Psychology Department Information Session

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Good thank you Lindsey.

Good afternoon everybody. How are you guys doing? I hope you're well and staying warm. It's really cold out here and rainy in California, so I am.

Marino Valley, California. Actually where I live and I'm in my room with the door locked. Hopefully the kids won't get to me in the next hour here, so I am in associate professor and the Department chair of the psychology Department here at University of Redlands and one of the first things I want to say is congratulations on your admission here to the University. This is such a wonderful opportunity for you and good job and getting here. I mean, I know getting to college is kind of.

One of the big major milestones, and so congratulations, and I hope you're able to join us here in the University, so we're having this thing that's happening right now, right guys, this little pandemic thing that's causing us to have these information sessions on line and talk to each other through the screen. I am way better in person, but I'm I'm going to try my best to kind of get you guys engage through this. So with recent events, one of the things that has really fascinated me about all of this as a psychologist.

Um, are things that, UM, that, like things that have to do with, for example, behavior change, right? So one of the things that you might have been thinking about making decisions on whether or not you're going to stay home because now we have in California, at least, this shelter in place.

Mandate from our governor and so in psychology we study this right we in social psychology. We cover issues related to persuasion. How do you? How do we persuade people, for example, to change their behaviors? And there's two different ways. As you can see in my slide. I'm just kind of giving you something that I pulled from my intro class central route persuasion, which is through appearing through logic, you know, like rational mind. Like here's problem solving things, right things to think about. Here's data you want to look at.

And then this the peripheral route persuasion are things like appealing to somebody's emotion or they're associations, or their fears. For example, right? So one other things. I want you guys to put on the chat right now is to tell me what persuaded you to which. Which way basically persuaded you to stay home. Was it through the central route or the peripheral cloud? So did you look at this graph that says we need to stay home so we can flatten the curve so that you know people don't flood the ICU's and we run out of Ventilators?

A more did you listen to the Riverside County Sheriff? Tell us to stay home or else right or did we? Did we look at social media posts by Tom Hanks and you know, Rita Wilson saying hey, you guys really need to be staying home. It's going to be OK or the things that have been flooding the Internet. You know on.

You know the doctors holding stay home. We have to go to work but you please stay home right? So look at that. Look at that. Lots of central route I'm seeing on the chat, so this is really really good. Parents love it. Yes, parents parents are a big deal aren't they?

Absolutely. When your parents tell you.

It's it's certainly a way to do yes I am with you guys on that so the central route was one of the ways that I changed my mind when I first started thinking about all of this uhm I started reading all the reports and looking at the data and thought Oh yeah we really should kind of get on board with this but I will say the peripheral route has been really helpful for me to kind of keep me from maintain keep me in maintaining that behavior change and so.

Every time I go, I really should go to the gym today, right? I look on Facebook or in Star tick tock and people are like putting up stuff like you know, almost shaming, right? Like stay home? What's wrong with you? And I'm like, alright, fine, I'll stay home instead, so it's kind of fascinating. These are the things that we study in psychology, and I'm hoping that if you come join us, you're going to be able to learn about all of these things, right, so?

Thank you all for kind of chatting it up, putting in the chat what you used so psychology the slide I just showed you was a social psychology slide, so this is the study of how people work in groups, how people make decisions when they're in groups, or how we appeal to large groups of people. And as you can see on this current slide, there's many, many different subfields of psychology. It's too small for me to read what I'm going to name off some of the things that I am.

Kind of remember right? So social psychology. Evolutionary psychology. We study in EB site we study how evolutionary forces, for example, change our behaviors. Cognitive psychology is very much an experimental type of psychology where we go into the lab and then we test how people make decisions, how people solve problems using computer simulations. For example, a little bit of the other things. Cognitive neuropsychology.

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Um health psychology. These are some of the newer psychology related fields, so cognitive neuro psych is one of the most sexiest kind of feels that we do now where we study the brain and we see how brain functions. Sorry you guys have to do this. My husband just come in and is totaly bombing my webinars so I am so sorry about that. I'm completely distracted anyway. The 50% here that you see.

Is clinical psychology and that's my field of study, so I am a I know right? My my training is in clinical psychology. I studied at San Diego State at University of California, San Diego and my specialties on behavioral medicine and so I studied a lot of Cancer Research when I was in Graduate School and then currently I'm studying.

Topics related to how mindfulness and meditation, for example, help with student stress, how it helps with student behaviors. All of these things that we're kind of concerned about. Student mental health. Those are some of the other things, so I'm going to transition. Is forensic psychology part of Clinical? No, it isn't actually, it's it's own separate subfield and I will say to that. So 'cause we just covered that in in our counseling psychology class this week.

