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3.00 Credits
This course will deal with the biological, psychosocial, and sociocultural viewpoints, and abnormality and deviance. The historical views of mental illness and abnormality will also be covered. The full range of disorders will be analyzed including additions, personality disorders, mood disorders, anxiety disorders, sexual variations and psychoses. The course will also provide an overview of the available therapies and interventions.Prerequisite: PSY 160
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3.00 Credits
This course will relate the basics of individual and group behavior to the industrial setting, allowing the student to apply basic psychology in personnel selection and evaluation, planning and organizing work and work conditions, and understanding consumer behavior.Prerequisite: PSY 160 or SOC 161 or consent of instructor.
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3.00 Credits
This course provides the student with an in-depth understanding of the methods of psychological research, including research design, data collection and analysis, and utilization of findings. The course will also include an overview of human and animal learning and conditioning, including such concepts as classical conditioning, schedules of reinforcement, aversive conditioning, and potential areas of application for these concepts. Students will be required to prepare a research design project. Prerequisite: PSY 160
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3.00 Credits
The course will focus on the construction and evaluation of a variety of standardized tests in the areas of aptitude, achievement, intelligence, and personality. Students will study test design, use of findings, and testing concepts such as norms, standardization, reliability, and validity.Prerequisite: PSY 160 and STA 326
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3.00 Credits
This capstone course is required of all senior psychology majors and must be taken in the senior year. Students will have the opportunity to critically explore selected issues within the discipline of psychology and will be asked to integrate prior learning from various aspects of their program through presentations, discussion, and a senior paper that provides evidence they have synthesized and utilized prior learning.This course should be taken by senior psychology students only.
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3.00 Credits
This course provides a theoretical and practical foundation for applying the sociological perspective to one's daily life. It is designed to acquaint the student with some of the major concepts, theories, and research findings of sociology. Among the topics considered are culture, social structure, the self, collective behavior, deviance, bureaucracy, and social institutions such as the family, government, education, religion, and the economy.
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3.00 Credits
This course is designed to keep students on the cutting edge of social trends and is less historic in approach. The most current of social topics will be presented for discussion to assist students in understanding the factors influencing social interaction in American society today. Those topics will be related to culture, social controls, roles in transition, social stratification, institutions, social change, and future. Prerequisites are: PSY 160; SOC 161 or consent of the instructor
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3.00 Credits
This course will present an examination of the current role of modern media and its relationship to society today. Emphasis will be on a particular type of media per night. Changing roles, rules, and relationships will be examined. The interaction between the media and business, government and the individual will be discussed with cases such as Enron and Exxon being used as examples. Lately, the emerging of "Public Relations" as an important mode of corporate communication as well as "the spin" will be examined. Students will be required to cite and write about a particular case in media relations. Prerequisites: SOC 161 or PSY 160
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3.00 Credits
The purpose of this class is to provide students with a reasonable approach to the role of business in American Society. The policies and practices of Business Management have broad social consequences. It is important that students in the business world realize the effects of business policy on the society as a whole. Area on consumerism, ecology, government regulation and the like will also be examined. The point of view will be those of management rather than from the worker's perspective.
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3.00 Credits
An analysis of the division of labor in contemporary American society. Historical trends are reviewed. Blue collar, clerical, technical-professional, management, semi-professional, and professional work will be examined in detail, with particular attention given to work in the corporation. Among the major issues considered are work satisfaction, alienation, union membership, rationalization, and power and opportunity.Prerequisite: PSY 160 or SOC 161 or consent of instructor.
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