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WELCOME TO THE 2012-2013 PSYCHOLOGY MAJORS ORIENTATION SESSION

WELCOME TO THE 2012-2013 PSYCHOLOGY MAJORS ORIENTATION SESSION. • Welcome by the Head, Dr. Jan Cioe Introduction of Program Advisors & Unit Assistant Introduction of Faculty members Introduction of Psychology Course Union Information about CPA

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WELCOME TO THE 2012-2013 PSYCHOLOGY MAJORS ORIENTATION SESSION

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  1. WELCOME TO THE 2012-2013PSYCHOLOGY MAJORS ORIENTATION SESSION

  2. •Welcome by the Head, Dr. Jan Cioe Introduction of Program Advisors & Unit Assistant Introduction of Faculty members Introduction of Psychology Course Union Information about CPA Opportunities to volunteer for psychological research Nature of program B.A. / B.Sc. Course Prerequisites Majors / Honours Honours as preparation for Graduate Studies Honours Program with a Specialization in Forensics •Degree Navigator General Question Period Agenda DR. JAN CIOE

  3. Welcome from the Head A few words of welcome from the current leader of the Psychology Department, who exemplifies the concept of a smaller campus where more personal contact is possible between students and faculty through an intimate learning environment.

  4. Program Advisors: Linda Hatt Advisor and Articulation Linda Allan Senior Undergraduate Advisor

  5. Support Staff Initial contact person for Psychology.... Marla MacDonald ASC 286 PHONE: 250-807-9528 EMAIL: marla.macdonald@ubc.ca

  6. INTRODUCING: THE PSYCHOLOGY FACULTY

  7. LINDA ALLAN, B.A. (McMaster), M.A. (Guelph) Office: ART 328 Phone: (250) 807-8729 Email: linda.allan@ubc.ca Professor Allan’s areas of research include: Ageist attitudes and beliefs in different populations; the mitigation of ageist attitudes and behaviour; ageist treatment of the elderly; and cognitive ageing. A cross sectional comparison of adults’ and university undergraduates’ attitudes and knowledge about elderly persons.

  8. JAN CIOE Hon. B.A. (Toronto), M.A. (UWO), M.Phil. (Cantabl) Ph.D. (UWO), R.Psych. UNIT HEAD, Psychology, IKBSAS Office: ASC 285 Phone: (250) 807-8732 Home: (250) 763-1225 Email: jan.cioe@ubc.ca Dr. Cioe’s Areas of research include: Human sexuality; forensic psychology; and recovery of function from cortical lesions.

  9. Paul G. Davies B.A. (Simon Fraser), M.Sc. (Western Washington), Postdoctoral Work (Stanford), Ph.D. Office: ART 327 Phone: (250) 807-8727 Email: paul.g.davies@ubc.ca Dr. Davies’ areas of research include: Intergroup conflict; diversity policies; stereotype threat; social identity; and stigma and discrimination. Research has shown corporations how to attract and retain underrepresented employees, taught school administrators and teachers how to enable their minority students to perform to their full potential, and trained police officers how to make fewer errors when using deadly force.

  10. PAUL GABIAS B.A., Ph.D. (NYU), LL.D. (Victoria) Office: ART 228 Phone: (250) 807-9383 Email: paul.gabias@ubc.ca Dr. Gabias’ areas of research include: Interface between visual and haptic perception; the comprehension and production of haptic pictures by the blind; and health and adjustment. Increases our understanding of perceptual, cognitive and social aspects of blindness.

  11. LIANE GABORA [on leave until Fall 2013] Hon.B.Sc (UWO), M.Sc. (Queens), Ph.D. (Free University of Brussels) Office: ART 336 Phone: (250) 807-9849 Email: liane.gabora@ubc.ca Dr. Gabora’s areas of research include: Creativity; concepts especially how they combine and adapt to new contexts; origins of modern cognition; cultural evolution; and computer models of the above.

  12. LINDA HATT B.Sc. (Oklahoma), M.Sc. (Alberta), Ph.D. (Alberta) Office: ART 327 Phone: (250) 807-9323 Email: linda.hatt@ubc.ca Dr. Hatt’s areas of research include: Health psychology; pain management; and experimental analysis of behaviour. Currently co-investigator on the Voice Study 2012, assessing factors which support or jeopardize health promoting change in a campus community.  Watch for the Voice surveys coming out in early October.

