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Course Criteria
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1.00 - 9.00 Credits
Goal To give students an opportunity to gain actual experience in government service. Content Varies with work assignment. While field study hours will count toward the maximum 48 hours permitted in the major discipline, they may not be applied toward the minimum 37 hours required in the major. Taught By permission of the department chair. Credit 1-9 hours.
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1.00 Credits
Goal To provide a capstone experience for majors in which the student completes an interdisciplinary project that encourages her to make connections among the various parts of her course of study. Content The student will select an interdisciplinary project that integrates her general education and elective courses, major courses, and, where appropriate, workplace experience. This project will require the student to incorporate material form at least one academic discipline other than political science. Taught Spring. Credit 1 hour.
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3.00 Credits
Honors Thesis
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3.00 Credits
Goal Understanding self and others, predicting behavior, and understanding and control of behavior. To be able to apply methods of research and application of psychological principles to everyday life. Content Research methods; child, adolescent, and adult psychology; psychological testing; personality, and abnormal psychology; psychotherapy; social psychology; applied psychology; history of psychology; and physiological processes, principles of learning and memory, human perception, and cognition. Taught Fall, Spring. Gen. Ed. Category Critical thinking. Credit 3 hours.
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3.00 Credits
Goal To facilitate thinking and development regarding psychological issues and concerns as they relate to daily life. Combines educational aims (key issues in awareness, personality) with therapeutic aims (self-discourse, decision-making). Content Psychological concepts of adjustment are applied using an experiential model. Increased awareness of self and others and facilitation of choice in your own life based on this awareness are central components. Taught Fall, Spring. Gen. Ed. Category Critical thinking. Credit 3 hours.
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3.00 Credits
Goal To explore biological, psychological, interpersonal and sociocultural aspects of human sexuality. Content Issues surrounding multiple and often contradictory elements that shape sexual attitudes and behaviors. Taught Spring. Credit 3 hours; cross-listed as WST 201.
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3.00 Credits
Goal To provide students with a scientific understanding of human social behavior in its various forms. Content Social perception, attitude formation and change, interpersonal attraction, aggression, group processes, health, gender and other topics through examining contemporary social psychological theories and research. Taught Fall. Prerequisite PSY 101. Credit 3 hours.
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3.00 Credits
Goal To provide the student with an understanding of physiological processes that mediate psychological functioning. Content The biological bases of sensation, perception, learning, memory, cognition, motivation, emotion, and consciousness; overview of recent and significant developments in this area. Taught Fall. Prerequisite PSY 101. Credit 3 hours.
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3.00 Credits
Goal To introduce students to the logic of designing and experiment and interpreting the quantitative data derived from it. Content Study of binomial and normal distributions, measures of central tendency, and tests of hypotheses. Taught Fall, Spring. Prerequisites MAT 130, 140, 192 or equivalent placement. Credit 3 hours; cross-listed as ECO 220, MAT 220.
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3.00 Credits
Goal: To encourage students to acquire knowledge of an issue within psychology and critically analyze this topic using appropriate research methodology. Content: Provides students an opportunity for focused research in their area of interest. The class will function as a research group, providing each student with a place for discussion and critical review of her topic. Taught: Fall. Credit: 3 hours; S-course.
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