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Course Criteria
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3.00 Credits
Work experience in a setting where psychology is applied. Can be used to further career exploration or promote transition to the work place. Students may take up to two times for credit.
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3.00 Credits
In this advanced topical seminar, students will further develop skills in critical reading/critical thinking, application, writing, and oral communication. We will analyze contemporary theories and current research on salient issues in adolescence and emerging adulthood such as: puberty; neurological and cognitive development; identity; dating and sexuality; family and peer relationships; school and work; racial, ethnic, and cultural influences; and adolescent problems. Both normative development and individual differences will be considered.
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3.00 Credits
In this advanced topical seminar, students will further develop skills in critical reading/critical thinking, application, writing, and oral communication. This course focuses on debates and conflicts over the past 30 years related to psychological concepts and theories of human behavior and experiences. The controversies discussed cross all subfields of psychology including clinical, social, developmental, biological, and cognitive. Topics may include multiple personality disorder, expert testimony, new age therapies, repressed memories, sexual orientation conversion therapies, inkblot tests, media violence, effect of spanking and divorce on children, and paranormal phenomenon. Students will learn in-depth methodologies for critical thinking and apply learned strategies to real-world problems. The course emphasizes the application of research skills to examine the multiple facets of each controversy in light of evidence gathered from current empirical sources. Students will take sides on an issue of their choice, gather evidence to support their position, and present their case in a symposium-style debate.
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3.00 Credits
In this advanced topical seminar, students will further develop skills in critical reading/critical thinking, application, writing, and oral communication. This course aims to familiarize students with various contemporary topics within the social exclusion literature: whether there is a need to belong, what the different types of exclusion are, why societies/individuals exclude others, how we detect exclusion, and what our responses are to exclusion. We will examine theoretical and empirical articles in order to understand how social exclusion is conceptualized and tested in the field. Students will apply critical thinking skills in order to critique the literature and apply it to real life concerns (and post-graduation plans).
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3.00 Credits
In this advanced topical seminar, students will further develop skills in critical reading/critical thinking, application, writing, and oral communication. The content of this course focuses on positive psychology; what is good about people, and what makes people happy resilient and content. This course will include both Eastern and Western notions of positive psychology and will review and analyze theories and research related to this new and exciting area of psychology.
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3.00 Credits
Opportunity for students to conduct a study on a topic of their choosing. Students can take up to three times for credit.
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3.00 Credits
Biblical Studies is the study of selected Christian and Hebrew scriptures directed toward the development of an awareness of what the biblical authors meant to communicate to their contemporaries with special attention paid to literary forms, sociological factors, theological insight, and historical settings.
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3.00 Credits
Students will learn about the major religions of the world and become familiar with the ways these religions differ from each other in regard to gods, rituals, scriptures, founders, the arts, and their concepts of the principal purposes of life.
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3.00 Credits
Presents students with the principles of theology and a practical methodology for relating the major resources of the Christian faith with human experience. Selected readings, the use of case studies and/or actual experience provide the reference point for reflecting theologically upon human experience.
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3.00 Credits
Feminist consciousness and theory will provide the context for this course as it explores biblical texts, and the life and writings of medieval women including Hildegard of Bingen, Julian of Norwich, and Teresa of Avila. The course will examine the rich and varied expressions of spirituality found in the traditions of African and Native American women healers, their understanding of art as a sacred process, and their reverence for the body and the earth.
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