Posted by alexandra_k on June 14, 2005, at 4:49:27 [reposted on June 15, 2005, at 21:50:14 | original URL]
In reply to BTW, I love the idea of a back to school club :) (nm), posted by Dinah on June 12, 2005, at 22:57:16
You should be able to check their lists of papers online. From there you should be able to obtain a past years course outline. That should give you an outline of the topics covered in the course and should also give you the name of the txt book and any reccomended readings.
Looking at all three can be a good way of deciding whether the paper is likely to interest you or not.
I don't know how things work in the US but over here we need to take a major subject and a supporting subject. Most degrees (especially arts and social sciences) also give you some options to take general interest papers.
Over here you don't really need to decide until your second full time year what you want to major in and what you want your first support to be etc.
Sometimes you find that a subject that you wouldn't have thought would interest you all that much really does. And sometimes you find that a subject that you would have thought interesting actually isn't to you because of the interests of the faculty members in the department.
Ideally a first year psychology paper should give you a good general overview of all the different areas within psychology. Psychology doesn't deserve to be a unified discipline IMO. Some of it is fun, other aspects need to tell you a bit of a story to explain how they got to be in the psychology department!
Religion / comparative religion can depend on where the faculties interests lie.
May I suggest...
The students board???
(Just trying to get the board a bit more active)
:-)
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