PLANNING GUIDE TO COURSE OFFERINGS
Please check the bulletin board outside of the PUP Office for tentative course offerings for the current academic year. The listing is subject to change without notice and should be used as a general planning guide only. Times and locations will be posted on WINGS as soon as they are available. WINGS Express will have the most current information.
Course Syllabi
Special Electives
Practicum
Honors Program
Course Syllabi
The PUP Office in 342 Fawcett maintains a master binder of syllabi for courses taught. If a student is interested in a particular course but have additional questions about content, please stop in to review the syllabus.
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Special Electives
The Department offers four special electives courses (PSY 490, PSY 498, PSY 432, and PSY489/499). These special elective courses are excellent opportunities to enhance knowledge and experience in self-selected interest areas of psychology.
PSY 490
Independent Reading |
Provides course credits for pursuing readings of specific interest one-to-one with a faculty advisor. Pass or Fail. |
PSY 498
Independent Research |
Provides course credits for pursuing research of specific interests one-to-one with a faculty advisor. Pass or Fail. |
PSY 432
Practicum |
A four-credit hour independent study course. Purpose of the course is to gain directly relevant work experience. Students can take twice, for a total of 8 credit hours. Pass or Fail. |
PSY 489/499
Honors program |
An intensive program of independent study and research. Students must complete a written honors thesis and present and defend their research in the honor seminar. Pass or Fail. |
More detailed information about Practicum and the Honors Program is found in the corresponding section.
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Practicum
Practicum (PSY 432) is designed to offer credit hours toward Elective requirements for Psychology majors for non-pay based working experience in the related field of Psychology.
Students who would like to enroll in Practicum must meet the following prerequisites:
- Successfully completed PSY301, PSY302, and PSY303
- One core Psychology course in the relevant field in which the practicum will be done
Although the student is responsible for finding a practicum site and a practicum site supervisor, Dr. Tamera Schneider—the Department advisor for practicum courses—has compiled a list of practicum sites that previous students have used (along with contact persons for each site and a brief description of the practicum experience available at each site). This information is available in the Undergraduate Guide to the Psychology Practicum Program in the main the PUP Office (342 Fawcett).
In order to register for PSY432, students must meet with Dr. Schneider to discuss requirements and enrolling in the course. Students must obtain approval to register for the course from Dr. Schneider using the registration activity slip along with an application form available from the PUP Office.
Students must also complete the Independent Study Approval Form in the PUP Office. Dr. Schneider will submit the final grade (Pass or Unsatisfactory). Typically, students will spend at least 10 hours each week in the practicum site during the practicum and may do other activities to enhance the experience (such as reading, writing an annotated bibliography, keeping an activity log, or doing a literature review). Expected activities and the work schedule should be approved by the work site supervisor and by Dr. Schneider.
The Practicum Registration Form
Practicum Location Examples
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Honors Program
The Psychology Honors Program provides students with opportunity to enrich their undergraduate education with an intensive program of independent study and research. The focus of the program is on psychological research and it is especially valuable for students who plan to pursue graduate education.
Students work individually with a faculty member, their thesis advisor, on state-of-art research that could be of such merit that it would be submitted to scientific journal for publication. Students will be active participants in all aspect of the research, including conception, design, implementation, analysis, and writing.
Honors students must complete a written honors thesis and must orally present and defend their research in the honors seminar.
In order to be admitted in the Psychology Honors Program, students must meet the following requirements:
- A cumulative grade point average (GPA) of at least 3.2
- At least 75 quarter- hours
- Successfully completed PSY 301, 302, and 303.
It is also student’s responsibility to identify a faculty member who agrees to supervise the student’s thesis.
As students progress on their honors thesis, they will register in Honors Research (PSY 499) to receive credits for their research activities, and also in the Honors Seminar (PSY 489) that is offered each spring quarter. Credits from these courses will be counted toward the hour requirements for Psychology electives for the major.
Application to the Psychology Honors Program is available in the PUP Office, 342 Fawcett. For further information, contact the Director of Psychology Honors Program at 937-775-2391.
Titles of honors thesis completed in the past:
- “Early Exposure to Corticosterone Impairs Hippocampal-Mediated Learning in Males but not in Females”
- “The Roles of Extraversion and Neuroticism on Psychological and Physiological Stress Response”
- “The Effects of Unpaired CS and UCS Pre-exposure on Development of Trace and Delay Eyeblink Conditioning in Infant Rats”
- “Navigation Fidelity in 3D Perspective Displays for Web-based Shopping: From Nodes to Views”
- “The Effects of Family Attachment on Delinquency: An Examination of Racial Differences”
- “ Role of Testosterone in Inbreeding Suppression”
- “The Role of Color Information in Directing Attention”
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