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3.00 Credits
Students examine the key social and cultural institutions in the United States today: family, religion, education, politics, and the economy. These institutions are examined in terms of historical origins, underlying values, current functions and possible future evolution. The course includes an analysis of how individuals participate in American society through these social institutions. The experiences of selected subcultures are also examined. (Offered fall term) Recommended prerequisite: SB 110 Introduction to Anthropology, or SB 130 Introduction to Sociology.
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3.00 Credits
The purpose of this course is to introduce students to the theories and methods used to analyze the policies of American social welfare. Students will focus on various social welfare programs, such as income maintenance and employment, the American health care system, child welfare policy, housing policies and others. Students will learn about the development of policy, the relationship between social problems and social policy, and ideologies that affect policy decisionmaking. (Offered spring term) Recommended prerequisite: SB 130 Introduction to Sociology.
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3.00 Credits
This course is a thorough introduction to the major theories of learning. As well as touching upon the work of Pavlov, Thorndike, Hull, Skinner, Tolman, and others, the course will cover such specific topics as habituation, classical conditioning, instrumental conditioning, stimulus control, aversive control, schedules of reinforcement, choice behavior, learning set, rule learning, place learning, and observational learning. The course will also stress practical applications of these principles (e.g, token economies, systematic desensitization, etc.). Prerequisite: SB 120 Introduction to Psychology
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3.00 Credits
An examination of crime and delinquency causation. Topics include the extent of, types of, and societal reactions to crime and delinquency. This course will review the problems in measuring the incidence of crime and delinquency. Required prerequisites: SB 120 Introduction to Psychology, SB 130 Introduction to Sociology, CJ 151 Introduction to Criminal Justice Functions and Processes, and SB 231 Social Problems.
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3.00 Credits
This is an empirical and research-based study of the relation of the physical environment to psychological processes and interpersonal behavior. Topic areas include privacy, territoriality, crowding, environmental stress, environmental design in organizational settings, and the psychology of architecture. The course considers research strategies and findings on the behavioral and attitudinal aspects of living and working environments. Recommended prerequisites: SB 110 Introduction to Anthropology, SB 120 Introduction to Psychology or SB 130 Introduction to Sociology.
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3.00 Credits
The course examines psychological, social, and biological conceptualizations and consequences of dying, death and grief in contemporary society, with a special emphasis on examining one's own feelings and attitudes towards death.
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3.00 Credits
This course is an advanced introduction into the study of mental representations and processes. The topics covered will include perception, attention, memory, language, concept formation, and decisionmaking. As well as covering relevant theories and research findings, the course will relate course content to real world applications. Prerequisite: SB 120 Introduction to Psychology.
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3.00 Credits
This course deals with the history, mechanisms of action, short- and long-term effects, side effects, and uses and abuses of drugs that affect behavior. The drugs considered are alcohol, major and minor tranquilizers, antidepressants and stimulants, including cocaine, amphetamines and other drugs of abuse. Required prerequisite: SB 120 Introduction to Psychology.
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3.00 Credits
This course is designed to increase the student's understanding of the research process and to enable the student to effectively evaluate research in his or her chosen field of study. The overall objective is to assist the student in developing the multi-faceted skills necessary to become an effective consumer of research. The study is directed toward teaching the student how to evaluate, rather than conduct, research studies. These evaluation skills prepare the student to respond to research presented in journals, professional interaction and the daily communication of information in today's society. (Offered annually) Recommended prerequisites: SM 161 College Algebra or SM 261 Statistics or equivalent course.
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3.00 Credits
This class is designed to give students first-hand experience with empirical data. Students will gain knowledge of scientific methodology and gain experience in organizing and interpreting observations form psychological experiments. They will also gain experience in writing research reports and APA style. The course includes introductory lectures on experimental design, the performance of several research projects, the analyses of these projects using SPSS, and the preparation of research reports. Prerequisite: SB 120, SM261,
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