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5.00 Credits
3 (3 + 0) Prerequisite: Completion of PSY 2320; and a minimum grade of B in both PSY 2310 and PSY 2320 This course offers study of multivariate statistics such as multiple regression, factor analysis, discriminate analysis, and multivariate analysis of variance. Students will learn how to use the Statistical Package for the Social Sciences (SPSS) to perform the necessary statistical tests. Emphasis will be on understanding, application, and interpretation of multivariate statistics.
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5.00 Credits
3 (3 + 0) Prerequisite: 15 semester hours of psychology, satisfaction of all Level I and Level II General Studies course requirements, and Senior standing This course presents a critical survey of major theoretical and meta-theoretical systems in psychology from an historical perspective. Philosophical assumptions as well as cultural and political forces will be discussed. Similarities and differences among the various theoretical models will be highlighted. The student will synthesize and critically evaluate material from previous courses in psychology. (Senior Experience)
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5.00 Credits
3 (3 + 0) Prerequisite: PSY 1001 and PSY 3310 This course examines current research and theories in cognitive psychology. Topics covered include: attention, pattern recognition, perception, memory, language, thinking, categorization, problem solving, reasoning, and decision making. The information processing and other perspectives to the study of cognition are examined.
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5.00 Credits
3 (3 + 0) Prerequisite: Junior or Senior standing and psychology major or minor This course is an intensive teaching seminar, intended for advanced students majoring or minoring in psychology, organized around a selected theme. Course content will vary, and the course may be repeated once for credit for a different topic.
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5.00 Credits
3 (3 + 0) Prerequisite: Senior standing, completion of at least 33 hours in human development major and PSY 3280 This course is designed for human development majors as the culmination of the program course work. Students will develop an interdisciplinary bibliography and utilize research methodology to write and present orally a senior thesis. Each student's thesis topic, concentrating on an area of human development, will be individually chosen, crafted, and researched to synthesize the diverse developmental perspectives surrounding the issue. Topics may be as diverse as evaluating teaching methods, tracking development of a specific skill in children, observing specific aspects of family interactions, and comparing methods of eldercare. Students will meet in seminar with the instructor to work on course objectives and orally present their theses. (Senior Experience)
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5.00 Credits
3 (1 + 4) Prerequisite: fifteen semester hours of psychology; and junior or senior standing; psychology major or minor, or human development major This course provides intensive experience as an undergraduate teaching assistant under close faculty supervision. The experience includes lecture/seminar meetings and additional hours of application each week. During the seminar portion of the course, students will learn about preparing a learning environment, performing textbook selection, and writing materials required for teaching. Students will also be given guidance on job/graduate school preparation. Students may take the course only once for credit but may later do a two-credit independent study with a different supervising professor.
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5.00 Credits
3 (3 + 0) Prerequisite: Minimum performance standard score on the reading preassessment placement test This course is designed to expand communication strategies in reading, listening and reasoning. Through pragmatic assignments, students will have the opportunity for guided practice and application. (General Studies-Level I, Communications)
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5.00 Credits
3 (3 + 0) Prerequisite: RDG 1510 or Permission of instructor and satisfaction of Level I General Studies course Requirements This course is designed to develop and expand analytical, creative and evaluative thought processes. Students will apply their critical reading and thinking processes as they study academic and societal issues. They will learn strategies for transferring these processes to other situations. (General Studies-Level II, Arts and Letters)
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6.00 Credits
3 (3 + 0) Prerequisite: PSY 1800, EDU 3100 (for elementary licensure students) or permission of instructor, and satisfactory completion of General Studies Level I composition and mathematics requirement; and junior standing This course builds the knowledge base of prospective teachers and includes the research and theoretical foundation of P-6 developmental reading programs. It stresses the environmental, cognitive, and language factors influencing the acquisition and development of literacy with emphasis on phonological awareness and graph phonemics. In this course, preservice teachers gain a current knowledge base which will enable them to select instructional techniques, materials, and assessment instruments that will facilitate the literacy development of diverse learners. For licensure, this knowledge-base course must be followed by a second reading course, either RDG 3120 for early childhood licensure candidates or RDG 4000 for elementary licensure candidates, that will emphasize performance-based and field-based learning experiences.
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3.00 Credits
3 (3 + 0) Prerequisite: RDG 3110: and junior standing Corequisite: ECE 3150, ECE 3160 Standards-based instructional techniques for literacy in a balanced literacy program, preschool- grade 3, are built on a foundation of oral language development. The focus of this course is on instruction which enables children to develop the skills, concepts, and attitudes necessary for greatest success in becoming proficient readers and writers. Diverse student populations are addressed when selecting instructional approaches and designing materials for literacy development. The content of this course is practiced in the field experience course, ECE 3160, shared with a planning and management course that is taken concurrently.
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