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3.00 Credits
Units (Grade Option) 3; Class Hours: Minimum of 48 lecture hours/ semester; Recommended: Eligibility for READ 836, and ENGL 836 or ESL 400; Prerequisite(s): None. Description: This course examines human development across the lifespan, from conception through death by focusing on theories and methods of psychological research; including physical, cognitive, social, and emotional changes throughout the lifespan. Emphasis on development as an on-going process understanding the interaction of development issues: nature vs. nurture, continuity vs. discontinuity, and stability vs. instability. This course is designed as a foundation for careers in educational, social, psychological, and medical fields as well as providing a better understanding of one's own development process. Transfer: CSU: DSI & E1, UC*. (IGETC: 4)
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Units (Grade Option) 3; Class Hours: Minimum of 48 lecture hours/ semester; Recommended: Eligibility for READ 836, and ENGL 836 or ESL 400; Prerequisite(s): PSYC 100. Description: Overview of the developmental trends affecting human growth from the prenatal period to adolescence. Factors influencing physical, emotional, mental, and social development are also analyzed. PSYC 100 is a required prerequisite for transfer. Transfer: CSU: DSI, UC*. (IGETC: 4)
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Units (Grade Option) 3; Class Hours: Minimum of 48 lecture hours/ semester; Recommended: Eligibility for READ 836, and ENGL 836 or ESL 400; Prerequisite(s): None. Description: The behaviors, values and complexities of the adolescent years. The changes that occur in physical, emotional, mental, and social development during adolescence and their implications are studied. Transfer: CSU: DSI, UC. (IGETC: 4)
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Units 3; Class Hours: Minimum of 48 lecture hours/semester; Recommended: Eligibility for ENGL 110; Prerequisite(s): PSYC 100 or SOCI 100. Description: Designed to introduce students to the basic principles of social science research. Various sociological and psychological research methods are examined that include experimental research, survey research, field research, and comparative-historical research. Procedures to evaluate the soundness of research designs are examined. Ethical issues related to research techniques are also considered. Transfer: CSU: DSI.
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Units (Grade Option) 3; Class Hours: Minimum of 48 lecture hours/ semester; Recommended: Eligibility for READ 836, and ENGL 836 or ESL 400; Prerequisite(s): None. Description: Issues and changes in the field of special education. Descriptive and diagnostic differences of exceptional persons (deaf, learning disabled, orthopedically handicapped, visually handicapped, emotionally disturbed, deaf/blind, and the gifted) are studied. Transfer: CSU.
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Units (Grade Option) 3; Class Hours: Minimum of 48 lecture hours/ semester; Recommended: Eligibility for READ 836, and ENGL 836 or ESL 400; Prerequisite(s): None. Description: Study of human interaction, with emphasis on how thoughts, feelings, and behavior of individuals are influenced by actual, imagined, or implied presence of others. Focus of course is on social factors that influence human behavior; ourselves and other people, institutions and social and physical structures people create. A review of various perspectives unique to social psychologists including attitude formation, interpersonal attraction, and aggression is examined. Transfer: CSU: DSI, UC. (IGETC: 4)
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Units (Grade Option) 3; Class Hours: Minimum of 48 lecture hours/ semester; Recommended: Eligibility for READ 836, and ENGL 836 or ESL 400; Prerequisite(s): None. Description: An analysis of psychological and sociological concepts relating to participation in sports. The mental factors which help produce optimum performance are examined. Also included are the latest research and practice in applied sports psychology. Transfer: CSU.
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Units (Grade Option) 3; Class Hours: Minimum of 48 lecture hours/ semester; Recommended: Eligibility for READ 836, and ENGL 836 or ESL 400; Prerequisite(s): None. Description: Human Sexuality is a broad field in which many cultural, psychological and physiological variables interact in relation to sexual development, attitudes and behaviors. Methods of scientific psychology are utilized to improve understanding of a broad range of behaviors ranging from healthy to dysfunctional within mainstream modern American culture as well as other cultures. Discussion of differing cultural and moral perspectives is utilized to assist students in making a critical assessment of the nature of the sexual self as well as intimate human relationships within their own community and the world. Transfer: CSU: DSI & E1, UC. (IGETC: 4)
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Units (Grade Option) 3; Class Hours: Minimum of 48 lecture hours/ semester; Recommended: Eligibility for READ 836, and ENGL 836 or Cou rse Desc riptio ns 161 *With limitations. Refer to pages 53-54 or see your counselor. Ca ada College 2008-2009 ESL 400; Prerequisite(s): None. Description: The stages of parenting and their social and cultural implications. Guides for positive parenting structures for parents, single parents, stepparents and working parents are provided. Emphasis is placed on the adjustment to parenthood and guidelines for meeting the needs of children. Recommended as an elective for Early Childhood Education majors. Transfer: CSU.
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Units (Grade Option) 3; Class Hours: Minimum of 48 lecture hours/ semester; Recommended: Eligibility for READ 836, and ENGL 836 or ESL 400; Prerequisite(s): None. Description: Elaboration on the study of abnormal behavior and personality introduced in previous courses. Topics include neuroses, psychoses and other psychological problems, along with their etiology, dynamics, principal symptoms, and treatments. The relationship between theory of personality and psychotherapy is explored. Transfer: CSU: DSI, UC. (IGETC: 4)
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