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3.00 Credits
This course examines western theories of personality. It involves a brief journey through some of the historical and philosophical underpinnings of our current theory and focuses on seven basic personality models from western psychology to lay the groundwork for further study. The course combines respectful exposure to academic knowledge with the belief that theory is constantly evolving and should be challenged. Students are encouraged to cultivate a facility with the vocabulary and concepts to allow a full expression of your own thought, including an increased ability to discriminate and identify both wisdom and limitations in existing theory through critical thinking and well-developed arguments. There is an emphasis on creative and critical analysis of these theories and their biases in terms of gender, race, ethnicity, culture, spirituality, and other often neglected essential aspects of human experience. SOCIAL SCIENCE DOMAIN
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3.00 Credits
This course examines the ways women and mental disorder have been linked in American psychiatric and mental health literature. A gender perspective on several categories of mental disorder is offered, including depression, PMS, hysteria and borderline personality disorder. Clinical approaches to women, including psychoanalysis, feminist therapy and pharmacological treatment are considered. The historic gender bias of the psychiatric and other mental health professions is explored. SOCIAL SCIENCE DOMAIN
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This course explores fundamental ethical theories and applies them to an understanding of professional ethics in counseling. A variety of Western views are addressed including deontological, utilitarian, virtue ethics, and egoistic theories. The class includes several cross-cultural theories such as Chinese, Indian, Islamic and Buddhist. Students scrutinize basic ethical dilemmas encountered in the work of being a psychologist, as well as engaging in the debate about what is moral, how we make choices about right and wrong, and the responsibilities counselors shoulder in giving advice and in their influence over another person's life. SOCIAL SCIENCE & HUMANITIES DOMAIN
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3.00 Credits
Small groups are an inescapable and essential element of public and private lives. This course helps students understand: (a) why small groups are important; (b) how they develop and work; and (c) how an individual can have an impact on the course of action of a group. SOCIAL SCIENCE DOMAIN
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3.00 Credits
This course explores the complex issues of sexuality, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, and "normal" and "abnormal" sexual behavior/ practices through the lens of social constructionism. In so doing, the course investigates the philosophical underpinnings of "natural" sexuality while challenging the assumptions and beliefs upon which it is built. The course attempts to deconstruct the notion of an innate, transhistorical, and transcultural sexual body through the examination of the scientific, psychological, moral, cultural, and political constructs that have shaped this discourse. SOCIAL SCIENCE DOMAIN
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3.00 Credits
This course explores some of the relationships between culture and psychological development. Cultural norms, values, beliefs, language, and knowledge are studied in terms of their influence upon physical, cognitive, personality, and social growth. Child-rearing practices and socialization approaches found in various cultures are a central focus. SOCIAL SCIENCE DOMAIN
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Ecopsychology holds that human beings create wellness for both themselves and for non-human beings through the process of connecting with nature. While ecopsychology itself is a relatively new development within mainstream psychology, the fields of wilderness therapy, adventure therapy, and therapeutic recreation provide a base of research, applied knowledge and experiential learning that extends back for more than 30 years. Through experiential exercises, students learn and practice skills to expand their ability to develop and maintain a deep connectedness with themselves, with others and with nature. SOCIAL SCIENCE DOMAIN
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3.00 Credits
This course is designed to increase understanding of the psychological basis underlying common parenting practices, broaden the student's knowledge of available parenting techniques, and make the student aware of parenting practices that are usually maladaptive or that intensify difficulties in the parent-child relationship. The concept of equifinality (that there are many different paths that will result in a healthy, functioning child) is stressed throughout the course. SOCIAL SCIENCE DOMAIN
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3.00 Credits
This course examines the dimensions of Gestalt-Phenomenological theory and therapy in a contemporary perspective. Students are exposed to a theoretical orientation rooted in existential philosophy and early Gestalt psychology. Students explore the historical foundations of the Gestalt Movement, the political influence of Paul Goodman, the emergence of Gestalt theory/therapy as a field that integrates existential philosophy, holism, and human ecology as well as political awareness and sensitivity. SOCIAL SCIENCE DOMAIN
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1.00 Credits
Bibliotherapy uses literature as a means for better understanding our own personal lives and experiences. This workshop explores our bodies as cultural constructs, investigating how social and political forces shape our anatomy and biology. Using the novella, The Ballad of the Sad Cafe by Carson McCullers, students focus on how our bodies learn and experience the appropriate behaviors of our race, class and gender. No grade equivalents allowed. HUMANITIES & SOCIAL SCIENCE DOMAINS
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