College of Coaching
Division of Psychology and Counseling
Psychology Program: Undergraduate
COURSE TITLE: Pondering & Writing in Psychology
COURSE NUMBER: PSYC 2102-06
CREDIT HOURS: 4
INSTRUCTOR: Dr. Molli Mercer
SEMESTER: Fall 2021
E-mail: mbachenberg@govst.edu
Office Hours: Tuesdays 2:00-4:00pm – on-line by appointment
Thursdays 2:00-4:00pm – on-line by appointment
Class Conferences: On-line asynchronous conferences. We may schedule some small group and/or large group synchronous conferences, nonetheless we’re going to do that upfront so we’ll all plan accordingly.
PSYCHOLOGY PROGRAM MISSION: It is the mission of the psychology packages at GSU to promote the utilization of evidence-based practices all through the self-discipline of psychology as a foundation for our efforts to make it possible for our graduates are ready to ethically apply their information and experience whereas compassionately serving the diversified populations they’re going to encounter over the course of their careers, along with nonetheless not restricted to instructing, providing psychological effectively being suppliers, or collaborating in Assessment. In emphasizing evidence-based practices, the psychology faculty is devoted to integrating the only obtainable Assessment with analysis, scientific and school psychology comply with, and experimentation in psychology. In emphasizing ethics and compassion, the psychology faculty is devoted to instilling inside our school college students an technique to their work which demonstrates empathy and care and a spirit of inclusiveness.
CATALOG DESCRIPTION: Introduction to pondering, writing, and occupation selections in psychology and related fields. Serves as an orientation to the psychology principal. Emphasizes instructional experience reminiscent of essential pondering within the discipline of psychology, writing in APA trend, environment friendly communication, and making logical arguments. Provides property and devices to efficiently use a psychology diploma. A writing intensive course.
PREREQUISITES: PSYC 1101
RESTRICTIONS: None
Rationale: Psychology is a various and demanding discipline. Writing is central to the self-discipline of psychology. Larger than 35,000 devices per yr are listed in Psychological Abstracts–one merchandise printed every fifteen minutes! Lewandowski (2004) said that essential pondering is the technique of pondering independently, not merely memorizing or stating what one other particular person has written or said. It requires going deeper comparatively than merely “reporting.” We write about our world with the intention to know and understand it. We want you to assume, be taught, and write like psychological effectively being professionals. School college students who research to be competent and guaranteed thinkers and writers will not be going to solely be additional worthwhile in college, nonetheless will even be greater professionals. The purpose of this course is to help school college students acknowledge, understand, and comply with the pondering and writing experience so vital to the sphere.
We want to Help you to grasp your self, your principal, and future occupation and develop the talents compulsory to obtain your occupation targets. To this end, we hope to give you a deeper and additional wise understanding of the diversified subfields of Psychology, expectations for the psychology principal, and occupation selections for school college students ending a bachelor’s or graduate ranges in psychology or related fields.
INTENDED AUDIENCE: School college students within the undergraduate Psychology program
EXPECTED STUDENT LEARNING OUTCOMES: Upon worthwhile completion of this course, the scholar ought to be succesful to (In parentheses: American Psychological Affiliation Undergraduate Targets):
1. Differentiate psychology as a scientific enterprise from completely different pure and social sciences and consider
and distinction psychology’s principal sub-disciplines (1.1,1.2).
2. Describe frequent fallacies in pondering (e.g., affirmation bias, submit hoc explanations, implying
causation from correlation) that impair appropriate conclusions and predictions (2.1).
three. Be taught and summarize regular ideas and conclusions from psychological sources exactly (2.2).
4. Describe the traits and relative price of numerous information sources (e.g., main vs.
secondary, peer reviewed vs. non-reviewed, empirical vs. non-empirical) (2.2)
5. Interact in trendy and integrative pondering and problem-solving. (2.three)
6. Reveal environment friendly writing in a quantity of codecs. (4.1)
7. Exhibit environment friendly presentation experience in a quantity of codecs. (4.2)
Eight. Exactly self-assess effectivity prime quality. (5.2)
9. Develop vital expert route for all instances after graduation. (5.5)
10. Develop a well-informed and customised educational plan. (5.5)
INSTRUCTIONAL MODALITY(IES):
On-line Course: The course could be 100% on-line.
Observe: It’s a writing intensive course. Anticipate to be writing a quantity of events weekly. Furthermore, a quantity of of us will be taught heaps of the points you are writing all through the course of the semester (i.e., the coach, your fellow classmates). Please do not embrace particulars about your self in your assignments that you simply simply actually really feel uncomfortable disclosing to others.
