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Course Criteria
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3.00 Credits
This course provides an introduction to abnormal behavior and addresses the different perspectives on what constitutes 'abnormality.' A vulnerability-stress-coping model of maladaptive behavior is emphasized within the course text and in class discussions. Causes, developmental courses, treatments, and outcomes of the major categories of mental disorders are studied from epidemiological, clinical, and phenomenological perspectives. This course typically includes involvement with community based mental health programs.Prerequisite: PSY 310 or permission of instructor. (Offered spring semester.)
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3.00 Credits
Cognitive processing, working memory, long term memory, encoding, retrieval, and schema theory are the focus of this course. Classical and operant conditioning, shaping, and extinction are studied in the context of their current uses in facilitating improved cognitive performance. Students are encouraged to identify and explore their own preferred learning style as well as to improve their cognitive processing through class based exercises. Prerequisite: PSY 210 or permission of instructor. (Offered spring semester.)
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0.00 - 2.00 Credits
Junior Departmental Honors Research Variable
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1.00 - 4.00 Credits
In fields of psychology, undergraduate practicum courses provide students with an exposure to the contexts and organizations in which psychological services are offered to the public. Behavioral health facilities, county mental health agencies, substance abuse treatment facilities, shelters, teen centers, and early childhood intervention units are among the facilities selected by psychology students. Forty hours of practicum service are required for each hour of credit received. This course may be taken in two separate semesters. Prerequisite: Completed 20 hours of psychology, and approval of department head.
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3.00 Credits
Students are introduced to neuropsychological processes within the areas of psychopharmacology, vision, audition, olfaction, movement, learning, depressive and anxiety disorders, schizophrenia, and substance abuse. Interactive assessment techniques provide students with ways to incorporate what they learn into their existing knowledge in the field of psychology. Meets the general education non-lab Biology course requirement. Prerequisite: PSY 202, 210, BIO 245 or equivalent Math/Science courses, or permission of the instructor. (Offered spring semester.)
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3.00 Credits
This interactive course explores moral and ethical issues commonly faced by psychologists. Students develop personal vocational mission statements, present their portfolios, and prepare for job interviews and/or graduate school admissions interviews. Working in teams of two or three, students prepare and present an educational workshop for a target audience within the campus and community on a topic of their choice. (Offered spring semester.)
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0.00 - 2.00 Credits
Departmental Honors Research Variable
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0.00 - 2.00 Credits
Departmental Honors Thesis Variable
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3.00 Credits
Ministry Seminar Half Credit
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1.00 Credits
This course is designed primarily for current Resident Chaplains (although it is open to any interested student) and offers practical instruction and experience in areas pertaining to spiritual leadership within the residence halls/houses. Along with an emphasis upon one's own personal spiritual formation, students will develop a spiritual formation plan for their floor/house, and receive on-going instruction in spiritual leadership on campus. (Repeatable with a maximum of (2 Credits).) (Resident Chaplains in this course will not pay for the course if it places the student above the band.) (Offered fall semester.)
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