Forensic psychology people typically think of Oz. Oh my gosh, FBI profiling for serial killers, right? Like that's always with my students. Tell me and it's really not about that. Unfortunately. A lot of friends excite has to do with cases related to custody or divorce. Or if somebody you know has a DY and broke the law and then they need to instead of going to jail. The judge says, you know it's better that they go ahead and.

Serve some community service or things like that. So a lot of the psychologists really work with.

And a day-to-day custody divorce, right? Like those kinds of cases, it's not FBI profiling, maybe maybe the one random outlier, but not not like the TV shows. Good question.

Going to transition really quickly and just give you guys an idea of what we require in the psychology major here at University of Redlands. One of the things I will say is that's really amazing about this major is that it's very flexible, so Sophia if you were interested in forensic psychology you can really tailor your experience here to be more applied so that you're seeing a lot more clients or you're kind of out in the field versus studying in the lab for example so.

In psychology, we require you to take introduction to psychology with a grade of 2, Seven or higher.

Or you can transfer an AP credits of four or higher. So four or five after you take introduction to Psych you then they need to take statistics and then after that pass after you pass that with a 2.0, you need to take research methods and then after you pass these kind of foundational courses we call them. You can then take the upper division courses so.

I'm if you've taken intro to Psych and want to take the three lower division courses, you can go ahead and do that as well, so we basically have three foundational courses, 3 Lower Division 3 Upper Division Capstone, and then an elective of your choice.

Any questions so far on that?

What's the deadline to transfer AP credit? There is no deadline. I think you can just. I think once you turn in your transcripts and kind of do all that it the registrar will go ahead and process that. Is that correct?

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Yes, that's correct.

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OK, How does statistics apply to psychology? Oh my gosh, it is so central to psychology. So psychology a lot of times there's my husband.

He did not get the memo that we're doing web web and I'm so sorry so statistics psychology is actually a science, right? And so we don't just do kind of common sense stuff when we say, for example, that people are typically persuaded to change their behavior because of peripheral route persuasion. Like that slide I showed you guys earlier, we have data to back that up right? We can show that yeah, when people.

You know, decide to not go out anymore because Tom Hanks said so, right? We actually have some data that we've collected to show that. OK, so let me see what other questions we have.

Social 6 the stats take it. We do not transfer in statistics and research methods. That's also kind of a really good question that you guys have because.

We want you to take them with our professors here. Um, we here is kind of the challenge that we've we've had sometimes where we've had students transfer in classes from community colleges, and they taste them right, did really well with them. But then, when they come here and then they take kind of the next level course, we see them struggle, and so there's no way for us to control the quality of instruction in different places. And so we require you to take stats and research methods with us or with another four year University.

Introduction to psychology. You can transfer in and then also take AP credit and you don't need to personally do anything. The Registrar should be able to just reflect that into your.

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Thing here you read what's that called?

The progress report.

Statistics, do you accept from college, shred from state schools? Again not from Community College and then AP stats. We don't transfer in.

If statistics is offered at my school currently, should I take that to prepare for college statistics? Yes, if you have that option in you don't mind as an harder class. Absolutely take it. It's it's a good. I think most of our students when they take that class and go. Oh, it's not at all about math. It's a way of thinking. And so I really encourage you to get your feet wet. Yeah sure, why not? That would be really, that would be a really good one.

OK, and then let's see what are the division courses about the topics that they're on. I'm going to show you a couple slides on that in a minute, so hang on tight Celine, Oh my gosh, your name is silly and that's awesome. And then the insured is Sitecore stats research methods. The three lower division courses. Or are they required? In addition, through the three courses they are In addition to. So I'll show you guys the list of that in a minute and then list of Gen Ed classes that we have to take. So the major what I'm covering right now are just the major requirements.

We do have a set of what we call liberal arts inquiry requirements that you also have to complete, and so I don't have any slides on that. But you will go about. Yeah, you'll talk about those ad nauseam with your advisor when you get here. You can ask admissions counselor if you have kind of general questions related to that, but everybody is required to take those Lai requirements for everybody, and then each major has their different thing. I've kind of figured I would just focus on the major stuff 'cause.

We have limited time to talk about the major related stuff.

And then another quick question here. If I took an intro to psych at a different University, will you accept that credit? Yes, absolutely, as long as you did well on that, we are happy to take that in OK, so let me show you guys so quickly before I show you the list of classes for the minor for psychology minor. If you're interested in doing that, you only need to complete six courses and so intros. Usually the first class you have to take that before you take any other psychology courses.

And then you take five other psychology courses. The thinking of the minor is most of our students take 200 or 300 level courses and kind of the intermediate. The lower division courses, because in order to take the upper division courses, you need to have completed the foundational courses. So again, let me go back to this slide. Intro stats, research methods and then you can take the upper division. So if you want to minor and you're like, I don't want to take stats and I don't want to take research methods, which is totally OK.

