Psychology Virtual Information Session

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Hello everybody and welcome to the web and R on the Department of psychological science at the University of Mary Washington. My name is doctor Dave Koehler and I'm a professor of psychology here at the University of Washington. I've been teaching here since 1994, so I've been around for a long time, so I've got a lot of knowledge about the Department. I would share the department for three years, and so I'm going to tell you a little bit about the Department. Today is my plan where we're located. Well, what we do. All the opportunities there are for you in our Department in it.

And at Mary Washington and then I'm going to answer questions that you have so I can see the questions that you're typing in. and I will look over there periodically. Well, I'm kind of going through my PowerPoint presentation here, and I will try to answer them either simultaneously and I'm seeing all the hellos that you're giving me and I appreciate it. Say hi back to you all, and if I don't get to your question right when you type it out, then at the end there should be plenty of time for me to go back through.

And look at those questions and answer questions that you have a couple people have sent questions in earlier today or yesterday when they first signed up, and so I'm going to make sure I answer those questions too, but feel free to chime in on questions and I will get to them again. My goal is to tell you about the Department where we're located, what we do, and I have a presentation here that's going to go through these PowerPoint slides. I'm going to guess it's gonna take me about 15 minutes or so for it to get through the slides and at the end I'll have my contact information information about our web page.

Uh, where you can get a lot more information about the Department and you can always email me if you've got more questions. So here we go. Looks like most people are here or many people are here and let's talk about the Department of psychology at University of Mary Washington and all there is for you to do here. So where are we located? Some of you I'm hoping I've had a chance to visit campus. I'm sorry that you can't be here now. Come back and look at things now 'cause we love to show you around a little bit more, but we have a couple of pictures of the building and a lot of information about the Department but Mercer Halls where we are.

And we are very fortunate that about three years ago we moved into this facility and the University basically gutted it and renovated it just for us. And so we were able to design this facility to our specifications that in terms of our teaching space in our students space and our research space. And so it really. We were really pleased with how it came out were also very fortunate that we are one of the few departments on campus who actually has their own building all to themselves, and so that allows our majors to hang out with each other a lot and with the faculty members were all in the same place.

And it's a It's a nice atmosphere is fun to be around so let's talk a little bit about Mercer Hall before we get into some other things here and so you know a little bit about it. There's a couple of pictures there. The bottom ones a little fuzzy for some reason or another, not sure but bottom line is is we've got a lot of stuff going on in our building. That's really geared towards you as students. We have several computer labs that we have designed one is a large for us. Large Mary Washington is hopefully you know, we're a middle size school, but we have really small class sizes generally.

A man, so we have a teaching lab that is capped at really only 25 students in the class is 26. Computer is in there but almost all of our classes in our Department. And truthfully, you'll find across campus are capitello numbers in our Department. Pretty much every class is capped at 25 students except for a general psychology, which is going to be a larger course and we'll talk more about Gen, Psych and a little bit here. and I think we have one other cores, human sexuality, which tends to be a really popular course, and so we up the numbers on that a little bit more but all.

All the other classes are capped at 25 and some of them are actually smaller than that will talk more about that, but we have a couple of computer labs in Mercer Hall which are great for you all, because if you're a psychology major, you have access to all those animals for help, but also the computer lab. And so we have the 25% teaching lab. We've got another lab that is it just a ten person lab that it's not reserved for research or teaching is just a lab that students can go and use whenever they want and then we have 1/3 computer based lab. That's more of our seminars based at top picture on the right hand side is our seminar space.

It has 16 computers. We call that the cognitive lab, but it's also our seminar space. We teach classes in there and we also teach our small seminars which are capped at 16. Students have actually, so we have a lot of computer space dedicated in terms of lab space for you to use, but we also have several other research labs we really like to get our students involved with. The research that we do here. We do not have graduate students in the psychology Department at Mary Washington and in fact most of the department's not have graduate students, and so you're being taught by faculty who have their PhD.

And also that means that the research we do we do with our students and so we have a lot of research space. We have a social developmental lab. That's something that I've named on their next. It's a nice little lab. It's got the kind of control room in the middle and it has two experimental rooms on either side and they have one way mirror so you can do observations and you can look out that people can see in. They have audio and video taping. I recorded recording ability there so it's kind of a good space to do that type of research. We have several faculty members who are biological psychologists.

We have a nice um biology lab where they, as it says on the screen. These Visio graph, which I'm not a bio person. I got to admit, but the bio people love this stuff. These measure your basic components heart rate EG things like that, but we also have some faculty who work with skullcap. This cap you can put on your head and it measures brain waves and things like that. Not my world but the people who are incident biology and psychology. They love this stuff so we have an eye tracking lab. Was really just a small room but it hasn't. We have an eye tracker which is a.

