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Course Criteria
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1.00 Credits
Same as PS 16L.One credit.
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3.00 Credits
This course introduces students who are not majoring in science to the principal areas, traditional and contemporary, of astronomy.Traditional topics include a historical background to astronomy, telescopes, the sun, the moon, the major and minor planets, comets, and meteors.After discussing these subjects in detail, the course covers areas appropriate to modern astronomy such as the composition and evolution of stars, star clusters, quasars, pulsars, black holes, and cosmological models.Three credits.
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3.00 Credits
This course introduces concepts from science, particularly physics, by using illustrations from a wide variety of sports.For example, it explains why a baseball curves, why gears work on a bike, the speeds obtainable by a windsurfer or skier or tennis ball or arrow, how scuba divers survive, and a wide variety of other sports phenomena from football, golf, skiing, climbing, sailing, skating, baseball, scuba, fishing, sky-diving and so forth.The association of sports with motion, forces, and energy is explained by scientific reasoning and analysis.The course includes a small laboratory/experiential component that illustrates the scientific method, where various examples of sports are made quantitative, using readily available equipment.Three credits.
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3.00 Credits
This course introduces students not majoring in the natural sciences to topics relating to work, energy, and power, and explores many of the environmental consequences resulting from our use of energy.The course examines the finite nature of fossil fuels as well as many alternative energy sources including solar energy; wind, tidal, and geothermal energy; nuclear fission; and nuclear fusion.Students use arithmetic and simple algebra.Three credits.
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3.00 Credits
This course introduces the science of mental processes and behavior by addressing a range of questions including: How is brain activity related to thought and behavior What does it mean to learn and remember something How do we see, hear, taste, and smell How do we influence one another's attitudes and actions What are the primary factors that shape a child's mental and emotional development How and why do we differ from one another What are the origins and most effective treatments of mental illness Three credits.
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3.00 Credits
This course introduces the field, contributions, and methods of industrial/organizational psychology.It covers the history of this branch of applied psychology and the psychologist's role, along with other scientist-practitioners concerned with the world of work, in developing and maintaining human work performances and work environments.The course explores current concepts and methods in several specialties within this field: personnel, organizational behavior and development, counseling, labor relations, consumer, and engineering/ergonomic psychology.Topics include recruitment, selection, training and development, and appraisal of individuals and groups; development and change of organizational cultures; and relations between organizations and their stakeholders.The course emphasizes the unique contributions of psychological science to understanding human work skills, interests, attitudes, motivations, satisfactions and stresses; work careers, management, leadership, communication, group processes, and organization.Three credits.
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3.00 Credits
Implicit psychological assumptions about human behavior and how it should be controlled form the basis for the legal system, particularly our criminal justice system, from its code to its enforcement.This course examines those assumptions in light of current psycho-legal theory and research.It covers the treatment of traditional psychiatric populations (the mentally ill, mentally retarded, homeless) by the justice system in contrast to that received by normal people; clinical issues such as the insanity defense, predicting dangerousness, the validity of psychiatric examinations and lie detectors; and jury selection, eyewitness testimony, decision-making, sentencing, and parole.Three credits.
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3.00 Credits
This course surveys the major areas of concern in social psychology, emphasizing current issues and research in the fields of social influence and conformity, human aggression, prejudice, interpersonal attraction, propaganda, and persuasion.Students who have taken PY 248 may not take this course.Three credits.
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3.00 Credits
This course introduces students to the field of abnormal behavior, presenting the classic behavior patterns in the classification system and discussing the possible causes and remediation of such.Students who have taken PY 251 may not take this course.Three credits.
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3.00 Credits
Recent biomedical research, psychological theory, and clinical experience provide the foundation for this life-cycle study of death, dying, and bereavement.Some topics include the funeral process, cultural differences, suicide, the hospice approach, end-of-life issues, and euthanasia.Three credits.
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