Then we go ahead and encourage you to take intro and then maybe five other lower division courses.

So.

For the lower division courses, these are some of our courses personality theories. We have educational psychology, social Psychology, developmental psychology, abnormal psychology, which is what I teach psychology of prejudice. So some of these really fun. Um, kind of courses and then the upper division courses. Here's here's kind of your choices from this list. So again, these are courses you can only take if you've completed.

Intro stats and then research methods so you can see there's a variety there where you can take cognitive psych or health, psych or counseling or revolutionaries.

OK, so as you can tell right just from the upper division courses and then the lower division courses.

You can really make up your own major as you wish, right? You can take only social psychology related stuff or applied courses and then in the lower division and then similar things for upper division courses. I always joke with students at the end of the year we have a poster session for our capstone, so here's a list of capstones. I'll go over that in a minute. But every once in awhile I'll see a student or two and I'll say to them, Oh my gosh, I haven't seen you at all like what courses have you taken right so?

Entirely possible that you will not see or I will get. You won't get to meet me if you yard like not at all interested in applied psychology, right? Like if you just interested in cognitive or social or evolutionary psychology, you'll take courses with different professors and not necessarily with others so.

So the honors research very good question. Thanks for the transition so these are the four options that we have for capstone. The owners research. You have to 1st meet the GPA requirement. We have a GPA requirement for that. I think it's a 3 six or higher. And then once you have the GPA requirement. You have to put in a proposal kind of the end of your junior year.

You have to put together a committee so you have to approach a professor and ask them to be the committee chair and then they can tell you to other people that might work well in that group, and then you guys come up with a question that you want to answer. You propose that to the group. They say yes, right? They approve it and then in the fall you come back. You've done some research over the summer. Hopefully you come back, you go to the.

Submit an IRBA application to kind of get approval to do research. You collect your own data. You run the analysis. You right up. This paper, you presented at the poster session. It's a very, very intense process and we really we encourage our students to do that. Of course, but I think a lot of our students don't necessarily take up take us up on that because it is a very intense process so.

But again, if you're if you do well, if you're really interested if you are interested in doing Graduate School, this is one of the best experiences that you can get is to do that honors research to pursue that when you get here. The other three options, not any less hard, but a little less intense. You can just kind of take a class of the semester and then kind of be done with it. So the research seminar I encourage students to take if they are interested in doing research. If you want to apply for a PhD program later on.

This is a way for you to get additional research opportunities, and so you run the whole study by yourself. You again apply for an IR, be you collect your own data. You run the analysis. You write a poster for that. Field placement is one that I encourage students to do if they're interested in doing applied work. So if you're somebody who maybe have have taken classes with me, you've taken up normal psych, and you're like, oh, What is this thing about depression and anxiety? and I really want to know.

More about that and, um, you know, I want to work as a counselor somewhere or as a clinical psychologist somewhere field place.

What is a good one to do? Because then you get to work out in the community and then get a sense of do I want to work with kids? do I want to work with older adults? do I want to work in a muno severe mental health or more community based interventions? Those types of things so it gives you really good life experience and like being out in the field experience.

And then the last capstone option is the senior seminar and that is one where you.

Meet and so the professor has been teaching this for awhile now who is retiring so we're kind of coming up with a new topic I think, but typically in the past it has been seminar on Pseudo Psychology, so we take all the things that people think are psychology psychologically related and then we try to debunk them right like.

Is there truth to astrologie? For example, people always think, oh, you know if I if if Mars is in retrograde. I've heard my friends say that all the time and rice is in retrograde, right? That's why we're having a bad a bad month or something. So we debunked that. We say Oh isn't really data to support that. How would we study that if we were trying to really figure that out, right? So those are caps and options. And then if you have you guys have any questions related to the capstone by any chance? If you do put him in the chat while you're typing that up.

I'm going to cover some of the other courses that we have, so we have first year seminars related to psychology of taught some before, and health and behavior change related things. We have a professor who teaches it on travel. There's one that teaches it on animals and animal behavior change, so that's really, really cool.

And we have made term options so may term. Uhm, you'll hear more about. Basically it's a month long Class A lot of our may terms are travel courses, but they can also be on campus. But Butiki courses, so they're kind of like fun. You know things you would not normally take during the semester types of courses, so we've offered one criminology for example. So Professor Salmon looks at how?

Uh, why people commit crimes from an evolutionary perspective? So that's kind of fun. And then we have research horses that we typically offer different times and then independence study where you can come up with your own.

Topic that you want to study. You work with a professor to kind of make that happen and you can get credits for that so.

