welcome to the 2015-2016 psychology majors orientation session
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WELCOME TO THE 2015-2016
PSYCHOLOGY MAJORS ORIENTATION SESSION
•Welcome by the Head, Dr. Jan Cioe
•Introduction of Program Advisors & Unit Assistant
•Introduction of Faculty members
•Opportunities to volunteer for psychological research
•Introduction of Psychology Course Union
•Information about CPA
•Nature of program B.A. / B.Sc.
• Course Prerequisites Majors / Honours
• Honours as preparation for Graduate Studies• Honours Program with a Specialization in
Forensics
•Calendar / Degree Navigator
•General Question Period
DR. JAN CIOE
Agenda
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.
Program Advisor:
Jan CioeSenior Undergraduate Advisor
We may have another person in January – I will let you know if this happens.
Support Staff
Initial contact person for Psychology....
Marla MacDonaldASC 286PHONE: 250-807-9528EMAIL: [email protected]
Support Staff
Initial contact person for Psychology Graduate Program....
Marlis WecelsASC 167APHONE: 250-807-8241EMAIL: [email protected]
YOUR Psychology Librarian
Arielle Lomness
Phone: 250.807.8410
Email: [email protected]
Office: LIB246
THE PSYCHOLOGY FACULTY
MICHAEL WOODWORTH Hon.B.A. (Victoria), M.Sc. (Dalhousie), Ph.D. (Dalhousie), R.Psych.
Office: ASC 205Phone: (250) 807-8731Email: [email protected]
RESEARCH: psychopathy; violent offending; deception detection; computer-mediated communication; assessment and treatment of forensic populations; memory and psychiatric issues primarily within a legal context
CURRENT TEACHING: forensic psychology; Sabbatical until January
SUSAN WELLSB.A. (Pennsylvania State), MSW (SUNY, Albany), Ph.D. (Southern California)
Office: ASC 453Phone: (250) 807-8163Email: [email protected]
RESEARCH: investigates the possible causes of overrepresentation of African American children in the United States’ out-of-home care; re-entry into out-of-home care after reunification with family; stability of out-of-home care placements; explores child welfare case types to identify characteristics that more closely represent the complexity of cases seen in the field
CURRENT TEACHING: program evaluation [JOINT APPOINTMENT WITH SOCIAL WORK: child welfare services and policy; research methods (g)]
ZACH WALSHHon.B.A. (U. of Winnipeg), M.S. (Rosalind Franklin U), Ph.D. (Rosalind Franklin U), R.Psych.
Office: ASC 206Phone: (250) 807-9373Email: [email protected]
RESEARCH: psychopathy; substance abuse; addictions; borderline personality disorder; criminal violence; intimate partner violence; socioeconomic status; neighbourhood factors; normal personality; affective dysregulation; attentional biases; the interrelated roles of personality, substance use and sociodemographic factors in predicting different classes of violent behavior; the affective and cognitive factors that subserve antisocial behavior in general
TEACHING: introduction to psychology; research methods and statistics; drugs and behaviour; psychological interventions [g]
CAROLYN SZOSTAK,Hon.B.A. (Carlton), M.A. (Carleton), Ph.D. (UBC)
Office: ART 324Phone: (250) 807-8736Email: [email protected]
RESEARCH: 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.
CURRENT TEACHING: psychopathology; counseling interviewing
JANICE SNYDER B.Sc. (Alberta, Lakehead), Ph.D. (Alberta)
Office: ART 319Phone: (250) 807-8733Email: [email protected]
RESEARCH: role of attentional orienting in navigation, visual search, and reading readiness with an emphasis on determining the neural correlates underlying these abilities; explores the mechanisms and neural substrates of "selective attention" that allow for coherent behaviour in a visually complex world
CURRENT TEACHING: introductory psychology; cognition; visual perception
BARBARA RUTHERFORDB.P.E. (Alberta), M.Sc. (Alberta), Ph.D. (Auckland)
On Administrative Leave
Office: ART318 Phone: (250)Email: [email protected]
RESEARCH: communication between the hemispheres of the brain during reading in people with and without a reading disability such as dyslexia; developmental trends in hemispheric specialization for reading NOT CURRENTLY TEACHING: [memory; cognitive processes; biopsychology]
STEPHEN PORTERB.Sc. (Acadia), M.A. (UBC), PhD. (UBC), R.Psych.
