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3.00 Credits
Course surveys major theoretical approaches to the study of personality. Applying theories of personality structure, students examine topics such as human nature, motivation, development, learning, and change. Instruction examines traditional personality models, including psychoanalytic, Adlerian, and behavioral, and more recent models, such as transactional, analytic, gestalt, and cognitive. 3 CREDIT S
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Content covers assessment, description, theory, research, causes, and treatments of various psychological maladaptive behaviors and disorders. Some mental health problems studied include anxiety disorders, depression, neuroses, psychoses. Students learn of classifications and definitions of mental illness and acquire a broader understanding of human nature. 3 CREDIT S
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A study in the interrelationship between the workings of the brain and the life of the mind; the incredible experience of neurology transforming into a mental happening. Particular attention will be placed on two questions. Is self a spirit, a computer, a material quality of reflective consciousness Are people by nature determined to be selfish These considerations will be placed in the context of the possibilities of the future for the human species. 3 CREDIT S
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This course examines the social construction of gender and its impact on the psychology of women. In addition to gender, the course explores the ways constructs such as race, ethnicity, class, sexual orientation and age interplay and operate at individual, interpersonal and systemic levels to modify women's experiences. Topics include traditional and contemporary feminist theories, gender stereotypes and differences, victimization of women and mental health of women. Finally, it examines the social and political implications of our cultural understandings gender, and raises questions about the possibilities for change. 3 CREDIT S
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Historically, and understandably, psychology focuses on decreasing maladaptive emotions and behaviors. This focus will not and should not be abandoned. However after WWII a need emerged to study how human beings prosper in the face of adversity. Consequently, the area of Positive Psychology emerged to identify and enhance the human strengths and virtues that make life worth living and allow individuals and communities to thrive. This research-based course examines the different assumptions and questions resulting from this change in perspective. 3 CREDIT S
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Course examines the crucial importance and objectives of laws in modern society. Constitutional law, criminal law, family law, consumer law, and employment law are studied to provide students with a better understanding of the interrelationship between law and the larger society of institutions, processes, and goals. Students are introduced to the role of judicial precedent and legislation in our society from both theoretical and practical points of view. 3 CREDIT S
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This course examines the legal status of women in contemporary America. It will cover women's legal rights and inequalities in family law, in employment law, in education, in the judicial system and in the military. It will also cover women's reproductive rights and the development of women's statutory and constitutional rights in the late 20th century. 3 CREDIT S provides students with a thorough background for understanding how the term 'human rights' can both support particularpolitical agendas and also frame objective legal investigations. 3 CREDIT S PREREQUISITES: 52-1152 WRITING AND RHETORIC II OR PLACEMENT
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This Course will specifically examine the major challenges, and changing trends facing families and marriages. Families and marriages will be studied as dynamic systems, as social organizations, and as social institutions. The course will explore the changing nature of family patterns and marriages in the U.S., as well as some comparisons to non-Western cultures. Areas of study include the family in historical perspective, family life course, socialization within families, gender roles, parent-child relations, sexual orientation, nontraditional families, alternative unions, marital interaction and power, and reconstituted families. 3 CREDIT S
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3.00 Credits
Course introduces students to theory and practice of the arts as social action. Students undertake fieldwork in one of several on-going arts-based community projects. This practical work in a real-world situation is supported by readings and discussions in social and community psychology, the role of the arts in community development and methods of community research. Students will design a community research project and create personal narratives in their chosen medium reflecting some aspect of the course. 3 CREDIT S
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1.00 - 4.00 Credits
1-4 CREDIT S
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