have research methods, which,
here, is Psych 250.
If you complete Psych 250 here, and, honestly, I think
you'll see this repeat in another minute,
too, but save your materials, because you
will be using those materials in our second research methods
course that you would then take at UWT.
If you're not able to take research methods here,
that's OK.
That's not going to set you back.
And really, we just work it in with everything else
and it's totally fine.
So I kind of got ahead of myself here.
But what if you can't do everything here?
It's still totally fine.
You can be admitted to UWT, as long
as you meet the previous requirements that we just
went over.
And then, as soon as you've completed
the prerequisite courses, you can declare psychology
as your major.
What that means is you can come into UWT,
you come in as what they call a premajor student, which
effectively means that you're undeclared.
Once you complete the prerequisites,
you see me or one of the other psych advisors,
and we officially move your major into psychology.
In the meantime, not being declared in psychology
doesn't prohibit you from taking psych classes.
So if you're finishing up the Research Methods
and you want to take Adolescent Psychology at the same time,
you can do that.
We don't have any problem with that happening.
You can also talk to a psych advisor any time you want to.
We don't have a restriction inside either.
So to talk to me or one of the other psych advisors,
you literally just have to send us an email
or make an appointment with us.
We will see you.
So now what?
You've gotten into UWT, then what happens?
You complete 35 upper division psychology
credits in the major, including our Research Methods II course.
That's seven classes.
What you effectively do are three classes at the 300 level,
then two classes at the 400 level, research methods,
and one final class at either 300 or 400 level, your choice.
That's something that we can totally
work on, and try and choose classes
that really fit your interest more than anything else.
You also have to complete 15 upper division
credits outside psychology.
So these are kind of like your general education requirements.
They can be courses in arts, film, literature,
political science, history, sociology--
those kinds of courses.
And really, most students end up taking those courses
towards the end of their program,
and we tend to use them as kind of electives to help buffer.
If you have a particularly heavy quarter,
we might throw in an upper division film
class or an upper division literature class,
because you enjoy those, and then
make your schedule a little bit more bearable and easier
to work through.
Some of our upper division psych classes are listed here.
So Personality Theories, Adult Development,
Psychopharmacology, the Psychology of Black Women.
And really, these are only a few of the 300 and 400 level
classes.
More of them are listed on our website, which we've got later
and we can always pull that up and look at it if you'd
like to look at that, too.
So other requirements for earning the degree
beyond the psych requirements, of course.
Like we talked, you have to complete world language.
You must complete a minimum 180 credits.
So if you transfer to UWT, with 90 credits from Highline,
you will then complete 90 more at UWT.
Same principles apply.
We do 15 credits a quarter, five credits a class.
So your 90 credits would be basically six quarters.
If you complete more than 90 credits at Highline,
we can work with that, too.
It's pretty easy.
And, obviously, the opposite is also true.
If you only complete 60 or 75 credits here,
then we can still make that work to finish up at UWT.
You've also got to have a minimum 2.0 GPA,
and then meet residency requirements, which
your advisor will go into detail with you
on those when it's necessary.
Residency doesn't always apply to every student.
And so as it says, your advisor will help you with all this.
So the residency and completing any additional courses,
tend to be some of our more frequently asked questions.
So if you do have a question on something like that,
feel free to just reach out to one of us.
We can help you with that.
So beyond classes, what else is there?
Oh, that went out of order.
Hang on.
I'm sorry.
Let me back up.
Totally hit the wrong thing.
So one of the questions we get a lot is,
how do I do other stuff, beyond just
sitting in the classroom for eight hours a week
or however many hours a week?
Research is a definite option for you.
So Dr. Perone, you can see on top, has a very nice smile,
and he's very friendly.
He teaches a lot of the developmental courses.
So if you're interested in developmental psychology,
you can see he teaches Lifespan Imaginative Play,
Cultural Context of Developmental Psychology.
He'll teach our Lifespan Psychology course, Adolescent
Psychology, things like that.
And some of the research that he's done
has been focusing on managing attention-seeking behaviors
in the classroom.
And then he did an internship with a student
that was fundamentals and integration of counseling
and dance therapy.
