On the Rhodes faculty since 1979, Dr. Walton has taught a wide variety of topics, including interdisciplinary courses team-taught with faculty members in Biology, Economics, English, History, Mathematics, Philosophy, Religious Studies. Sociology, and Theatre.  She enjoys encouraging students to think broadly about the intersections between psychology and other disciplines, and she welcomes students from other majors in most of her classes.

An early adopter of service learning pedagogies, Dr. Walton has had students in her Developmental Psychology class involved in work with children in a variety of off-campus settings since 1982.  This course seeks an even balance between the discussion of theory, the learning of research findings, and engagement with current issues pertaining to the well-being of children.  Each semester the class takes on a different issue, and students work in teams to gather information and to frame a discussion about all aspects of the issue.  Sometimes these result in public presentations; sometimes they culminate in a report to a service agency or to policy makers.  In recent semesters, the course projects have been:

2006  Children in Crises and Natural Disasters
2005  Children and Violence
2004  Effects of Racism on Chidren (50 years after Brown v. Board of Education)
2003  Children and Technology

Prof. Walton′s Research Interests >>