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4.00 Credits
Prerequisite: Senior status, POL 390 Advanced study through individual research and formal seminar reports on topics of special interest to seminar participants. May be repeated for credit.
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4.00 Credits
Psychology Core Course. Introduction to major topics in psychology, including biopsychology, development, cognition, counseling-clinical psychology, social psychology, and psychology in industrial/organizational settings.
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4.00 Credits
Prerequisite: PSY 101 Psychology Core Course. Encourages students to ask and answer questions from a psychological perspective. It is an experiential course in which students focus on critically evaluating knowledge in psychology. Students will learn to appreciate the strengths as well as to understand the limitations, of various research methodologies. Students will read research articles, create hypotheses, collect and interpret data, and learn how to present results in APA style.
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4.00 Credits
This is a Topics Course with no prerequisites, open to and appropriate for first-year students.
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4.00 Credits
Prerequisite: PSY 121 Restriction: Open only to psychology majors Psychology Core Course. The purpose of this course is to bridge basic knowledge of scientific inquiry, gained through PSY 121 (Methods and Tools) and more complex applications of scientific inquiry, which is the major goal of PSY 299 (Research Seminar). This course will provide knowledge of basic designs, design issues, data analysis including theoretical and practical knowledge, and communication/interpretation of results.
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4.00 Credits
Prerequisite: PSY 101 Psychology Foundation Course. Explores biological influences on human behavior. Topics include sensation, sleep, hunger, sexual behaviors, memory, attention, movement, fear, stress, aggression, depression, obsessive-compulsive disorder, and schizophrenia. Students learn how neurotransmitters and hormones influence behavior, and how these effects are modified by drugs.
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4.00 Credits
Prerequisite: PSY 101 Psychology Foundation Course. Applies the principles of learning and memory to behavioral change in animal and human situations. Following the course, students will be prepared to conduct group research and to prepare reports on topics that pertain to learning and memory, as well as to explore more specific topics in courses including Cognitive Seminar, Memory, and Applied Behavior Analysis.
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4.00 Credits
Prerequisite: PSY 101 Psychology Foundation Course. This course introduces students to cognitive science. Major topics include the neural basis of cognitive processes, the nature of consciousness, visual pattern recognition, attention, memory acquisition, encoding and retrieval errors, associative networks, semantic knowledge, language, decision-making, and problem solving.
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4.00 Credits
Prerequisite: PSY 101 Psychology Foundation Course. This course examines how the real or imagined presence of others influences people's thoughts, feelings, and behaviors. Through lectures, discussions, class activities, and written assignments, students learn about the relationship between the individual and society.
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4.00 Credits
Prerequisite: PSY 101 Psychology Foundation Course. Examines contemporary theories of personality, as well as research characteristics of each theoretical approach. Theories will be critically evaluated and applied to case studies. Cultural contexts will be examined.
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