  13. MARK HOLDER B.A. (SFU), Ph.D. (Berkeley) Office: ART 320 Phone: (250) 807-8728 Email: mark.holder@ubc.ca Dr. Holder’s areas of research include: Positive psychology and the science of happiness. Research has four main thrusts: 1) the predictors (e.g., temperament, spirituality, and social) of happiness in children; 2) strategies and programs to promote well-being; 3) investigating happiness in people with brain injuries; and 4) developing new measures of happiness

  14. SUSAN HOLTZMAN B.Sc. (McMaster), M.A. (UBC), Ph.D. (UBC), R.Psych. Office: ASC 283 Phone: (250) 807-8730 Email: susan.holtzman@ubc.ca Dr. Holtzman’s areas of research include: Health Psychology, Adjustment to Chronic Illness, Stress and Coping, Close Relationships, Caregiving, Depression, Chronic Pain, Organ Transplantation, Daily Process Methodologies. Investigates the pathways through which the social environment can influence physical and emotional well-being and chronically ill populations.

  15. MARVIN KRANK B.A. (Indiana), Ph.D. (McMaster) Office: ART 334 Phone: (250) 807-8773 Email: marvin.krank@ubc.ca Dr. Krank’s areas of research include: The development of substance abuse in adolescence; vulnerabilities related to social learning; cognitive models that differentiate implicit (unconscious) from explicit memories; and the relative role of automatic associations versus executive control. Looks at the social experiences, dispositions, memories, and thoughts that predict transitions to substance use and to substance abuse.

  16. Maya Libben B.Sc. (U of A), PhD (McGill) Office: ASC 284 Phone: (250) 807- 9026 Email: maya.libben@ubc.ca Dr. Libben’s areas of research include: Cognitive neuroscience; psychopathology; schizophrenia; psycholinguistics; bilingualism; transitive inference; figurative language processing; eating disorders; uses behavioural and neurophysiological methods to examine language, attention and memory in clinical and non-clinical populations

  17. CYNTHIA MATHIESON B.A. (MacMurray), M.A. (Northern Arizona), B.A. Hon. (U. Ottawa), M.Sc. & Ph.D. (U. Calgary) DEAN, IKBSAS Office: ASC 406 Phone: (250) 807-9527 Email: cynthia.mathieson@ubc.ca Dr. Mathieson’s areas of research include: Identity theory; narrative and thematic analyses; health psychology; women’s health; and psychosocial oncology. Research helps to provide an understanding of identity and its narrative as well as barriers to health care.

  18. BRIAN O’CONNOR H.B.Sc. (St. F.X.), M.Sc., Ph.D. (U. Victoria) Office: ART 330 Phone: (250) 807-9636 Email: brian.oconnor@ubc.ca Dr. O’Connor’s areas of research include: Statistics; research methods; normal and abnormal personality; interpersonal behaviour and psychopathology.

  19. STEPHEN PORTER B.Sc. (Acadia), M.A. (UBC), PhD. (UBC), R.Psych. Office: ASC 204 Phone: (250) 807-9129 Email: stephen.porter@ubc.ca Dr. Porter’s areas of research include: Psychology and law; legal decision-making; forensic aspects of memory/PTSD; deception detection; criminal behaviour; and psychopathic personality. Examines the criminal activity of psychopathic offenders, the accuracy of memory for traumatic events and behavioural cues to deception.

  20. BARBARA RUTHERFORD B.P.E. (Alberta), M.Sc. (Alberta), Ph.D. (Auckland) ASSOCIATE DEAN, FACULTY & ACADEMIC PLANNING, IKBSAS Office: ASC Phone: (250) 807-8734 Email: barbara.rutherford@ubc.ca Dr. Rutherford’s areas of research include: Communication between the hemispheres of the brain during reading in people with and without a reading disability such as dyslexia, and developmental trends in hemispheric specialization for reading. Useful in the development of programs to help those who struggle with reading.

  21. JANICE SNYDER [on leave until Jan. 2013] B.Sc. (Alberta, Lakehead), Ph.D. (Alberta) Office: ART 318 Phone: (250) 807-8733 Email: janice.snyder@ubc.ca Dr. Snyder’s areas of research include: Exploring the mechanisms and neural substrates of “selective attention” that allow for coherent behaviours in a visually complex world and how mindfulness influences mechanisms of attention.

  22. CAROLYN SZOSTAK, Hon.B.A. (Carlton), M.A. (Carleton), Ph.D. (UBC) Office: ART 324 Phone: (250) 807-8736 Email: carolyn.szostak@ubc.ca Dr. Szostak’s areas of research include: Media and mental health stigma; how mental health/disorders are portrayed in different genres of television (dramas, comedies, talk shows, etc.) and how these depictions influence people’s attitudes and behaviours; the role of media in combating stigmatizing attitudes about mental health disorders and suicide; adjustment to university. .

  23. ZACH WALSH Hon.B.A. (U. of Winnipeg), M.S. (Rosalind Franklin U), Ph.D. (Rosalind Franklin U), R.Psych. Office: ASC 206 Phone: (250) 807-9373 Email: zachary.walsh@ubc.ca Dr. Walsh’s areas of research include: Psychopathy, substance use, addictions, borderline personality disorder, criminal violence, intimate partner violence, socioeconomic status, neighbourhood factors, normal personality, affective dysregulation, and attentional biases. Examines the interrelated roles of personality, substance use and sociodemographic factors in predicting different classes of violent behaviour, and the affective and cognitive factors that subserve antisocial behaviour in general.

