PSYC 315 – Child Behavior:Growth & Development
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Take PSYC-206. (Required, Previous). Credit Hours: Min: 3; Max: Description: Study of theory and research focusing on the psychological development of infants and children. Topics covered include maturation, intelligence, academic achievement, classical and operant conditioning, observational and social learning, language acquisition, and methodological advances in the study of child psychology. Neuropsychological development and models […]
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.
PSCI 101L – Physical Science I Laboratory
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Take PSCI-101. (Required, Concurrent). Credit Hours: Min: ; Max: Description:
PSCI 150 – Physical Science for Teachers
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Take MATH-105 MATH-105E MATH-105L. (Required, Previous). | Take MATH-111 or MATH-121. (Required, Previous or concurrent). | Take PSCI-150L. (Required, Concurrent). Credit Hours: Min: 4; Max: Description: A course designed for middle level, elementary, and early childhood education majors which covers mechanics, electricity, magnetism, waves, light, and optics. The course focuses first on helping students […]
PSCI 150L – Physical Science for Teachers Lab
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Take PSCI-150. (Required, Concurrent). Credit Hours: Min: ; Max: Description:
PRS 204 – Old Testament
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Credit Hours: Min: 3; Max: Description: Survey of Old Testament literature and thought. Discussion of the text in terms of the significance of the creation stories, the Exodus, the law, the prophets, etc.
PRS 300 – Religions of the East
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Credit Hours: Min: 3; Max: Description: Comprehensive study and comparison of the fundamental concepts, practices, institutions, and writings of the major world religions.
PRS 301 – Ancient Philosophy:the Greeks
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Credit Hours: Min: 3; Max: Description: A study of the emergence of philosophy in the ancient Greek world. The course focuses primarily on the metaphysics, epistemology, and ethics of Plato and Aristotle, but will include a discussion of the Pre-Socratic, Hellenistic, and Roman philosophers as time permits.