Semester Hours: 1 Lecture Hours: 1 Laboratory Hours: 0 Facilitates adjustment to college. Standardized tests and counseling offered to provide personal, vocational, and educational development.
Semester Hours: 3 Lecture Hours: 3 Laboratory Hours: 0 A study of the research and theory in the psychology of learning, cognition, and motivation; factors that impact learning; and application of learning strategies. Theoretical models of strategic learning, cognition, and motivation serve as the conceptual basis for the introduction of college-level student academic strategies. Students use assessment instruments (e.g., learning inventories) to help them identify their own strengths and weaknesses as strategic learners. Students are ultimately expected to integrate and apply the learning skills discussed across their own academic programs and become effective and efficient learners. Students developing these skills should be able to continually draw from the theoretical models they have learned. (A student may NOT earn credit for both EDUC 1300 and PSYC-1300)
Semester Hours: 3 Lecture Hours: 3 Laboratory Hours: 0 A survey of the major psychological topics, theories and approaches to the scientific study of behavior and mental processes. Required Prerequisite(s): TSI-compliant in reading
Semester Hours: 3 Lecture Hours: 3 Laboratory Hours: 0 This course will provide an overview of the broad field of human sexuality. Topics will be covered from various perspectives – biological, sociological, anthropological, etc., but will focus primarily on the psychological perspective. The goal is for each student to learn factual, scientifically-based information that will provoke thought and contribute to his/her own decision-making on sexual issues outside of the classroom.
Semester Hours: 3 Lecture Hours: 3 Laboratory Hours: 0 This course will address psychological development from conception through middle childhood with references to physical, cognitive, social and personality changes. Students will examine the interplay of biological factors, human interaction, social structures and cultural forces in development. Recommended Prerequisite(s):PSYC 2301
Semester Hours: 3 Lecture Hours: 3 Laboratory Hours: 0 A study of social, emotional, cognitive and physical factors and influences of a developing human from conception to death. Recommended Prerequisite(s):PSYC 2301
Semester Hours: 3 Lecture Hours: 3 Laboratory Hours: 0 Study of the processes involved in adjustment of individuals to their personal and social environments.
Semester Hours: 3 Lecture Hours: 3 Laboratory Hours: 0 Study of various approaches to determinants, development, and assessment of personality. Includes contemporary theories of personality with emphasis on personality dynamics. Individual personality trends stressed with attention to group interaction. Recommended Prerequisite(s):PSYC 2301
Semester Hours: 3 Lecture Hours: 3 Laboratory Hours: 0 Study of individual behavior within the social environment. May include topics such as the socio-psychological process, attitude formation and change, interpersonal relations, and group processes. A student may NOT earn credit for both PSYC-2319 and SOCI 2326. Recommended Prerequisite(s):PSYC 2301 or SOCI 1301