Welcome PSYC 300

everybody. Welcome to sports psychology sets like 300.

My name's Suzanne dot I'll be instructor for the class

and I just wanted to provide this brief introductory message

for you just to give you a little bit of

an idea of who I am and also what to

expect for this course.

So I'm gonna keep this brief, and I'm gonna try

to do this each week so that I can help

keep you all on track.

All right, so you see there that I got my

bachelor's degree in psychology and history from Presbyterian College, and

I learned pretty early on that without an advanced degree

in either of those fields, that probably wasn't going to

go very far.

So I started making my plans for graduate school.

And since I'm from Orlando, I thought it was better

idea for me to go to a state school and

pay in state tuition that it was to continue on

with the private school tuition, So I was lucky enough

to get in to Florida State University.

Then I studied their educational psychology, but it was us

a sport psychology track.

And Florida State has one of the top sports psychology

programs in the nation.

So it's really fortunate to get in there and to

do some work with the student athletes.

Um, I did a couple of internships.

I didn't want it.

The Orlando Area Sports Commission and I also went to

the U.

S Olympic Committee in Colorado Springs, and from that those

two positions.

I really got an interest in international amateur sport, so

I stayed on at Florida State for my doctoral degree.

That diploma says it's a physical education that's actually in

sport management, and I was able to combine my sports

syke. I'm a sport management background and worked really closely

with a lot of the student athletes and one of

the top athletic programs in the country, and that provided

me with a lot of really good experience in training.

After I graduated from Florida State, moved appear to Greenville,

and I worked in or I taught at the North

Korean North Greenville University in the Sport Management Department.

I've also held adjunct positions at Clemson University and Parks,

Recreation and Tourism Management.

I hold an adjunct position at Anderson University and Furman

University and upstate, and I teach for psychology at all

three of those last three University.

So it's provided me of the really good, diverse background.

All right, moving on because I want to keep this

brief just a little bit about me.

I am a volleyball referee.

I do collegiate volleyball and juniors volleyball, and that's really

a big part of what I do.

Uh uh, that's my team.

Now that's the team that I play on.

And so I'm going to bring a lot of anecdotes

and stories and share with you some of my experiences

from officiating voluble.

And I also hope that that's something that you all

will consider.

There's a great shortage of referees out there, no matter

what sport.

And if you have an interest, it's a great way

to give back and to make a little bit of

extra money.

Ah, my favorite band.

There's the chicks.

You see them playing live with Beyonce.

If you haven't seen that show or, uh, that song,

you need to google it.

It's great.

Amazing performance.

Uh, I love my Eminem's especially Love the Green Eminem's

because I like the character green.

Uh, since the pandemic, I've picked up two hobbies.

I've been playing the ukulele trying to learn that.

Not really good at it yet, but I have gotten

pretty good at juggling.

Ah, those are my two hobbies that I've been developing

the past few months.

I also have two daughters.

I looked for a recent picture of them and I

couldn't find one.

A recent picture of the two of them together.

But my older daughter will be headed off to college

in a couple of weeks.

She's gonna be a freshman at Rollins College and Winter

Park, Florida And my other daughter is a sophomore at

Greenville High.

So all right, let's talk a little bit about the

class now.

So this is Psych 300.

It is a special topics class.

One of these sections is sports psychology.

And in this class, we're gonna learn about learning.

We're gonna learn about motivation a little bit about social

interaction. We're going to do quite a bit on mental

training and performance enhancement.

We're also gonna look at health and positive psychology.

Um, that's a lot to go over.

And because this glasses online yeah, they're gonna have to

work really hard to keep up with it.

I'm going to be sending you announcements.

I'm going to try to get keeping you on task.

Um, I hope you don't find that I over communicate.

But my experience tells me that I've got to do

that in order to keep people meeting their deadlines and

to keep progressing.

Otherwise, Ah, lot of students equate online with easier or

with less work.

And that is not the case for this class.

