PSYC - 9087 - Teaching Practicum

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  • Course Prefix*
    Course Number*
    9087
    9087
  • Course Title*
    Teaching Practicum
    Teaching Practicum
  • Long Course Title
  • Course Type - DO NOT EDIT*
  • Catalog Course Description*
    Development of expertise as a teacher in both academic and psycho-educational settings.
  • Prerequisites *
    none
    none
  • Corequisites*
    none
    none
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    Grading

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    NOTE: If by changing credit hours results in a change in program (example: change to course credit hour totals will affect the total number of credit hours either in a section or total hours in a degree program), then a Undergraduate Revise Program proposal will need to be submitted.

  • Lec Hrs
    0
    0
  • Credit Hrs
    3
    3
  • Lab Hrs
    0
    0
  • Status*

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    • Cross-listing
    • Restrictions
    • Repeat for Credit
  • Cross-listing
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  • Restrictions
  • Can a student take this course multiple times, each attempt counting separately toward graduation?*
    If yes, indicate maximum number of credit hours counted toward graduation.*
    N/A
    N/A
Justification and Assessment
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  • What is the rationale for the requested course changes?*
    The PhD Degree requires two courses to be taken by students who are granted our stipend in order to prepare them to teach an undergraduate class from their second year on. The first course is offered each spring: PSYC 9087 Teaching Practicum; the second course, building on the first one, is offered each fall and occurs in parallel with the student starting to teach, it is PSYC 8887 Advanced Practicum in Psychology. So, both courses together build the basis to the PhD teachers' work. PSYC 9087 has presently 4 Credit Hours while PSYC 8887 has a variable amount between 1-3 Credit Hours. At the end of last year, the PhD Committee in consultation with the former Department Chair and colleagues involved closely in training the PhD students toward teaching, voted to continue with the best practice followed for many years, which amounts to a total of 6 credits between both courses (4+2); additionally, the Committee voted to even out that total of 6 between the two semesters and thus to assign 3 Credit Hours to each of these two courses taught in a row (3+3). The reasons are: a) fairness for all students: avoiding different total loads of Credit Hours between the two courses that can still emerge from the current language (e.g. 4+3, or 4+1, or 4+2); b) transparency towards the students' workload from the start; c) acknowledging the need of novice teachers for regular and continuous feedback and other complex work about their actual teaching that requests more than 2 hours per week for PSYC 8887 in the fall they start teaching: this, in turn, means that the fall course PSYC 8887 must be fixed to 3 Credit hours and PSYC 9087 reduced from 4 to 3 Credit Hours. See also my second proposal about PSYC 8887; d) reducing PSYC 9087 of 1 credit hours amounts to a transfer of this credit hour to PSYC 8887. The total is still of 6 hours and corresponds to a right-sizing of both courses with regard to work done that matches the respective credit hours.
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  • Planning Info*
  • Present or Projected Annual Enrollment*
    6
    6
  • Are you making changes to the special fees or tuition that is required for this course?*
    If yes, what will the fee be?*
    N/A
    N/A
  • Fee Justification*
    N/A
Administrative Use Only - DO NOT EDIT
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  • Course ID*
    16
    16

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