Suzi-
I would also be interested in the list of objectives your department has
developed. If you do not send it to tips, could you please send a copy my
way?
Thanks
Tom Dudley
Department of Psychology
Tarleton State University
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Suzi -
>Can you send on the list of objectives your department has developed? I
>like the idea of approaching introductory psychology from the perspective
>of what the average person on the street should know.
>Thanks!
>Judith Roberts
>City College of San Francisco
>
>On Wed, 7 Apr 1999, Suzi Shapiro wrote:
>
>> Page through an introductory text and think about the things that you would
>> like the person on the street to know about psychology.
>> Our department has developed a set of objectives that respond to this goal.
>> We don't try to teach everything.
>> We give the objectives to the students to focus their learning and then we
>> make the class as active and interesting as we can.
>> I trust my colleagues who write texts and who present material at
>> conferences to make sure that I don't miss anything new and important.
>> Suzi
>> =====================================================
>> Susan J. Shapiro, Ph.D.
>> Associate Professor Psychology
>> Indiana University East
>> 2325 Chester Blvd.
>> Richmond, IN 47374
>> Office phone: (765) 973-8284
>> Office FAX: (765) 973-8508
>> E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>> URL: http://www.iue.indiana.edu/psych/index.html
>> =====================================================
>>
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>> >From: Louis_Schmier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>> >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>> >Subject: Re: Teaching intro psych: A lesson in humility
>> >Date: Wed, Apr 7, 1999, 4:00 AM
>> >
>>
>> >On Mon, 5 Apr 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>> >
>> >> As I sat here reading through yet another detailed discussion of an
>> important
>> >> theory in psychology so that I could explain it better to my intro
>> students,
>> >> the following thought occurred to me:
>> >>
>> >> Teaching introduction to psychology is a nearly impossible feat for any
>> one
>> >> person to accomplish properly: there is so much one must know, and know
>> in a
>> >> very deep way, if one is to explain it accurately and in an
>> understandable way.
>> >>
>> >> Needing a drink,
>> >
>> >Maybe part of the solution is not a drink, but to focus on the
>> >"introduction" part rather than the "psychology" part, to accept the fact
>> >that no course covers the entire subject, to understand no one acquires a
>> >mastery of the subject, and to realize that the vast majority of those
>> >students you are teaching in those intro courses are not future
>> >pscyologists, professors, researchers, scholars, or teachers anymore than
>> >the students who are in my intro history courses.
>> >
>> >
>> >Make it a good day.
>> >
>> > --Louis--
>> >
>> >
>> >Louis Schmier [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>> >Department of History
>> http://www.halcyon.com/arborhts/louis.html
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R. Thomas Dudley
Assistant Professor of Psychology
Department of Psychology
Tarleton State University
Stephenville, TX 76402
E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Phone: 254.968.9091