Office: ASC 204Phone: (250) 807-9129Email: [email protected]
RESEARCH: psychology and law; legal decision-making; forensic aspects of memory/PTSD; deception detection; criminal behaviour; psychopathic personality; examines the criminal activity of psychopathic offenders, the accuracy of memory for traumatic events and behavioural cues to deception
CURRENT TEACHING: forensic psychology; psychopathy & violence [g]; psychopathology [g]; Sabbatical in January, 2016
BRIAN O’CONNORH.B.Sc. (St. F.X.), M.Sc., Ph.D. (U. Victoria)
Office: ART 330Phone: (250) 807-9636Email: [email protected]
RESEARCH: statistics; methods; normal and abnormal personality; interpersonal behaviour; psychopathology; writes software for statistical procedures
CURRENT TEACHING: advanced statistics & research methods [also g]
CYNTHIA MATHIESONB.A. (MacMurray), M.A. (Northern Arizona), B.A. Hon. (U. Ottawa), M.Sc. & Ph.D. (U. Calgary)
PROVOST
Office:Phone:Email: [email protected]
RESEARCH: identity theory; narrative and thematic analyses; health psychology; women's health; provide an understanding of identity and its narrative as well as the barriers to health care
NOT CURRENTLY TEACHING: [community psychology; history of psychology; health psychology]
Lesley LutesB.A. (Concordia), M.Sc. (Wake Forest University), Ph.D. (Virginia Tech), R.Psych.
Office: ASC 203Phone: (250) 807-8128Email: [email protected]
Director of Clinical Training
RESEARCH: obesity intervention and prevention; developing alternatives to standard clinical treatments for obesity and associated health conditions including diabetes; examining theoretically based alternative treatment approaches in different populations including adults, children, veterans, and African Americans; utilizing different treatment modalities and technologies; and examining alternative interventionist models for treatment delivery
CURRENT TEACHING: ethics & professional standards in clinical psychology, clinical practica in health behavior change, and internship preparation
MAYA LIBBENB.Sc. (U of A), PhD (McGill)
Office: ASC 284Phone: (250) 807- 9026Email: [email protected]
RESEARCH: cognitive neuroscience; psychopathology; schizophrenia; psycholinguistics; bilingualism; transitive inference; figurative language processing; eating disorders; uses behavioural and neurophysiological methods to examinelanguage, attention and memory in clinical and non-clinical populations
CURRENT TEACHING: introductory psychology; clinical practicum & Psychological interventions II – Affective disorders [g]
MARVIN KRANKB.A. (Indiana), Ph.D. (McMaster)
Office: ART 334Phone: (250) 807-8773Email: [email protected]
RESEARCH: development of substance abuse in adolescence; vulnerabilities related to social learning; cognitive models that differentiate implicit (unconscious) from explicit memories; the relative role of automatic associations versus executive control;social experiences, dispositions, memories, and thoughts that predict transitions to substance use and to substance abuse.
CURRENT TEACHING: learning; drugs & behaviour; addiction;
SUSAN HOLTZMANB.Sc. (McMaster), M.A. (UBC), Ph.D. (UBC), R.Psych.Office: ASC 283Phone: (250) 807-8730Email: [email protected]
RESEARCH: health psychology; adjustment to chronic illness; stress and coping; close relationships; caregiving; depression; chronic pain; organ transplantation; daily process methodologies; pathways through which the social environment can influence physical and emotional well-being in healthy and chronically ill populations
CURRENT TEACHING: introductory psychology; health psychology; psychological assessment [g] – Currently on Leave
MARK HOLDERB.A. (SFU), Ph.D. (Berkeley)[on leave from 2014.01-07]
Office: ART 320Phone: (250) 807-8728Email: [email protected]
RESEARCH: 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) the biological basis of happiness; and 4) developing new measures of happiness
CURRENT TEACHING: introductory psychology; positive psychology]
LINDA HATTB.Sc. (Oklahoma), M.Sc. (Alberta), Ph.D. (Alberta)
Office: ART 327Phone: (250) 807-9323Email: [email protected]
RESEARCH: health psychology; pain management; experimental analysis of behavior
CURRENT TEACHING: health psychology; personality; history and theories of Psychology / contemporary theories [g] – Currently on Sabbatical Leave
LIANE GABORA Hon.B.Sc (UWO), M.Sc. (Queens), Ph.D. (Free University of Brussels)
Office: ART 336Phone: (250) 807-9849Email: [email protected]
RESEARCH: creativity; concepts, especially how they combine and adapt to new contexts; origins of modern cognition; cultural evolution; computer models of the above
CURRENT TEACHING: CURRENTLY ON MEDICAL LEAVE - psychology of creativity
PAUL GABIASB.A., Ph.D. (NYU), LL.D. (Victoria)
Office: ART 228Phone: (250) 807-9383Email: [email protected]
RESEARCH: interface between visual and haptic perception; the comprehension and production of haptic pictures by the blind; health and adjustment; increases our understanding of perceptual, cognitive, and social aspects blindness CURRENT TEACHING: introductory psychology; non-visual perception; psychology of touch; psychological aspects of advocacy
PAUL G. DAVIES B.A. (Simon Fraser), M.Sc. (Western Washington), Ph.D. [Waterloo] Postdoctoral Work [Stanford]
Office: ART 327Phone: (250) 807-8727Email: [email protected]
RESEARCH: The focus of my research is intergroup relations; specifically, stereotypes, prejudice, and discrimination. One program of research examines diverse forms of social identity threat, and a second examines how perceived stereotypicality can influence the levels of prejudice and discrimination that target stigmatized individuals. The majority of my research is applied to business and law enforcement contexts.
