What is there in a class on the Projective Assessment?

I would expect to have the Rorschach covered in quite some detail. I would also expect to have the other common projective tests covered in a general sense. These may not be in significant detail, but perhaps in a high level overview. Based on my experience with other assessment courses I would expect one test to be stressed and the others to be mentions as peripheral. As you might guess, because it shows up here, is that this is not what walked through the door on this first class.

The class started off as normal as could be expected. There were very few new faces and the instructor had a syllabus to hand out, thus I was rather comfortable in the first few minutes of the class. That is when it all went to hell. For my first time in a doctoral level program I had an instructor read (verbatim) the syllabus. This took about two hours to read 19 pages because the narrative was intermixed with statements of how “you” will screw something up.

It was like being back in high school. I actually received instruction on how to study. “Find a quite comfortable place, where you have lots of space to place your materials.” I sh!t you not! There were about a dozen other equally essential study skills covered in the syllabus. As a graduate student I really needed this advice. I am SO angry that nobody gave me this helpful – no wait CRITICAL – piece of study skill/advice up to this point. Can you imagine how much more successful I would have been in my previous academic activates if I had had this information? Why the hell did I have to wait until I was working on my Psy.D. until I got this information? I think these are critical questions. Covering these elements took only about 30 minutes and is likely the most important take away message of the class.
I now know how to study, bring on the A+s.