27 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.
Surveys the varius fields of psychology, development, learning, motivation, adjustment, perception, memory, cognition, and behavior. These topics are applied to self-understanding and adjustment to the demands of society.
Explore specialized areas of psychology in depth.
Surveys the physical, intellectual, social and emotional development of children and adolescents as a basis for understanding human behavior. It will provide a background for teaching and other occupations involving work with youth and adolescents.
This course introduces the science of positive psychology and the classifiation system for human character strengths and virtues. It provide a thorough examination of character strengths and research-based applications to enhance character strengths and subjective well-being.
An applied psychology course introducing the role of the professional in the helping professions. Helping professions are those that help clients in a variety of ways, including legal, social and therapeutic support. Examples would include lawyers, mental health counselors, social workers, health practitioners, teachers and coaches. This course focuses on the importance of self-understanding and perception of self and others. General theories relevant to the helping professions will be introduced. Issues of values, ethics, and legal obligations in the helping fields will be reviewed.
Studies the interaction of personalities with social life. Consideration is given to the way in which standing and role affect personality and behavior within small groups. Also the effects that group pressure, rumor, and social movements have on the individual.
Emphasizes recognition of culural diversity, the role that culture and ethnicity/race play in the sociopsychological development of diverse populations, and why the understanding of cultural diversity is important in psychological issues.
Explore specialized areas of psychology in depth.
Builds off the materials learned in MATH 160 and introduces the students to a more intensive look at the descriptive and inferential methods commonly used in the behavioral sciences. Students will use descriptive measures of central tendency and variability, basic principles of probability, correlation, regression, and selected parametric and non-parametric inferential statistical methods to analyze and interpret data sets. The students will learn to read and interpret the “Results” section of a peer reviewed journal article in psychology as well as learn how to use a statistical software program (i.e., R or SPSS) to run and analyze data.
Examines the psychological principles involved in the teaching/learning process, the nature of intelligence, motivation, learning styles, thinking skills, individual differences, and the evaluation of learning.
Introduction to the basic methods of research in psychology. Special emphasis will be placed upon increasing the student’s ability to understand and evaluate scientific articles as well as to conduct and report research.
Examines the neural bases of behavior and mental processes and covers such topics as the development and basic functioning of the nervous system, the methods used in psychobiology, the functioning of sensory systems, and the physiological basis of learning and memory.
An applied psychology course that will provide students with an introduction to the principles of behavior analysis as well as the application of these principles and the methods involved in changing behavior, whether it be for use in self-modification, parenting, interpersonal relations, or treatments for persons with disabilities.
Investigates various ideas that psychologists and other scientists have advanced to explain the human personality. These include theories that focus on individual personality traits, on psychological health, on predetermined behavior patterns and on cognitive learning from social situations.
Surveys the major forms of abnormal behavior of children and adults, with an emphasis on the understanding of causes, treatment and prevention of these disorders.
Introduction to Counseling techniques, including the Diagnostic Statistical Manual for diagnosing clients and the clinical interview process for client assessment.
An applied psychology course that will examine research in the field of positive psychology. Practical and clinical applications in terms of coping and resilience will be emphasized
Surveys research and theories about how humans process information. The course covers research and theories of perception, attention, memory, language, artificial intelligence, and other topics as time allows.
Explore specialized areas of psychology in depth.
An applied psychology course that will examine interpersonal and family interactions, including patterns and problems between dyads and groups. Healthy and effective interpersonal and family communication will serve as an important focal point. Both theoretical and applied aspects of research on interpersonal and family relationships will be examined. Clinical methods used to effectively educate, support and guide individuals toward healthy functioning will be emphasized.
An applied psychology course providing a model for group development and facilitation in the mental health setting. Skills of clinical observation and documentation are a core area of focus.
Surveys the antecedents and development of Psychology as a science, including Greek and European philosophy, the classical schools of psychology, and their influence on modern psychology.
Under the supervision of a faculty member, students will complete a variety of research tasks. Students will gain experience with various phases of research, including locating, summarizing, and synthesizing academic literature, writing a research paper in APA format (e.g., literature review, proposal, or research report), and presenting research. Students may also gain experience with planning studies, collecting, entering, and analyzing data, and/or disseminating research. This experiential course is designed to provide students with research experience for graduate school and/or employment. This course may be repeated for up to 8 credit hours, but only a maximum of 4 credit hours will count as a psychology elective.
Students draw together their experiences over the course of their study in psychology as well as their courses in the core curriculum. It involves the examination of current topics or classic areas of emphasis from developmental, social, diversity, physiological, clinical, learning, assessment and empirical viewpoints. Students have the option to write a literature review paper or a research proposal.
Involves students in completion of a research project. Students planning to go to graduate school in psychology should take this course.
This course will survey the consequences of different types of brain damage on human perception and cognition. The goal will be to understand the neural mechanisms of normal perceptual and cognitive functions. Major topics may include: Blindsight, Visual agnosia, Prosopagnosia, Neglect, the split brain, spoken language deficits, reading and writing disorders, memory disorders, central planning deficits. The primary emphasis will be on function, phenomenology, and mechanisms.
Explore specialized areas of psychology in depth.
Source: Chowan University's catalog, linked per course · table learning_unit · CourseShelf publish 61
