Hello all,
This has touched upon something I've been thinking about for a
while. Our department at Ripon College emphasizes experimentation; we have
students do about six experimental projects before graduation. Naturally,
we teach the usual courses as well, with the usual content, but it is fairly
obvious that we have geared our curriculum toward students who want to
pursue graduate degrees in psychology, and even, one might say, toward
students who wish to pursue the Ph.D. The problem is, we have very few of
those students in our department, probably around 10%. So, the majority of
our students, who are interested in psychology for fun or for preparation
for a career in counseling get a very large dose of the experimental method,
more than they sometimes desire.
We have talked in the past about setting up a two-track major, one
track for those interested in research, the other for those with other
interests (keeping, of course, some level of research in that track as
well). My question, I suppose, is should we set up our curriculum as if all
of our students are future doctoral students? What should we teach them?
Joe Hatcher
Ripon College
Ripon, WI 54971 USA
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> From: Miguel Roig
> Sent: Wednesday, January 10, 2001 9:18 AM
> To: Louis_Schmier; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: working in industry vs. academe?
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> At 08:10 AM 1/10/01 -0500, you wrote:
> >Miguel, I read the article. I found it interesting to say the least. My
> >question is: what's wrong with going into industry as opposed to going
> >into academia?
>
> From my point of view there is absolutely nothing wrong. In fact, in the
> past
> I have question here on TIPS the wisdom of emphasizing academic psychology
> to
> our students given the dearth of opportunities in this area.
>
> Miguel
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