Let me take some questions here. Does senior capstones take the entire senior year? No, they do not. The typically it's a semester long capstone, with the exception of the honors. The honors will take you the whole year and then part of your junior year, so it's much more intense, yeah?

Yeah, it's pretty cool huh? Some of our courses. OK, so I'm kind of to the end of my slide. You guys have any my presentation? Do you guys have any questions, comments, general?

Thoughts on psychology related stuff.

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Celine earlier there were a couple questions about basically how credits transfer weather API B Community College, someone coming from another University, so I'll be answering some of some of those. I saw that the result students basically asking about that and then student again. Feel free to type in other questions that you might have as well, but in terms of how things transfer over, know that if you.

Not have or are working on credits, whether they're actually from psychology or biology or or whatever they are, whether they are credited your earning through AP curriculum.

Maybe your Community College student or something that they're coming to us from another four year school. Well, what happen is over the summer time. Once you commit to Redlands or you commit to wherever you're going, you'll need to make sure that you have your final transcript. If they're from a college.

Or your AP or IB scores. All of those things will be sent to the University once we get all that, we give that to the registrar's office and they do a program of value, which is what they will evaluate. All these different credits. However, they came to us and they will assign them kind of appropriately depending on whether their general education related or whether they're making specific but kind of a sign.

You credit, depending on what the classes were, so that way when you do meet with your advisor and you're picking classes, your advisor will know which already taken, so that we don't have you re register for something. If you've already completed that requirement.

And your advisor will will be kind of into some of those details, or let you know maybe the class was just to kind of general activity. Credit credits can count for a number of different ways, but know that you'll send all the stuff to us in the summer time, and then we will assign you credit. Depending on what you took and where you took it an the grade you got in a number of other things, but know that.

If some of you are working towards college credits.

Great.

Sure.

And he will honor those things, and the process is done through the through the registrar's office. So just 'cause I saw, I think four students asked about like AP or IB or Community College. And like all of these are credits, we will honor your credit as long as their academic and you got a passing for AP or IB. As long as you pass the exams will make sure you get your credit. And it's the registrar's Office who really handles that process. Going to address that before too far in.

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Yeah, but the questions are rolling in and so I see one of them.

Can I?

Is related with questions about uhm.

You answered honors research, talked about Stone Graduate School.

So, uhm.

Sure.

Yeah, so before I answer can I just add really quickly the transferring of credits in so if you've taken our classes at the Community College or at a different University in your transferring in as a sophomore or something, you know not brand new freshman. We will take in usually intro and then if you have like lower division courses that we do have a process of being able to transfer that into the major as well. So I've you know.

If you've taken a social psych or abnormal psych course at the Community College or University we will honor those as part of the lower division courses we just transfer in stats research methods and then the upper divisions were kind of really strict about making sure you get those done with us OK?

Right, so we have questions you related to Graduate School. I don't have the specific number on how many people go to Graduate School each year, and I really wish now that I prepared a little bit better to kind of get a handle on that. But we have about maybe 50 to 60 majors each year, and then I would say, uh, at least ten of those.

Potentially apply and or go kind of immediately after graduation. But what we typically see is that students will take that year off and if you come to me as your advisor and you say you know I really want to do counseling or clinical or something applied. But I'm also Brent out. I really kind of want to maybe just work for a little bit. My advice to you always is please take the year off because in psychology and in the applied fields especially it is such a good idea to just have life experience and so a year off is not going to hurt you. In fact it.

Probably help you, so I'm not able to keep track of.

How many cents for blaster have graduated are now in grad school would be really interesting to kind of see of those have taken the year off. How many have then gone on to do that?

And then do most people that major in psychology go to Graduate School? So again, I'd say, like I said, like a fifth of our population immediately go after they graduate. But then I think on a number of our students take a year to three years of- and then go back to grad school once they have a better understanding idea of what it is that they want to do.

I would I would.

Uh-huh

Looks like there's a question about advising. Few people have asked about, like advising and how that process works.

Talk about that look like.

Yeah, so when.

Sure, so I'm going to address this exact this specific question on if we are coming from a four year University or a Community College, I will be doing a rising because I'm the Department chair. I typically handle the transfer advising, but if you come in as freshmen you will be assigned to go to your first year seminar in your first year seminar. Professor typically will be your advisor for that first semester, and if you're interested in going into psychology, you can request to talk to one of us.

We do have an interesting, uh process right now for, uh, for signing up for the major. So you have to do intro. You have to do stats and then you have to have a third psychology course before you can officially declare your major. But that doesn't mean you can't meet with either me or anybody in the Department to get advising for. For these courses, OK?

I meant and there was an interesting question. Where did you go? Oh, let me. Interesting question. I think you might like this one.

She wants to know, would you say that studying psychology has given you a better understanding of yourself?

Myself.

