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Tonight’s Agenda
Presentations from The new academic advisor for Psychology
Amanda Hancock Learning Skills Centre
Lyn Benn – Learning Skills Centre Coordinator Psyc Club
Carmen Poirier – Psyc Club President Psychology Program
Dr. Paul Siakaluk
The Psychology Program at UNBC: Making the Most of It
An Introduction to Faculty, Research Opportunities, the Honours Program, and Graduate School
Psychology at UNBC
we offer research opportunities that help develop important skills (and not just for
graduate studies in psychology) provide other important benefits
what are these research opportunities?
Research Opportunities at UNBC
research assistants good for early in your undergrad program help faculty conduct their research a few hours/week
individual research projects for more senior students PSYC 499-(3-6) be personally responsible (with a faculty member)
for your “own” research project
Research Opportunities at UNBC
honours program “Admission to the honours program will take place
after the end of the second year (i.e., upon completion of 60 credit hours) and will require a minimum CGPA of 3.33” (p. 161)
Dr. Paul Siakaluk is the honours program coordinator
What is an Honour’s Degree?
Major
122 credit hours
Honours
134 credit hours 12 extra credits
6 credits for honours thesis
6 credits in 400-level courses one must be a
research methods
Honours vs Major in Psychology
Benefits: gain understanding about the process of research research experience is expected by grad schools letters of reference conference presentation / publication
Costs heavier work load possibly additional time in school GPA
Honour’s Program Application Process
eligibility: CGPA 3.33 minimum of 60 credit hours find a willing supervisor
application process: complete yellow form & submit by April 9th, 2008 attach transcripts from all post-secondary
institutions attach a “declaration of major” form
see me well before deadline
Skill Development
critical thinking skills problem solving skills people skills writing skills experience in developing and implementing a
research project, analyzing data, writing an APA-format paper/manuscript
even using some of those ucky stats you learn in PSYC 315 and 316!
Graduate School in Psychology:
What Does It Take? very important to start thinking about what you will need for applying as early as possible!!! (don’t wait until your last semester) graduate record exam (GRE)
most universities will want the general GRE and some want the psychology GRE
transcripts letters of recommendation application forms where you will apply and with whom
make contact
Graduate School in Psychology:
What Does It Take? start thinking about what kind(s) of psychology you would want to pursue for a career clinical psychology, counseling psychology experimental psychology
cognitive, developmental, biological, industrial-organizational, theoretical, etc
Graduate School in Psychology:
What Does It Take? grades, grades, grades!!! letters of recommendation
not just for grad school, also med school, law school, job
you want your letters to state that you are a good researcher reliable intelligent industrious etc
Graduate School in Psychology:
What Does It Take? RESEARCH EXPERIENCE!!!!! this is important even for “applied” psychology
programs like clinical and counselling e.g., most, if not all, graduate clinical programs
require research for a Master’s and PhD
Graduate School in Psychology:
What Does It Take? how can we in the Psychology Program help you? check out the faculty on the web research interests match? if not, the research experience is what is important
e.g., if you want to go into biological/physiological psychology, we don’t have a “wet” lab here, but having research experience will help you be competitive for grad school
Psychology Program Faculty
Dr. William Owen Psychology Program Chair
research interests: basic
reading and cognitive processes
Psychology Program Faculty
Dr. Sherry Beaumont research interests: communication
in families and friendships; the
relation between personality, emotion
regulation, and conversational styles;
and vulnerability and resiliency
associated with maladaptive
temperamental or personality styles sabbatical until July 1, 2008
Psychology Program Faculty
Dr. Cindy Hardy research interests: child and
adolescent clinical psychology, and
human development. Current
research projects address parenting,
and delivery of health services to children,
youth, and families living in rural and remote
Canada
Psychology Program Faculty
Dr. Loraine Lavallee research interests: health psychology,
social psychology, environmental
psychology sabbatical until July 1, 2008
Psychology Program Faculty
Dr. Han Li research interests : intercultural
communication and physician-patient
communication. If any of you are
planning to go to medical school, a
research project on physician-patient
communication may be of interest to you.
Please drop by during my office hours
(Mon. 1;30-3:30).
Psychology Program Faculty
Dr. Kyle Matsuba Graduate Advisor
research interest: child, adolescent,
and young adult development in the
areas of at-risk behaviour, civic
engagement, morality, sexuality,
and technology exploration of self and narrative identity during the
transition period from adolescence to adulthood
Psychology Program Faculty
Dr. Glenda Prkachin research interests: cognitive
neuroscience, the development of
perception of emotion, and attention.
Psychology Program Faculty
Dr. Ken Prkachin research interests: health
psychology, clinical psychology,
pain expression, and the
biobehavioural determinants of heart disease
Psychology Program Faculty
Dr. Paul Siakaluk Honour’s Program Coordinator
research interests: how word
meaning (semantics) is represented
in the mind; how various measures of
semantics are or are not related to one
another same thing for the sounds of words (phonology)
and the visual form of words (orthography)
Psychology Program Faculty
Dr. William Wong research interests: mental health initiatives, prevention approaches and learning theory applications
Psychology Program Faculty
Dr. Henry Harder research interests: rehabilitation and family psychology sabbatical until July 1, 2008
Psychology Program Faculty
Dr. Robert Tait former Dean of Graduate Studies
at UNBC administrative leave
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