Machine that literally check tracks your eye to your eyes in your eye movement and so our faculty know how to use that and it's been used in a lot of different research projects. For example, one of our faculty members does research on eating behavior, and so you can put a picture of food up on the screen and see what people focus on. Do you focus on that donut on something, or something else that's on the screen in front of you and it tracks your eyes literally? And how long you focus on one part of the screen. We have other faculty have used it for.

Or web based stuff. So if you're interested in web pages and building web pages and what people focus on, you can see, hey where does the I go first when you pop up a new web page? And how long does it actually stay there? Other of our faculty are interested in other like psychology of women. In fact, they've actually published a textbook on that, but they do some research on objectification of women and so they've used the eye tracking lab to focus on our to show pictures of women in different styles of dress and all sorts of different ways. And look at what people are focusing on so.

It's really neat piece of equipment that allows you to do some pretty sophisticated research. We also have an animal behavior lab. Where are animal psychologists use a behaviorist, and so he does basically rat mazes. He works with rats and mice and collaborates with the faculty in the Biology Department, so he's got a lab space there. Also in the building we have a lot of classroom spaces. I talked a little bit about the research space, but we have a couple of our classrooms. One of the things that we did, the last two things on there I could have collaboration, space and Student Lounge.

When we designed the building, we want our students to be there because we want him to feel comfortable and hang out. And the more that their interaction is collaborating with each other, but also with the faculty, the better off it is for you and your education. But for everybody, so we created these rooms that are small rooms, but we call in collaboration spaces that have a place for anywhere from four to six people to sit with in this room and then up on the wall is a large computer monitor and there's a computer attached to it so you can work on projects together. But there's also ways that you can.

Plug your own laptop in there so if you've got some work you need to do, you can just pop your laptop and you can send one of those spaces and you can do some of your work. So we've got those collaboration spaces and we also put a student lounge in there, so this is for students. It's got a refrigerator, microwave place where you can store stuff, lots of couches to sit on, things like that. Some vending machines. So when we were designing the building where again we were fortunate to be able to do this, we try to get everything in there. Of course things that we wanted that is great teaching space, great research space and and a place for our students would feel comfortable hanging out so.

Really happy with Mercer. We've been in there for a couple years now and it really has worked out very very well. So next thing I want to talk a little bit about and this is tight as some of the research is. What are some of your opportunities that for things to do outside of the classroom and so of course we have our traditional lectures and you'll be doing that in your class work, but you also want to get involved. One of the best ways you can make your education stronger to do things In addition to being in the actual classroom. We have a lot of opportunities for that. Mary Washington in general, but particularly in our Department and so.

I mentioned earlier there's a lot of opportunity for research with faculty members. Again, we don't have graduate students, and so we looked or undergraduate, so these are the people who are doing all the research and.

And with you, so I have the first thing on there is called your as a man. You rez is basically an opportunity for people for 1st and 2nd. I mean it really. You can do this in any year but but the idea is to get first year students in second year students involved with research so you don't have to have any particular training in psychology or whatever doesn't discipline you. Choose to do this you raz research in on the Provost Web page of the process is just an academic officer at the institution. They usually list all the opportunities for undergraduate research for students.

Uh, in this year S program and then you can just contact the faculty member to find out more about what you would actually do. So if you wanted to, theoretically you could jump right in and try to get involved with the research project right in your first semester. If you wanted to. We have a lot of research going on to the next thing I have on that list is called yearlong independent research. This is actually for people students in our Department who have already taken.

Several years of course work and usually people will do the independent research this research in their junior year or the and or their senior year these are people have already taken our stats and research sequence which I'll talk more about in a few minutes here and there are designing their own research projects and so it's a great opportunity to work really in small groups with faculty members and sometimes you'll also get some you rest even incorporated into that research team so the projects already been designed and we just need some help developing a project or working on collecting data here but the yearlong independent.

Research is a great opportunity for our students again is something that you do once you've taken some other classes and so then you ready to hit the ground running an we have actual course it's a year long course where you work in a small team with faculty members usually 4 or 5 students and the faculty members research area but then as a group you collaborate and you come up with research questions that you want to have answered and you spend the year designing studies collecting data analyzing that data and then writing up the results and right below that it says we present at state and national conferences and that's very true every year we take usually somewhere between 25 and 30.

Of our psychology majors to a state conference where they present the results of their research and it usually is the results of those year long independent research projects and then a subset of those actually go to national conferences usually take somewhere between 10 and 15 people to present their research at a national conference Unfortunately with everything that's going on this year obviously we're not going to be able to do either one of those things but I actually have one of these independent research teams this year and we had our research not only accepted to present at the state conference that we go to here in Virginia.

