PSY 99 – Psychology Professional Seminar

PSY 99: Instructor: Ms. Anthes ([email protected]) – any questions about the course can be send via email. Please do not send messages through the Canvas messenger. *Note that this course does not meet regularly. It is run through Canvas, and is completed through attending workshops and submitting work to Canvas**

Course Goals: As a senior, you will soon be making the transition from college to graduate school or industry. During this seminar, you will be concentrating your efforts outside of the classroom by attending workshops on career planning, resume writing, interviewing techniques, professional responsibilities, and graduate school requirements. Learning outcomes for this course include applying psychology and career preparation.

Your responsibilities:

1) Workshop Attendance – Due Date: May 5

Attend a minimum of 4 scheduled workshops of interest. Workshops approved for PSY 99 will be posted on the Psychology Department Calendar (http://psychology.pages.tcnj.edu/calendar-of-events/). This list will be periodically updated. To document your attendance at any workshop, please download the workshop form from Canvas or from the Psychology website and have this form stamped at the end of the workshop. You will not receive workshop credit if you arrive late or leave early.

a. Make sure you are checking which events on the calendar qualify for PSY 99.

b. Keep checking the calendar for added workshops; they are added throughout the semester.

Submit your completed forms to the Psychology Main office or upload to Canvas to satisfy this advising requirement. You can also get one workshop credit for attending a resume workshop at the Career Center and one workshop credit for going to the Tutoring Center for a writing consultation. Note that you can get a total of one credit for each; even if you attend the Career Center or Tutoring Center multiple times, only one visit for each will count towards 09X.

c. If you choose to turn your attendance form into the main psychology office, be sure to make yourself a copy first in case of any grade or completion dispute.

2) Complete and submit the Resume/CV - Due Date: May 5

a.a. Upload polished, revised, and updated resume to Canvas by due date.

a.b. If you need help creating a resume, you can attend a resume workshop at the Career Center (resume workshops also count for one 09X workshop – be sure to get a Career Center employee’s signature after workshop). For more suggestions and example resumes go to “How to Prepare a Winning Resume” on the Career Center’s webpage: http://career.pages.tcnj.edu/students/career-guidance/resumes/

3) Post-Course Survey - Due Date: May 5

PSY 099 syllabus p. 1 of 3 PSY 99 – Psychology Professional Seminar

a. Please complete the post-course evaluation electronically. A link to the evaluation will be posted to Canvas before the end of the semester.

b. Please note that the completion of the course evaluation in Qualtrics will not automatically check off your completion in Canvas. Checking for your completion of the survey is a manual process (we see if it’s completed in Qualtrics, then manually enter the check into Canvas student by student), so please be patient and do not take the course evaluation multiple times.

Grading:

This course is graded on a P/U (pass/unsatisfactory) basis. As of Fall 2014, we no longer award IPs for incomplete work. When you enroll in an advising course, you must finish all assignments by the end of the semester in which you are enrolled. If you do not, you will get a U and must re-enroll and restart the course the next semester.

Selected Policies: Academic Integrity Policy Academic dishonesty is any attempt by the student to gain academic advantage through dishonest means, to submit, as his or her own, work which has not been done by him/her or to give improper aid to another student in the completion of an assignment. Such dishonesty would include, but is not limited to: submitting as his/her own a project, paper, report, test, or speech copied from, partially copied, or paraphrased from the work of another (whether the source is printed, under copyright, or in manuscript form). Credit must be given for words quoted or paraphrased. The rules apply to any academic dishonesty, whether the work is graded or ungraded, group or individual, written or oral.

TCNJ’s academic integrity policy is available on the web: (http://policies.tcnj.edu/policies/digest.php?docId=7642)

Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) Policy Any student who has a documented disability and is in need of academic accommodations should notify the professor of this course and contact Disability Support Services (609-771-3199) or http://differingabilities.pages.tcnj.edu/. Accommodations are individualized and in accordance with Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 and the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1992.

TCNJ’s Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) policy is available on the web: http://policies.tcnj.edu/policies/digest.php?docId=8082

EEO Policy The College of New Jersey Policy Prohibiting Discrimination in the Workplace/Educational Environment governs the college’s commitment to and expectations of having an environment that respects the diversity of all members of the campus community. Under this policy, forms of discrimination or harassment based upon specific protected categories are prohibited and will not be tolerated. If you wish to report a concern, please contact Kerri Thompson Tillett, Chief Diversity Officer, at 771-3139, or via email at [email protected].

PSY 099 syllabus p. 2 of 3 PSY 99 – Psychology Professional Seminar

The EEO policy is available on the web: http://policies.tcnj.edu/policies/digest.php?docId=9122

PSY 099 syllabus p. 3 of 3