Facilitating Advancement in the Social Sciences

描述（由申请人提供）：在加州州立大学，北岭（CSUN COR）的COR计划的目的是联合收割机与支持和社会意识的研究环境，准备传统上代表性不足的学生在心理健康博士研究和研究生涯严格的学术课程相结合。CSUN COR学生参加7门学术课程，以加强方法和专业发展知识和技能，进行指导和独立研究，导致会议论文，完成高级荣誉论文，参加校外暑期研究计划，获得学术课程和GRE准备的支持，并参加COR社群活动，扩大COR学者的专业网络，如客座讲座和当地文化活动。来自心理学，Chicana/o研究，儿童和青少年发展，家庭和消费者科学和社会学的课程教师参加与研究实验室有关的研究，例如，精神分裂症患者的社会认知，规范不同文化群体的神经心理学措施，以及校园暴力等。学生可以培养心理和神经心理学评估技能与种族和社会经济上不同的人群谁是老年人，谁经历过头部创伤，精神分裂症，和一些其他精神健康疾病，发展临床研究技能在医院和诊所设置，并进行大规模和深入的研究在大型机构使用定量，定性和混合方法设计。每年，四名大三学生和四名大四学生参加CSUN COR。与8名本科生的初始队列，我们建议在5年的跨度培养共24名学生。CSUN COR及其研究机会与公共卫生有关，重点放在种族，社会经济和功能多样的样本，与健康和心理健康服务直接和间接相关的主题，对发展和维护心理健康至关重要的环境，如学校，退伍军人事务中心，实验室和实地。CSUN COR旨在加强和拓宽学生的研究技能，同时为他们提供自我探索的机会，并在确保学生成功进入博士课程和进入与心理健康相关的研究专业的服务中发展专业身份。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The COR program at California State University, Northridge (CSUN COR) was designed to combine a rigorous academic program with a supportive and socially conscious research environment that prepares traditionally underrepresented students for doctoral study and research careers in mental health. CSUN COR students take 7 academic courses to strengthen methodological and professional development knowledge and skills, conduct mentored and independent research leading to conference papers, complete a senior honor's thesis, attend a summer research program off-campus, receive support for academic courses and GRE preparation, and participate in COR community activities that broaden COR Scholars' professional network such as guest lectures and local cultural events. Program faculty from Psychology, Chicana/o Studies, Child and Adolescent Development, Family and Consumer Sciences and Sociology participate in research laboratories related to, for example, social perception in individuals with schizophrenia, norming neuropsychological measures for differing cultural groups, and school violence among many others. Students can develop skills in psychological and neuropsychological assessment with ethnically and socioeconomically diverse populations who are elderly, who have experienced head-trauma, schizophrenia, and a number of other mental health disorders, develop clinical research skills in hospital and clinic settings, and conduct large-scale and in-depth research in large institutions using quantitative, qualitative, and mixed methods designs. Each year, four juniors and four seniors participate in CSUN COR. With an initial cohort of 8 undergraduate students, we propose to train a total of 24 students over the span of 5 years. CSUN COR and its research opportunities are relevant to public health in the emphasis laid on ethnically, socioeconomically and functionally diverse samples, topics that are directly and indirectly linked with health and mental health services, environments crucial to the development and maintenance of mental health such as schools, Veteran's Affairs Centers, laboratories, and in the field. CSUN COR was designed to strengthen and broaden students' research skills while providing them with opportunities for self-exploration and the development of a professional identity in the service of ensuring students' success in entering and succeeding in a doctoral program and entering research professions related to mental health.