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3.00 Credits
This course is an introduction to the laws of obligation and debtor-creditor relations. Students are introduced to the laws governing formation, validity and enforcement of conventional obligations, quasi-contracts and offenses and quasi-offenses. Federal and state laws governing consumer credit and debt collection practices are introduced. This course will also examine bankruptcy as a means of debtor-creditor relief, with particular emphasis on Chapters 7, 11 and 13 of the Federal Bankruptcy Act.
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3.00 Credits
This course is designed to introduce students to principles of psychology with special emphasis on description, prediction, control and explanation of human behavior.
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3.00 Credits
The focus of this course will be on variables that influence learning. Students will be exposed to physical growth and development, fundamentals of growth and development as well as cognitive growth. Prerequisite: PSYC 210.
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3.00 Credits
Students will study the basic principles of social behavior, biological and social foundations of behavior. Emphasis will also be placed on motivations and incentives toward learning, socialization processes, social aspects of personality, adjustment in social relations, group and institutional control behavior, social interaction in leadership, crowd behavior and attitudes and adjustment.
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3.00 Credits
This course is designed to introduce students to research techniques in the Behavioral Sciences and Humanities. These techniques are applicable to other disciplines. Focus will be on the different types of research, measurement scales, use and selection of hypothesis, relationships between dependent and independent variables, as well as other variables. Efforts will be made to introduce students to the selection of samples from populations as well as an ability to select the proper analytical technique for the available data. Other topics will include reliability, validity, frequency distributions, skewed averages/means, mode, median, normal curves and the use of grouped and ungrouped data.
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3.00 Credits
This course covers such topics as statistical inference, data collection and analysis of data. Students will be exposed to the selection of analytical techniques, both parametric and non-parametric techniques. They will also study descriptive versus, inferential statistics, the normal curve, ranges, standard deviations and variances. They will also be introduced to the types of statistical errors, sums of squares, standard deviations, percentile rankings, non-parametric techniques such as chi-square and others. Prerequisite: PSYC 236.
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3.00 Credits
The major focus of this course will center on physical, mental, social emotional growth, and development of adolescents. Attention will also be given to problems they experience in adjusting to the home, school and community, with special emphases on the contemporary environment.
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3.00 Credits
Students will be exposed to the study of human development, the study of how and why people change as well as how and why they remain the same. In this course students will focus on the developmental studies of all periods of life, from conception to death and stages of life, from simple growth to radical transformations, in all areas of development. Prerequisite: PSYC 210
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3.00 Credits
Both abnormal as well as normal behavior will be studied. It also deals with the etiology, diagnosis, treatment and prognosis of personality maladjustment and mental disorders. Special focuses will be placed on contemporary influences and their effect on mental disorders.
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3.00 Credits
This course is designed to study the psychological foundations of physical activity in a more expansive mode. It will also explore athletes? behavior in athletic competition, crowd behavior, rehabilitation through therapy, through physical activity, motor skill acquisition, play group dynamics, readiness, proprioception, motor educability, body image, personality, physical ability, and the phenomenology of movement.
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