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3.00 Credits
Session Cycle: Varies Yearly Cycle: Every Third This course uses an interdisciplinary perspective to investigate the role of the environment on behavior. Attributes of environmental settings which are associated with human performance and functioning will be analyzed. 3.000 Credit Hours 3.000 Lecture hours Levels: Undergraduate Schedule Types: Lecture College of Arts and Sciences Undergraduate Division Applied Psychology Department Course Attributes: Applied Psychology Major, Liberal Arts Elective, Psychology Minor, Social Science Mode of Thought
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3.00 Credits
Session Cycle: Fall or Spring Yearly Cycle: Annual In this overview course, students will learn and understand the principles and applications of psychology for practical purposes and across disciplines. The practical applications of psychological research to issues and problems facing the world will be addressed. Students will learn and be actively engaged in how psychological findings can be used in a large variety of contexts. These contexts include biomedical, psychopathological, educational, end user behavior, industrial/organizational, sports, legal system, physical surroundings, product design, aviation, animal training, paranormal phenomenon, elderly, and similar human factor environments. 3.000 Credit Hours 3.000 Lecture hours Levels: Undergraduate Schedule Types: Lecture College of Arts and Sciences Undergraduate Division Applied Psychology Department Course Attributes: Applied Psychology Major, Liberal Arts Elective, Psychology Minor, Social Science Mode of Thought
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3.00 Credits
Session Cycle: Fall or Spring Yearly Cycle: Annual This course is a detailed analysis of what makes life worth living, optimal human functioning, and the building of positive qualities throughout the life span. This course focuses on the current findings from positive psychology including (1) antecedents of subjective well being (happiness) from birth through death, (2) optimal human functioning and human excellence across the life span, (3) development of positive individual traits including virtue, interpersonal strength, self-determination, wisdom, altruism, optimism, and integrity, and (4) the study of collective or societal well being. 3.000 Credit Hours 3.000 Lecture hours Levels: Undergraduate Schedule Types: Lecture College of Arts and Sciences Undergraduate Division Applied Psychology Department Course Attributes: Applied Psychology Major, Liberal Arts Elective, Psychology Minor, Social Science Mode of Thought
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3.00 Credits
Session Cycle: Spring Yearly Cycle: Annual This course is an overview of the primary areas within Cognitive Psychology. Topics include cognitive neuroscience, perception, attention, memory, language, mental imagery, categorization, decision-making, problem solving, and creativity. In this course, students will either investigate an applied topic in cognitive psychology, or design a cognitive experiment. The findings of their research will be presented to the class. Current, as well as classic theoretical perspectives and experiments, will be emphasized throughout the course. 3.000 Credit Hours 3.000 Lecture hours Levels: Undergraduate Schedule Types: Lecture College of Arts and Sciences Undergraduate Division Applied Psychology Department Course Attributes: Applied Psychology Major, Liberal Arts Elective, Psychology Minor, Social Science Mode of Thought
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3.00 Credits
Session Cycle: Spring Yearly Cycle: Annual This course is an overview of the primary areas within Physiological Psychology. Topics include historical and methodological perspectives, neuronal anatomy and physiology, the structure and function on the nervous system ,sensory processing, motivation and emotion, physiological substrates of learning and memory, psycho-physiological bases of health and illness, psychopharmacology, and internet-based exercises will be assigned to enhance exposure to various topics beyond the text. Current as well as classic theoretical perspectives will be emphasized throughout the course. 3.000 Credit Hours 3.000 Lecture hours Levels: Undergraduate Schedule Types: Lecture College of Arts and Sciences Undergraduate Division Applied Psychology Department Course Attributes: Liberal Arts Elective, Psychology Minor, Social Science Mode of Thought
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3.00 Credits
Session Cycle: Fall Yearly Cycle: Annual This course is an overview of the primary areas within Health Psychology. These include an overview of the history of health psychology, methodological issues in health psychology research, the biopsychosocial model of health and illness, basic systems of the body, stress, illness, and coping, lifestyle enhancement and illness prevention, health promotion, dealing with chronic illness, proper utilization of the health care system, pain, life threatening health problems, and future issues for health psychology. 3.000 Credit Hours 3.000 Lecture hours Levels: Undergraduate Schedule Types: Lecture College of Arts and Sciences Undergraduate Division Applied Psychology Department Course Attributes: Applied Psychology Major, Liberal Arts Elective, Psychology Minor, Social Science Mode of Thought
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3.00 Credits
Session Cycle: Spring Yearly Cycle: Annual This course is an introduction to experimental methods in psychology. The goals of this course are for you to learn how research is planned, carried out, communicated, and critiqued. This course will focus on developing general psychological research skills, including knowledge of experimental design, statistics, report writing, and ethical standards of research. All of you are consumers of research from psychology and other scientific disciplines. As such, a major goal of this course is to develop your capacity for critically evaluating "scientific evidence" that is communicated in journals, magazines, newspapers, and news programs. Mastery of the material covered should enable you to evaluate the adequacy of research findings reported by others, design research studies of your own, collect and analyze data, and write APA style research reports. 3.000 Credit Hours 3.000 Lecture hours Levels: Undergraduate Schedule Types: Lecture College of Arts and Sciences Undergraduate Division Applied Psychology Department Course Attributes: Applied Psychology Major, Liberal Arts Elective, Psychology Minor, Social Science Mode of Thought
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3.00 Credits
Session Cycle: Spring Yearly Cycle: Annual This course explores psychological principles, theories and methodologies as they apply to issues of teaching and learning in diverse educational and community settings. Topics covered include theories of learning and motivation, developmental characteristics of learners, individual differences, teacher behavior, assessment, and socio-cultural influences on learning and schooling. 3.000 Credit Hours 3.000 Lecture hours Levels: Undergraduate Schedule Types: Lecture College of Arts and Sciences Undergraduate Division Applied Psychology Department Course Attributes: Applied Psychology Major, Liberal Arts Elective, Psychology Minor, Social Science Mode of Thought
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3.00 Credits
This course examines in depth a major issue, problem, or theme in the area of psychology. It includes a specialized research paper or project, involves discussion and oral and written reports, and may include guest speakers and field trips. 3.000 Credit Hours 3.000 Lecture hours Levels: Undergraduate Schedule Types: Lecture College of Arts and Sciences Undergraduate Division Applied Psychology Department Course Attributes: Applied Psychology Major, Liberal Arts Elective, Psychology Minor
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3.00 Credits
Students engage in individually supervised work-study arrangements and learn to apply psychological theory and principles in a work environment (e.g., day care center or mental health clinic). Students must work at least ten hours per week on the job, meet periodically with a supervising faculty member, research literature related to the field of the internship, and prepare a substantive report on their internship experience and the studies involved. This course is limited to juniors and seniors and requires the approval of a supervising faculty member and the department chair. 3.000 Credit Hours Levels: Undergraduate Schedule Types: Internship College of Arts and Sciences Undergraduate Division Applied Psychology Department Course Attributes: Applied Psychology Major, Liberal Arts Elective, Psychology Minor
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