He also spent some time this summer
in Costa Rica, a month and a half ago or so,
and worked with Patch Adams and did clown kinds of stuff.
It was really, really cool.
And then Dr. Lee is focusing on the effect of stress
on health behaviors, and then addictive behaviors.
So one of his current research projects
is actually related to smoking in college students.
And you can see, he teaches Health Psychology,
Chemical Dependency, and then the Psychophysiology of Stress,
in addition to other courses like our Biopsychology
or Psychopharmacology, those kinds of courses.
He's very much the scientific side of that sort of thing.
He tends to have room for research assistants
pretty frequently, so that's kind of cool, too.
Internships are not required for graduation.
A lot of our students think they are, but they're not.
They are completely optional, and if you want to participate
in one, totally awesome.
We'll help you do it along the way.
Some of our recent internships.
One we had through the Office of the Attorney General,
where the student participated in hiring and recruitment.
And then St. Joseph Medical Center
where the student really participated
in more of a counseling kind of internship.
I don't know which student that was, but to be honest,
I'm guessing they were looking, obviously,
at more of that clinical kind of graduate program
after they finished up.
And then local elementary schools.
Psychology, we tend to have a lot of students
who are interested in school counseling
or being school psychologists.
So that's kind of a typical internship
that some of our students would take advantage of.
And then one that I thought was interesting
was a student did an internship at a local animal shelter,
learning how human behavior relates to animal behavior,
and then trying to explain cats.
I don't know about you, but I can't explain cats.
So if they could figure it out, that's kind of awesome.
And this one's just kind of a hodgepodge.
I wanted to show some of the things
that we've done on campus recently.
You can take part in ASUWT if you wanted to.
We have a Psychology Club, even though it kind of got cut off
there on the bottom.
We have First Generation Fellows,
which is a newer program, to try and assist
students who are first generation,
because the transition can be tough.
But then we have--
you can see Hendrix the Husky there,
and we actually just had our start of the quarter
activities, so there were involvement fairs and career
fairs that are going on this week and things like that.
So there's lots of different opportunities
to do things and become involved, which is pretty fun.
So then what about after graduation?
Because you've gotten to the finish line,
and now you have to figure out what that next step is.
Our recent students have gone into--
you can see, there's a huge list here of those who
have gone into graduate study.
A lot of our psychology majors pair
the major with an education minor,
and then go into the graduate program
that we have at UWT, which certifies students to teach
in K through eight schools.
So we have probably 12 to 15 of our recent graduates
in that program right now.
Some of our grads are also doing Master's in social work
or social welfare.
Master of arts and interdisciplinary studies.
And then there's a couple of students
who actually enrolled at UW Seattle doing their School
Psychology Program.
And another student doing the Master's
in Applied Child and Adolescent Psychology
Prevention and Treatment.
And then we've got the Industrial Organizational
Psychology, which is, that's students at Seattle University.
And the Forensic Psychology student
is actually at John Jay College in New York.
So that's kind of cool.
And then some of the careers.
Finding our recent graduates, honestly, is kind of hard,
because sometimes after they graduate they kind of scatter.
So I had to stop them on Facebook and online
to try and figure out where they might be.
But, for example, one that I did have quite a bit of contact
with is now working as an independent living specialist.
So she works with adults and teenagers
who have developmental issues, and then
helps them to figure out how to live individually as adults,
and function in the adult world.
So that's something that she's doing just
with the Bachelor's degree.
Whereas, obviously, if you were thinking
of being a family counselor, or a school counselor,
or school psychologist, you're going
to need more than just the Bachelor's degree.
But that's obviously not something
you have to figure out right at this moment.
You don't even have to figure that out right
as you get to UWT.
That's something that you can talk to us about as you start
getting through the first couple of quarters,
and then really figure out what area
it is you want to focus on.
Like you were saying, you have a couple of areas
that you're really thinking about.
This is where you have those conversations with us saying,
hey, I want to do whatever after college.
How do I get there?
And that's where we look at these courses
and say, oh, take these courses, talk to this faculty person,
and do these things.
