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’d schedule some small group and/or large group synchronous conferences, nonetheless we’re going to do that upfront so we’re in a position to all plan accordingly.
PSYCHOLOGY PROGRAM MISSION: It is the mission of the psychology packages at GSU to promote utilizing evidence-based practices contained in the self-discipline of psychology as a foundation for our efforts to ensure that our graduates are in a place to ethically apply their info and talents whereas compassionately serving the numerous populations they might encounter over the course of their careers, along with nonetheless not restricted to instructing, providing psychological effectively being corporations, or partaking in Assessment. In emphasizing evidence-based practices, the psychology college is devoted to integrating the proper accessible Assessment with analysis, medical and school psychology apply, and experimentation in psychology. In emphasizing ethics and compassion, the psychology college 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 career decisions in psychology and related fields. Serves as an orientation to the psychology foremost. Emphasizes instructional skills akin to vital pondering throughout the self-discipline of psychology, writing in APA vogue, environment friendly communication, and making logical arguments. Provides sources and devices to efficiently use a psychology diploma. A writing intensive course.
PREREQUISITES: PSYC 1101
RESTRICTIONS: None
Rationale: Psychology is a diversified and demanding self-discipline. Writing is central to the self-discipline of psychology. Higher than 35,000 devices per 12 months are listed in Psychological Abstracts–one merchandise revealed every fifteen minutes! Lewandowski (2004) talked about that vital pondering is the tactic of pondering independently, not merely memorizing or stating what one other individual has written or talked about. It requires going deeper fairly than merely “reporting.” We write about our world with the intention to know and understand it. We want you to suppose, study, and write like psychological effectively being professionals. Faculty college students who research to be competent and warranted thinkers and writers will not solely be further worthwhile in school, nonetheless will even be greater professionals. The goal of this course is to help school college students acknowledge, understand, and apply the pondering and writing skills so important to the sphere.
We want that can Help you to know your self, your foremost, and future career and develop the skills essential to realize your career targets. To this end, we hope to give you a deeper and additional lifelike understanding of the numerous subfields of Psychology, expectations for the psychology foremost, and career decisions for school college students ending a bachelor’s or graduate ranges in psychology or related fields.
INTENDED AUDIENCE: Faculty college students throughout the undergraduate Psychology program
EXPECTED STUDENT LEARNING OUTCOMES: Upon worthwhile completion of this course, the scholar must be able to (In parentheses: American Psychological Affiliation Undergraduate Goals):
1. Differentiate psychology as a scientific enterprise from completely different pure and social sciences and consider
and distinction psychology’s foremost 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. Study and summarize widespread ideas and conclusions from psychological sources exactly (2.2).
4. Describe the traits and relative value of varied data sources (e.g., main vs.
secondary, peer reviewed vs. non-reviewed, empirical vs. non-empirical) (2.2)
5. Work together in revolutionary and integrative pondering and problem-solving. (2.three)
6. Show environment friendly writing in quite a lot of codecs. (4.1)
7. Exhibit environment friendly presentation skills in quite a lot of codecs. (4.2)
Eight. Exactly self-assess effectivity prime quality. (5.2)
9. Develop vital expert path 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.
Phrase: This is usually a writing intensive course. Rely on to be writing quite a lot of events weekly. Furthermore, quite a lot of people will study numerous the problems you could be writing by way of 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 just simply actually really feel uncomfortable disclosing to others.
Required Texts/Learning Supplies:
Texts:
American Psychological Affiliation (2019). Publication information of the American Psychological
Affiliation (seventh ed.). Washington, D.C.: APA
Experience Requirements (Provides and Gear)
* Internet connection (DSL, LAN, or cable connection fascinating)
* Entry to the course site
* Acceptable Doc Info. 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,
* Maintain updated Flashplayer for entry to motion pictures weblinks
* Microphone for creating voice overlay on PowerPoints for Reveals
ACTIVITIES/ASSIGNMENTS/REQUIREMENTS:
The course will embody specific individual and/or group actions, writing assignments, and readings to ensure that competencies are met. Your talent to be actively involved in college will resolve the diploma to which you and your classmates research.
Essential Pondering Actions (CTA):
All by way of the course, school college students could be given actions to help develop vital pondering and writing skills. These actions could be acknowledged on the course site. Quite a lot of the assignments may be used as foundations for group actions. Subsequently, it is vital that school college students full assignments on time. Assignments differ and provides consideration to vital pondering and writing and/or composition of the literature analysis paper. Alternatively, assignments would possibly give consideration to the career ingredient a part of this course. Faculty college students must depend on to complete quite a lot of of these small actions per week/unit. Some CTA assignments are listed beneath. Please phrase that these listed are solely a portion of those which could be assigned. Instructions could be posted on the course site.
