Psy 1001 Takes on Yet Another Form

Psy 1001: More Modes of Delivery
6/7/07 at 3:18:32 PM

—Holly Hatch-Surisook, Coordinator of Undergraduate Advising
Department of Psychology

Psy 1001: Introduction to Psychology is one of the more popular courses on campus serving approximately 1,500 students each year through its various modes of delivery. This fall, we’re adding yet another permutation to this variety through a pilot partnership with three area high schools through College in the Schools (CIS).

CIS offers high school students the opportunity to enroll in U courses offered in their own classrooms and taught by their high school teachers. Historically, high school teachers work with a campus faculty member to develop and teach their courses independently. The Psy 1001 CIS course will be a bit different.

Some (perhaps familiar) Background:
In our large day school class, there are 696 seats available in Willey Hall and another 112 on-line seats. The Willey Hall enrollees attend class to participate in lecture while the on-line students have access (within 24 hours) to these same lectures wherever and whenever they choose to view them. Both groups of students meet weekly for an on-campus discussion section.

In this hybrid CIS course, high school students will have on-line access to the same lectures that our campus-based students do. Their high school classrooms will function as their discussion sections. CIS students may be expected to view U lectures in-class as a group, or perhaps independently in school computing labs or at home. This summer, the high school teachers, Psy 1001 faculty and Psychology Department staff are working together to develop the materials and processes to successfully launch this unique high school-UMN partnership. We are all very excited!

One of the important goals of this project is to reach out to populations of students who tend to be under-represented in CLA. To this end, one of our partnering schools is Edison High School in Northeast Minneapolis, a school where 86 percent of the students are from non-majority ethnic groups, 30 percent are English Language Learners and 77 percent qualify for free/reduced lunch. This program represents a departmental contribution to our shared goal of inspiring talented low-income, diverse young people who are interested in the sciences and who are eager to take up accelerated opportunities.

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