And then by the time you graduate,
you're then prepared to go and do those things.
So some of the helpful sites that we use all the time,
and these are in your packets as well,
so you don't have to necessarily worry about writing it
down right now.
The admission requirements for the campus
is right up there at the top.
Those are the requirements that we just
went over at the beginning.
So the 2.0, the world language, the intermediate algebra,
the 45 credits, and the English proficiency.
Psychology advising.
That's where you can get to information
about all the advisors, when we're available,
and all that sort of fun stuff if you need an advisor.
Your major requirements, which, if you'd like to,
we can look at those and I can show you what those look
like as well.
And then student organizations.
So as I mentioned, we do have a Psychology Club.
There's a bunch of different dance clubs.
There's clubs related to various ethnicities.
There's all kinds of things.
There's a bunch of different organizations
that you could join if you wanted to.
So if you want to contact me, easiest way at this point
is email.
I guess it's probably easier to say it's always email,
to be honest.
By send an email, you will get a response.
And actually, if you'd like them,
I brought some of my business cards with me as well,
so that way you don't have to worry about necessarily writing
down the email address.
You can just see it on one of these.
Whatever's easiest.
And then these are the rest of my fellow psychology advisors.
We're all a little bit crazy in one way or another.
But we're there to help.
So if you need something, let us know.
So after that, ah, questions.
Questions?
Are the classes during the day, evenings?
Thank you.
Yes, very good question.
Short answer, classes are prime time.
So classes are between 8:00, usually,
and 3:00 most of the time.
We have a few professors who will teach later on.
They'll teach a Monday, Wednesday class at 4:15,
or a Tuesday, Thursday class at 3:00.
But on the whole, most psychology classes
happen between that 8:00 and 3:00, Monday through Friday.
We don't have classes after 12:00 on Fridays.
So really at that point, if you're
in a Monday, Wednesday, Friday class, it's in the morning,
and you'll be done by 12:20.
Unfortunately, the Psych Department
really isn't set up for evening classes,
although psychology, more than any other program
on campus at the moment, is using hybrid courses.
So if it's that Monday, Wednesday 4:15 time
slot that we were just talking about,
it meets in person on Mondays, but then on Wednesdays, it's
online.
Or another one of our faculty does a Tuesday, Thursday,
where they meet in person on Tuesdays,
and then Thursdays, she does everything online.
Conveniently, that's also when she gives her tests.
So you just have to be online during that same time period
and everything's great.
So it is a degree.
We do have a bunch of classes offered in any given quarter.
So it is a degree that you can complete within that six
quarter time frame.
Or if you wanted to try and do it more quickly,
psych tends to offer a decent amount of classes
during summer, too.
Just that summer is condensed, and summer's a little bit
crazy, just because our summer classes meet three days a week
for three and 1/2 hours each day.
So it's a lot.
But otherwise, yeah.
Honestly, psych is one of the programs in which you can
get through pretty smoothly.
Most of our psychology transfer students
who come in with 90 credits complete the upper division
requirements that we were talking about,
which is 50 credits.
And maybe complete a minor, 25 to 30 credits,
and then have, say, two to three, two to four electives
left over.
If you decided not to do a minor,
then the courses that would have been for that minor then
become electives.
So 50 credits of required 40 credits of electives
gives you the opportunity to really tailor
what you're doing, because that's eight classes.
You could create your own minor if you
wanted to just by taking classes in that particular subject.
Or you could gear up for graduate school
and take a bunch of classes to make sure that you
are well prepared for that.
So we have lots of options.
I think that's kind of the coolest part.
What are the most common minors for a psychology degree?
Education.
Gender and sexuality studies.
And sociology's coming up.
Sociology's brand new, as of this quarter.
So that one is one that I expect to see the numbers climb.
We already have 17 students in that minor right now,
and it's, like I said, first quarter,
so that's actually pretty good for us.
There's a few other random minors.
Some students might be an American Indian studies minor.
Some students may have an applied computing minor.
But for the most part, education, like hands down.
It's pretty amazing that way.
Yeah.
What's the most popular, like where
[INAUDIBLE] the graduates are going onto science,
like teaching?
