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2.00 Credits
This course surveys the issue of domestic violence and sexual assault from both an information and advocacy perspective. Battering and sexual assault within families and within society will be explored as will elder abuse. Training will include means of responding to the victim and to addressing the wider social implications of violence.
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4.00 Credits
This course introduces students to psychological methods of research. Students will apply various forms of descriptive and experimental designs and will produce a final research project which they have designed and executed. There is a heavy emphasis on application and APA writing.
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3.00 Credits
Students will study the major theories of counseling such as psychoanalysis, person centered, gestalt, and behavioral therapy. Students will also study, through role-play, the skills needed to be a helper and the various techniques that may be utilized in both formal counseling and informal helping situations. They will also begin their study of ethics as applied to counseling situations.
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3.00 Credits
This course explores behavior from an evolutionary perspective. Topics addressed include cooperation, mate choice, partnering, pair bonding, aggression, language and culture. Empirical data presented on these topics derive from non-human primate comparisons, cross-cultural data sets and case studies from a range of societies.
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3.00 Credits
Introduces biological bases of behavior. Includes ethology and comparative behavior, psychobiological development, physiological and sensory mechanisms of behavior, and evolution and behavioral genetics. Presents basic structural and functional properties of the nervous system.
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3.00 Credits
This course will explore the interface of psychology and the law, with an emphasis on forensic psychology. Landmark legal cases that pertain to psychology will be discussed. Students will explore the various options for careers in the field of forensic psychology. Principles of forensic psychology covered include topics such as perspectives of criminal behavior, law enforcement, eyewitnesses, and the manner in which forensic psychologists are involved in the justice system.
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3.00 Credits
Surveys drugs which affect behavior, emphasizing drugs with abuse potential. Includes brief introduction to the chemistry of the brain and how drugs may have their effects. Discusses behavioral, social, historical and medical aspects of each major class of psychoactive drugs.
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3.00 Credits
An introduction to the growing partnership between psychology and health care, including history of psychology in health care, theoretical foundations of health and illness, intervention and research techniques, stress and high risk behavior (e.g., substance abuse, eating behaviors, AIDS), and psychology's contribution to improving outcomes and quality of life in chronic and life-threatening behaviors.
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3.00 Credits
Explores development and behavior of children from conception to adolescence, emphasizing major roles played by maturation and learning. This course acquaints students with the area of child study in terms of research findings, theories of child development and present problems.
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3.00 Credits
Adjustment is the psychological process of adapting to, coping with and managing the problems, challenges and demands of everyday life. This is a human growth course whereby emphasis is given to application of theory. Students will assess, evaluate and practice skills that allow them to learn to adjust to the problems of everyday life.
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