Here is a video about our Fellowship Mentoring Program! Now accepting applications!!
CAPS Room SH 304 and Slack channel will close for the Spring semester as of 5/9. We will see you in Fall '22!
Here is a video about our Fellowship Mentoring Program! Now accepting applications!!
CAPS Room SH 304 and Slack channel will close for the Spring semester as of 5/9. We will see you in Fall '22!
Community for Achievement in Psychological Science (CAPS) is designed to connect psychology students with on-campus resources relevant to helping them complete their degree or pursue a career in psychology. We offer office hours with peer mentors (Senior Fellows) who can answer your questions about topics such as "what is this professor's class like?" to "what is APA format?!"
We also offer a wide range of fun activities and events throughout the semester. We also have a physical space in room Sierra Hall 304 for a space to hangout, charge your device, work on a computer, meet new friends, or see what's new in the psychology department. During Virtual learning, we are serving you via Slack, Zoom and email. Team CAPS hopes to help you find your psychology family!
**This service is closed for the Spring semester as of 5/6. We will re-open in Fall 2022!**
Visit a psychology peer mentor anytime during our virtual visiting office hours via Slack , or email (all times listed). If you've logged onto CAPS' Slack before, then please access our chat space through slack.com or the Slack app. Visiting Virtual Hours are:
APPLICATION OPEN FOR FALL 2022!
Mentoring options for in-person and hybrid (virtual/in-person) available!
See links below to apply.
There are two tiers to the program.
If you don't hear back from a representative within a few days after completing the above surveys, please email caps@csun.edu, or elise.fenn@csun.edu to receive further information.
Spring '22 Students: Now is the time to explore and apply for summer research internships! Check out our Instagram @CSUN_CAPS for research opportunities.
Interesting in joining a research lab? Check out our list of full-time faculty here. Click on each faculty's name, read through their bios or click on their websites to get a sense of the type of research they work on and find out if they're accepting students! Some faculty may not have information on their websites or bios about accepting students. Please feel free to email any faculty to get more information! Faculty expect that students reach out, or stop by office hours, to get more information about their research, so please don't hesitate to reach out. Here is a sample email that you might send to a faculty member to see if they're accepting students:
Dear Professor XXXX,
I am a [fresh/soph/junior/senior] psychology major. I recently read your bio(or website), and found your research on XXXX interesting. I especially found XXXX interesting!
I was wondering if you're currently accepting research students into your lab. If so, how may I go about applying?
Thank you for your time,
Your Name
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Financial Resources: At this link you'll find a list of several resources to help with finances, including paying your tuition, living expenses, or financial planning.
Community for Achievement in Psychological Science
Statement of Support and Action Plan
The Community for Achievement in Psychological Science, in the Psychology Department at California State University Northridge condemns explicitly the racism against and oppression of Black lives in America. We mourn and lament the tragic and unjust loss of so many Black Americans, including George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Ahmuad Arbery, and Tony McDade. There are no words that can provide appropriate comfort or grief for such tragedies.
We condemn police brutality and condemn the racist systems that protect the police from reprimand of their unjust actions. We acknowledge and condemn that such effects of systemic oppression are exacerbated for people who experience discrimination based on other aspects of their identity, such as sexual orientation, gender, ethnicity, gender identity, social class, religion, and immigration status.
As a community, we pledge to listen, learn and act. Our long-term goal is dismantling systemic racism and race-based structural oppression that impacts the lives of some in our community more than others. We will address white privilege and structural oppression within our community and broadly. We will celebrate the contributions of Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC) and other underserved groups. We will hold ourselves accountable by monitoring our actions, continuing to have conversations, finding and creating outlets to learn and grow in knowledge, accepting feedback, and listening to the wonderfully diverse voices that comprise the psychology major at CSUN.
Our specific commitment this Fall and Spring is to listen to the voices within our community through hosting coffee and pizza listening hours, and educating ourselves more on anti-racist advocacy. In Summer of 2021, we will reflect on what we learned and create next steps. We implore that the CSUN and Psychology community holds us accountable to these steps.
We believe that psychological science is one tool that can support dismantling systemic racism and oppression. We commit to pursuing social justice reform and addressing systemic racism through psychological science and creating more support for students to join us.
Black lives matter.
In Solidarity,
The Community for Achievement in Psychological Science