  24. SUSAN WELLS B.A. (Pennsylvania State), MSW (SUNY, Albany), Ph.D. (Southern California) Office : ASC 453 Phone: (250) 807-8163 Email: susan.wells@ubc.ca Dr. Wells’ areas of research include: Research focuses on identifying effective services for children and families with an emphasis on serving diverse populations, e.g., trauma-informed treatment of youth in care, a model of treatment for Aboriginal people with concurrent disorders (MH and substance abuse), effectiveness of innovations in public service delivery systems.

  25. MICHAEL WOODWORTH [on leave until Jan. 2013] Hon.B.A. (Victoria), M.Sc. (Dalhousie), Ph.D. (Dalhousie), R.Psych. Director of Forensics Specialization Program Office: ASC 205 Phone: (250) 807-8731 Email: michael.woodworth@ubc.ca Dr. Woodworth’s areas of research include: Psychopathy; violent offending; deception detection; computer-mediated communication; assessment and treatment of forensic populations; memory and psychiatric issues primarily within a legal context. Relevant within the legal system for the investigation of criminal offences, interrogation of offenders, and for facilitating a better understanding of offenders and offending behaviour.

  26. Psychology Course Union Helping students make the most of their UBC Okanagan Campus experience...

  27. INTRODUCTION/BACKGROUND • Karly and Shirley • CPA Campus Representatives • Email: • kdrabot@gmail.com • shirley.hutchinson@alumni.ubc.ca • UBC Okanagan Informational Page: • http://web.ubc.ca/okanagan/psyo/welcome.html • Facebook Group Page: • Canadian Psychological Association (CPA) at UBCO

  28. OVERVIEW OF THE CPA • Objectives of the CPA: • Improve the health and wealth of Canadians • Promote excellence and innovation in psychological research, education and practice • Promote the advancement, development, dissemination, and application of psychological knowledge • Provide high quality services to members of the CPA

  29. UBC (OKANAGAN CAMPUS) AND THE CPA Faculty Representative Dr. Jan Cioe Undergraduate Campus Representative KarlyDrabot Graduate Campus Representative Shirley Hutchinson

  30. BECOMING INVOLVED WITH THE CPAWhat are the benefits? • Great volunteering opportunity • Many opportunities to become involved in specialized areas (e.g., Criminal Justice Psychology, Clinical Psychology) • Opportunity to either present at, or attend the annual CPA convention • Access to CPA Journals/Newspapers/Publications • Student Price Card • Annual Convention (e.g., presentations, networking, workshops, student awards, job opportunities and travel) – Quebec 2013

  31. BECOMING INVOLVED WITH THE CPA For Students: - Must be a psychology student with proof of enrolment - Membership: $57.00* (subject to rate change each year) - All members can purchase access to a variety of CPA Special Interest Groups (for an additional cost)

  32. Opportunities to volunteer for psychological research

  33. Nature of the Program • Bachelor of Arts Major in Psychology • Bachelor of Arts Honours in Psychology • General B.A. with a concentration in Psychology • Bachelor of Arts Honours with a Specialization in Forensic Psychology • Bachelor of Science Major in Psychology • Bachelor of Science Honours in Psychology • Bachelor of Science Honours with a Specialization in Forensic Psychology A minor in Psychology can be taken in combination with any B.A. or B.Sc. Major or Honours Degree

  34. Course prerequisites for Psychology Courses

  35. Honours as a preparation to Graduate Studies

  36. Honours Program with a Specialization in Forensics DR. STEPHEN PORTER

  37. Using Degree Navigator

  38. Degree Navigator Simple Step-by-Step Instructions

  39. Log onto your CWL

  40. Logging on: Student Services Centre

  41. Start Page

  42. Select the Degree

  43. Select Report / BA: Completed[✔], Not yet [×] Select UBC Report for BSc & Arts report for BA

  44. BSc / Completed[✔], Not yet [×]

  45. BA requirements

  46. BSc requirements

  47. BScrequirements Arts Requirement: Student must complete at least 18 credits of Arts course credits, including 6 credits of first-year English and at least 12 other credits in Arts courses that are recognized for credit toward the B.A. degree. Note: PSYO courses are NOT Arts courses for B.Sc. Psychology students.

  48. Psych requirements

  49. Psych requirements • The second-year courses are often prerequisites for upper-level (third- and fourth-year) courses in the discipline. Students are strongly advised to consider what upper-level courses are of interest to ensure that they have the proper prerequisites.

  50. Unused / Invalid

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