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Psychology Courses

PSYCH-100 Topics in Psychology

.5-4 Units: 9-72 hours of lecture and/or 27-216 hours of laboratory, per term, SC, DG

This course covers topics in psychology. Topics will be chosen to supplement and serve as additions to current offerings in the area, and will be announced each term in the current schedule of classes.

PSYCH-118 Psychology of Individual and Group Behavior

3 Units: 54 hours of lecture, per term, SC, DG, CSU

This course presents a study of human needs as related to everyday problems of individual adjustment and group behavior through the utilization of group discussion techniques, assigned reading, and weekly journals.

PSYCH-120 Human Sexuality

3 Units: 54 hours of lecture, per term, SC, DG, CSU, UC (C-ID: PSY 130)

This course explains the processes involved in the experience of human sexual activity. This course will emphasize the role of psychological, sociological, physiological, and social aspects applicable to human sexuality. This includes topical commentaries on sexually transmitted infections, child abuse, contemporary sexual activities and lifestyles, ethics in sex research and methods of treatment utilized for healthy sexuality.

PSYCH-122 Individual Adjustment

3 Units: 54 hours of lecture, per term, SC, DG, CSU, UC (C-ID: PSY 115)

This course stresses the complexities inherent in healthy personal adjustment and helps the student to identify theoretical and practical strategies for dealing with everyday challenges and threatening events, from birth to death.

PSYCH-126 Child Development

3 Units: 54 hours of lecture, per term, SC, DG, CSU, UC

This course examines various theories of child development and applications of child rearing practices from conception to adolescence, with emphasis on the preschool and childhood years. Students will gain an appreciation of the young child as a growing person developing personal relationships and meeting various tasks in such social settings as the family, peer group and school.

PSYCH-128 Life Span Development

3 Units: 54 hours of lecture, per term, LG, DG, CSU, UC (C-ID: PSY 180)

This course provides an overview, from a psychological perspective, of human development from conception through death, including biological and environmental influences. Theories and research of physical, cognitive, personality, and social development are examined, as well as attention to developmental problems. This course offers developmental insights emerging from current research in psychology, sociology, anthropology, and biology.

PSYCH-130 Psychology of Personality and Growth

3 Units: 54 hours of lecture, per term, SC, DG, CSU, UC

This course will study personality theories relevant to personal growth, and will examine psychological concepts useful in understanding human personality functioning and development. Study of psychological techniques that promote individual growth will be included.

PSYCH-132 Introduction to Abnormal Psychology

3 Units: 54 hours of lecture, per term, SC, DG, CSU, UC (C-ID: PSY 120)

This course is designed to provide an overview of abnormal behavior. The student will explore the concept of abnormal or maladaptive behavior and the theoretical approaches to the explanation of psychological disorders. The student will also explore the biological, psychological and social factors, which must be considered in the explanation and treatment of maladaptive behaviors.

PSYCH-140 Psychology of African Americans

3 Units: 54 hours of lecture, per term, SC, DG, CSU, UC

This course will provide a theoretical and practical framework through which study and analysis of key factors in the psychological development of African Americans/Blacks living in a Western European-centered society can be considered. The course will look at authentic Black identity beginning with Africa, through the trans-Atlantic slave trade, and current day phenomena of Black experiences including health, education, family dynamics, the Hip Hop media on the psycho-social well-being of Black people, and will gauge its accuracy and relevance through a culturally specific African-centered lens. This investigation uses a psycho-historical approach to critically examine and query Western mainstream psychological notions and accepted concepts that frame the discourse and study of Black people, their behavior, culture and communities.

PSYCH-150 Introduction to Biological Psychology

3 Units: 54 hours of lecture, per term, LR, DG, CSU, UC (C-ID: PSY 150)

Prerequisite: PSYCH-220 or equivalent.

Advisory: College level reading and writing skills

This course introduces scientific study of the biological bases of behavior and its fundamental role in neurosciences. Physiological, hormonal, and neurochemical mechanisms, and brain-behavior relationships underlying the psychological phenomena of sensation, perception, regulatory processes, emotions, learning, memory, and psychological disorders will be addressed. This course also includes historical scientific contributions and current research principles for studying brain-behavior relationships and mental processes. Ethical standards for human and animal research are discussed in the context of both invasive and non-invasive experimental research.

PSYCH-170 Social Psychology

3 Units: 54 hours of lecture, per term, LR, DG, CSU, UC (C-ID: PSY 170)

Advisory: College level Reading and Writing Skills.

This course considers individual human behavior in relation to the social environment. The power of the situation, other individuals, and the social group will be examined. Emphasized topics include: aggression, prejudice and stereotypes, interpersonal attraction, attitudes and attitude change, conformity, group phenomena, gender roles, cultural norms, person perception, and social cognition.

PSYCH-205B Introduction to Research Methods in Psychology with Lab

4 Units: 54 hours of lecture, 54 hours of lab, per term, LR. DG, CSU, UC
(C-ID: PSY 205B)

Prerequisite: PSYCH-220, MATH-164

Advisory: College level reading and writing skills

This course surveys various psychological research methods with an emphasis on research design, experimental procedures, descriptive methods, instrumentation, and the collection, analysis, interpretation, and reporting of research data. Research design and methodology will be examined through a review of research in a variety of the sub-disciplines of psychology. In laboratory sessions students will conduct experimental and non-experimental research in variety of areas of psychology. Actual data collected from research conducted during laboratory sessions will be analyzed with statistical software.

PSYCH-220 General Psychology

3 Units: 54 hours of lecture, per term, SC, DG, CSU, UC (C-ID: PSY 110)

This course presents an introduction to the discipline of psychology as a science. It includes the scientific approach and the research methods used and ethical considerations in order to investigate basic aspects of behavior and mental processes. This includes critical thinking, learning, memory, sensation, perception, motivation, adjustment, emotion, personality, related physiological and anatomical factors, as well as social-cultural influences.

PSYCH-222 Multicultural Psychology

3 Units: 54 hours of lecture, per term, SC, DG, CSU, UC

This course will provide students with a broad general understanding of many of the common topics in social psychology, such as relationships between social behavior and good attitudes, self-concept, mass communication, and group process. In addition, culture and ethnicity issues will be integrated into each topical area. Specific comparisons of the social experience of racial and ethnic groups in the United States of America will provide the foundation for lectures and discussions. Classic and contemporary research pertinent to racial and ethnic groups will be presented to help students understand themselves and others in a cultural/ethnic context and to heighten their awareness of cultural and ethnic diversity. Relevant contemporary research will be used to heighten student awareness of multicultural psychology.

PSYCH-237 Psychology of Sports

3 Units: 54 hours of lecture, per term, LR, DG, CSU

This course covers psychological aspects of the study of sports. Psychological theories and concepts will be used to examine individual and group behavior in sports with an emphasis on mental factors. This course also examines the ways in which sports have impacted various groups in the United States of America. Topics include the psychological imagination; psychological theory; psychological research methods; and the role of sports psychologists.

PSYCH-298 Independent Study

.2-4 Units: 3.6-72 hours of independent study, per term, SC, DG

Prerequisite: Educational contract of study signed by an instructor, department chair and vice president. Topics must extend beyond regular course offerings.

This course is designed for selected students to pursue independent study in psychology under the direction of an instructor.

PSYCH-300 Field Studies

.1-4 Units: 5.4-72 hours of lecture and/or 10.8-216 hours of laboratory, per term, SC, DG

This course provides the opportunity for students to participate in field experience in various disciplines. In all cases, field classes will be oriented toward direct involvement by the student in some outside activity which should supplement the classroom experience. Petition to repeat for maximum units.