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1.00 Credits
This one-day workshop explores the ways that war impacts the psychosocial well-being of children, their families, and communities. The topic covers children who currently reside in war, as well as children who are refugees. Workshop participants develop practical plans of action in prevention, emergency intervention, and rehabilitation for war-affected children. This workshop affords students in psychology the opportunity to expand their focus of psychological intervention. Students gain insight into a crucial contemporary concern related to the world's children. No grade equivalents allowed. SOCIAL SCIENCE DOMAIN
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3.00 Credits
This course examines how children become linguistically competent and examines words and sentences in their phonetic and syntactic forms, their meanings (semantic form), and in the ways in which they are used (pragmatic form). Special emphasis is placed on language as a social phenomenon whose meaning is embedded in social life. SOCIAL SCIENCE DOMAIN
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3.00 Credits
This course provides a comprehensive survey of the science of human development from early childhood through the adolescent years. Development is covered from the physiological, cognitive, social, and behavioral perspectives of psychology. Topics include parent-child interaction; the attention, memory, perception, and problem-solving abilities of children and adolescents; moral development; aggression; the effects of schooling, operant conditioning, classical conditioning, observational learning, and punishment; and the psychological effects of puberty, adolescent social interactions, and gender differences and similarities. SOCIAL SCIENCE DOMAIN
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4.00 Credits
This course examines theory, individual cases, and major research findings to investigate the nature of adult development. Psychological paradigms are integrated with sociological and philosophical concepts toward an understanding of the meaning and value of adult life. Theories of cognitive, ego, self, faith, and moral development are studied in the context of adult experience -- family, work, relationships, and self-realization. SOCIAL SCIENCE DOMAIN
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3.00 Credits
What is leadership and why is it important Is leadership a matter of power or authority What makes a leader - virtues, charisma, or position Are leaders about goodness, justice, or mere efficacy This course is designed to explore the theoretical aspects of leadership from several disciplinary perspectives and to understand how theory applies to real situations. Topics include leadership models, leader behavior and skills, followership, teams and motivation, social and ethical responsibilities, and leading with creativity. Students are expected to analyze cases, current situations and their own leadership style. SOCIAL SCIENCE DOMAIN
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4.00 Credits
The course introduces students to experimental and non-experimental designs used in psychological research. Class time is divided between discussion of the reading material and laboratory work. Students discuss commonly used designs, the elements of these designs, and the benefits of each type of design. Students get hands-on experience with several studies, serving as subjects in these studies, analyzing the data, and writing reports on the research using an APA-style format. Students are involved in designing their own studies, gathering data, analyzing the data, and presenting this information both in oral and written form. Prerequisite: MAT 403/PSY 414 Descriptive and Inferential Statistics. QUANTITATIVE & SOCIAL SCIENCE DOMAINS
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3.00 Credits
This course engages the structural-developmental research study of ethical compassion in decision making. Theories of moral, ethical, and spiritual virtues are presented. Expected research relationships between moral and ethical judgment questionnaires developed by Kohlberg and Erdynast are discussed as are general relationships between levels of moral development and levels of spiritual development. The social contract, structural-developmental conception of compassion presumes capacity for several levels of compassion within individuals and across different individuals. The course also focuses on spiritual development as conceptualized by the Tibetan Dalai Lama. Students review the research interview questionnaires designed for use by a team of researchers to interview Tibetan refugee adolescents in Dharamsala, India, location of the Tibetan-government-in exile. SOCIAL SCIENCE DOMAIN
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4.00 Credits
This course concentrates on the application of statistical methods to research problems. Statistical methods such as correlation analysis, t-tests, and analysis of variance are applied to research designs. In addition, students learn how to utilize computer programs to solve statistical problems. QUANTITATIVE METHODS & SOCIAL SCIENCE DOMAINS
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3.00 Credits
This course provides the student with a basic understanding of marriage (not limited to heterosexual unions) through the lens of history, systems theory, psychoanalytic theory and contemporary psychological approaches. In addition the student is provided the opportunity to explore the concepts within their own family of origin/nuclear family and current relationships. Focus is on developing a working knowledge of several of the major theories of attraction, coupling and marriage. Most importantly the student explores his or her responses to the material covered. Issues of mate selection, responsibility, sexuality, monogamy, communication and conflict resolution are discussed as they pertain to the subjective experience of each individual couple, with additional focus on the socio-cultural influences of power and oppression. All work is observed through a socially informed lens, paying particular attention to the very real effects of gender, power, age, race and heterosexual dominance on couples. SOCIAL SCIENCE DOMAIN
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4.00 Credits
In this course, the case study method is employed to examine contemporary organizational problems that concern rights, responsibilities, justice, and liberties. Topics include affirmative action, employee rights, testing in the workplace, AIDS in the workplace, maternity/paternity leave, fraud, bribery, kickbacks, and environmental issues. Landmark U.S. and State Supreme Court decisions are analyzed from the perspectives of dominant ethical theories, such as those of Bentham, Hume, Mill, Kant, and Rawls. SOCIAL SCIENCE DOMAIN
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