Now that you were supposed to be in Charlottesville but we're also going to national conference called the Association for psychological science conference and that was in Chicago were supposed to be going in may but Unfortunately that's got cancelled I believe there was my research team and 3 other research teams I think there was about 13 or 14 students who are going to be going to the conference our students also published the research over the last 3 years I think about somewhere 32 or 33 of our undergraduates have published their research in peer reviewed journals along with their faculty members so.

Research is something that we value a lot in our Department as well as internships which is the next on the list here but there's a great opportunity for you to get involved with this if it's something that you're actually interested in so we also have a lot of internships which are out of class experiences that are fantastic if you have an area that you think you might want to do in the long run is a great opportunity to spend a semester doing an internship there to get a sense of how is this something you really want to actually do in the long run and so we have over 40 of them actually and they're all listed on our website and I promise at the end of this presentation I'm going to have our website up there if you haven't had a chance to look at it.

It's got a lot of great information but you could theoretically go there right now and check out and see what the different internships are that we actually have and look at what you would be doing and what courses you would need to take in order to do those things but there are there are 40 that are already set up but if you find a new one that you think you might want to do there's a process within the Department that you can actually go ahead and set up one with the back of the member in the Department here so great opportunities for outta class stuff saikai is a National Honor Society in psychology may be very strong chapter and in fact I think 3 years ago we won the international war.

Word as the best chapter basically in the world of psychium we have a very very active program here they do lots of stuff there always winning the regional chapter of the year award our advisor doctor ritual is just phenomenal and what she does in the psych I students do a lot of things for our Department they put on different different things they do a symposium at the end of the year that we have in our Department they hold what we call a Graduate School forum so they talk about OK what do you need to do to get into grad school how should you apply things like that and you can always talk to your advisor about that too but they do things like that.

They do a form where they bring in people from a local community who have jobs working in a psychology related discipline and they just talk about how they got from their undergraduate degrees to where they actually are now so it's a very active chapter a couple other auto class opportunities there I have psychology in Europe which is a couple of pictures there on the Top one on the Top it's the summer school course where I taught this for 5 or 6 years actually take a group of small group of students to Europe and you trace kind of the roots of psychology in Europe and so when I taught it we would go to.

London for 3 or 4 days I'm going to Paris for 3 or 4 days we go to a small town in Germany called wirts Berg for 2 days and then we'd finish in Vienna for 4 or 5 days is summer school course that you can take mentoring children at risk is another summer school course if you ever have an interest in working with at risk kids this is a great opportunity it's a one week course where you are in the classroom for a week and then the second weeks was 2 weeks total you actually go to a camp here in Virginia where there at risk kids were there for their summer camp and you.

Live at the camp with them and you meant to them for the week any CC is in New England Center for children it's actually another kind of internship that we have it's up in New England and if you have an interest in working with children with autism on the on the autism spectrum disorder this is what they do and so you can actually pay your tuition here at Mary Washington but you go there and you work as an intern there and you also take a couple of course is there so it's a great opportunity last thing I have on the list there just kind of out of class opportunities to kind of let you know.

We're pretty social Department we do a lot with our students not only in the classroom and in our research but we have student representatives who get elected by the students and those student representatives come to our faculty meetings and they have a say in some of the things that we do in the Department and they're kind of the voice for the students in the Department and they plan social activities so realize that we're looking for students who want to be involved in all different ways in our Department we try to provide as many opportunities as we can from that.

Next thing I want to do um and I'm seeing a couple questions come up here and so I'm going to take a quick peek on that peak at those and I'll answer a couple of because they're there one is where can we find information about the human sexuality class doesn't have a prerequisite so first of all more information about that class you're going to find online on our web page also just going to be a short description of that course most all of our courses the second part of that was about pre recs is this is good for everybody to know most of our courses the only prerequisite is general psychology not all of'em.

But for most of them and for human sexuality I'm pretty sure that's the only prerequisite it is it is pretty popular course was hard to get into but that would be only prereq another question was about an internship then can you do that as a freshman in the answer that is no because most of our all of our internships first will have a requirement you have to do at least 12 hours in psychology before you do the internship and then also they're going to have prereqs so there's certain courses you need to take to do those internships so the idea for us from the internship is that you take what you learn in the classroom.

And you apply it out of the classroom so we want you to learn something first and then apply in the classroom so you can't do that as a freshman usually for most people are going to do it even their junior year or more likely their senior year where they do the internships another question is about the NEC course is it a summer school course and no it's not usually a summer school course it's usually done wearing one of the traditional academic semesters actually and usually if people are going to do that will do it in the second semester junior year and maybe one of their senior years in their senior years and then the next question is actually about.