PsychInfo/Library Search
Paper matter
Paper references for approval
Reference notes
Paper outline
Sources Chart
APA format quiz or train
Any specific individual actions not obtained by the due date and time would possibly get hold of a late deduction or a grade of Zero.
NOTE: If devices acknowledged as Specific individual Actions are completed by a gaggle of students with out trainer consent, a grade of zero could be given to all these involved.
Article Critiques: Article Critiques embody critically learning though Assessment analysis, determining foremost components of the analysis, and writing up notes in regards to the article in maintaining with instructions.
Article Critique 1: Faculty college students will full a group 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: Faculty college students will full an Article Critique on their very personal. Faculty college students ought to use an accredited reference (article) for this process. The chosen reference must be considered one of many main sources for the scholar’s literature analysis paper. When submitting the article critique, school college students ought to moreover submit the article in pdf sort or an accessible hyperlink to the article.
Literature Analysis
This transient paper (5 to seven pages, not along with title net web page and references) ought to find psychological ideas and embrace 5 main references. Papers will endure peer analysis at quite a few events all by way of 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 may be discovered on the right track site.
Drafts & Peer Analysis (DPR)
Faculty college students could be required to submit drafts and partial drafts of the literature analysis paper. These drafts could be peer-reviewed by classmates. Plagiarism will result in a failing grade for the paper. A rubric could be supplied that outlines the paper requirements.
Phrase: Papers for this course may be graded in a gaggle 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 know who you could be and your specific individual college member might be not the one that basically grades your closing paper).
These drafts and peer opinions are submitted in groups. Subsequently, you MUST have your title on the very best of your work otherwise you’ll get hold of a Zero. Drafts and peer opinions cannot be submitted late. Drafts ought to be submitted on time for credit score rating in order that your classmates can analysis the work. Besides in some other case well-known throughout the Learning Modules, drafts are due on Wednesdays and peer opinions are due on Sundays.
Peer Opinions are a necessary part of the writing course of. Don’t shortchange your classmates. Give them as rather a lot constructive and specific critiques as doable. When you submit your peer analysis, it is best to moreover ship the peer analysis to the classmate whose work you reviewed by way of Course Messages or on to their e-mail.
Career Actions Modules in Psychology – CAMPs:
There are three CAMPS school college students are to complete. These are specific individual assessments and reflections in your career plans. Whereas there are due dates listed over the course of the semester, you can full these early. Truly, I wish to suggest that you just simply full them as early as doable in order to provide consideration to the other options of this class (and your completely different classes). All CAMPs may be discovered in extra ingredient (along with rubrics and instructions) on the course site. Faculty college students will submit all CAMPs to the course site.
CAMP 1: My Career Timeline: On this CAMP, school college students will full self-directed vocational and curiosity inventory(ies) along with a closing report. This report could be, for most likely essentially the most half, inside the kind of a career timeline.
CAMP 2: Realizing My Timeline: This CAMP consists of compiling quite a lot of the data you’ve found about your self and careers in psychology by the use of the semester. Faculty college students will make references once more to the start of the semester and the first CAMP completed (the CAREER TIMELINE) and add additional data gained from exercises contained in the CAMP.
CAMP three: Informational Interview: This CAMP will embody meeting with an knowledgeable working in a career you’re fascinated about pursuing and asking inquiries to check in regards to the career and what it’s want to work in such a spot. You may be required to carry out a little analysis to search out out which careers in psychology you’re fascinated about, 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 carried out remotely. You could possibly interview anyone by way of cellphone, video conference, or e-mail. Moreover it’s actually helpful that you just simply ship a thanks phrase or e-mail to the actual individual you interviewed.
Assessment:
Full Elements Elements/Percentages Actions
5 5 elements Introduction submit (1)
30 10 elements each Essential Pondering Actions (CTA) (three)
50 25 elements each Article Critiques (2)
50 50 elements Literature Analysis (1)
45 15 elements each CAMPS (three)
20 5 elements each Drafts (4)
15 5 elements Peer Opinions (three)
215 TOTAL
Viewing Grades on Course Site:
This course could be a extraordinarily interactive course between the scholar and fellow classmates in addition to the scholar and the coach.
Phrase:
Elements/Percentages for these things are standardized all through all sections of this course. All sections moreover full Article Critiques though the total share of these is permitted some variation between sections.
Grading Scale:
Grade Proportion
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 phrase that devices on the syllabus are matter to change at trainer’s discretion. It is important to bear the Learning Modules throughout the course. Do not merely go to the assignments tab, as assignments change. Because of nature of this class (writing and peer analysis), assignments could be due quite a lot of days by way of the week. It is important to carry up to date with all due dates. Late drafts, and so forth. would possibly result in a grade of Zero for every the draft and the peer analysis, as school college students can solely be assigned a analysis in the event that they’ve submitted a draft.