You know what I mean?
Yeah.
I hear clinical psychology a lot.
That's probably the one, in the most recent graduating class,
that we've heard most about is that they
want to go into some type of personal counseling practice.
And so they're looking at those master's degrees
or the doctoral degrees to try and get from point A
to point B and make that happen.
They have like internships at hospitals around here
where you can--
like [INAUDIBLE]?
Right.
Internships are challenging, because we
don't have a placement program for internships.
And so an internship that you might complete,
you do the legwork for, which is the part that
makes it challenging, because you
have to go approach somebody and then say, hey,
can I be your intern?
And sometimes it's a little awkward and it can be daunting.
But we have procedures, basically,
that we would follow to help you find a faculty person.
Because also, when you do an internship,
you're not just at the site working with them.
You're also coordinating with a faculty person on campus.
So we would help you then say, oh, have you
had classes with so and so, and can you get them to supervise
what you're doing and help you put together the contract.
Because you do a contract with learning objectives, and what
you're going to produce at the end to show what you've
learned, and things like that.
But yeah, internships, honestly, are great.
And a lot of the students that are
looking at going into grad school want research as well.
But honestly, some type of that hands-on kind of experience,
showing that you have the skill in that area,
whether that's research or an internship,
I mean at that point I think they're probably pretty equal,
as long as you have that experience.
Thank you.
That was a really good question.
Thank you for answering.
You talked about a world languages requirement.
Um-hmm.
So you said two years of it.
Should we be taking world language every quarter
for our entire AA program?
No.
It's where the weird part comes in.
So world language says two years in high school
or two quarters in college.
So it's considered that one quarter in college
is equivalent to one year in high school.
So think of it that way-- makes it a little bit easier.
So if you did two years of German in high school,
and you passed all semesters, you're good to go.
But if you didn't, if you only completed one year of German
and then you said I'm done with German,
I don't want to go back to that, then when you get here you
wanted to take Spanish, and you took two quarters of Spanish,
that would be just fine, and that would be enough.
So if someone is proficient in another language
already, because they immigrated here,
or they're an international student,
how does that work at UWT?
Well, if they're an international student,
they get credit if they have completed
through 7th grade instruction in that other language.
So like you said you were from Japan.
Sorry to use you as an example.
But if you completed through 7th grade instruction in Japanese
when you lived in Japan, then the world language
would be waived.
Instead, you would have to demonstrate
English proficiency.
So yeah, it's a little convoluted sometimes.
But then if there's a student who--
we have some students who speak Russian, for example.
We don't have Russian on campus, but Seattle does world language
testing for all the languages we don't.
So we've had students who've gone up to Seattle
and taken Russian language testing up there,
because they speak it at home and they
know how to read and write it, and they pass it.
And then Seattle just says, yup, you're good to go,
and sends that Back to us and we use that.
So world language seems, in some ways,
like it's a really, really tough thing to get through,
but it's not as bad as it seems.
And we're really pretty creative when it
comes to ways to fulfill that.
Yeah.
So what about [INAUDIBLE] criminal psychology?
Would that be like forensic?
Probably more like forensic, yes.
And at that point, we would probably,
because one of the faculty that we have that
was closest to that left at the end of last year,
we would probably put you in touch
with one of our leading clinical faculty.
Because that would be the closest, and then
we would work with you.
Like one of the advisors would work with you to then say, OK,
what kind of program are you looking for?
Where could you find that program?
And then how do we tailor what you're doing towards that?
I actually just worked with a student
this morning who is interested in forensic psychology.
And so she looked at a couple of programs.
One of the ones at John Jay, being
one, and Fairleigh Dickinson University or college.
And New Jersey also has one.
So we were just looking at that this morning,
and what they require is a Bachelor's
in psychology, abnormal psychology and statistics.
Oh, wow.
Yeah, pretty easy, really.
So grad school and making that transition from undergrad
to grad is really not nearly as crazy as you think it is.
Yeah, it requires a lot, because then you're talking--
not to be totally overwhelming, but GREs,
letters of recommendation, another application,
a personal statement, sending your transcripts,
just like you're applying to go to UWT, basically.