That's a good question, and yes, the answer is yes. In fact, there's a big joke, especially in clinical and counseling psychology that we self select into this field because we're fascinated with all the mental health related stuff that we have probably experienced ourselves right. And so, no, absolutely, I think it helps like.

Like I told you guys earlier, right, with this whole pandemic thing, it was so fascinating for me just to.

8 like understand for myself and then to see other people around me and how they're changing their behaviors or how they're thinking about different things. Knowing that I have kind of this background in works. What doesn't work with the data supports, and so, yeah, absolutely. It certainly helps.

Yes.

Yeah, absolutely.

And then it looks like there's a couple of questions you want to know about double majoring is how that process works. Maybe if you could talk about some of the majors or commonly paired with psychology and then just a little bit more information about how many students do double major in general at the University. So kind of what that process might look like.

Someone who wants to study multiple things.

Sure, absolutely. So the cool thing to tie into the four year do psychology majors graduate typically in four years. The answer is yes. In fact, I just did an advising before all this happened where a student was pretty much done with Oliver requirements and I looked at her like this. Like hey, do you want a minor in something like you still have another whole year and change? You know, like we could still fill up your docket with other things and so it's not unusual for students to double major.

And or minor and something the more common majors or double minors double majors and minors that I see are things like communicate, communicate disorders. So we have a undergrad BA and then also a Masters level program for commutative disorders where you basically study things related to communication. So they typically take abnormal psych and developmental psych and kind of things related to kids. So they have a better understanding of development.

I've had a lot of bio students take health psychology, so these are students who might be interested in going into medical school who want to be good at bedside but also be really good in the kind of Clinical Basic Sciences. We have a new measure called Health Medicine and society, which is kind of really cool, so this is I also do advising for that I can talk a little bit about that, but basically these are students were interested in health related stuff, but don't want to go to Med school, so you want to do public health stuff or.

Uhm, you work in the community as an educator with health related programming. This would be a really good major to do. So we have the option of doing a health Medicine Society major and then a psychology double major. Those are some of the kind of cool pairings that I've seen so far.

To help with the and in the minor, you can do practically anything. I mean, I've seen all kinds of combos of everything psych major with history minor or so. Philosophy minor writes all the fun things you might want to take.

So.

OK, aside from intro to psych, are there any specific site courses that are required to take their bachelors? I'm not sure I understand that question. Sophia um.

This is the slide that I have up are kind of the requirements of our major. I don't know if that quite answers your question there.

I think the student is wanting to know about general education. Clarifies if we misunderstood your question, who asked about uhm.

Sofia know that as part of our liberal arts in Greece, students to have to take something in the social Sciences really have to be site. It could be something else.

But Sophia is your is your question about kind of generated or is it about something else? Just want to make sure we understand it so we can get you.

The right information. So who fear for free? To give us an update? But yes, you are not planning to major in Psych, just as part of the graduation requirements, we want students to be exposed to different types of disciplines, and one of those is the social Sciences. But there are a lot of different options that students can take to fulfill that particular requirement, so hopefully that answers your question Sophia if not.

Let us know and we'll get you. And then Celine was a question or two.

I saw him.

Was about rod as well, so kind of how that process looks for studying abroad.

Yes.

About like

Setting up an actually yeah, so psych is such a good major to do for setting about, and I'm going to take us into the other questions related to can I graduate early if I transferred stuff in? Will I be able to graduate on time, right? Like I saw question, can graduate in three years. And probably if you really wanted to write, but I actually don't advise doing that, don't I don't advice rushing through College? One college is super fun. You want to kind of stick around, but too we do offline.

Is like study abroad program and this is such a good major that will allow you to be able to fit that in and so most of our students go abroad there junior year which is they've completed. Intro research methods in stats and research methods and then the lower division courses there. Ella is right and so they have this freedom to go abroad for a semester to take unit as you still need a certain number of units to graduate from college and so you can do it in three years. If you're kind of loading up on each semester.

But that makes for a intense, you know, three years. If you're if you're wanting to do that. So what I typically will say is you know major minor and something or travel abroad. Those those are better plans to.

To kind of make the most of your experience here.

Um, those are kind of that. I think I might have covered a couple of questions with with with with response there. As far as finishing up early.

One other thing which is that we also have a school of education here at University of Redlands. And so, uh, all group of our psychology majors also work on their teaching credentials while they're here. And so in this program, it's really cool because I think I've had students now figure out how to finish the BA in Psych and then also finish their teaching credentials in like 4 years and a semester so they complete all of their course requirements. In four years they take the exam.

And then they do their student teaching. Kind of that fall of the following year, and then they give. They have their teaching credential at the end of four and a half years, which is a cool cool option if you're wanting to become a teacher at some point.

