Sophomore Year
Get serious: Decide on a major and secondary
concentration. Avoid missing the boat by taking the first course in required
course sequences the first semester of your sophomore year.
Get serious: Begin to plan what you will be doing
and where you will be after graduation. Take courses that appeal to your
interests, talk with the Fieldwork coordinator to plan an internship in a
career area that seems interesting. Find summer work that is relevant for your
career plans.
Visit the Career-Counseling Center. Introduce
yourself and become familiar with the substantial resources this center offers.
_Use the departments BA (or BS) summary sheet to
guide your selection of courses and asses your progress before you speak
with faculty or peer advisor.
Begin to think about possible topics for independent
research or projects that you might do in the end of you sophomore year and
certainly no later then the end of your junior year.
Avoid taking Psyc 202 and a lab course (301-306) at
the same time. Try to have 201-202 done by the end of your sophomore year and
certainly no later then your junior year.
Get to know your professors. It is a lot easier to
ask professors how to write a letter of recommendation for you if they know you
and it's a lot easier for them to write about you if you are familiar to them
(letters of recommendation are among the top three things that employers and
graduate schools use to sort out applications).
It's not too early to write a
resume: doing this will stimulate your planning and they are useful to apply
for summer work.