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Course Criteria
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4.00 Credits
Examines nature of wisdom, creativity, intelligence and related abilities from several current and historical perspectives. Evaluates process of measurement, including accuracy, usefulness, biases, cross-cultural diffi culties and appropriateness for special populations. Prerequisite: PSY257. (Alternate years. Not offered 2008-09.)
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4.00 Credits
Explores at advanced level research and theory on how people feel, act and think with respect to others. Topics such as cross-cultural psychology, emotion, cognition, intimate relationships and moral dimensions of social interaction addressed. Laboratory prerequisite: PSY257 or permission of instructor. (Alternate years. Offered 2008-09.)
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4.00 Credits
Examines concept of community and what makes communities strong and effective. Considers how problems typically understood as individually rooted can be recast as problems in social system. Topics include problem prevention, self-help groups, community-based mental health treatment, program evaluation, social intervention, community development, and nonprofessional or paraprofessional intervention. Prerequisite: PSY257. (Alternate years. Offered 2008-09.)
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2.00 Credits
Examines integration of psychological principles with business world. Selected topics within human resources are explored such as employee work motivation, personnel recruitment and selection, job redesign. Role of psychological testing in employment discussed. Prerequisite: PSY201.
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2.00 Credits
Explores resolution of confl ict by examining basics of negotiation, mediation and arbitration. Focuses on contributions of psychological research to understanding of these processes and addresses application to such varied topics as roommate confl icts, domestic relations, labor-management negotiations and international disputes. Prerequisites: PSY201 and junior standing.
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3.00 Credits
Studies theoretical or applied topics not regularly taught. Repeatable if topic changes. Prerequisite: permission of instructor.
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2.00 Credits
Examines psychological processes of grief and separation, and history of attitudes toward death, bioethical issues associated with dying and association between worldviews and attitudes toward death and dying. Prerequisites: PSY201 and junior standing.
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4.00 Credits
Examines areas of interface between psychology and law including accuracy of eyewitness identifi cations, jury decision making, prediction of violence, competency to stand trial, criminal responsibility, right to treatment; fundamental differences in perspectives on human behavior taken by law and social sciences. Prerequisites: PSY201 and junior standing.
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4.00 Credits
Surveys social, intellectual and vocational issues predominant during adolescence, adulthood and aging. Discussion format. Prerequisites: PSY201 and junior standing. (Not offered 2008-09.)
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4.00 Credits
Applies selected psychological principles in community agency. Ten hours per week supervised fi eld experience combined with exposure to theoretical issues in class. Taken in sequence. Prerequisites: psychology major with junior or senior standing and consent of instructor. Credit: 4 credits psychology elective, 4 credits general elective.
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