AP uhm and so I said that's going to come up when I'm going to talk about right now so the next thing I have on the screen is the major requirements are not going to member all these things and that's totally fine all this is online I'll show you where you can find it if you want but just to give you some general ideas of what are major isn't what we think is important so we are the Department of psychological science where the psychology Department it means the same thing but we changed our name a couple years ago because we do emphasize the scientific aspect of it and we want everybody to be exposed to that and so.

The major requirements focus on on getting exposed to science but also giving you a broad exposure to the whole field several years ago the American psychological Association came up with some new guidelines on what undergraduate programs in psychology to look like and Fortunately ours look just like those and so don't bog down on the deep down of the details here but in the Top column up there basically those are all courses are the Top box of course is everybody has to take so Gen psych was a question somebody prior to this session.

Ask the question of do you have to have any experience in psychology be a psychology major in first of all the answer is no absolutely not we don't have any expectations that you have experience in psychology now a lot of our majors have taken some kind of site course before but there's no expectation a question that came up here is about a PE and so if you've taken the AP test and you scored a 4 or 5 on the general site on the psychology AP test that counts for our site 100 cores which then allows you to skip that course when you're here and it gives you 3 credits if you gotta.

3 on the generals on the psych AP it does not count for general psychology but it can be transferred in as elective credits just in not in psychology but just in general so they get you to the overall credits that you need to graduate but the Top box gives you the kind of the core research methods there everybody has to take an intro to statistics course in advance statistiques course in a research methods course psychology is scientific discipline and we want all of our students to have that background no matter what you decide to do in the long run with the degree if you know something a little bit about research and how to do it correctly.

Um and how to read research and understand the literature you're going to be better off for it in the long run so everybody has to do that we teach those statistics courses within our Department I teach those courses and the research methods course and so we're not farming it out to the math Department or somewhere else you can take courses over there but we haven't specifically that focus on psychology and the next several boxes down there are are just kind of the core areas so the American psychological Association has these kind of 4 core areas that they think everybody should be exposed to and so that's how we set up our major.

One is an A.

Normal personality and social so you gotta take at least one course out of that one out of biology went out of cognition and learning on next week you're going to see it's on developmental now you can take more than one of those courses but you have to take at least one of those courses what we found before we revised our major several years ago is that a lot of people were skipping the biology one and so we actually made it requirement because biology is really important here so.

So I'm gonna skip on to the next screen here and talk about the second part so the developmental psychology someone asks in a previous question about do we have courses on developmental psychology or infinite children and the answer is absolutely we have a lot of those.

But so there's 1 of the everybody else take at least one of those courses next box there is a second research course so again we want you to have this experience to do research and so not only take those 2 statistics course courses but you also take the intro to methods course and then there's a second research course that you actually do so by the time you finish would agree in psychology you're going to do at least 2 research studies as a student and that's those are great skills to have no matter what you decide to do in the long run.

And let me just finish this out and I'll go back to some of your questions over there the last box down there is out of class experience so everybody in the Department everybody has to do an out of class experience sometimes they count for credits in the major sometimes they don't but there's different ways that you can fill that in fact some of the things that we've already talked about or ways you can fill it that mentoring children at risk course counts independent research which is that for 91492 counts and then the internship also counts there's also another option which is called community service learning so ultimately you gotta do 37 credits in psychology.

I'm getting a lot of questions over here on the side so I'm going to take a quick peek at those there's a question about IB scores and we definitely take those ibes I'm not as familiar with the exact language and how that works but I'm going to point you to our web page and when we get down here you have the link and there's information about specific scores that you would need to.

Come get in order to get credit so that information is on the web page now there was about animal behavior learning and motivation is a core sets on one of these screens up here is where you're going to talk about animal behavior are a person who actually talk about animal behavior my personality psychology course but not as much as you weren't learning motivate motivation but that will be the course mainly although our faculty member whose main areas that he also sometimes will teach a seminar on that and if you're really interested in it.

He's doing an independent research and so he's got students who are running out there designing projects and doing that so but the kind of the basic course that at least have some information about animal behavior would be the learning and motivation one about AP dual enrollment dual enrollment usually works out fine get lots of questions so that's good.

And um again on our web page I think is where you're going to find a little bit more information about how the dual role might actually works but I know we have students I have advises who did dual enrollment high school and that can usually count particularly if it's at a Virginia Community College and you've taken the right course it usually will workout so.

I'm looking at some more questions here uh one says would you recommend taking Gen psych even if you got a 45 on the AP exam you know not necessarily I would I mean truthfully if you got a 4 or 5 in the AP psych exam then you have the basic exposure to psychology when most of us teach our next level courses or just assuming you have a basic knowledge of what channel with psychologies about we're not going to be asking specific questions about specific things you learn in Gen psych so if you got a 4 or 5 on the API would just transfer that intake the credits and then try to get into some of the other upper division courses your.