And it has a deadline.
That's the part that really throws a lot of students
off is that deadline.
So if we can plan for that, we're good.
Makes it really easy.
Did you have a question?
Yes.
Let's say I did French at my high for a year,
and then I decided oh, I don't like French.
So then I did a quarter of like, let's say, Spanish here.
Does that count, or no, it has to be consecutive years?
Same language.
Of the same language?
Yup.
OK.
So you could either take the quarter of French
or quarter of Spanish.
But yeah, they want that same language thing.
I've tried to get them to take one year of German
and one year of French, and no.
It doesn't work.
So does it have to be like consecutive years
to the present?
Nope.
It doesn't, OK.
Nope.
It literally just has to be two years or two quarters
of the same language.
And how you do it is up to you.
So if you took French I here, let's say, a year ago,
and you didn't get to French II until winter quarter of 2018,
totally fine.
And the bonus is, honestly, we're
not looking for any particular grade in this either.
So world language doesn't have to be the same kind of scary,
like oh, no, it's math, or oh, no, it's physics.
It doesn't have to be anything that bad.
Just pass it.
Go ahead.
I can see your wheels turning.
I have a question to hers.
I took an intro class to foreign language,
and that was like an amalgam of different languages.
So that would not count?
No.
Because it's not study of just one language.
Not that you didn't get some benefit out of it,
but for this purpose, no.
They're kind of picky in that respect.
Now, if you were looking at Seattle,
UW Seattle requires three quarters.
So that one of the bigger differences between us and them
is that we don't have quite that same need
for the additional language.
So if you have it, great.
If you don't have it, then Tacoma
may be a little bit better than Seattle in that respect,
if you're not a language person.
You looked like you had a question.
Yeah.
So the internships, do they, if you get an internship,
is it for a whole year, or like summer, or--
Depends.
Depends on the internship.
So some of them could be, depending
on how long you're putting in, some of them
could be a year long thing that you work 10 hours a week,
autumn through spring.
Some of it may be that you do 15 or 20 hours a week
in autumn quarter only.
It just depends on what you find.
Can you clarify how the number of hours you're working,
and what you have to do on the side, adds up to credits?
Yes.
Actually, let me pull up our website for that, because it's
way better to have the detail.
OK.
So internships, this FAQ here is probably
the best thing that we have.
But talking about credit and hours
worked, if you want a five credit internship,
you've got to work 15 hours a week to do it.
The expectation, if you have a five credit internship,
is that you will then have 10 more credits on campus.
So figure that you're probably in class about six hours
a week, let's say, for those 10 credits.
Then you've got to add that in, add in your travel time,
all that kind of stuff.
That would be some of the stuff that we
would take into consideration when it comes to whether or not
you do an internship in one quarter versus another quarter.
Or whether maybe you cut it down to a three credit
internship, which is a lot closer to just 10 hours a week,
and might be more doable, especially if you've
got commuting, and you've got a job or two,
and family responsibilities and everything else.
So when we look at doing these, we really try and make
them fit as best we can.
We do have, you can see this list over here
on the right-hand side, we do have
a list of some of the internships
that have been sent to us.
I haven't seen this list updated in about six months,
unfortunately.
So anything that you would find here we
would look at and make sure was still available
before you applied for it.
The person who posts it, our internship coordinator,
does try and list what major she thinks
would be the most appropriate for that internship.
That doesn't mean that something that says, like this one here,
South Sound Magazine designer editorial
doesn't mean that a psych major could even
take that internship.
It just means that she--
according to her rubric, that fits more
with writing, communication, or arts media and culture.
So this site is actually linked off
of our School of Interdisciplinary Arts
and Sciences page on this undergraduates menu here.
So one of the other pages I linked to earlier
was this advising page, where you can
see all of our friendly faces.
We put announcements over here, and then all about us.
And here's the who does what.
So if you're looking to contact someone
and you're thinking something that's not psychology,
you're more than welcome to contact me,
and I can get you to the correct person,
or you can reach out to them directly--
whatever's easiest for you.
What we also have here is a little bit more information.
