Psychology Department Program
Participating Departments
Your Department Will Receive These Publications
- What Psychology Majors Could (and Should) Be Doing: An Informal Guide to Research Experience and Professional Skills — This book shows both grad-school bound and career-bound students how to seek out and make the most of the opportunities available to psychology majors.
- Undergraduate Writing in Psychology: Learning to Tell the Scientific Story — This book takes the reader step-by-step through: crafting research questions or theses; executing library database searches; analyzing, evaluating and synthesizing literature; and drafting specific parts of a paper.
- Graduate Study in Psychology: 2012 — This annual publication pulls together a vast array of information about graduate programs in psychology. This book provides for easy comparison all of the essential information on graduate programs in psychology and their requirements.
Your Department Will Receive Resources To Help With Advising, Recruiting and Retaining Students
Principles for Quality Undergraduate Education in Psychology — Adopted as APA policy in 2011, this document articulates a set of recommendations for quality teaching and learning in psychology.
Guidelines for the Undergraduate Major in Psychology (PDF, 165KB) — This document captures a set of optimal expectations of performance for psychology students at the completion of the baccalaureate degree. It outlines 10 goals along with learning outcomes that represent reasonable departmental expectations for the psychology major.
Careers in psychology — This informational video and accompanying guide provide information about the many careers in psychology.
Student affiliations — Free student affiliate memberships will be provided to three of your students.
Listing of participating programs — A link to your department will be included on the APA Web site highlighting your participation in this program.
PDP-NEWS — A new Listserv for psychology departments and programs to share news announcements for faculty and students.
You Will Also Receive These Annual Subscriptions
American Psychologist ® — The official journal of the APA contains archival documents and articles covering current issues in psychology, the science and practice of psychology, and psychology's contribution to public policy.
Monitor on Psychology ® — This official publication of the APA provides information about the newest trends in all areas of psychology.
gradPSYCH ® — The magazine for graduate students in psychology highlights cutting-edge information on innovative psychology careers, financial information, training and supervision, graduate student lifestyle issues and emerging trends in psychology practice, research and education.
Psychology Teacher Network — This quarterly newsletter offers general information, events information and suggestions for teaching in psychology.
The Educator — This biannual newsletter announces trends and issues in education in psychology and psychology in education.
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