**This course is a graduation requirement for school college students majoring in psychology. In an effort to cross this class, it is best to earn a grade of C or bigger. A grade of C- or lower requires the scholar to retake all of the course.
Tentative Schedule:
Dates Matter Unit Due
Eight/30-9/12 Syllabus, Course Overview
Essential 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 Learning and Citing
Creating Assessment Questions 4 CTA: PsychInfo; Paper Matter
Pay money for/Study Class Article Critique
10/4-10/10 Essential Pondering, deciding on elements/ideas from sources 5 Article Critique 1 components; 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 important parts of references 7 APA Reference net web page; D1 (1-page draft)
10/25-10/31 The easiest way to look analysis Eight Article Critique 2; DPR1 (Peer-review of D1)
11/1-11/7 APA paper formatting 9 Title Internet web page; sources chart
11/Eight-11/14 Analysis of APA vogue writing/ plagiarism
Avoiding Ugly Grammar, Putrid Punctuation, and Saggy Style 10 D2 net web page draft; DPR2 (Peer analysis of D2); Instructor Analysis* (particulars on the right track site)
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 Analysis D4, using paper rubric)
11/29-12/5 Ultimate minute progress checks on LR; The easiest way to contact & interview an knowledgeable 13 Literature Analysis
Interview your CAMP three matter
12/6-12/12 Expert Interview, Subsequent Steps, Wrapping all of it up 14 CAMP three
COURSE POLICIES:
Professionalism/Disposition:
Participation: On-line Half – Faculty college students are anticipated to log into the course site a minimal of three events per week. Faculty college students are anticipated to actively work with group members on group net web page if assigned by trainer in addition to analysis strategies from the coach on assignments. Bulletins could be made on the course site. It is the responsibility of the scholar to look at the course site regularly.
Communication By way of E-mail
In the event you occur to e-mail trainer by way of GSU e-mail, please embrace the class you are taking and half amount throughout the matter line or textual content material of your e-mail and your full title. Maintain in thoughts to cope with the coach appropriately. In the event you do not get hold of a response inside 24-48 hours, please resend the e-mail with earlier message included. Please moreover be sure that your GSU e-mail is able to get hold of messages. Instructors cannot reply or ship emails containing delicate data or data referring to grades to exterior e-mail accounts. Such emails ought to be despatched to the scholar’s GSU e-mail. As such, it is important that school college students use and look at GSU e-mail regularly.
NETIQUETTE GUIDELINES
Retrieved from http://www.indiana.edu/~icy/netiquette.html
Primary Pointers:
– Make your messages less complicated to study by writing paragraphs transient and to the aim.
– TYPING IN ALL CAPS IS CONSIDERED SHOUTING.
– Messages in all lowercase letters could also be troublesome to study. Instead, use common capitalization.
Group Communication:
– Respect the reality that the class itemizing is a closed dialogue. Do not forward mail out of your
classmates to others with out their permission.
– In an web dialogue board or newsgroup, debate is welcome, nonetheless be tactful in responding to
others. Maintain in thoughts that there is a specific individual (or a whole class) on the receiving end of
your submit.
– Maintain your questions and suggestions associated to the principle goal of the dialogue
group. Data meant for an individual or small group of individuals
must be emailed to those people straight.
– In the event you’re responding to a message from one other individual, 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.
– In the event you occur to cite a earlier submit (by using the reply carry out for example), quote solely
adequate to make your particular person stage.
– Embrace your signature on the bottom of E-mail messages when talking with
people who may not know you personally or broadcasting to a dynamic group of
subscribers.
– Resist the temptation to “flame” others on the itemizing. Maintain in thoughts these discussions are
“public” and meant for constructive exchanges. Cope with others on the itemizing with
civility
– Use your GSU E-mail account. Do not subscribe using a shared office account or a
pal’s account.
Assemble Rapport
In the event you occur to find that you’ve got any problem with sustaining or with assignments, it is your responsibility to contact me. Notably with the online mannequin of the course, I am sometimes unable to determine when school college students are struggling or that can Help you with learning the obligatory data besides you converse up. The earlier you let me know there is a draw back, the less complicated it is for me that may make it easier to. Don’t get overwhelmed. E-mail me or use my office hours to hunt Help. Simply make certain you might be proactive in informing your trainer when difficulties come up by way of the semester in order that they may make it easier to uncover a decision.
Drop Date/Withdrawals/Incompletes
It is your responsibility to know the Faculty protection on Withdrawing from a course. Please phrase that the coach cannot take away you from a course in your failure to complete assignments. In the event you want to drop the course (carried out by way of the Add/Drop interval), or Withdraw from the course (carried out earlier to the Withdrawal date), you have to do this by the use of the myGSU portal. After the Withdrawal date, you have to Petition for Withdrawal and be able to make clear why you had been unable to Withdraw by the Withdrawal date.
