The Psychology Department has created a new association: the Psychology Society.
Last week was the opening social for the new Psychology Society. Colton Miller, a senior from Shelley, Idaho, founded the society and is its president.
“The purpose of the society is to help Psych majors get into grad school and give them leadership opportunities that will give them more of an edge,” said David Larson, vice president of the society and a junior from Rexburg.
There is a $10 fee to join the society, with an option to buy a Psychology Society T-shirt for $2.
The society will be teaching psychology and other majors about the many fields one can go into as a psychology major.
“The field is wide and there are so many possibilities that people don’t know about, so we are going to educate them,” Larson said.
The society hopes to eventually help members branch into the National Honors Academic Psychology Society.
“Psychology major students need to go to graduate school to get into their profession and our school didn’t have research or extra-curricular activities, so I came up with this society last semester,” Miller said.
Guest speakers, such as local psychologists, are being planned for the semester and one activity or service project involving the community. The Psychology Department faculty will be indirectly involved with the students coming as guest speakers to speak about specific careers, Richard Cluff, society advisor and psychology faculty, said.
“We [the society] are trying to give students a better chance to get into grad school and have better opportunities,” Miller said.
There are five requirements to get into grad school: research, grades, GRE – test score [test to get into grad school], extra-curricular activities and letters of recommendation.
The Psychology Society meets in the Thomas E. Ricks Building, room 161, Mondays at 5:30 p.m.
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