Curriculum Vitae Assignment - due Thursday, Oct 13

A curriculum vitae is essentially an academic resume that highlights all of your professional accomplishments. A vita is probably the first thing that a hiring committee will look at in your file. It will provide others with a general understanding of what you have done so far in your Psychology career. Here is a general listing of the types of things that are included in a vita. You may not have some of these at this early point in your career, and if so then simply leave out that section. There are numberous ways to go about formatting a vita, but the best tend to be those with clear headings and easily read entries under those headings.

Here are general items to include: (note you should consider how you want the sections ordered, as different people have different structures)

Personal/Contact Information
--name
--address
--phone number(s)
--email

Academic Background
--postgraduate work
--graduate work/degree(s), major/minors, thesis/dissertation titles, honors
--undergraduate degree(s), majors/minors, honors

Professional Licenses/Certifications

Academic/Teaching Experience
--courses taught (with info such as number of students, when and where it was taught, etc.)
--innovation in teaching
--courses taken on pedagogy

Technical and Specialized Skills

Related/Other Experience

Professional/Academic Honors and Awards

Research/Scholarly Activities (use APA format for citations)
--journal articles
--conference proceedings
--books
--chapters in books
--magazine articles
--papers presented/workshops
--work currently under submission
--work in progress

Grants received

Service
--academic
--professional
--community

Academic/Research Interests

Affiliations/Memberships

Foreign Language Abilities/Skills

Consulting

Names & Addresses of your Letters of Recommendation