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3.00 Credits
A central problem of developmental psychology is the systematic understanding of the individual's journey from helpless infant to competent social adult. This course investigates four significant areas of children's thinking: 1) the child's ability to think of others as different from her/himself; 2) the child's ability to attribute to others, inner feelings, personality traits and intentions; 3) the developmental path through which these inferences resemble the strengths and biases of adult inferences; and 4) the child's understanding of the social context, with its rules and cultural norms. SOCIAL SCIENCE DOMAIN
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3.00 Credits
In attempting to understand human beliefs and behavior, social psychology looks at the interrelationship between individuals and groups. Social psychology is rooted in Lewin's field theory, which examines how a person's behavior isimpacted not just by the individual's personality but the surrounding social environment. This course explores how various aspects of social psychology help explain issues such as aggression and altruism as forms of social behavior, how attitudes are formed and their relationship to behavior, how we present the self and issues around self-esteem, social identity, prejudice and stereotypes. Students also attend to the impact of cross-cultural experiences on these themes. SOCIAL SCIENCE DOMAIN
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This course examines constructivistic-interactionist theories of adult levels of psychosexual development along with psychoanalytic theory and evolutionary psychology. Psychological and philosophical issues are examined and films are reviewed and discussed to illustrate relational virtues and vices in adult psychosexual relationships. Case studies including those of Marie Curie and Paul Langevin, and John-Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir are examined. Interviews with subjects are analyzed. SOCIAL SCIENCE DOMAIN
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This course examines the concept of love in its myriad expressions, analyzing each within a context of its role in maintaining psychological wholeness and health. Students gain an appreciation for and understanding of the concept of love in its various meanings and expressions as well as its value to a healthy psyche (consciously and sub/unconsciously) to both antiquity as well as contemporary society. Love is recognized as the force of creation and the energy by which life continues to exert itself in its many manifestations. Students discern the myriad experiences of love and their expressions within a personal experience of self and among/between others. HUMANITIES DOMAIN
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3.00 Credits
The broad sweep of Piaget's work, encompassing children's understandings of life, time, space, mathematics, causation, and classification, remains relevant, influencing most areas of psychology. This course examines his developmental theory, providing an overview of Piaget's life, the four stages of development, his ethical standards, and concern with individual differences and mental dysfunctions, and a critique of his theories. SOCIAL SCIENCE DOMAIN
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3.00 Credits
This course presents principles of general systems theory and key aspects of their application in psychology, organizational, urban educational settings, family, and the modern city. The major topics include the system-environment boundaries, the input, output, and flow of information and energy, intra- and interdependence, dynamism, and transformations occurring within and without system. The course is built as a means of evoking and developing systemic dispositions in students' personal and professional experiences. On this ground, students acquire basic knowledge and skills essential to recognize their lives and work environments as systems and generate solutions for changing those environments effectively. SCIENCE AND SOCIAL SCIENCE DOMAINS
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3.00 Credits
This course examines logic as a defensive tool, focusing on gaining an understanding of argument. Students gain the ability to recognize the major fallacies of informal logic, to utilize formal logic notation to analyze arguments, and to recognize logic and illogic under real world conditions. QUANTITATIVE METHODS & SOCIAL SCIENCE DOMAINS
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1.00 Credits
This workshop explores, through literature, the psychology of the aging and how people experience growing old in a culture focused on youth, fearful of the elderly, and in denial of the inevitable aging process inherent in each of us. Through the lens of poetry and literature from several cultures, students explore the emotional responses of the aging to cultures that render them worthless and invisible and that have created rigid stereotypical notions of what it is like to grow old. Students learn to envision new ways for society and individuals to feel and think about the aging. No grade equivalents allowed. HUMANITIES & SOCIAL SCIENCE DOMAIN
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This workshop visits unconventional lives of extraordinary people who transcend conventional concepts of gender identity: from the French Saint Joan of Arc to American icons Calamity Jane and Rupaul, from the galli of Mesopotamia and the hijra of India, to the Faafafine of Samoa, and others who are intersex, twospirit, transvestic, etc. Through this safari of trans identity run patterns of hybrid beauty, leadership, and spiritual stewardship. Students have the opportunity to reevaluate and expand their understandings of gender identity in society. No grade equivalents allowed. SOCIAL SCIENCE DOMAIN
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1.00 Credits
This two-day workshop explores early developments in the advent of psychology and the many contributing influences that have lead to what it has become today. The class covers the early 1900's to today: The historical development of psychotherapy is taught by humanizing the practitioners and theorists through true stories and anecdotes. Their theories and therapeutic practices are discussed in detail, including highlights of their personal lives. Students are introduced to American therapists Carl Rogers and B.F. Skinner who developed their own modes of therapy. Students learn about female therapists, such as Karen Horney and Elizabeth Kubler-Ross, and others who offered many contributions to the field, especially in terms of integrative therapies that have been born out of eclectic treatment practices. The class considers the origins of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM) and its affects on psychotherapy. No grade equivalents allowed. SOCIAL SCIENCE DOMAIN
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