| Yeah, I've heard great things about the psych department. I've very excited about the possibility of actually having great teachers for the majority of my classes in the major and being able to choose classes based in part on the quality of teaching. There is so little freedom in the physics major that you're pretty much stuck with whoever is teaching the class the quarter you need to take it.
In psychology I think my main interests are in more social/clinical aspects of psychology. I did research in perceptual learning in high school at a cognitive science lab which was pretty cool too. I am interested in learning a bit more neuroscience-related psychology, but really don't care to take the bio core. Premed scare me. I definitely plan to take Biosci 150. Jame Gross teaches Psych 1 this fall, so I'll get to have him as my prof, which I'm very happy about. I'd actually be very interested in work in his lab at some point.
Do you have any idea how co-terms in psych work? If I majored in STS, could I still co-term in psych? How many classes should I plan on taking in psych if I were to try to do that? I'd probably want to hang around an extra couple of years to do the co-term, which would be fine, I'm just trying to figure out if that's really feasible. |