EDUCATION
B.S., Psychology
I started at High Point University as a neuroscience major with a minor in psychology, but soon realized that psychology was my true passion and upgraded it to my major. Nonetheless, I quickly found that my foundational biology classes for my original major had prepared me well for the emphasis in many of my new courses on the interdependent relationship between biology and behavior, such as Health Psychology, Biopsychology, and Child Psychopathology.
Several of my courses also provided the opportunity to practice applying diagnostic principles and different treatment approaches to a variety of mental and neurological disorders, including Abnormal Psychology, Counseling and Psychotherapy, and Clinical Neuropsychology. These experiences helped expand my career interest in clinical psychology, driven by my lifelong desire to help people.
My ultimate education goal is to earn a PhD in clinical psychology, and I anticipate that my undergraduate courses on the research process, such as Statistics in Psychology and Research Methods in Psychology, will be instrumental in preparing me to enter a PhD program.
Cumulative presentation for Clinical Neuropsychology. After conducting a literature review on an assigned neuropsychological disorder, I was tasked with selecting a battery of relevant assessments for a case study patient, then writing up a "case report" consistent with how I would expect the patient to perform and behave based on their specific disorder.
Final report for Advanced Research Methods in Psychology. At the end of my independent research project, I produced several artifacts, including this report, a conference-style poster, an oral presentation, and separate conference-style "long" and "short" abstracts.
Honors Scholars Program
The Honors Scholars Program at High Point University utilizes an interdisciplinary, project-based liberal arts curriculum. Students live together in designated Honors housing for their first two years, forming a diverse but tight-knit living-learning community.
Being part of the Honors program has helped me maintain a sense of continuity across all four of my undergraduate years, even after I changed my major. My courses helped me develop creative problem-solving skills by finding connections across wildly different fields, often through working in groups and presenting projects to my peers.
In my Humanistic Inquiry course, The Beautiful and The Good, our final project was to critique any work of art on campus through the context of two of the philosophies of beauty and goodness we had learned about to determine whether or not the artwork was "beautiful." While I was in this class, the university theatre department performed Cabaret as the annual fall musical. Thus, I decided to analyze Cabaret according to the Victorian philosophy of aestheticism, as well as Aristotle's narrative structure of a tragedy as outlined in Poetics.
Over the course of my (Neuro)Science Fiction Scholar Seminar, we compiled "found poems" from the texts of the novels we read in class. We then worked in groups to curate our found poems in multimedia collections using iBooks Author.