We really kind of have the means to be able to support you and getting you there sooner rather than if you finished a typical like 4 years of college. Plus a teaching credential program that will typically take you five to six years if you were to do it like separately, so that's kind of another cool option that we have that I think a lot of our students take advantage of in psychology.

OK, your question.

There was a question here about uhm.

Would you say that students and people at the University of Redlands are open to having multiple conversations? I'm especially regarding race and and prejudice, and is that some or those type of conversations encouraged both on campus, but specifically in psychology, especially with maybe some of the more sensitive topics. I mean, if you could, what some of those discussions look like in your class?

Yeah, Lindsay, that's a good question. It's a loaded question.

So I mean in this day and age, right, we have such difficult conversations to have one of the things that I'm really proud of. You for working here you have are is that we really do care about diversity and inclusion, and so I think as a campus, that's something that we really are very mindful of and we take really, really seriously. As far as kind of making sure that we address all of those discussions and all of those concerns within the Department itself, I can't say that we have.

Hum, a very like.

Unified, you know kind of program or way of dealing with it, but I know individually as professor as we certainly care a lot about all of those different conversations regarding race and prejudice and so.

Like for example, I teach abnormal psychology, but part of my learning objectives for the students is being mindful of like legal ethical issues and current events related to abnormal psychology. So even if we're talking about anxiety, for example, or depression, right, mental health, student, mental health, we still care about wow. You know, how are the students who have low SES? How are they dealing with kind of all of these mental health issues, like for example, where this whole going remote and going on line? One of the things that we've had to.

Really, you know be careful about is requiring our students to log in and like attend lectures. Not everybody has a computer. Not everybody has access to write to great streaming videos or not. Every day is a lock on the door which barely didn't work for me. 'cause my husband still came in. But you know what I mean? Like the not everybody has the kind of privileges of like having space and financial. And like all of those things. And so we we take those into consideration so those would be things that I would discuss in my class.

In the context of anxiety, for example, right, so I don't know if that answers your question, but I do know that as a University, we really, really kind of care about that stuff so.

I'm there was a list projected of several site classes from both upper and lower level. An yes, you can pick from any of those courses, so I'm going to put him up here as well. Here's our lower division courses and then here is our upper division. Of course is OK.

And then do we have to take interest stats in research methods your freshman freshman year? That would be really impressive if you can get that done. The answer is no. In fact, we discourage it. We want you to take intro your freshman year, maybe stats if there's room, but stats typically or sophomore year and then research methods, spring semester, sophomore year, Ord kind of beginning of junior year is when we want to take that. Are there a lot of jobs available with just a bachelors in psych? I love that question.

Um Freda, because I just was talking to somebody about this. Like think about it in any profession that you are going to be involved in, right? You're going to be working with people unless you're like stuck in some room staring at a computer like crunching data are numbers, right? And so I really feel like if you get a bachelors in Psych it will just help you in anything that you do. So we've had a lot of students go on to nontraditional careers, even though they.

You know, went and did psychology as their bachelors and I like I said anything that we do that relates with human behavior and interaction can be informed by this major so.

OK, other questions, please repeat if.

I'm it looks like there's one about are they lecture based or discussion based?

And kind of.

Our hands on so yeah, good question and then.

Style of the classifier.

Yeah, so so famine answer you in a day going to get back to you about the teaching credential stuff, but Sophia, Yes, so I can. I when I interviewed for the job, I said, You Know, I came from a very small school UC Riverside, which is up the street and there were like 300 people in my, you know, chemistry class and but like yeah we have like 30. Four are large classes and I was like oh never mind. I came from a big school right? So we really have. We pride ourselves in small class sizes so we.

Get a lot of interaction with our students and so when I first got here I had lecture, baizid, powerpoints, those kinds of things, and then over the years just have learned that what works better with students are much more discussion based, and so I might assign them a video to watch. I might go over some slides for the first half of class, but the second half were doing something where discussing something. We're doing some sort of experiential activity, so we really try to make it a lot a little bit more.

I think hands-on compared to maybe some of these larger universities where you'll end up being like a body in a room of 300 OK and then Diego. You were asking me to repeat the psych major and the teaching credentials so.

We are at their college. We offer a bachelors degrees right and then the school of Education offers Masters level degrees in other things and so one of the things they offer is a teaching credential and so you can complete your teaching credential which typically if you were to do it on your own would take like a year or year and change. If you're just to apply to a teaching credential program so, but because we're in the same school, the same University, you can basically finish your bachelors in Psych.

Or any other major and then finish your teaching credential while you're finishing your bachelor's. And so you really don't have to stay an extra year a year and a half. You end up usually staying an extra semester. I've had students finish it and just exactly 4 years, but I think over the years that's become less and less because students have just opted to not kind of make their life super stressful. And just taking that extra semester. But you can basically finish the requirements for both the bachelors.