I want to get you started right away thinking about

ah, this young gymnasts, Caitlin Ohashi.

You may remember her.

Her video went viral about a year ago of her

floor exercise performance.

She just graduated from U C L.

A. And she kind of took a step down from

the national team in order to compete in collegiate athletics

or gymnastics.

And, um, you'll see when you watch the video.

I've posted the video for you on blackboard, and, uh,

we're gonna talk about it in class a little bit

on Tuesday.

All right?

And that brings me to our class time.

This we do have one scheduled class time every week.

Tuesday at 305 I've created a blackboard collaborate link for

you in black board.

Please familiarize yourself with how to use that you can

enter the course early or enter the class early.

About 15 minutes early.

I'll have it open for you.

Ah, plan on this every Tuesday.

I do have some expectations in regard to that.

And that is, uh I don't want you driving during

class. This is a time for you to sit down

and do a little bit of work.

Take some notes, er, and get up to date on

your expectations for the class.

I don't want you lying in bed.

I don't want to see anyone in pajamas.

Okay, Uh, I want to see your face is not

a profile pic.

That is.

I want you engage during class because if you're not

engaged for this short hour and 15 minutes once a

week, every week, then you're going to fall behind.

It's really gonna help you a lot.

I also noticed that I do have some office hours

there every Tuesday and Thursday from log in and I'll

be there.

It may to you if you let me know ahead

of time.

If you want to join because I might be up

and about walking around.

Um, I may not be at my desk.

Alright. Looking ahead there you've got some quizzes to look

forward to.

Every week, every chapter that we cover will have a

quiz for in it.

Short quiz five or six.

Now I take that back up.

That's about 10 questions.

They're all coming from the textbook.

So you need to read the chapter.

You need to take the quiz before we meet on

Tuesdays. Okay.

Put it in your calendar.

Get used to it.

Now. If we cover two chapters in a week, you

may have to quizzes to do again.

I'll remind you about these, but just get used to

taking quizzes before you come to your class.

You have coming up a major assignment and it is

your story.

Your paper.

You need to write your story.

There's a rubric for you in an evaluation form on

blackboard. Police consulted before you write your paper.

I'm looking for creativity.

I'm looking for ah, personality.

I want to know about you.

Please look over the syllabus in the textbook as well,

because I want you to tie your experiences.

You're perverse and personal and professional goals end with some

of the course learning outcomes.

What do you hope to get out of this course?

These things should appear in your paper.

And then I want you to include an ex ERT.

I've I've created a discussion on blackboard for you.

The ex ERT is just so that the rest of

the class could get to know who else is in

this class.

So I'm hoping for just cut and paste 100 words

or less from your paper into that discussion or if

you'd like, you may submit a video.

Uh, might just be reading that 100 word ex ERT,

but put something in that discussion.

Everybody is required to do this.

Put something in that discussion that introduces you to the

rest of the class, something that appears in your story.

Um we're gonna dio look a a caveman Ohashi video

and we're going to discuss it on Tuesday.

There's a link for that blackboard as well.

And I also want you to look for the tables.

There's, ah, Siris of word documents that are tables that

will help you to study.

So the first table we're gonna look at is the

stages of motor learning.

And, um, if you write really big or If you

write a lot, you may find that this table's not

big enough for you, so it might make sense for

you to take your notes on a separate sheet of

paper. But I just wanted to provide this table for

you so that you understand ah, good way to learn

each of the stages of motor learning and their characteristics

work on that for Tuesday.

We'll talk about it a little bit in class when

we meet at 305 on Tuesday.

All right, you'll find those tables listed for you in

black board.

So those are your upcoming assignments.

That's what's going on.

This week.

I'm around.

Feel free to shoot me an email.

Let me know if you have any questions if you

have any uncertainties, because I'm gonna make sure everybody's clear

on what's expected of them.

Okay, see all Tuesday

Welcome PSYC 300

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