Required Texts/Finding out Supplies:
Texts:
American Psychological Affiliation (2019). Publication information of the American Psychological
Affiliation (seventh ed.). Washington, D.C.: APA
Know-how Requirements (Provides and Instruments)
* Net connection (DSL, LAN, or cable connection fascinating)
* Entry to the course web page
* Acceptable Doc Data. The subsequent doc file varieties are thought-about
acceptable for submission of pupil work:
Microsoft Phrase: .doc, .docx (NOT google docs or Microsoft 360)
Microsoft PowerPoint: .ppt, .pptx,
* Sustain to date Flashplayer for entry to motion pictures weblinks
* Microphone for creating voice overlay on PowerPoints for Exhibits
ACTIVITIES/ASSIGNMENTS/REQUIREMENTS:
The course will embody explicit particular person and/or group actions, writing assignments, and readings to assure that competencies are met. Your talent to be actively involved in class will resolve the diploma to which you and your classmates research.
Important Pondering Actions (CTA):
All by the course, school college students could be given actions to help develop essential pondering and writing experience. These actions could be acknowledged on the course web page. A couple of of the assignments may be used as foundations for group actions. Subsequently, it’s vital that school college students full assignments on time. Assignments differ and provides consideration to essential pondering and writing and/or composition of the literature consider paper. Alternatively, assignments may give consideration to the occupation half half of this course. School college students ought to depend on to end a quantity of of these small actions per week/unit. Some CTA assignments are listed below. Please bear in mind that these listed are solely a portion of these which could be assigned. Instructions could be posted on the course web page.
PsychInfo/Library Search
Paper topic
Paper references for approval
Reference notes
Paper outline
Sources Chart
APA format quiz or train
Any explicit particular person actions not obtained by the due date and time may get hold of a late deduction or a grade of Zero.
NOTE: If devices acknowledged as Specific particular person Actions are achieved by a bunch of students with out instructor consent, a grade of zero could be given to all these involved.
Article Critiques: Article Critiques embody critically finding out though Assessment analysis, determining principal parts of the look at, and writing up notes regarding the article in response to instructions.
Article Critique 1: School college students will full a set of smaller assignments (parts of the article critique) to help in understanding the article critique course of. The coach will assign an article to the class for Article Critique 1. Article Critique 2: School college students will full an Article Critique on their very personal. School college students ought to use an accredited reference (article) for this mission. The chosen reference should be one of many main sources for the scholar’s literature consider paper. When submitting the article critique, school college students ought to moreover submit the article in pdf variety or an accessible hyperlink to the article.
Literature Overview
This fast paper (5 to seven pages, not along with title internet web page and references) ought to uncover psychological ideas and embrace 5 main references. Papers will bear peer consider at quite a few events all by the semester. This might help school college students write stronger papers and research to acknowledge the relative strengths and weaknesses of papers. Full paper instructions and rubric could be discovered heading in the proper course web page.
Drafts & Peer Overview (DPR)
School college students could be required to submit drafts and partial drafts of the literature consider paper. These drafts could be peer-reviewed by classmates. Plagiarism will lead to a failing grade for the paper. A rubric could be provided that outlines the paper requirements.
Observe: Papers for this course may be graded in a bunch by the instructing Helpants and school instructing completely different sections of this course. Your paper may be graded in a blind format (i.e. the grader will not be going to know who you are and your explicit particular person faculty member might be not the one who really grades your remaining paper).
These drafts and peer critiques are submitted in groups. Subsequently, you MUST have your establish on the highest of your work otherwise you’ll get hold of a Zero. Drafts and peer critiques cannot be submitted late. Drafts have to be submitted on time for credit score rating so that your classmates can consider the work. Besides in some other case well-known within the Finding out Modules, drafts are due on Wednesdays and peer critiques are due on Sundays.
Peer Critiques are an vital an element of the writing course of. Don’t shortchange your classmates. Give them as rather a lot constructive and explicit critiques as attainable. Everytime you submit your peer consider, it is important to moreover ship the peer consider to the classmate whose work you reviewed by Course Messages or on to their e-mail.
Occupation Actions Modules in Psychology – CAMPs:
There are three CAMPS school college students are to end. These are explicit particular person assessments and reflections in your occupation plans. Whereas there are due dates listed over the course of the semester, you presumably can full these early. In actuality, I like to suggest that you simply simply full them as early as attainable in an effort to give consideration to the reverse parts of this class (and your completely different programs). All CAMPs could be present in further factor (along with rubrics and instructions) on the course web page. School college students will submit all CAMPs to the course web page.