CURRENT TEACHING –Introductory psychology; social psychology; social psychology of interpersonal relations
LINDA ALLAN,B.A. (McMaster), M.A. (Guelph)
Office: ART 328Phone: (250) 807-8729Email: [email protected]
RESEARCH: ageist attitudes and beliefs in different populations; the mitigation of ageist attitudes and behaviour; ageist treatment of the elderly; cognitive ageing; a cross sectional comparison of adults’ and university undergraduates’ attitudes and knowledge about elderly persons CURRENT TEACHING: child and adulthood & aging; not available in Term 2.
JAN CIOEHon. B.A. (Toronto), M.A. (UWO), M.Phil. (Cantab) Ph.D. (UWO), R.Psych.
Office: ASC 285Phone: (250) 807-8732Home: (250) 763-1225Email: [email protected]
UNIT HEAD, Psychology, IKBSAS
RESEARCH: human sexuality; forensic psychology; recovery of function from cortical lesions
CURRENT TEACHING: research methods and statistics; human sexuality I & II
HARRY MILLER [Adjunct]B.A. (Alberta), MEd (Alberta), Ph.D. (Ohio State University)
Office: RHS210Phone: 250-862-4220 Email: [email protected]
RESEARCH: assessment of memory with traumatic brain injury; peripheral vascular disease and cognition; emotional function post stroke; effects of alcohol use on recovery from brain injury.
CURRENT TEACHING: neuroscience of cognition
TARA CARPENTER [Sessional]Hon. BA [Dalhousie], MA [UBCO]
• Intro psych & Developmental
Office: ART332[T1]; ART326[T2}Phone: 250-807-9507Email: [email protected]
Danica Patton[Sessional]BA [Malaspina], MA [SFU], PhD [SFU]
Office: ART332Email: [email protected]
• Biopsychology of Behaviour; Sleep and Rhythms; Brain & Behaviour; Intro Psych.
Jocelyn Wentland [Sessional] Hon. BA [UBCO], MSc [Ottawa], PhD [Ottawa]
Office: ART323Email: [email protected]
• Interpersonal Relations
Opportunities to volunteer for psychological research
Psychology Course UnionHelping students make the most of their UBC Okanagan Campus experience...
INTRODUCTION/BACKGROUND
- CPA Campus Representative – Lauren Hotchkiss [email protected]
- Email: [email protected]
- UBC Okanagan Informational Page:http://web.ubc.ca/okanagan/psyo/welcome.html
- Facebook Group Page:Canadian Psychological Association (CPA) at UBCO
OVERVIEW OF THE CPAObjectives of the CPA:
1) Improve the health and wealth of Canadians
2) Promote excellence and innovation in psychological research, education and practice
3) Promote the advancement, development, dissemination, and application of psychological knowledge
4) Provide high quality services to members of the CPA
UBC (OKANAGAN CAMPUS) AND THE CPA
Faculty Representative
Dr. Jan Cioe
Undergraduate Campus
Representative
Lauren Hotchkiss
Graduate Campus
Representative
Shirley Hutchinson
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) – Victoria 2016
BECOMING INVOLVED WITH THE CPA
For Students:- Must be a psychology student with proof of enrolment
- Membership: $62.00* (subject to rate change each year)
- All members can purchase access to a variety of CPA Special Interest Groups (for an additional cost)
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
Course prerequisites for Psychology Courses
HONOURS AS A PREPARATION TO GRADUATE STUDIES
HONOURS PROGRAM WITH A SPECIALIZATION IN FORENSICS
DR. Steve Porter ASC204stephen.porter.ubc.ca
Lisa Crossley [email protected]
John Howard SocietyKelowna Halfway HouseMinistry of Child and Family DevelopmentKelowna ProbationRCMP major crimesForensic Psychiatric Services (Melbourne, AUS) Forensic Psychiatric Services (Port Coquitlam, BC) Potential:Iceland Prison System
KEY RESOURCE:ACADEMIC CALENDAR
calendar.ubc.ca/okanagan
All the details about the University rules and regulations including the specific requirements for our degrees and programs
USING DEGREE NAVIGATOR
Degree Navigator
Simple Step-by-Step Instructions
Log onto your CWL
Logging on: Student Services Centre
Start Page
Select the Degree
Select Report / BA: Completed[ ], Not yet [×]✔
Select UBC Report for BSc & Arts report for BA
BSc / Completed[ ], Not yet [×]✔
BA requirements
BSc requirements
BSC REQUIREMENTSArts 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.
Psych requirements
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.
Unused / Invalid
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In the Arts Report you will see the details of Lists A & B
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PSYCHOLOGY MEET AND GREET….Meet the faculty, students, and staff from the Psychology Department
Tuesday, September 23rd, 20152:00-4:00 p.m.
UNC200--Ballroom
Refreshments and conversation provided!!