And then the teaching credential in four years and changed like I said, does that answer your question? I hope it does, Diego.

Some.

Right, other questions? This might be redundant, but I know you said you don't accept statistics from Community College, but what about a dual enrollment credit from a four year college? If it is a four year University, we will typically take.

Our stats, but that's up to the chair. Who is me? So I'll have to like. Look at the University, you know, the syllabus we asked you to kind of turn those things in and then we make this assessment whether it works or not.

I keep forgetting I'm on mute. Also flora. It know that credit can be applied in almost three different ways, so when you're transferring credits in, some can count just for general education, and that's a different thing than having classes count towards the major. So just know that if you're if you're watching, there's a difference between those those two things. The records office.

And who overseas how credits count for and just general education requirements versus the Department are the ones who oversee how a class might come for a major requirement. Just know that's kind of those are two different things and then credits can also just be accepted as elective credits. Just graduated to get up to amount of credits. And so if we don't really have a class or anything similar to what you've taken, but it was a college level class that.

Passed under you might just beginning elective credits, so I hope that maybe clarifies for some people about the credit situation that there's a difference between a class going to General Education versus a class taking care of something for the major process for that.

How will we know if you've taken such classes? A man timeline? We will have to finish. However, note 15 seconds intro about their specific classes, so we have to finish The Bachelor. Which program I think they feel that you might be asking is like is there a way to track which is go into what? In yes we do have an amazing way to kind of do that so it's all online. That's the progress that I was talking about earlier.

If you're transferring courses in, for example, your first advising session, your advisor is going to pull up that screen, they'll say they'll see up. Yep, she met intro to Psych because she got a four or five in AP psych that counts, right? So we can kind of just so there's like their windows that we can pull up and and plug stuff in. Actually, does that already. We don't have to do anything, it just comes up. And then it shows, like, oh, this course completed the Lai requirement, or this course completed your intro to psych requirement or whatever, so

Yes, we do have that. That's on line. You can access that once you get started here, so.

Why you guys are thinking of more questions? Can I just put this slide? I put the slide up at the very end because I think so. I'm a clinical psychologist. I am also a licensed psychologist actually so I can also see clients if needed an I know one of the.

Things that we've been. It's been a struggle. Nobody really wants to talk about the mental health ramifications of what's happening right now, right? So I just wanted to kind of put this up here as a reminder for us to hear some things that we can do to make sure that we take care of our mental health during this time and then free. Do you have a question to help people? Counseling counseling is we have to get a PhD. The answer is no, you don't have to. So I tell students if you want to do a PhD program. What that means is that you want to.

Um, do a lot more research. You want to teach? Teach at a University. You want to do research as kind of like your job. If you want to work in a clinical setting, like when I. I'm also trained to do as a clinical psychologist, you can do a Masters in counseling or clinical psych and then you can practice after two years. So, so for years of bachelors fears of your Masters, you can go ahead and start seeing patients or clients. It's way less work. Its way less time I think if you're interested in.

Being a clinician, that's the way to go so.

OK, is there anyway to see that before May 1st Sophie? I think you're talking about the progress thing, and that's I think after your admitted and if you put in your deposit, I'm not quite sure when you get to see the student progress thing. Now she's like shaking your head. No, I don't know what that means, so maybe you can.

Sophia if you are a for anyone who is a transfer student, that's part of the process. So after our admit it, your transcripts are sent to the registrar's office and they do what's called program evaluation, and they will then send that information to you so that way you know how your credits kind of fit into a relevant education. Kylie Web, or.

Motor now who's our transfer coordinator, will typically reach out to transfer students after they're admitted to kind of review that document with so you understand how everything that you've taken fits into around education. Since we do have students who transfer in it so many problems people can transfer. And at 20 four 3696 we have, so we don't have kind of a straightforward from speak policy. It does depend on how many credits are coming in with.

Again, if your transfer student to do and I and I get see are you coming in with an 80? All these different things will influence how your credits fit into.

Both general education and major requirements, but know that if you are a transfer student you will get this information before you have to deposit.

If you are a first payment and you may be dead, a dual enrollment running start.

Anything like that? I would encourage you to reach out to your admissions counselor.

So that we can look at your transcripts and we can see what you've done and then we can walk you through what that might look like. So just 'cause I seen a lot of questions about like how my credit you're going to fit in because people take so many different. There's so many different ways to get college credits. It really has to be kind of a one on one conversation, but know that if you're a transfer student, Kylie Molder can absolutely sit with you and kind of review that with you. And then if you're an incoming first year student again, please reach out to your admissions counselor.

And we're happy to make a phone appointment with you one on one and go through what that might look like for you, because it completely varies depending upon what you took.

