The Psychology Major: Career Options and Strategies for Success
Product Description
Landrum/Davis provides strategies for success that will allow students to achieve their career goals, whatever they may be. The authors provide fundamental tips and advice that can be useful to all students, but especially useful for psychology majors. The approach of this book is applied—to provide students with practical, timely, up-to-date information. This text standardizes and catalogs much of the practical advice that professors often give to students
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June 4th, 2010 at 12:32 pm
I just changed my major to psychology at the end of last spring. My program requires a Career Planning course for psychology, this is my first semester of junior year. The course partnered with this book was a nice intervention. This is not a huge book, one could probably read it in one sitting. There is a lot of useful information about fields in psychology, graduate admissions, and multiple chapters on areas of undergraduate involvement that will make for a competitive student applying to grad school or for getting the most out of your undergrad experience in general. I liked the chapter on APA format, it is laid out very nicely. I have been raised in MLA format since frashman year in highschool, so has not been the easiest transition. I hear a lot of “students need to be doing x, y, z” to get into grad school, this book puts these things in perspective. I have followed a lot of the advice given in this book, like becoming involved with research, and I am getting more out of my classes and achieving better grades.
Rating: 5 / 5
June 4th, 2010 at 2:14 pm
I have read many on career options with a psychology major but this book by far is probably the most undergraduate of all. It is basically a fill-in guide line as to what you should do with a psychology major but I am still confused as the book is so general that is assumes that the process is the same for all psychology-major professions that are available. First it tells you your options with a bachelor’s degree, then it goes on to master’s and doctorals. And then the strategies for success is followed by how to get into master’s and doctorals with pages continued by how to study effectively.
I believe the subtitle is very misleading as it does not give any in-depth information on the different fields and areas of psychology professions that are curretly available. It does though, have a list of possible career options and a 1-2 sentence description as to what you could do but that certainly does not define everything for that specific job-title. I feel the book is made for over-achieving high schoolers who believe if they follow everything that is written in the book, they automatically have a success story – which is not true.
If you’re looking on a guidance book on how to survive through uni to obtain a bachelor’s in psychology, or a book you can read so you have some kind of idea as to why you’re majoring in psychology when someone asks you, then this might be it but there are definately other more thorough books out there if you’re looking to read about psychology, not ‘how to get in and have a basic idea’.
On the up-side, it can be very interactive.
Rating: 2 / 5
June 4th, 2010 at 2:37 pm
This book was recommended by my professor and was very valuable in helping me with my resume.
Rating: 5 / 5
June 4th, 2010 at 4:22 pm
Nothing more or less than the description said it would be. What more could you ask for – arrived on time too!
Rating: 4 / 5
June 4th, 2010 at 6:06 pm
I go to Boise State University and this professor really knows his stuff! I have taken two classes with Dr. Landrum so far, and he really cares about his students. That is why he wrote this book. It’s really not that big, which makes it less intimidating than flipping through huge books.
Dr. Landrum requires this book for our Intro to Psych Majors class, but let me assure you he doesn’t make nearly enough money off of it. He’s not into it for the money. He just really wants his students to get the best out of their bachelor’s in psych.
I would recommend this book to anyone majoring in psychology.
Then again, I am clearly biased!
Rating: 5 / 5