PSYC 316 – Adolescent Behav:Growth & Developmt
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Take PSYC-206. (Required, Previous). Credit Hours: Min: 3; Max: Description: Study of the adolescent today, including cognition and reasoning; neuropsychological development; attitudes and values toward sex, family, school, and peers; delinquency and substance use; activism and work; and personality development. Models of gene-environment interaction, including the biopsychosocial perspective and neuropsychological bases of behavior, will […]
PSYC 206 – Introductory Psychology
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Credit Hours: Min: 3; Max: Description: Survey of the biological, experimental (including sensory processes, learning, memory, and motivation), social, personality, and developmental processes. In addition to these content areas, an understanding of scientific methodology will be studied.
PSYC 216 – Introductory Psychology Laboratory
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Take PSYC-206. (Required, Previous or concurrent). Credit Hours: Min: 1; Max: Description: The main focus will include hands-on experiences with scientific methodology used in psychology including observation of phenomenon, data collection, data analysis, critical analysis of findings, and report writing.
PSYC 220 – Careers in Psychology
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Take PSYC-206 PSYC-216. (Required, Previous). Credit Hours: Min: 1; Max: Description: Provides general knowledge concerning careers that may be pursued in Psychology. Topics include strategies in making career decisions, how to apply to graduate schools, and how to seek entry-level jobs with a bachelor’s degree. Entry-level evaluation of the major will occur.
PSYC 302 – Quantitative & Psychometric Methods
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Take PSYC-206 PSYC-216. (Required, Previous). Credit Hours: Min: 3; Max: Description: The student will become familiar with fundamental descriptive and inferential statistics as used in psychology. Topics will also include reliability, validity, confidence intervals, and measures of effect size. In addition, students learn APA-style reporting of statistics and become familiar with SPSS.
HNRS 254HH – Spec Top:Soc, Psy & Lang of Advert
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Credit Hours: Min: 3; Max: Description: Course topics may be interdisciplinary and cover innovative, non-traditional topics within the Social Sciences. May be taken for General Education credit as a Social Sciences elective. May be applied as elective credit in applicable major with permission of chair or dean.