Would you include this on a CV?

Graduate School
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<p>I feel like this is a silly question, but I had completely forgotten about these experiences since they occurred at a college I transferred out of...I guess I blocked out most of that school's experiences.</p>

<p>Anyway, I went to small LACs, and in 3 of my psych courses over the spread of 3 semesters, we broke into small groups (2-3 people) and designed, conducted, and analyzed our own experiments, concluding in a 10-15 page paper for each. This was good start-to-finish experience, and it's the reason I grew to love research. But I never considered...should this experience be listed on a CV? For some reason I think not because they were all course requirements and not things I went out of my way to do. However, I am thinking perhaps larger universities don't have as many of these experiences since the courses are larger until junior/senior year (I started doing course experiments my fall semester of sophomore year). Please correct me if I'm wrong. I don't know anyone who went to a school much larger than mine.</p>

<p>If I should include these experiences, how would I list them on the CV? I was not a research assistant or working in a prof's lab, so I'm not sure what the format might be for explaining this. Would I just list the school and course name? Or do most graduate programs assume undergrads have this kind of course-related research experience, and it should be left out of the CV?</p>

<p>For those who don't know, I'm primarily interested in the marketing PhD, but still considering applying to a few psych programs as well. Not sure if that makes any difference.</p>

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<p>I had a “Course Project Experience” section in my CV. I put a couple of my engineering design projects there. In lieu of an employer, I put School Name: Course Name.</p>

<p>If this is your only course project, the one-item section might look kind of weird. I think it’ll be fair to put it at the bottom of your “Research Experience” section since it was probably your first research-like experience.</p>

<p>In either case, put the experience somewhere in your CV.</p>

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<p>It was 3 semesters in a row of 3 different experiments. I might add a sentence or two in my SoP as well since these experiences are what first got me interested in research. I also have a year and a half of research experience between being a research assistant and doing my senior thesis.</p>

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<p>I have exactly what None says on my CV, too. Right under my “Education.”</p>