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Course Criteria
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1.00 - 4.00 Credits
1, 2, or 4 hours
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4.00 Credits
4 hours A year-long independent research project. Applications are completed on the "Honors Program" formavailable at the registrar's office, requiring the signatures of a faculty supervisor, the department head, the honors program director, and the registrar. Interdisciplinary projects require the signatures of two faculty supervisors. The project must be completed by the due date for senior projects. The completed project is evaluated by a review committee consisting of the faculty supervisor, another faculty member from the major department, and a faculty member from outside the major department. All projects must be presented publicly. Only projects awarded an "A-" or "A" qualifor "department honors" designation. The honorsproject fulfills the all-college senior project requirement.
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4.00 Credits
4 hours An introduction to the field of psychology intended for both majors and non-majors. Topics covered include social processes, personality, emotional disorders, development, thinking, testing, learning, motivation, perception, psychobiology, and animal behavior. This course is prerequisite to all other psychology courses. (HBSSM)
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4.00 Credits
4 hours A variety of seminars for first-year students offered each January term.
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4.00 Credits
4 hours Developmental psychology is the branch of psychology that studies how people change as they age. This course focuses on the description, prediction, and explanation of physical, cognitive, and psychosocial aspects of agerelated change, from conception to old age. Prerequisite: PSYC 130. (HB)
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4.00 Credits
4 hours This course deals with the scientific and professional contributions of the discipline of psychology to the promotion and maintenance of health; the prevention and treatment of illness; and the identification of etiologic and diagnostic correlates of health, illness, and related dysfunctions. Prerequisite: PSYC 130. (HB)
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4.00 Credits
4 hours Evolutionary psychology applies the principles of Darwinian natural and sexual selection to the study of the human mind and behavior. The central assumption of the field is that the mind evolved to solve recurrent survival and reproduction problems in the ancestral environment. Selected topics within evolutionary psychology will be examined and critically evaluated. Prerequisite: PSYC 130. (HB)
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4.00 Credits
4 hours An examination of the major psychological approaches to personality and topics such as cognitive ability, attitudes, and other latent structures underlying consistencies in behavior. Special attention will be given to certain selected theorists and their contrasting views of personal change/consistency, human nature, and psychological investigation. Prerequisite: PSYC 130. (HB)
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4.00 Credits
4 hours This course is an introduction to the study of cognition in animals, including how animals perceive, think, learn, remember, and communicate. We will explore these issues within both psychological and biological frameworks, and will include topics such as the evolution of intelligence, cognition as adaptation, animal consciousness, and language in apes. An emphasis on comparing animal cognitive processes to human cognition will be part of the course. Prerequisite: PSYC 130. (NWL)
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