CAMP 1: My Occupation Timeline: On this CAMP, school college students will full self-directed vocational and curiosity inventory(ies) along with a remaining report. This report could be, for most likely the most half, within the sort of a occupation timeline.
CAMP 2: Realizing My Timeline: This CAMP consists of compiling amongst the information you’ve found about your self and careers in psychology by the semester. School college students will make references once more to the starting of the semester and the main CAMP achieved (the CAREER TIMELINE) and add additional information gained from exercise routines all through the CAMP.
CAMP three: Informational Interview: This CAMP will embody meeting with educated working in a occupation you’re interested in pursuing and asking inquiries to research regarding the occupation and what it’s choose to work in such a spot. Chances are you’ll be required to perform a little Assessment to discover out which careers in psychology you’re interested in, create some interview questions, schedule and full the interview, after which sort a report describing the questions you requested and the responses you obtained. This can be achieved remotely. You can interview any person by phone, video conference, or e-mail. It is also useful that you simply simply ship a thanks bear in mind or e-mail to the explicit particular person you interviewed.
Assessment:
Complete Elements Elements/Percentages Actions
5 5 elements Introduction submit (1)
30 10 elements each Important Pondering Actions (CTA) (three)
50 25 elements each Article Critiques (2)
50 50 elements Literature Overview (1)
45 15 elements each CAMPS (three)
20 5 elements each Drafts (4)
15 5 elements Peer Critiques (three)
215 TOTAL
Viewing Grades on Course Web site:
This course could be a extraordinarily interactive course between the scholar and fellow classmates as well as to the scholar and the coach.
Observe:
Elements/Percentages for these items are standardized all through all sections of this course. All sections moreover full Article Critiques though the general proportion of these is permitted some variation between sections.
Grading Scale:
Grade Share
A 92-100
A- 90-91.9
B+ 88-89.9
B 82-87.9
B- 80-81.9
C+ 78-79.9
C 72-77.9
C- 70-71.9
D+ 68-69.9
D 62-67.9
D- 60-61.9
F Zero-59.9
*Please bear in mind that devices on the syllabus are subject to alter at instructor’s discretion. You want to bear the Finding out Modules within the course. Do not merely go to the assignments tab, as assignments change. Because of this of nature of this class (writing and peer consider), assignments could be due a quantity of days all through the week. It is important to maintain up to date with all due dates. Late drafts, and so forth. may lead to a grade of Zero for every the draft and the peer consider, as school college students can solely be assigned a consider in the event that they’ve submitted a draft.
**This course is a graduation requirement for school college students majoring in psychology. To give you the option to transfer this class, it is important to earn a grade of C or elevated. A grade of C- or lower requires the scholar to retake your total course.
Tentative Schedule:
Dates Topic Unit Due
Eight/30-9/12 Syllabus, Course Overview
Important Pondering Def 1 Introduction and familiarize your self with the APA Information
9/13-9/19 Writing Fundamentals 2 CTA
9/20-9/26 Writing time interval papers & Assessment tales – What are the variations?
Discovering Articles three CTA; CAMP 1
9/27-10/three Finding out and Citing
Creating Assessment Questions 4 CTA: PsychInfo; Paper Topic
Obtain/Be taught Class Article Critique
10/4-10/10 Important Pondering, deciding on elements/ideas from sources 5 Article Critique 1 parts; Ref. approval all 5 main
10/11-10/17 Formulating Assessment Questions & Premises 6 Ind. Article approval (for article critique 2); Assessment Question & premises;
CAMP 2
10/18-10/24 Starting a literature review-style paper; discovering the vital parts of references 7 APA Reference internet web page; D1 (1-page draft)
10/25-10/31 peer consider Eight Article Critique 2; DPR1 (Peer-review of D1)
11/1-11/7 APA paper formatting 9 Title Net web page; sources chart
11/Eight-11/14 Overview of APA trend writing/ plagiarism
Avoiding Grotesque Grammar, Putrid Punctuation, and Saggy Sort 10 D2 internet web page draft; DPR2 (Peer consider of D2); Trainer Overview* (particulars heading in the proper course web page)
11/15-11/21 Writing clearly and concisely 11 D3 (4-5-page draft three); DPR three
11/22-11/28 Cont. 12 D4 (full draft); DPR4 (Peer Overview D4, using paper rubric)
11/29-12/5 Last minute progress checks on LR; contact & interview educated 13 Literature Overview
Interview your CAMP three subject
12/6-12/12 Expert Interview, Subsequent Steps, Wrapping all of it up 14 CAMP three
COURSE POLICIES:
Professionalism/Disposition:
Participation: On-line Half – School college students are anticipated to log into the course web page a minimal of three events per week. School college students are anticipated to actively work with group members on group internet web page if assigned by instructor as well as to consider options from the coach on assignments. Bulletins could be made on the course web page. It is the accountability of the scholar to take a look at the course web page recurrently.
