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Course Criteria
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3.00 Credits
This is an experiential, skills-based course which is designed to teach students the requisite skills of effective listening and communication. Content areas include basic attending, responding, and listening skills, professional writing skills, clarifying and advanced empathy, and inter-cultural communication skills. In addition, students will be exposed to a basic helping model that provides a general framework for mental health service delivery.
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1.00 - 10.00 Credits
The internship is designed for students to actively participate in a community organization or agency of their choice (as available) for 120 hours per 3 credit course. The primary goal of the internship experience is to allow the student an opportunity to apply theoretical and technical skills gained in the classroom setting to actual work in the community. Internship sites include mental health facilities, hospitals, homes for disadvantaged children, local schools, juvenile centers, police departments, and community action agencies. Students are expected to develop a working understanding of the issues and social dynamics of clinical work and agency relations within a community setting. Prerequisite: Third-year status or consent of instructor.
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3.00 Credits
Explores issues children and their families face when there is illness, death, divorce, or hospitalization. The work of Bowlby, Robertson, and others as it relates to emotional and psychological impacts of separation and illness will be discussed. Third-year/Fourth-year status or consent of instructor reuired.
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3.00 Credits
This course will explore the study of intra-group and inter-group dynamics from a social psychological perspective. Class discussion will focus on theory and empirical research regarding group dynamics, with topics including: social identity, group formation, power, majority and minority influence, communication in groups, conflict in groups, group performance, group decision making, leadership, and cooperation and competition between groups.
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3.00 Credits
This course investigates the nature of stress and its impact on the individual's personality, abilities, and health. Key theories of stress are presented. Current research issues in stress and coping are reviewed. Personal, as well as institutional responses to and interventions with stress will be emphasized.
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3.00 Credits
This course will deal with multiple aspects of animal behavior across many species. Specific attention will be given to evolutionary psychology and the genetic basis of speciation. Following this, a number of different types of behavior will be discussed, with respect to both the similarities and differences among species and the adaptive significance of differing behaviors.
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3.00 Credits
This course will address theory and research in the study of developmental disorders of childhood. Topics will include autism, ADD, ADHD, oppositional defiant disorder, problems of attachment, anxiety disorders, and other childhood disorders. Emphasis will be placed on the clinical application of diagnosing and treating children with these disorders. Family and school issues will also be addressed.
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3.00 Credits
The course is intended to investigate the science of Sport Psychology from its theoretical foundation to its practical application. The perspectives of the course range from the study of individual differences and sport behavior to the impact of social influences and group dynamics on sport. Specific topics include: psychological variables; personality and individual differences in athletes; skill acquisition; and, an examination of the role of exercise and sport across the life span. crosslisted with SPT 345.
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3.00 Credits
This course is designed to expose students to a variety of contrasting theories regarding the origin and nature of personality. These theories have served as the underpinning for applications of the field of psychology, and chronologically they represent changes in the field since its inception. Original readings from various theorists will be used as the backdrop for learning about the research, history, and paradigms within personality psychology.
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1.00 - 3.00 Credits
significance of differing behaviors. individually with a faculty member on a project, reading program, or a selected topic that is not covered in a regular course. Permission of instructor required.
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