Interested in so question about biological psychology which courses we actually have a course in biological psychology we have neuroscience course cognitive neuroscience we actually have ice on the left side of the screen here we have a neuroscience minor that's tide in with the biology Department is a couple of courses you take that in biology and a couple of psychology although I will say the biology courses have some prereqs to them that you need to take so but we have several biology courses that you can actually take here and so is the neuroscience might required for psychology the answer that is no that's just an option that we have a lot of students are interested in that.

And in truth most of the people who are actual neuroscience miners are actually biology majors and I would say maybe about about maybe about 60% of them biology majors 40% or psychology but that's not a requirement OK so there are courses about neuroscience.

We have a cognitive neuroscience course that you can take in the bio cycle psychology course and you can do the minor and if you're really interested in that we have a couple of faculty members who do research who are neuroscience people and they do research in that area there was one that I missed back here are some examples of experiments in psychology and we're going to talk I could give you that I guess I'm trying to think with my next screen is OK I'm going to go to the next screen and will talk about some of the experiences we talk about some of our outcomes So what are our students doing and so will incorporate the some of these experiences here simply because.

A lot of those experiences in terms of research they those are what can turn into getting into Graduate School and and or getting a resource job so again I mentioned a couple of the studies earlier.

In terms of people working with the eye tracker my research is in environmental issues in psychology and so we've done research on food waste behavior on water and water use again some faculty members who do research on eating behaviors it's really across the entire spectrum and so if you look at our web page which is going to be one of the next things on the screen here you can go to each of our faculty members on the web page and under each one it will give a description of some of the research that they actually do and some of their publications and so you can see.

What some of those research opportunities are and So what I'm focusing on mainly is the independent research yearlong projects and so again we've got in our Department we have people who do we have cognitive psychologists who do research on learning our memory we have our animal behaviorist who does stuff on learning doctor Wilson who is a clinical psychologist does research on trauma and was written a couple of books on that so it really is across a wide?

Spectrum of research areas is really what it comes down to, but if you you know if you look on the web page you can get a sense of what some of the options are in. Because we have faculty who have PHD's in pretty much every area within psychology. So developmental psychology, social and personality, cognitive, biological, clinical. We have people doing research in all of these areas. There's a lot of opportunity to do that type of research so.

Hum, I'll answer a couple more of these questions. Try to keep up here. Are there any criminology classes within the major? And unfortunately the answer to that is not really. We have a course on forensic psychology, which is Tide. Definitely criminology, but it's not criminology. From a sociological POV, I believe the sociology Department has at least used to have a course specifically on Criminology, but we do at least have a class on on forensic psychology. So let me talk a little bit about outcomes and I'll keep answering questions that you have here too so.

Certainly some of our students go right into Graduate School. Not certainly, not all of 'em do 'cause you don't want to go to Graduate School until you know what your what you really want to do and you don't have to go to Graduate School to use your undergraduate degree in psychology. There's lots of different options here, but some of our researchers research using our students to go right into PhD programs and Masters program, just depending what they're interested in. And PhD programs are pretty challenging to get into. Masters program is a little bit easier to get into in terms of the PhD programs. They're going to. Some of the top schools in the countries.

And doing more research oriented stuff that the Masters programs a lot of the students are going into clinical and counseling 'cause they want to go right in to do something like that. But even if you're not into grad school, your undergraduate degree here is preparing for you. Lots of different things. It's research positions I have there. You can be with just your undergraduate degree in the skills that you have and all the studies that you've done. You've got a job you can are not got a child, but you can get a job up. And we're about an hour South of Washington, DC, an hour North of Richmond. So it's a great location, and particularly in the DC area. There's lots.

Of companies that do research and they're looking for entry level people who can help them design studies, collect data and things like that. And so we have students who will get jobs there. They get jobs in marketing, social work, human resources, nonprofits, and many of our majors are interested in teaching, and they actually go right into teaching on the right side of the screen there. And I'm going to come back to your questions in a second. Here we do what we call graduate in residence program, or we bring back people who graduated with undergraduate degrees in psychology. And so James is one of those individuals, and Sarah is another one.

And we bring it back for like 3 days and they come back. And what we want to do is show our students. Here's the different things you can do with a degree from this institution. So these people have graduated from here and gone off and done something. And so James is a great example. Graduated awhile ago, but now he's a vice president, basically in human resources is what he does and high up in this company. Sarah went off and used her degree and she was an athlete here. Played on the softball team and then used her degree and she got into sports advocacy for women sports so.