We just looked at the internships page.
But there's also this independent study
page, where we had talked about doing research, for example.
But this also includes, then, directed
readings and any type of thesis that you might want to do.
Psychology does not require any sort of thesis or capstone
or anything like that.
Some of our other majors do.
Like if you're a history major or a politics major,
you'd be writing a 25-page paper to finish up your degree.
But psychology does not do that.
So you might be happy about that.
This goes into the types of independent studies.
And then this is, honestly, the best part of it.
So how do I register for this?
So this is really kind of what we are starting to get into,
where you have to find a faculty person.
Honestly, I would rearrange some of this to say,
first contact the faculty person,
because you want to see if they're available, more than
anything else.
You don't want to go through all the steps
and then find that the faculty person that you
think would be awesome to help you with this, can't help you.
So really, talk to that faculty first.
But you're going to want to talk to somebody
you have a relationship with.
So any kind of this independent study, we usually say,
wait a couple quarters.
Get in, get used to being on campus,
because it's going to be different than being here.
And then build some of those relationships
so that you can go up to Dr. Perone and say, hey, Dr. P,
can you help me with this?
And he goes, oh, of course.
You've been in three of my classes,
you're an awesome student.
I'm more than happy to help you.
Makes it so much easier to make this happen.
So you have your faculty member.
You have to do paperwork.
You have to basically put it all together,
as though it was a regular class.
So where you walk into class and your instructor
hands you a syllabus and says, hey, here's
what we're doing for the quarter,
this is you creating the syllabus.
So it's definitely possible to do.
It just requires prep.
That's where that legwork thing comes
from is not only do you have to then pull together where you're
doing the internship, but you are really,
truly defining that internship as well.
And then down here at the bottom,
we have all the paperwork that's required for these.
So if we were looking at internships,
this is the kind of paperwork that you would end up doing.
Your info goes here, the info where you're
doing the internship goes here.
But then here's these fun learning objectives.
So the part in your syllabus, those first couple pages
where it talks about what you're going to do
and how it meets the goals and objectives of the Psychology
Department, that's what this is.
And that's what you, and the faculty person,
and the person who supervises the internship
all come up with this all together.
And then you create an academic assignment.
So that may just be a paper.
Maybe something simple like that.
But it may be that they want you to do a presentation on what
you've done.
Maybe they want you to create something that's happened, too.
So you define the scope of what all that means,
and then at the same time that you're
coming up with all of that--
oh, I went too far.
Timeline.
Some of our other forms also require
that you not only come up with the timeline
to say, OK, by week two you'll have this,
by week four you'll have this, by week six you'll do,
and then week 10 is whatever.
It also requires a grading scale,
and that's something that you then come up
with with the faculty person as well to say, OK, if you have--
to be really simple--
90 out of 100 points, then that's going to get you a 3.6.
That kind of an idea.
All of this is built-in, even as complex
as it may seem at first glance, is built-in to make it
all work for you.
And the cool part about psychology
is that then if you do an internship--
if you do an internship, then it can count for credit
in psychology, which is kind of awesome.
So coming all the way down to here,
under this additional advanced credits,
this was the one that I said was the last psychology class.
It's that last 300 or 400 level psych class
that you would be responsible for taking.
Internships, directed readings, or undergraduate research
can all count in this section.
It can't count in any of these other sections here,
but it will count here.
So your question about doing an internship all year,
if you get 15 credits of internship,
five credits will count here, and the other time
count towards your electives.
So they don't go to waste.
They still count towards that 180 credits
that you need for graduation, and you
get an internship out of it.
It's kind of awesome.
So what if your internship is not
totally based on psychology?
So like I'm interning in HR, human resources.
Would this still match?
Quite possibly.
We had one of the ones that I highlighted
was someone who worked in HR and worked with them on developing
processes to identify applicants and things like that.
Yeah, totally could be relevant.
Because that is something that is so close--
human resources does use bits and pieces of psychology
all over the place.
So yeah.
If it didn't count here, it would still
count as an elective.
And that's where it gets a little confusing
is because an elective, we use in so many different places
and in so many potential different ways.
Like they call these elective lists.
