Welcome to Eugene
This platform is designed to assist undergraduate psychology majors at Appalachian State University in discovering the occupations and careers available upon completing a Bachelor of Arts or Bachelor of Science degree in Psychology.
The idea of the platform is relatively straightforward- college students acquire a number of work-ready knowledge, skills, and abilities (KSAs) in their classes that allow them to successfully complete many work activities on the job. The goal is to help psychology students at Appalachian State understand how these KSAs can be used in jobs that they could be qualified to apply for after graduation.
After you enter the core Psychology major classes at Appalachian State you have or will have taken, Eugene will generate a list of “Acquired Work Competencies” with corresponding scores will appear, which represent each the expected level of competency acquired through those classes for each corresponding knowledge, skill, ability, and work activity.
Eugene will then identify several categories of jobs based on the work competencies you have or will have acquired throughout your psychology courses. These job categories include jobs for which you are likely qualified, jobs that you may be qualified for by obtaining some supplemental knowledge or experience, and jobs that require extensive work experience and/or a postgraduate education.
Eugene is intended to help with your career exploration regardless of which post-graduation path you are intending to pursue.
If you are an undergraduate student...
| Looking for a job right after graduation | As you are planning to go straight into the workforce, pay attention to the category of jobs which you are likely qualified for upon graduation. There may be various jobs that you are qualified and could apply for for depending on any specific concentrations, minors, additional majors, or past experiences that you may have. |
| Thinking about graduate school after working for a few years | As you are planning to go into the workforce before applying to graduate school, pay attention to the category of jobs which you are likely qualified for upon graduation that continue to build and develop your competencies and resume for graduate school applications. Also take a look at the categories of job for which you would likely be qualified after you get additional postgraduate education. |
| Planning on going right to graduate school | As you are planning to go to graduate school right after graduation, consider exploring the category of jobs that require extensive work experience and/or a postgraduate education. Jobs listed in this category are ones for which you could be qualified to do the tasks for those jobs, but will lack the experience or specialized knowledge and skill to do without additional postgraduate education. You can visit MyNextMove to search for an occupation and discover what education and training is needed to obtain the knowledge and skills to succeed in the job. |
How to Use Eugene
The next page displays a list of the available courses in Appalachian State's undergraduate Psychology curriculum. These courses are grouped to reflect the core major program requirements for both the Bachelor of Arts and Bachelor of Science Psychology degrees at Appalachian State.
The required courses that all psychology majors have to complete at Appalachian State (i.e., PSY 1200, PSY 2200, PSY 3100, RC 2001, and STAT 2810/2820) are preselected. You select courses in the different course groupings that would allow you to meet the core course requirements for an undergraduate degree in psychology at Appalachian State. These could be courses that you have already taken or courses that you intend to take during your time at Appalachian State, or have transferred in credits to satisfy these requirements.
Once you submit your course list to Eugene, it compiles the list of KSAs that you should acquire in those courses, the work activities that you should be qualified to perform on the job, and occupations that require those KSAs and work activities. The returned lists are linked to O*NET and My Next Move, which provide additional information about each KSA, work activity, and job, enabling you to explore the competencies you may have acquired, as well as jobs for which you may qualify.