Communication By means of E-mail
Should you occur to e-mail instructor by GSU e-mail, please embrace the class you’re taking and half amount within the subject line or textual content material of your e-mail and your full establish. Have in mind to deal with the coach appropriately. Should you do not get hold of a response inside 24-48 hours, please resend the e-mail with earlier message included. Please moreover make it potential to your GSU e-mail is prepared to get hold of messages. Instructors cannot reply or ship emails containing delicate information or information relating to grades to exterior e-mail accounts. Such emails have to be despatched to the scholar’s GSU e-mail. As such, it is important that school college students use and take a look at GSU e-mail recurrently.
NETIQUETTE GUIDELINES
Retrieved from http://www.indiana.edu/~icy/netiquette.html
Regular Tips:
– Make your messages less complicated to be taught by writing paragraphs fast and to the function.
– TYPING IN ALL CAPS IS CONSIDERED SHOUTING.
– Messages in all lowercase letters can be troublesome to be taught. As an alternative, use common capitalization.
Group Communication:
– Respect the reality that the class guidelines is a closed dialogue. Do not forward mail out of your
classmates to others with out their permission.
– In a web-based dialogue board or newsgroup, debate is welcome, nonetheless be tactful in responding to
others. Remember that there is a explicit particular person (or an entire class) on the receiving end of
your submit.
– Preserve your questions and suggestions associated to the principal goal of the dialogue
group. Data meant for an individual or small group of individuals
should be emailed to these of us instantly.
– In case you might be responding to a message from one other particular person, briefly summarize the submit.
– When posting a question to the dialogue group, request responses directed to you
personally. Put up a summary or reply to your question to the group.
– Should you occur to quote a earlier submit (by using the reply function for example), quote solely
ample to make your particular person degree.
– Embrace your signature on the bottom of E-mail messages when talking with
people who couldn’t know you personally or broadcasting to a dynamic group of
subscribers.
– Resist the temptation to “flame” others on the guidelines. Have in mind these discussions are
“public” and meant for constructive exchanges. Cope with others on the guidelines with
civility
– Use your GSU E-mail account. Do not subscribe using a shared office account or a
pal’s account.
Assemble Rapport
Should you occur to uncover that you have any problem with sustaining or with assignments, it is your accountability to contact me. Significantly with the internet mannequin of the course, I am usually unable to set up when school college students are struggling or to Help you with finding out the required information till you converse up. The earlier you let me know there is a downside, the higher it is for me that can Help you. Don’t get overwhelmed. E-mail me or use my office hours to hunt Help. Simply be certain you might be proactive in informing your instructor when difficulties come up all through the semester so that they might additionally Help you uncover a reply.
Drop Date/Withdrawals/Incompletes
It is your accountability to grasp the School protection on Withdrawing from a course. Please bear in mind that the coach cannot take away you from a course in your failure to end assignments. If you want to drop the course (achieved all through the Add/Drop interval), or Withdraw from the course (achieved earlier to the Withdrawal date), you must try this by the myGSU portal. After the Withdrawal date, you must Petition for Withdrawal and be succesful to make clear why you had been unable to Withdraw by the Withdrawal date.
Moreover bear in mind that Incompletes are ONLY given when the scholar has achieved higher than 50% of the coursework at a C diploma (or elevated) AND is unable to end the course ensuing from extenuating circumstances. Incompletes do not allow you to retake the course. Incompletes cannot be issued to steer clear of a failing grade. Incompletes require that the coach and pupil have an settlement on when wonderful work could be achieved. If work simply is not achieved following the agreed upon timeline, the grade of Incomplete will convert to an F.
