What is the first-year experience program for declared psychology majors?
Students entering the University in the fall term as declared psychology majors are placed in a course called Introduction to the University Experience (ASI 150). This is a required, one-credit, pass/fail course intended to orient the student to the University and to the psychology major. The course is supervised by Dr. Carolyn Roecker Phelps, the Director of Undergraduate Psychology Programs. She is assisted by upper-class student mentors who have demonstrated success as students in psychology. Each mentor provides support for an academic advisor for the incoming psychology majors and works with the entering majors in smaller groups. Individual class sessions are devoted to learning about the campus and its resources, learning about the library and its many tools, learning what it means to be a psychology major, and about volunteering and joining organizations. Several faculty members, who are typically advisors to the new students, address the students as a larger group to introduce