There's lots of things that you can do, and we try to set you up so that you can succeed. That's our goal is to provide you with the opportunity so that when you leave here, you have the opportunity to do the different things that you want to do. So I'm going to go to the next screen and I'm going to come back to some of your questions just to kind of. So this is a screenshot. It's not live, so I can't do anything here now with the top. This is the department's web page, so I just want to point this out to you. It's easy to find, and if you can't read the link right now, it's going to be on the last page. I want to put up in a second here, but.

On the Department web page, please go to Mary Washington web page and type in psychology. It will take you to this web page and note there is a column here. Again, I can't click on it for students, but that's where all the information about API be and things like that are there. But there's a whole bunch of information underneath there. If you were to click on that link there psychiat talks about the national side there was talking about earlier experiential learning. This is where you would go if you want to learn more about those internships that we have opportunities you could click on him and see what they are, and then we have. This is an interesting link for a lot of students. People don't look at this.

When they should planning for the future. But basically it provides you links to all the different things you can do with a psych degree, because people like what can I do a lot of times people get into psychology because they're interested in clinical or counseling work, which is great, but psychology is so much more than clinical and counseling work, and so these websites that take you there kind of give you all the different things that people do with a degree in psychology and what you would need to do to get there. And then there's a list of faculty and things for our alumni there, so I'm going to take us to my last screen of my PowerPoint 'cause it just has some contact information and I'm going to leave that up there.

So keep asking her questions and I will keep answering. I'm going to screen back up and see which ones I've missed here. That's my email d.klr@umw.edu.

You are more than welcome to email me whenever you want. If you've got more specific questions, this is the link to the page that we were just on. So if you want to write that down again, if you just go to the umw web page and type in psychology, it will take you to there also. But there's a great amount of information, including the major in the things that you need to do. So with that said, I'm going to slide back over here to some of these questions and see which ones I have missed an I think so. I got most of those other cars is related to industrial organizational psychology absolutely, and so we actually have.

Three different courses that you can take their taught within the business Department, but their cross listed is psychology courses, human resource management, organizational behavior and change. and I forget what the third one. Third one is, but they count as elective credits in psychology and ultimately as part of the major, you're going to need three classes or 9 credits, and so if you are really interested in tying psychology and business, that is a great opportunity to do that in the last couple of years we've actually had a couple of our people who are psych majors but raised in business, and they've actually worked on research with some of the business faculty actually, and I actually collaborate with one of.

Marketing faculty members in business. So we do have a relationship and there are some specific courses. If you're interested in IO psychology.

So next question says we get to Mary Washington. Is there going to be a way for us to coordinate with our counselors and professors? That would make sure we're getting all the classes experiences? For example, I'd like to be a child psychologist. So the answer to that is yes, I however.

When you come to Mary Washington you will. You're going to be taking an F so OK with a small group of people to create opportunity to get to know group people. But I have a great learning experience in a small environment and so your professor for that SM will be your advisor, and they're probably not likely going to be in the major that you're thinking about declaring, and you might even know what major declare, but they will be your advisor for the first semester and for the first year usually. But once you decided what major you want to declare, then you can declare your major and as soon as you declare your major.

You will be given an advisor within that Department, and so that's why it. It's in your best interest. If you know what don't just declare a major, just declare major, but if you know what you want to major in, declare your major when you can. Now you can't do it until the, at least at the end of your first year, but declare the major once you know, and you're able to do that, because then you're going to get an advisor within that discipline, and they're going to be able to help you go in the right direction. You want to. What courses should you be taking one out of class experiences? Should you be having so you're definitely going to have an advisor.

The moment you get here, who's going to help you get through the first year in terms of classes, you need to take, but then you can declare your major and then get an advisor with in that particular field kind. So I'm going to screen down a couple more. Winning this tax site courses, transfer to math minor, or feel any math required credit. So the answer that unfortunately is no. The math Department has their own courses. They want you to take and they actually have a stats course that we don't accept for ours. Psych stats, because we want you to learn specific things that are tide into our psychology courses. But hey, from my perspective, someone who teaches to stat stuff.

It's all good for the more stats you get, the better. You may disagree, but but it's their skills are skills that are worthwhile in the long run. Uhm, is there any in terms related to music therapy? The answer to that is yes, although I'm not really familiar with those, but if you go to the web page and you look up the intern ships, we have internships all across the spectrum, but there's not only music therapy, I'm pretty certain, but I'm pretty sure there's one in art therapy and then just different types of counseling, so we do have those.

So we do have adolescent questions. Do you have adolescent psychology? So we actually have a course. We have those three developmental courses. One is infinite child, one is adolescent and adult. So that would be the adolescent. And then there's an aging course. The aging is great. Not a lot of institutions break up their developmental psychology like we do, and so they have that aging course. If that's something you're interested in, particularly nowadays, as our population is aging, there is a huge demand for people who have expertise. In fact, one of our undergraduates who graduated probably eight or nine years ago, has gone off and made a really big name for herself.

