About PSY 4001 - Research Assistant
PSY 4001 - Research Assistant (1-3) is a course offered to allow students the opportunity to receive Academic Credit for working in Faculty members' research labs. This is a supervised experience in which the student does psychological research on a faculty member’s project under their direction.
The course may be repeated for a total of six credit hours, earning 1, 2, or 3 credits a semester. Faculty members prefer research assistants capable of participating in their lab for at least 2-3 semesters consecutively.
This course counts towards the Doing Psychology requirement.
Graded on an S/U basis.
How to Earn PSY 4001 Credit
Students must first be approved by a faculty member for their lab as a research assistant. Please view the links below to see what our faculty are currently doing to seek out those that research topics interest you most. Almost all faculty currently teaching are engaged in research and accepting Research Assistants; Reach out to them to see what opportunities are available.
List of current research labs here.
Read about our faculty research interests here.
After being accepted to the lab, you must work with the faculty member to complete the required form to have the course added. Submission of the required form is done electronically via ASU email.
Required Form:
This form is a fillable PDFs, best completed utilizing Adobe Acrobat Reader, which is offered for FREE through App State. Please use this link to learn how to download the reader. https://confluence.appstate.edu/display/ATKB/Adobe+Creative+Cloud
Steps to Electronically Submit the Paperwork
Physical paperwork is no longer accepted.
Student fills in all applicable information on the form
Student emails the completed form to the faculty member they will be supervised by
The faculty member will process the form and submit it to the department for final approval
After the successful submission of the form, the student will receive an email stating the department has received the form, and one more email when it is approved.
After approval from the department, the email sent to the student will include course registration information.
If the paperwork is not received AND approved by the departmental deadline, 5 PM on the final day of the Add/Drop Period, the student will not be able to earn academic credit for PSY 4001 that semester.
Contact
For questions regarding PSY 4001, please email psychology@appstate.edu