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Induction for students arriving Sept. 2011

By Steve Draper,   School of Psychology,   University of Glasgow.

This page was for students doing psychology for at least their level 1 year, and arriving September 2011. It concerns an induction activity for them in "week 0" which is 12-16 Sept. 2011. So this page is now obsolete as a notice about an event. However I'll use it to collect and store pointers to documents associated with it.

You will be attending various induction activities in this week, such as collecting your student ID card, seeing student society activities, and so on. This session is to welcome students who will be studying Psychology as one of their subjects, to have the audience raise and discuss what their concerns and interests are, and to have a panel, hopefully with older students as members, to offer suggestions.

Documents etc.

  • Agenda = plan for the session
  • Handout for students attending induction
  • Instructions for panellists
  • Evaluation plan
  • Questionnaire for panellists

    Psychology enrolment / induction

    On Friday 16 Sept (NOTE! not Thursday as originally planned), we will run two instances of this session: you should attend one or the other time.

    This session is a general, student-driven session for new arrivals, and has been highly rated by other students. It includes a panel of students who have done the first year psychology course in the past, to offer you advice and discuss your concerns.

  • 10am-12 Sir Charles Wilson Building (the main lecture theatre there)

  • 2-4pm Kelvin Building, room 222

  • Handout for students attending induction

    Whether or not you make it to the Friday sessions, it is even more important that you ensure you attend the first lecture of the psychology course which will be on Monday 19th September (two identical sessions, just attend one of them):
  • 9-10am Main Lecture theatre, Joseph Black Building
  • 5-6pm Boyd Orr lecture theatre 1 (ground floor)

    You can download the level 1 psychology course documentation from this useful website: http://www.psy.gla.ac.uk/students/

    As the course documentation says, there is one course textbook:

  • Passer, M. W., Smith, R. E., Holt, N., Bremner, A., Sutherland, E. & Vliek, M., (2009). Psychology: The Science of Mind and Behaviour. McGraw Hill.
    This text is available from the John Smith book shop in the Fraser Building. There is a study guide that accompanies the textbook. There is also a website to accompany the textbook. Details of how this can be accessed are available in the psychology computer labs.

    (Note also that you can view the timetable for psychology lectures, complete with rooms, at:
    http://www.psy.gla.ac.uk/students/index.php?wk=&level=1&course=INT)

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