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3.00 Credits
3 credits (Fall and Spring Semesters) Scientific study of behavior in human and sub-human species. Topics include learning and memory, intelligence, emotion, motivation, conflict and stress, abnormal behav-ior, therapies, altered state of awareness and others. This course is for students in the Practical Nursing program.
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3 credits (Intermittently) Examines the impact of today's stressful world on the phys-ical and mental health of the individual. Techniques for coping with these stressors are explored and practiced in class (e.g., meditation, relaxation, breathing, etc.). Topics include personality and disease, job burnout, optimal performance, family stress, and others.
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3.00 Credits
3 credits (Fall Semester) Students taking this class will gain knowledge and application skills in critical thinking. Specific topics include examining what critical thinking is, informal fallacies, problem solving, and logical analysis. Students will learn to analyze informa-tion from a wide range of contexts and reach well reasoned conclusions. This course is cross-referenced with PHIL 160.
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3.00 Credits
3 credits (Spring Semester) Application of basic psychological principles in coping with the problems of modern living. Topics will include: emotional stress and disorders, environmental stress and control, loving and liking, relationships and divorce, hu-man sexuality, personality development and others.
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3.00 Credits
3 credits (Spring Semester) Introduction to the theory and practice of public policy making process with emphasis on national government. Selected topics from domestic and foreign policy.
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3.00 Credits
3 credits (Fall and Spring Semesters) Prerequisite: PSY 110A. The study of human behaviors as social beings, and how social situations effect individual behavior. Topics would include aggression, prejudice, conformity, communications and a variety of social experiences. This course is cross-ref-erenced with SOC 210A.
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3 credits (Fall and Spring Semesters) Prerequisites: ability to use internet and word processing. Presents current research on neuroscience and physiology of aging. Explores factors that influence health and have implications for preventive measures in disease and health disorders in the aging. Examines nature of health problems and methods of assessing physical, cognitive, and psycho-logical need. Explores aging effects on client and caregiver. This course is cross-referenced with GERO 212.
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3.00 Credits
3 credits (Intermittently) Prerequisite: PSY 110A. An in-depth study of behavior modification from the viewpoint of the program developer, writer, implementer, recorder, and evaluator including correct identification of behavior modification terms. Beginning with identifica-tion of the behavior to be changed, the entire process of behavior modification through the implementation of a programmed intervention will be examined and practiced. This course is cross-referenced with HS 215.
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3.00 Credits
3 credits (Fall and Spring Semesters) Prerequisite: PSY 110A. The basic neural mechanisms underlying behavior are stud-ied including the central and peripheral nervous systems, the senses, and basic endocrine functioning. Drugs, sleep, emotion, learning/memory, reproduction and mental ill-ness are also examined.
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3.00 Credits
3 credits (Fall and Spring Semesters) Prerequisite: PSY 110A. An examination of the stages of normal development with the intent to provide a broad, comprehensive background in the study of human development from conception through adulthood with an emphasis on infancy through adolescence. The basic theme will focus on what can be done to facilitate the development of more fully function-ing individuals at each particular stage of life. This course is cross-referenced with HS 235A.
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