The Psychology Major's Companion

Everything You Need to Know to Get You Where You Want to Go

Second Edition

Publication Date: August 06, 2019

Paperback ISBN: 9781319191474

Pages: 304

Designed to help both prospective and current psychology majors know what to expect from the undergraduate major, the larger discipline, and the marketplace beyond campus, The Psychology Major’s Companion, Second Edition gives students a map to planning their career in psychology. The...

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Preface
Chapter 1 College and Psychology
Chapter 2 The Nature of Psychology and the Psychology Major
Chapter 3 Should You Major in Psychology?
Chapter 4 Building Psychology-Related Skills
Chapter 5 Hitting Your Stride as a Student
Chapter 6 Charting Your Course in the Major
Chapter 7 Doing Psychology Research from Start to Finish
Chapter 8 Using Psychology to Become an Effective Leader
Chapter 9 What Career Options Are There for Students with a BA or BS in Psychology?
Chapter 10 How to Land a Job with Your Degree in Psychology
Chapter 11 What Can You Do With an Advanced Degree in Psychology?
Chapter 12 How Do You Get Into Graduate Programs in Psychology
Chapter 13 Keeping Connected to Psychology

Appendix A Annotated APA-Style Student Paper

Reality Checks guide students to think about important issues in their academic and career development.
Major Success Stories (9 new in this edition) contain inspirational profiles of former students and professionals who have successfully navigated life after graduation.
Concrete information about career opportunities for students with a B.A or B.S. degree in Psychology is focused in chapter 9.
A separate chapter explores What Can You Do With an Advanced Degree in Psychology

· NEW! Measuring Up activities provides students with a chance to do some self-assessment and reflection on how the material in each chapter applies to their lives and their educational experiences in the psychology major.
· NEW Chapter 10 on How to Land a Job in the Workforce offers suggestions for doing a job search, writing a resume and cover letter, requesting letters of recommendation, and preparing for face-to-face interviews.

"I chose the book and encouraged all of our faculty who teach our careers course to choose this text because it was well written, practical, accurate, realistic, applied, and student friendly. The students could understand the text no matter their class status, i.e. freshman vs senior. And, I loved the supplements."
- Michael Poulakis, University of Indianapolis

"In addition to a focus on helping students be successful during their undergraduate years, this book also focuses their thinking on the future,and how psychology skills and content can serve them in a future career. An excellent book!"
- Suzanne C. Baker, James Madison University

"I used your Psychology Majors Handbook in my first course at UWF, and it was so helpful that I have copies for my students. I give credit to that book for much of my success. Because of my schedule and the pandemic, all of my UWF courses have been online, and I worried I would be unable to stand out or build relationships with my professors."
- Jess Vaughn-Clark, student at University of West Florida

Dana S. Dunn

Dana S. Dunn is Professor of Psychology and Assistant Dean for Special Projects at Moravian College in Bethlehem, PA. He earned his PhD in experimental social psychology from the University of Virginia and his BA in psychology from Carnegie Mellon University.

A Fellow of the American Psychological Association (APA Divisions 1, 2 and 22) and the Association for Psychological Science, Dunn is active in the Society for the Teaching of Psychology (STP - APA Division 2) where he served as President in 2010. In 2013, Dunn received the Charles L. Brewer Distinguished Teaching of Psychology Award from the American Psychological Foundation and in 2015 he was the APA’s Harry Kirke Wolfe lecturer. He is a member of the editorial boards of several journals and is a frequent speaker at national and regional psychology conferences. Dunn is past board member of the Eastern Psychological Association (EPA) and formerly served on the Program Committee for the National Institute for the Teaching of Psychology (NIToP).

The author of over 150 articles, chapters, and book reviews, Dunn writes about the teaching of psychology, the social psychology of disability, and liberal education. He is the author or editor of 20 books and writes a blog on the teaching psychology called "Head of the Class" for Psychology Today. He is currently Editor-in-Chief of the Oxford Bibliographies (OB): Psychology.

At Moravian, Dunn has held various leadership positions, including serving as Chair of the Department of Psychology for six years and Acting Chair of the Department of Philosophy for three and one-half years. As past Director of the Learning in Common (LinC) Curriculum, Dunn oversaw Moravian’s general education program.

Jane S. Halonen

Jane S. Halonen has been a Professor of Psychology at the University of West Florida for over a decade.  She has been fortunate also to have great professional families at James Madison University and Alverno College where she was lucky enough to cross paths with the talented Cynthia Gray.  Jane’s most recent research emphases have been on helping good departments become great ones as well as trying to help legislators understand the true nature of psychology in tough economic times.  Jane has been involved over the course of her career with helping the American Psychological Association develop guidelines or standards of academic performance from high school through graduate levels of education.  In 2000, she won the Distinguished Teaching Award winner by the American Psychological Foundation and the American Psychological Association named her an “Eminent Woman in Psychology” in 2003.  She served as the Chief Reader for the Psychology Advanced Placement Reading from 2004-2009.  A self-identified “teaching conference junkie,” Jane served on the NITOP Board and has presented at nearly every regional teaching conference in psychology.  With Peter Seldin, she also co-directed the International Conference on Improving University Teaching from 2001-2008.

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The Psychology Major's Companion

Everything You Need to Know to Get You Where You Want to Go

Second Edition

Publication Date: August 06, 2019

Paperback ISBN: 9781319191474

Pages: 304

Dana S. Dunn