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Psychology Honors Program

The main purpose of the Psychology Honors Program is to provide a program of study for the superior student that will accelerate and enrich his or her knowledge of psychology. To this end, the Honors Program has the following goals:

Educate students to think independently as scholars in their field
Provide opportunities for close, scholarly and scientific analysis of significant topics in psychology
Encourage and provide opportunities for students to undertake independent research
Introduce students to a broad range of psychological ideas and issues.

Benefits of the Program
Honors students may take graduate courses and apply the credits toward their undergraduate degree. However, in order to take a graduate course, the student must get special permission from both the Director of Undergraduate Studies in the Department of Psychology and the Assistant Dean in BSOS. Students have access to the upper level General Honors seminars and many of the General Honors functions. Honors students may establish their own internships under supervision of the Department of Psychology and receive Honors credit.

Eligibility Criteria
Psychology majors may apply at the end of the sophomore year, or during the junior year, but in no case later than the sixth semester. Applicants must have:

Completed three courses (9 credits) in psychology, including PSYC 200
An overall and psychology GPA or at least 3.30

Application Process
For details of the program requirements, and to apply to the Psychology Honors Program, download and submit the application from our PSYC Forms page .

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Psychology Graduate Students Are Being Published!

Our students are publishing and we want to share their publications with you! So next time you are going to a meeting in the big conference room or just walking down the hall, stop and check out the bulletin board located next to the entrance to 1142. The Graduate Office will be posting student publications there. Of course, there isn't room to
show the entire publication, but the cover page will be there and we will highlight a link to the article so that you can read it in its entirety later. New publications we will be posted every few weeks.

Greetings to new faculty members

The department is pleased to welcome several new faculty and staff members who are joining us in the 2011-2012 academic year.Susanne Jaeggi and Jonathan Beier will join us in January. Susanne's primary affiliation will be CNS and Jonathan's will be Developmental. Scott Roberts is our new Director of Undergraduate Studies and Kevin McGann and Steve Young are full-time advisors in the Undergraduate Office. Welcome to all.

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Development Discovery Night

The UMD Infant & Child Studies Consortium is doing research on development in children from 2 months to 18 years. All this is possible because of the families who volunteer their participation. We want to thank you and share some of what weve learned! This event for the whole family will include light refreshments, and a small play area and changing station. Come discover more about our labs and results from recent and ongoing studies!More information can be found at the link below

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