10 courses with the subject PSYC, each shown exactly as we captured it from the college's catalog, with every element we hold. Where the wording looks broken, that is our reading of the catalog, not the college's text.
GOAL 6: HUMANITIES - THE ARTS, LITERATURE AND PHILOSOPHY…….…………….6 CR Credits from MNTC Goal 6 II. PROGRAM CORE REQUIREMENTS….…………………………………………………23 CREDITS
3 hours lecture/week - Common Course Outline This course provides an introduction to evolutionary psychology: the scientific study of human behavior and mental processes focusing on those universal processes that evolved to solve specific survival and reproductive challenges. Topics include natural selection, sexual selection, long-term and short-term mating strategies, jealousy, family relationships, group living, cooperation, conflict, culture, and dominance. (
3 hours lecture/week - Common Course Outline This course will examine the psychological and social factors that lead to the enhancement of physical health and the prevention and treatment of illness. (
3 hours lecture/week - Common Course Outline This course examines the relationship of the individual to the social environment, emphasizing group influences on individual behavior. College level reading and writing skills recommended. (
GOAL 6: HUMANITIES - THE ARTS, LITERATURE AND PHILOSOPHY ......................... 3 CR RECOMMENDED:
3 hours lecture/week - Common Course Outline This course studies how cultural traditions and social practices regulate, express, and transform the human psyche, the influences of cultural processes and environments on a wide range of psychological topics, such as cognition, emotion, motivation, moral reasoning and mental disorders. (
3 hours lecture/week - Common Course Outline This course is an analysis of abnormal behavior, covering topics such as the historical background; mood, anxiety, and schizophrenic disorders, personality disorders, substance- related disorders, neurodevelopmental disorders; causes of abnormal behavior, legal and ethical issues in the prevention and treatment of disorders; and cultural diversity of abnormal behavior. College level reading and writing skills are recommended. (
One additional course in Psychology, 3 cr V. ELECTIVES………………………………………………………………………………… 2-3 CREDITS Any course numbered above 1000 as needed to achieve a total of 60 credits. TOTAL .................................................................................................. PROGRAM OUTCOMES: Upon completion of the Psychology Transfer Pathway program at RCTC, students will achieve the following outcomes: • Demonstrate familiarity with the major concepts, theoretical perspectives, and empirical findings in psychology. • Describe research methods in psychology. • Apply psychological principles to personal and social needs. ADDITIONAL NOTES: The Psychology Transfer Pathway AA offers students a powerful option: the opportunity to complete an Associate of Arts degree with course credits that directly transfer to designated Psychology bachelor’s degree programs at Minnesota State universities. The curriculum has been specifically designed so that students completing this pathway degree and transferring to one of the seven Minnesota State universities* enter the university with junior-year status. All courses in the Transfer Pathway associate degree will directly transfer and apply to the designated bachelor’s degree programs in a related field. *Universities within the Minnesota State system include Bemidji State University; Metropolitan State University; Minnesota State University, Mankato; Minnesota State University Moorhead; Southwest Minnesota State University; St. Cloud State University; and Winona State University. This transfer pathway degree will transfer to the following designated baccalaureate degree majors: At Bemidji State University:
4 hours lecture/week - Common Course Outline This course is an introduction to the basic procedures used in the collection and analysis of data in the behavioral sciences. Statistical software is used to conduct descriptive and inferential analyses, and students select and apply statistical procedures to help answer psychological research questions. Students learn to write conclusions that are supported by statistical analyses. (
Source: Rochester Community and Technical College's catalog, linked per course · table learning_unit · CourseShelf publish 61