Uh, in aging and not only in research in that area, but consulting and working with retirement communities in the best way to work with people, particularly with those with dementia and her name is Rachel Wonderland. And she's going to be our graduate residence next year. She's going to be talking back here talking to our students about. Hey, here's what I do. Here is how I got there. So we do have courses in adolescent, infant, child, adolescent, an aging. Where can we find a page with everybody's research studies? Good question, but I don't know if we actually have a page that literally.

As everybody's research studies in our Department, I think the closest you're going to get is if you look at the faculty themselves and look at their curricula meters or CVS or resumes and see what they published and what some of their research projects are. But I don't think that's actually great suggestion. Maybe it's something else she putting our web pages is what some of our independent research projects are, so unfortunately I have a good answer for you. There is their preferred smi should take. If you're thinking going to psychology and the answer to that is no. The idea with the SMS is to.

Find something you find interesting, so hopefully you've already decided that you want to come here as soon as you pay your deposit, and Amanda, there's someone on admissions on this page is she can correct my wrong, but I think as soon as you paid your deposit, you have the opportunity to actually select your SM. So if you want to have the best opportunity to select the FM that you want you want to pay that deposit, but again, no, there's not something you need to take for psychology were not expecting our psychology majors to come in necessarily with any particular previous knowledge about psychology, just an interest in learning and studying about behavior, mental processes, so.

Not a particular F some? Uhm, we don't, so it's a quick next question is about, uhm, any particular majors around adolescence or child? So at the undergraduate level, psychology is the only degree you're going to get. You're going to find this is pretty much any institution that you go to. You don't really specialize in anything until you decide to go into Graduate School, if that's what you want to do. So, even if you're interested in becoming clinician or a counselor in the long run, you don't. You're not going to like major in clinical psychology. You're still going to major in psychology. Do what everybody else does. Now you're going to take some.

Lot of course is as many as you can. Maybe do an internship this time to clinical work. And if you're interested in working with adolescents, then you're going to do the same thing. Take as many courses you can in that area. Maybe doing an internship where you doing that, but you're not going to major in something's really specific. It's just going to be a psych degree, which again, you're going to find it pretty much any inserts institution.

So Amanda just commented that's correct. What are the things you need to do is?

So she you guys can read that, so that's good. I think so that's good. A class is about gender identity. Being a gender therapist, so we have several faculty members who are interested in psychology of women, and so we actually have a course on the psychology of women. And there is. There is actually no I want to say there's a minor, and maybe Amanda can correct me on this across the institution. So not just within the Psychology Department. That's a collaboration between several different departments on women studies. I know there is that, but I don't know if there's one that focuses on.

Gender identity a man. There's not something specific that focuses on being a gender therapist per se, but we do have a class and not only in abnormal psychology, we have a clinical psychology course. Would you be talking about those issues and then you could have the opportunity to do some kind of internship, potentially there so.

Is there is a possibly both pre, Med and psychology? Good question and I think that tides into another question somebody had written earlier about in being interested in psychology here. So first of all I would say big picture about Mary Washington, one of the great things for you as a student is that majors are set up in such a way that you can double major and get through and for years and you should be. You should be able to do that as long as you do finding your classes. So we have great biology Department have wonderful classes usually if you're pre Med is not necessarily a major, it's just a series of course. Is that you're actually going to do.

A lot of the people who are interested in going to medical school are usually going to major in biology, but you don't have to. We've had, in fact we have one right now. If you're interested in medical school I don't go into this too much. As many of you might not be, but we have a really cool program with an institution in DC where you can actually apply early and like in your junior year. And if you have the right qualifications, they let you in right away and I forget the school. Amanda can correct me on this wrong, but we actually have a student actually in that particular program. They're looking for people who are not biology majors. In fact, to get.

Into that program, you have to be a major something other biology, and so we have a psychology major who is also doing all the premed stuff. But she applied to that.

Program and she's already got into medical school and she's going into her senior year or next year should be in her senior year, so, um, you can certainly do the pre Med core and do the psychology core a question about the question about psychology psychiatry. So just kind of make that distinction for people. So psychiatry in order to be a psychiatrist, you have to have a medical degree. And so those people are going to be going into medical school. But again, as I just said, you can do psychology and biology and do that premed track our view want to do it, but.

A psychology degree is, uhm, uhm, not going to. You're not going to go to Graduate School and get a PhD in psychology. If you want to be a psychiatrist, psychiatrist, psychiatry degree is a medical degree, so those are going to be two different things. But Yes, you can do both. You can do psychology and biology and so manage is posted. They think he was cheetah or George GW medical school program.

