SPSP 2005 Teaching Pre-Conference

January 20th, 2005 -------New Orleans, LA------

Day Schedule

8.30 a.m.         Registration and Breakfast

8.50 a.m.         Welcome:  Regan A. R. Gurung

9.00 a.m.         Yuichi Shoda (University of Washington)

Untangling Levels of Analysis

10.00 a.m.       "Ay, caramba...you used WHAT in class?": The Simpsons as an innovative teaching tool of psychological constructs.
Masataka Nunokawa (Syracuse University)

10.50 a.m.       Mixing It Up: Creative Activities and Assignments

Elliot Hammer (Xavier University)

11.45 a.m.       Teaching Activity Exchange and New Faculty Forum

Regan A. R. Gurung (University of Wisconsin- Green Bay)
            James McNulty (Ohio State University-Mansfield)

LUNCH BREAK  -- With Fellow Attendees on your own.

1.30 p.m.:        Roy Baumeister (Florida State University)

The Cultural Animal: Putting the Person Back Together in Social Psychology

2.30 p.m.         Putting students in the author's seat: Teaching information literacy, computer skills and psychology through a small group webpage project

Tony Hermann (Willamette University)
Paul Jeffries (Kalamazoo College)

3.15 p.m.         Applying Social Psych. Theories to Classroom Techniques
Elizabeth Yost-Hammer (Loyola College)

DAY EVALUATIONS AND CLOSING