UNIVERSITY POLICIES
Incapacity Assertion: GSU is devoted to providing all school college students equal entry to School packages and facilities. You can be eligible for tutorial lodging in case you may have a documented bodily, psychiatric (nervousness, despair, bipolar dysfunction, AD/HD, post-traumatic stress, or others) or a neurological incapacity reminiscent of a finding out incapacity, autism or TBI. You want to register and provide documentation with Entry Firms for School college students with Disabilities (ASSD) (https://www.govst.edu/disability-services/) sooner than faculty members are required to provide relevant lodging. For additional information or to register, please contact ASSD at assd@govst.edu or 708-235-3968. To help in creating an accessible finding out environment for school college students with disabilities contact ASSD sooner than or all through the first week of programs. -All school college students are equal entry to the School’s packages and facilities. If you’ve received a documented incapacity that requires instructional lodging, please register with the Entry Firms for School college students With Disabilities (ASSD). Sooner than faculty members are required current these lodging, school college students ought to current documentation.
Title IX Assertion: In accordance to GSU Protection 78, Title IX and Anti-Intercourse Discrimination, Harassment and Retaliation Protection, Title IX legal guidelines make it clear that violence and harassment primarily based totally on intercourse and gender is a Civil Rights offense subject to the equivalent types of accountability and the equivalent types of help utilized to offenses in opposition to completely different protected courses, reminiscent of race, nationwide origin, and so forth… The School has an obligation to forestall harassment, submit insurance coverage insurance policies in opposition to it, to analyze complaints, and to take instant movement to stop harassment when it occurs. Contact the Governors State School Title IX Coordinator to report any incidents at titleixofficer@govst.edu or identify 708.534-4100 and ask to speak to the Title IX Coordinator. For full Title IX information and property, go to: http://www.govst.edu/TitleIX/.
Emergency Preparedness Assertion: In case of emergency, the School’s Alert System could be activated. School college students are impressed to sustain up to date contact information using the hyperlink on the homepage of the myGSU portal. In addition to, school college students are impressed to familiarize themselves with the Emergency Procedures posted in each classroom. Detailed particulars about the School’s emergency administration plan, particulars about tips about how to exchange your contact information, and the Campus Safety Booklet can be found at http://www.govst.edu/emergency.
Academic Honesty Assertion: School college students are anticipated to meet instructional requirements in an ethical and reliable technique. This expectation pertains to the subsequent: use and acknowledgement of the ideas and work of others, submission of labor to meet course requirements, sharing of labor with completely different school college students, and relevant habits all through examinations. These ethical points aren’t meant to discourage of us from discovering out collectively or from collaborating in group duties. The School protection on instructional honesty appears within the catalog appendix, which can be found on the web page at http://catalog.govst.edu/content material materials.php?catoid=Eight&navoid=673#Academic_Honesty.
COVID-19 Assertion for Syllabus All people on campus is required to placed on face coverings. School college students are required to observe the equivalent directives as all of us coming to the GSU campus. Indicators detailing the face overlaying and social distancing requirements are posted through-out the campus and have to be adopted. Any pupil who fails to observe required safety procedures along with the posted procedures for COVID 19, or alter to school employee instructions are thought-about to be violating Pupil Conduct Tips (Protection 4 Pupil Conduct Protection) and is subject to disciplinary movement which might embrace elimination from a class, cancellation of a class or elimination from campus.
Updates related to COVID-19 and the hottest safety information could be discovered on the COVID updates and the Campus Working Plan at https://www.govst.edu/emergency. School college students are requested to self-report indicators or Assessment of COVID-19 ( e.g. fever, cough, drawback respiratory) or shut contact with any person who has a lab confirmed or presumptive COVID-19 Assessment using the COVID-19 Reporting Type found on the COVID-19 webpage http://www.govst.edu/COVID-19-students.
In case you might be ailing or have indicators, preserve dwelling, and notify your instructor so that relevant course completion preparations can be made. School college students with disabilities who require lodging ought to contact incapacity suppliers at https://www.govst.edu/disability-services/. School college students, who’re impacted by COVID 19 and wish adjustment to class requirements, are accountable to ship a written request to the coach as shortly as attainable for approval. -In case you might be sick or have indicators that time out that you could possibly be not be succesful to full your course, preserve dwelling and notify your instructor.
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Pupil Properly being & Properly-Being: As a pupil, you would possibly experience circumstances or challenges which will intervene alongside along with your finding out and personal well-being. These might embrace strained relationships, stress, unstable housing circumstances, hunger, alcohol/drug points, feeling down, or lack of motivation. GSU has many property to help with these or completely different factors you would possibly experience. Free, confidential psychological effectively being and medical suppliers could be discovered on campus by contacting the Counseling & Wellness Center at 708.235.7334 or https://www.govst.edu/wellness/. Help with personal difficulties, along with hunger and housing instability, is obtainable by contacting GSU4U at 708.235.2845 or http://www.govst.edu/gsu4u. Help is at all instances obtainable.
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