Psychology (PSY)

Prerequisites: PSY 1113 or concurrent enrollment. This course will explore the range of career options in psychology and other fields available to those with bachelor's and graduate psychology degrees, and provide academic planning assistance. Sub-disciplines within the field of psychology will be examined as well as graduate school application process. (F, Sp, Su)

Prerequisites: Cannot be substituted for 2113. Math 0123 or satisfactory score on math placement test. An introductory applied statistics course which will focus on descriptive and inferential statistical methods. Emphasis will be placed on in-class activities and homework which help the student learn by experience. Topics include measures of central tendency and variability, z-scores, normal distribution, correlation, regression, sampling distributions hypotheses testing, t-tests and chi-square tests. Laboratory

Prerequisites: Junior standing. A study of the African-American social movement for equal rights, including contemporary events concerning civil rights. Focused around documentary films with supported readings. Emphasis on the study of stereotypes, prejudice, and racism.

Prerequisites: PSY 1113 and PSY 2113 or permission of instructor. Industrial Organizational psychology covers psychological theories and their practical applications to the workplace. The course covers issues of critical relevance to the well-being of individuals and organizational performance. Topics include, but are not limited to, motivation, selection, training, assessment, performance management, satisfaction, teams, and leadership.

Prerequisite: Major in Psychology; PSY 1113 or an introductory Biology course. Health psychology examines the bi-directional relationship between psychology and health. Topics include, but are not limited to, physiological and psychological factors that influence perceptions of stress, the links between stress and illness, the psychosocial influences on health enhancing and health compromising behaviors, adjustment to illness and coping, pain, sociocultural factors and health, and personality and health. (F, Sp, Su)

Prerequisite: junior standing or permission of instructor. May be repeated once with change of topic; maximum credit six hours. Content varies with the instructor. Deals with central topical areas of study in social psychology (i.e., attitudes and social cognition; person perception; groups and group dynamics; or theory construction). (Irreg.)

Prerequisites: Graduate standing and permission of instructor. An overview of classic theories and studies from the first 100 years of social psychology. Topics include attitudes and persuasion, group processes, attraction, social influences, conformity, helping, aggression, dissonance, emotions, and attribution. Seminar