Moreover phrase that Incompletes are ONLY given when the scholar has completed better than 50% of the coursework at a C stage (or bigger) AND is unable to complete the course due to extenuating circumstances. Incompletes do not help you to retake the course. Incompletes cannot be issued to avoid a failing grade. Incompletes require that the coach and pupil have an settlement on when wonderful work could be completed. If work is not completed 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 Faculty packages and companies. You could possibly be eligible for instructional lodging while you’ve obtained a documented bodily, psychiatric (anxiousness, despair, bipolar dysfunction, AD/HD, post-traumatic stress, or others) or a neurological incapacity akin to a learning incapacity, autism or TBI. It is important to register and provide documentation with Entry Firms for Faculty college students with Disabilities (ASSD) (https://www.govst.edu/disability-services/) sooner than college members are required to produce relevant lodging. For further data or to register, please contact ASSD at assd@govst.edu or 708-235-3968. To Help in creating an accessible learning setting for school college students with disabilities contact ASSD sooner than or by way of the primary week of classes.
Title IX Assertion: Consistent with GSU Protection 78, Title IX and Anti-Intercourse Discrimination, Harassment and Retaliation Protection, Title IX guidelines make it clear that violence and harassment based totally on intercourse and gender is a Civil Rights offense matter to the an identical kinds of accountability and the an identical kinds of Help utilized to offenses in the direction of completely different protected lessons, akin to race, nationwide origin, and so forth… The Faculty has an obligation to cease harassment, submit insurance coverage insurance policies in the direction of it, to investigate complaints, and to take instant movement to stop harassment when it occurs. Contact the Governors State Faculty 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 data and sources, go to: http://www.govst.edu/TitleIX/. -Because of nature of the crimes devoted beneath Title IX, sexual harassment and violence based totally on intercourse are thought-about civil rights offenses, and so they’re matter to the an identical type of Help and accountability as these involving race, nationwide origin, or religion. The school has an obligation to cease and look at harassment.
Emergency Preparedness Assertion: In case of emergency, the Faculty’s Alert System could be activated. Faculty college students are impressed to maintain up updated contact data 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 concerning the Faculty’s emergency administration plan, particulars about learn the way to interchange your contact data, and the Campus Safety Booklet could also be found at http://www.govst.edu/emergency.
Instructional Honesty Assertion: Faculty college students are anticipated to fulfill 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 fulfill course requirements, sharing of labor with completely different school college students, and relevant habits all through examinations. These ethical points normally will not be meant to discourage people from discovering out collectively or from partaking in group duties. The Faculty protection on instructional honesty appears throughout the catalog appendix, which can be found on the internet website 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. Faculty college students are required to adjust to the an identical directives as all people coming to the GSU campus. Indicators detailing the face defending and social distancing requirements are posted through-out the campus and ought to be adopted. Any pupil who fails to adjust to required safety procedures along with the posted procedures for COVID 19, or modify to school employee instructions are thought-about to be violating Scholar Conduct Pointers (Protection 4 Scholar Conduct Protection) and is matter 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 most popular safety data may be discovered on the COVID updates and the Campus Working Plan at https://www.govst.edu/emergency. Faculty college students are requested to self-report indicators or prognosis of COVID-19 ( e.g. fever, cough, problem respiratory) or shut contact with anyone who has a lab confirmed or presumptive COVID-19 prognosis using the COVID-19 Reporting Variety found on the COVID-19 webpage http://www.govst.edu/COVID-19-students. In the event you’re unwell or have indicators, hold home, and notify your trainer in order that relevant course completion preparations could also be made. Faculty college students with disabilities who require lodging must contact incapacity corporations at https://www.govst.edu/disability-services/. Faculty college students, who’re impacted by COVID 19 and want adjustment to class requirements, are accountable to ship a written request to the coach as shortly as doable for approval.
Scholar Properly being & Properly-Being: As a pupil, you would possibly experience situations or challenges which will intervene collectively along with your learning and personal well-being. These might embrace strained relationships, stress, unstable housing situations, hunger, alcohol/drug points, feeling down, or lack of motivation. GSU has many sources to help with these or completely different factors you would possibly experience. Free, confidential psychological effectively being and medical corporations may be discovered on campus by contacting the Counseling & Wellness Coronary heart at 708.235.7334 or https://www.govst.edu/wellness/. Help with personal difficulties, along with hunger and housing instability, is on the market by contacting GSU4U at 708.235.2845 or http://www.govst.edu/gsu4u. Help is always accessible.-
You could possibly experience difficulties in your personal well-being due to quite a few parts akin to unstable housing situations, strained relationships, or lack of motivation. There are quite a lot of sources on campus that may make it easier to.
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