How Is the Library Presented in the College Catalog?

As an advisor, you may have heard one, or both, of these statements: It has been said that 1) anyone can advise; or, more generously, 2) anyone can advise if he/she is given a copy of a university/college catalog. Most advisors know, however, that this is not exactly accurate. In most cases, it isn't even remotely close to the truth. Here, the author shares with us his reactions to what many of us would consider a challenging statement: “All I need is a copy of the catalog to advise my students!”

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Undergraduate Psychology Curricula in North Carolina

Teaching of Psychology ◽

10.1207/s15328023top2402_11 ◽

1997 ◽

Vol 24 (2) ◽

pp. 127-130 ◽

Cited By ~ 5

Author(s):

Wayne S. Messer

Keyword(s):

North Carolina ◽

Experimental Design ◽

Baccalaureate Degree ◽

Undergraduate Curriculum ◽

General Psychology ◽

Psychology Programs ◽

Introductory Course ◽

Statistics Course ◽

Undergraduate Psychology ◽

College Catalog

To provide information on psychology curricula in North Carolina, college catalog descriptions of the 42 undergraduate psychology programs in the state were examined. Although most programs (79%) offered only a general psychology baccalaureate degree, 21% offered specially designated degrees and within-degree concentrations, usually in addition to a general degree. When the 63 degree options of these 42 programs were examined, the modal minimum introductory, methodological, and capstone requirements were found to be a 1–term introductory course, a 1–term statistics course, a 1–term experimental design course, and I integrative experience, which was most often a history and systems course or a senior seminar. These components are very similar to those of the model undergraduate curriculum recommended by Brewer et al. (1993).

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Unleashing the Untrained: Some Observations on Student Ethnographers

Human Organization ◽

10.17730/humo.28.2.522q4u87vk637175 ◽

1969 ◽

Vol 28 (2) ◽

pp. 155-159 ◽

Cited By ~ 3

Author(s):

James Myers

Keyword(s):

United States ◽

The United States ◽

Colleges And Universities ◽

State College ◽

Broad Interpretation ◽

College Catalog

Like many other colleges and universities in the United States, Chico State College in California offers an upper division anthropology course in "Comparative Societies." As elsewhere, the course description in the College catalog is sufficiently general and ambiguous to allow a broad interpretation of what constitutes appropriate content. Most importantly for this paper, it affords the instructor considerable freedom in determining what sort of term project he wants to try to pry loose from sometimes reluctant students.

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