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College: COLLEGE OF HUMANITIES AND SOCIAL SCIENCE Department: PSYCHOLOGY Credits: 3.00 Urban Psychology. This course offers a systematic exploration of the modern city and the interaction of physical and social/behavioral systems and their impact on urban life. Among those topics dealt with are major theoretical perspectives on the city, concepts of community in the contemporary city, the social psychology of city life, cognition in the city, and issues related to density, housing and urban planning and design. 3 hours lecture.
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College: COLLEGE OF HUMANITIES AND SOCIAL SCIENCE Department: PSYCHOLOGY Credits: 3.00 Psychological Aspects of Poverty. Relationships between individual and group psychological factors and poverty as a major domestic issue are examined. Critical approaches to psychological theories of poverty and a general investigation of the dynamics of victimization will be explored. Among those topics dealt with are perceptions of the poor and the culture of poverty, the ideology of victim blaming, educational issues and poverty, housing, the nature of individual and group change, and poverty and personality. 3 hours lecture.
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College: COLLEGE OF HUMANITIES AND SOCIAL SCIENCE Department: PSYCHOLOGY Credits: 3.00 Environmental Psychology. This course surveys the interaction of physical environments and human behavior. Among those topics covered are issues of causality, environmental metaphors, population density and crowding, environmental perception and cognition, the social psychology of place, architecture and behavior, issues in dwelling, competence and educational environments, technology, and people and the natural world. 3 hours lecture.
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College: COLLEGE OF HUMANITIES AND SOCIAL SCIENCE Department: PSYCHOLOGY Credits: 3.00 Personnel Selection: Issues and Procedures. Prerequisites: PSYC 550 or another graduate level statistics course. This course will address organizational selection processes and Equality in Employment in organizations. Students will learn about testing and job analysis and how they are important in the selection process and will cover how employees are recruited and selected and how these processes relate to organizational success. The course will take an in depth look at anti-discrimination legislation and its influence in organizational functioning. Students will learn about measurement and assessment of organizational applicants and employees and how this assessment must be conducted in order to be fair and successful. Students will present research on various topics in the field and will be responsible for teaching their classmates about different topics in the area of EEO Law and Selection. Students will be responsible for gaining entrance into an organization and collecting the information necessary to develop a selection system for that organization. 3 hours lecture.
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College: COLLEGE OF HUMANITIES AND SOCIAL SCIENCE Department: PSYCHOLOGY Credits: 3.00 Advanced Educational Psychology. A comprehensive treatment of the cognitive and affective characteristics of the learner and the processes of learning and teaching provide the framework for this course. Behavioral, cognitive and information-processing theory are presented and their applicability to instructional strategies and classroom dynamics is discussed. Other areas included are the origins of individual differences including heredity and environment, early childhood education, cultural differences, student motivation, classroom management, measurement and evaluation, exceptional children and other topics. 3 hours lecture.
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College: COLLEGE OF HUMANITIES AND SOCIAL SCIENCE Department: PSYCHOLOGY Credits: 3.00 Developmental Psychology. Philosophical, conceptual, theoretical and research issues pertinent to human development from prenatal life to adulthood are presented. The core conceptual issues of development, such as the nature-nurture controversy, the continuity-discontinuity issue, and the issue of stability-instability, are discussed, and their relationships to the major theories in developmental psychology are examined. 3 hours lecture.
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College: COLLEGE OF HUMANITIES AND SOCIAL SCIENCE Department: PSYCHOLOGY Credits: 3.00 Dynamics of Human Behavior. This course examines psychological adjustment processes, coping mechanisms, and mental health, given complex changing social forces. The course is designed for non-psychology majors. 3 hours lecture.
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College: COLLEGE OF HUMANITIES AND SOCIAL SCIENCE Department: PSYCHOLOGY Credits: 3.00 Theories of Learning. The aim of this course is to provide the student with an understanding of modern learning theory, its historical context, theoretical ideas, research, and applications. To this end, the theoretical ideas of the major schools of learning--behaviorism, gestalt, cognitivism, and information-processing--are reviewed. 3 hours lecture.
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College: COLLEGE OF HUMANITIES AND SOCIAL SCIENCE Department: PSYCHOLOGY Credits: 3.00 Psychological Aspects of Disabling Conditions. The purpose of this course is to enhance the students' understanding of the psychological, social and educational implications of disabling conditions in infancy, childhood and adolescence. Topics to be discussed include, but are not limited to, learning disabilities, developmental disabilities, pervasive developmental disorder, emotional/behavioral disorders, chronic illness and ADHD. Issues associated with classification, attitude towards special education, placement and program design and inclusion will be discussed from the psychological perspective. Students will be expected to form and articulate a conceptual framework for understanding and working with children and adolescents with disabilities. Frameworks for working with parents and families will also be included.
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College: COLLEGE OF HUMANITIES AND SOCIAL SCIENCE Department: PSYCHOLOGY Credits: 3.00 Child and Adolescent Psychopathology. Prerequisites: Matriculation in the Child/Adolescent Clinical program or permission of the department. This course emphasizes the diagnosis of psychological disorders usually first evident in infancy, childhood or adolescence. Topics to be covered include, but are not limited to, affective disorders, anxiety disorders, conduct disorders, substance abuse, sexuality/gender identity disorders, pervasive developmental disorder and behavioral aspects of developmental disabilities. Students will be expected to understand DSM-IV categories. Each student is expected to be familiar with developmental psychology and personality development. Issues associated with evaluation, classification and diagnosis will be discussed extensively. Guidelines for appropriate interventions will be provided. 3 hours lecture.
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