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November-December1999, Volume 3, Issue 4
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Upcoming Events
Wednesday, December 1. 3:00-4:30 pm. Marcus White Lounge.
Ramli Ibrahim, a Malaysian Fulbright Scholar, will be
presenting a slide and video
presentation entitled:
"Makyong and Main Petri: Traditional Healing Performances of
Kelantan
Malaysia."
This presentation is sponsored by the Psychology Department, the Center
for
International Education, the School of Arts & Sciences, the International
Relations
Club and the Program Council.
Thursday, December 2. 12:15-1:00 pm. Marcus White Lounge.
Sensitive Male Magician Magic Show. Featuring Melvin Bigley from
the CCSU
Mailroom. This is a great free magic show that Mel
does each year. Bring your
lunch and enjoy the show!
Friday, December 3. 12:00-1:30 pm. Founders Hall.
Dr. Alison Karasz will be presenting a colloquium entitled:
"Secrecy as A Cultural Value: It's Impact on Women's Health
Research in a
Traditional Community." Dr. Karasz is a clinical health
psychologist who works at the
Albert Einstein College of Medicine. This presentation is part of the
Psychology
Colloquium Series and is hosted by Professors Laura Bowman, Joanne DiPlacido
and Charles Mate-Kole, who received a CSU-AAUP grant to sponsor these events.
Refreshments will be served.
Wednesday, December 8. 4:15 pm. Judd Hall Lounge, Room 200, Wesleyan University.
Dr. Mark Schaefer will present a colloquium entitled:
"A Managed system of Care for Children with Intensive Behavioral
Health Needs:
Learning from Practice. Dr. Mark Schaefer is from the Child Study Center
at
Yale University. For more info, call 860-685-2760 or see www.wesleyan.edu/psyc
Thursday, December 9. 2:00 pm. Psychology Club Meeting.
115 Barnard Hall. For more info, contact Catherine Morrell, Psychology
Club
President, at CMORR5489@aol.com or Dr.
Laura Levine (832-3109).
Course Cancellations
Because of low enrollments, the following courses have been cancelled for Spring 2000:
Psy 222, Research Methods II, Section 03, TR 2:00-4:00 pm
Psy 440, Motivation, Section 70, MW 4:00-5:15 pm
Psy 448, Psychology of Women, Section 01, MWF 11:00
Psychology Humor
Test your Psychology IQ. Play the Hangman 100 game (using 100 key psychological
concepts) at: www.unb.ca/web/units/psych/likely/cgi/hang100.cgi
Internship Info
Information on MARC Community Resources Internships and Hartford Interval House
Internships is posted on the bulletin board next to 213 Marcus White.
Y2K Update
We will be inviting students and faculty from the other CSU campuses to participate in our Psychology Day celebration scheduled for Thursday, May 11. The day will include both scholarly and social events: a poster session where students can display information about research projects and internship experiences, guest speakers, our 27th Annual Honors Award program, the initiation of new members into Psi Chi, the national Psychology Honor society, as well as food, music and athletic events (faculty-student volleyball game???). We need to have students to help us organize this event. Please contact Dr. Laura Levine (832-3109), advisor to the Psychology Club, if you can assist.
Chair's Corner: Who is my advisor? How do I get a job?
I see lots of students who need assistance regarding: what classes to take, information on graduate schools, etc. These are issues that are best discussed with your advisor and, indeed, my first question to them is usually "Who is your advisor?" All psychology majors are assigned a full-time faculty member as an advisor when they first declare their major. For a variety of reasons, many students seem to lose track of who their advisor is. To help you keep track, we will soon be posting a new web page: www.psychology.ccsu.edu/advisors that will list all psychology majors and their advisors. We will try to update this list at least monthly. Our target date for getting this web page up is December 6, so please don't try to access this page until then.
I recently reviewed a videotape made at a Psychology Club event held in March of this year entitled: What to do with a BA in Psychology. We invited a handful of psychology alumni from the past few years to talk about their work experiences since leaving CCSU. What struck me was that most of these former students found their first job as a result of an internship or CO-OP experience they had at CCSU. Beyond internship and CO-OP experiences, you can also gain some valuable experience by serving as a Peer Educator or Natural Helper on the campus. For more information about these last two opportunities, please contact Karen Engwall or Lainie McDermott at the Office of Prevention and Counseling (832-1945).
I'm still looking for some student help in producing this web. If you'd like to see your name in print (as an editor), please contact me (Goldsteinm@ccsu.edu).
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