But that's not the same as an elective
that you take to increase your credits to the 180.
So it's a little weird sometimes.
But you can see, for example, if we go to this--
I can't even get them all on the screen at the same time, which
is awesome.
Some of these are newer courses.
For example, down here at the bottom,
Sports Psychology is one of our brand new courses.
It was taught for the first time this last summer.
455, right above it, the Immigrant Youth Development
is another one that is actually new within the last year or so.
And then you get the fun things, Existential 410
is being offered in winter quarter for the first time
in like two years.
So I have some students that are really, really excited
about that, and some that look at it
and go, oh, I can't do that.
So there's something here that you can find
that would be fun and awesome.
What's your class size?
Small, which is awesome.
Generally, most of the psych classes
are limited to 40 students.
And so there might be a few more here and there.
We have, this quarter, our Mental Illness Cross-Cultures
class is actually up to like 53, but that's huge.
That's way bigger than we're used to.
And that's because it's half online,
and so the instructor doesn't mind going over a little bit,
so it works out.
Would you like to see what classes
we're offering in winter, just as kind
of an idea of what we have?
OK.
So as you would expect, we're offering Psych 101.
We're offering two sections of Research Methods.
So this section is the same, and this section is the same.
The difference between them is that one's
restricted to freshmen and sophomores
during our first registration period.
And the other's for juniors and seniors.
But that's the only difference between them.
We've got Abnormal, two sections.
And then another section of Lifespan.
Infant Child, which actually has not been offered frequently
in the last couple of years.
So we're expecting that that one,
they'll probably have request to go over 40 at that point.
Social Psychology.
So our 200 level courses here that we're looking at--
the Cognition, the Biopsychology,
Behavior Motivation, Lifespan and Abnormal--
are all our foundations courses.
So somebody who wants to declare psychology, who's only
coming in with Psych 101 could easily
take two of these in the same quarter.
And if they're eligible to get into T-Psych 209,
our Research Methods I, could take all three psych classes
in one quarter and declare the major
at the end of the quarter.
So we have variety to be able to do that.
Beyond the 200 level classes we've
got our Research Methods II, which
is two different sections.
And then we've got Personality Theory, Mental Illness
and Culture, Stereotypes, Prejudice and Discrimination,
Sexual Identities Perception, Health Psychology,
Psychopharmacology, and then you can see,
I mean it just keeps going.
So we've got tons and tons of options here.
There are certain classes, for example,
Sexual Violence, because of the faculty member,
will fill up pretty quick.
It's a tough topic, and there are, every quarter,
is somebody who drops because it is a very tough topic.
But the instructor is fabulous, and that's
why most people flock to the class,
despite the subject matter is because Dr. West is awesome.
Immigrant Development is another one that is offered late.
So Monday, Wednesday, 4:15 to 6:20.
Previously she's run that one as a hybrid.
So she's had that Monday in class, Wednesday online, which
is kind of nice, because you might not
want to be on campus till 6:20.
We do have issues with transfer courses, unfortunately.
Because courses that you take here,
like we were looking at the prerequisites--
the Lifespan, and the Abnormal, and on from there.
Our equivalency guide is all based
on Seattle course numberings.
Not Tacoma course numberings.
So that what happens is when your courses come in,
that's why this note is here.
So if it shows on your transcript as Psych 2XX,
which is how they resolve the numbering issue,
because our foundations courses are 200
and Seattle's are 300, if they come in this way,
we have to resolve it with an entry code, which
just overrides prerequisite.
It's an extra step, but it allows
us to get the people into the courses that
need to be into the courses.
So if you have questions on how any of your courses come in,
so let's say you transfer in for spring quarter
and you look at your degree audit,
and it doesn't have anything that you expect to have on it,
ask.
Because we can tell you where everything is.
It's just maybe that it's not in the way
that you expect to see it.
But that shouldn't be an insurmountable problem.
It just requires a little finesse.
Any other questions?
Can we stay a few more minutes after--
Of course.
--in case students have questions.
Yeah, absolutely.
So that's an excellent presentation.
Would you join me, please, in thanking Suzanne.
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