I took introductory psych my freshman year of college as did almost every other freshman at the school. It was a required course for many majors, and a required core course. It was not a hard course at all. But it definitely did not get me excited about the fielded of psychology in the least. The full year intro to psych courses were HUGE…think we’ll over 100 students in a lecture hall. I did well enough…but it certainly was not my favorite course…and my minor was psych.
Perhaps times have changed, and this is now a smaller sized class…perhaps. But I know current students who took it in a lecture hall format as recently as six years ago.
Wait until sophomore year? Why? I can’t think of any reason why this introductory psych course couldn’t be taken as an incoming freshman.