Um again, whether it's a pid, dual enrollment, running start, and there's so many different ways to get to get college credits, but that has to be kind of a one on one conversation for us to look at your transcripts and then give you kind of an unofficial review of how things might fit in with us.

So hopefully that answers kind of questions about credits.

Yeah yeah it has to be on one on one. Yeah 'cause it it's coming from different places. So yeah counselors every student has an admissions counselor. If you're a first year student. It's based on geographically where you live and if you are a student who is transferring to us from either a Community College or another four year school than Kylie molder works with all transfer students and anyone of us can talk with you one on one about your specific credits and how that works.

Can I just add one thing about the advising thing though? Because when you transfer in you will be talking to admissions counselors about some of these questions, but once you get in and get set up, you'll be assigned sure seminar and then your professor will be your advisor and then if you declare major you get assigned an advisor, which is was a faculty member in that Department, and so I found this model to be very different from what I got from like UC Riverside. Like I said, when I was an undergraduate. So when I was there I was like giving a list and they were like.

Have fun right here it out here we really have a very hands-on approach I meet with my students, either email or in person every semester before the registration period happens. So we get a chance to go over the progress. Kind of a student to make sure like their plan for the next semester fits in with what they're wanting to do right. And so if they bring me questions like, Oh, you know, I just sort of this, uh, students study abroad program? That sounds really interesting.

We can kind of problem solved. Figure out a way to kind of make that fit into their progress and so we really have a a kind of hands-on advising with the students. We get to know. I get to know my students very well as an advisor and so just to kind of make sure that they're going to graduate on time that they're getting the things that they want done, done, and I'm setting them up for success for the future so.

OK, if there are no other questions, I will say to you guys. Uh, thank you. Thankful for both of you. And yes.

This pandemic, right and so, um, I will say thank you again. This is so interesting and weird. I do not like working zoom by much better in person, but uhm.

I also just email me if you guys have any other questions or just uh, you remember something you didn't get to ask. I'm happy to answer any questions. I'm happy to do those two online if you want to do a zoom meeting. That's totally fine, but hopefully I will get to see a lot of you in the fall and or some time for the courses that I teach, OK.

All right everyone. Thanks again for tuning in again. We wish that this was.

Yep.

I.

In person and that we could talk with you. You know one on one, but we can't, so we're really happy to be having you know the virtual session. I want to thank you, um Celine, for giving up your evening your dinner time. I'm sure your husband or like where is so mean, so thanks.

Listen, I trained my kids very well. Today. I was like you are not to interrupt me, but I forgot to tell my husband so and you know so Paula gys for that but it worked.

Then I'm.

No worries, thanks again for everyone who's tuning in. I want to emphasize two things. If you think of questions later on, please feel free to email those to us. I'll make sure you will have our general one. Its admissions at Redlands knew where and will make sure that.

Their forward it to um, the appropriate person.

Just put her direct email in there, which is amazing. Uh, again, to have the Department chair kind of offering her email.

You can.

Some of you want.

Didn't ascential ER are coming this fall, so certainly if you have some questions that would be a great resource for you. A lot of you had talked about credits know when you log into your Redlands portal email for your admissions counselor should be in there. Feel free to email them. We have access to your transcrips now and we can go over some of those details with you. Otherwise, again, thank you for joining us. I hope you stay warm. We hope you stay dry please. We hoped.

Continue the conversation. We hope this just get more questions going right about psychology Redlands and how it works. Please please send us questions.

We have about our program that you have about your interests so we can make sure that we get you connected to the right people and get his answer during this time. So thanks again, any last words to leave before we leave.

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No.

I will I will end with this, which is like what I said. I think earlier and I didn't want it to get lost, which is please take good care of yourselves at this time really. Just roll it up benches with whatever is happening. Don't fight it and also experiencing anything, sadness, grief, right like there's all these things that we haven't had a chance to kind of really had conversations about. Please absolutely honor them. Their important and we need to stay mental.

This time not just physically well, so take good care of yourselves guys. And like I said, I'll see you all in the fall, hopefully.

Yes, I know that's why I said it here. So we all need to hear that right? So OK. Alright thank you again.

You're on mute, my dear.

I gotta keep keep keep remember but yes thank you everyone for turning in and so we are going to come again. Close the session down but thank you for joining us. Send us any other questions you have and we hope to see you at some of our other we have have faculty from other departments who are also scheduled throughout the month of April to do some of these virtual sessions and so keep an eye out on your email and the website for information about some of the other.

Kay?

Should be.

Faculty who are doing session your Department as well. So with that I'm going to end the broadcast for my video. Celine you can in the broadcast for your video and then we will close.

Bye everyone take.

Alright, take care.