Honors students and you can play your sophomore year so that answers that question about the I think about the medical school stuff so I'm looking at my questions the questions you all have and then the question I have written down and I think I'm not positive but I think I've covered most of the questions but I am absolutely happy to answer any other questions that you have so if you've got some questions and I haven't answered please feel free to type them in if you don't have questions then let me just say thank you very much for coming.

Hum, I really hope you choose. Mary Washington is a great opportunity to work with faculty, great education, great location, hopefully had the chance to visit campus. But if you haven't, it's a beautiful campus. Really engaged with our students. Here again, if you have more questions, my contact information is on the screen in front of you and our Department web page has a tremendous amount of information, a lot of what we just talked about here is also on the web page, so please feel free to check that out and send some questions so.

I'm going to hang out here for a couple more minutes and and um lot of your sign off and that's fine but if you have some other questions you can type them now or send me an email so.

And thank you all for coming I'm gonna always thank you thank you all for coming we appreciate I appreciate it so.

So question came in and you can sign off or do or don't do is about the NECC that the internship so so the NECC internship it says can you talk more about what people can do in the antique to internship so I'm assuming you're saying what are you going to do as a student up there not my area of expertise but from what I understand is like you're literally working with people it's not necessarily children although from understand a lot of more chilling with either with autism or somewhere on the autism spectrum disorder so it's an internship where you're spending a significant amount of your day everyday.

Working with this program so it's a it's a both a day program and a program where people actually live there I think a smaller number of people actually live at this Institute but in many of them come just for the day but you're literally working those kids may be doing ABA therapy learning more about ABA therapy but also working with those kids you're getting that experience while you're there so you're getting that internship experience but In addition to that while you're There you are taking a couple of academic courses you're getting your getting you actually get 12 academic credits for that semester so you get I think 6 of'em are the internships and 6 of them are 2 different courses you take so 23 credit courses that you.

Actually takes so you're not losing an academic year and academic semester. If you're doing that, you're getting the credit. You need to still keep moving on in terms to actually graduate. So in terms of qualifications and learns, how do you get to do that? Usually people aren't going to do that until their junior or senior year because they gotta finish some other things there. I don't know what the exact prerequisites are in terms of the courses you need to have take, but that should be listed on our web page in terms of what you need to take to have done that, but I don't think it's a tremendous number, of course is it's really just having taken whatever those courses are, but having an interest in.

He's been working with that population so and then you just get a letter recommendation from one of your faculty members an hopefully have the opportunity to do that so hopefully that answers your question.

Not seeing any other questions, but I'll give you a minute or two more if you get one or two more things you want to ask and if not, then I'll go ahead and sign off and just asked his. Send me an email if you've got some questions about anything.

Here's another one that can you talk a little bit more with the summer school working with at risk kids so yeah great opportunity if it's a population that individuals want to work with so we have one of our faculty members who's done this program probably I don't know 10 or 12 years not all the time that she's been here but at other institutions and so she works with at risk kids and so that the weak part of the course that when you're actually in the classroom we spend a week in the classroom reading about talking about discussing at risk kids.

Anne working with those kids and that population and so you're getting that academic part where you're doing the reading and discussing prior to going out there but then literally that one the next week you are in the camp and so you live there each each student is a mentor and so you were assigned once one child who is there and you basically tag along with that that child and you work with them throughout the week and just act as a mentor while you're actually there so you can form those bonds all the students who I've talked to you I mean there's a self selection process there's people who.

This is what they really want to do everybody who comes back from that there's like this was a great experience not only they really enjoy it they've made a good friend usually on terms of whoever there meant he is but it also is really wonderful for job opportunities in the long run out during the get a job at the campus early although you might but putting something like that experience on your resume really looks great because it's out of the classroom it's good to have the book the book information but it's even better or just as good to go outside and do something like that which is why it's kind of like an internship so you should try to do internships while you can while you're here research with faculty or do some of these other types experience.

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An I'm not seeing any more questions come up, so I think I'm gonna go ahead and sign off here. Uh, what? What we come out? What year did say you could do that program again? Usually so sorry I'm reading the questions out there. I think we're still talking about the mentoring children at risk program.

Usually I mean, theoretically I don't think there's many prerequisites for that course. Once you've taken the prerequisites for the mentoring children at risk.

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Then you can go ahead and do that. Um, it's a pretty popular courses. Summer school fills up if it's the NECC internship, that's usually not so that's the one in New England Center for children. That's usually not going to be there. Junior or senior year, simply because there are prerequisite courses you have to take and you have to have a certain number of credits in psychology so.

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OK, it looks like we're winding down here, so I'm going to go ahead and sign off. But please again, look at our web page. Uhm, email me with any questions. I'm happy to answer any questions that I can for you and thank you very much for everybody for coming.

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