29 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.
PSYC 1100Psychology Applied to Modern Life3
This course offers majors and non-majors an opportunity to apply knowledge from psychology to practical problems. It provides students with an overview of the theory and research in psychology that is related to the demands and challenges of everyday life. Students examine issues that affect their own adjustment to modern life. The following topics will be addressed: stress, physical health, love relationships, gender, communications, self, personality, work, and development. Students who earn credit for PSYC 1100 may not earn credit for PSYC 1200. Social science credit.
This course is a basic survey of the discipline of psychology: the science of behavior and mental processes. We will examine the physiological, intellectual, emotional, and social aspects of human behavior and look at the applications of psychological theory and research to daily living. Students who earn credit for PSYC 1200 may not earn credit for PSYC 1100. Social science credit.
PSYC 2080Special Topics in Psychology (Lower Level)1-3
This course will provide students and faculty the opportunity to examine current issues or specialized topics within the discipline at a lower- level of study (appropriate for freshmen or sophomore academic experience). Topics will be determined by the department. Class will meet 15 hours for each hour of credit offered. Repeatable for different topics. Prerequisite: PSYC 1100. (Offered by department discretion.)
An overview of the physiological, cognitive, psychosocial, and spiritual aspects of development from conception through age 18. Prerequisite: PSYC 1100
This course is designed for upper-level undergraduate students majoring in human services and psychological studies. The course will provide an introduction to research methodology and a basic framework to evaluate critically social and behavioral science research. You will be exposed to and tested on the major concepts and methods for generating hypotheses and designing a multi-measure study. This course should enable you to evaluate more critically the claims of “experts” in the popular press as well as in the scientific literature. It will also serve as preparation for graduate-level research.
Basic principles of personality structure, dynamics, development, assessment, and theory are discussed. Consideration is given to both the environmental and biological determinants of personality.
A survey of the integration of Theology and Psychology with an emphasis on the theological grounding of human development, an examination of modern and post-modern understandings of soul care, and the discovery of strengths within the intersection of the theological and psychological. The topics to be covered include the following: defining integration, the holistic relationship formed within a theologically and psychologically integrative approach, the relevancy of psychology in the theological field, the relevancy of theology in the psychological field, recognizing the work of theology and psychology as soul care, theological resources for further developing one’s psychology, moral and faith development within a theologically understood human development model, and how relationships with God and others impact individual and societal psychology.
This course will include descriptive and inferential statistics: measures of central tendency and variability, discrete and continuous probability functions, sampling, estimation, hypothesis testing, correlation, regression, chi-squared, ANOVA, Factorial and repeated measures analysis of variance, analysis of covariance, time series analysis, multiple regression, factor analysis, and multivariate techniques. Prerequisite: PSYC 1100.
This course is designed for upper-level undergraduate students majoring in human services and psychological studies. The course will introduce research methodology and a basic framework to critically evaluate social and behavioral science research. You will be exposed to and tested on the major concepts and methods for generating hypotheses and designing a multi-measure study. This course should enable you to evaluate more critically the claims of “experts” in the popular press as well as in the scientific literature. It will also serve as preparation for graduate- level research. Prerequisite: PSYC 3010.
Supervised field education provides the student with practical on-the-job training in various areas of psychology related fields. Supervision of the practicum is a shared responsibility between the faculty advisor and the on-site supervisor. This course may be repeated; a maximum of three hours may be used to satisfy degree requirements. Prerequisite: INDS 3610, PSYC 1100
Subject
PSYC
Credits (min)
1
Credits (max)
3
Type
course
Repeatable
may be repeated; a maximum of three hours may be used to satisfy degree requirements.
Students will study the molecular, cellular, behavioral, and computational mechanisms of the brain. Students within this course will learn the structures and functions of the nervous system and brain.
Students will examine theory, research, and application in attitudes and change. Exploration of research regarding the growing field of implicit attitudes as well as the more traditional study of persuasion will be addressed. Additionally, the effects of attitude and change, as is understood within the concept of humanity’s information processing and behavior will be explored. Prerequisite: PSYC 1100 (3 credits) PSYC 3500 Developmental Psychology An overview of the human life span from conception through end of life. Continuity of development as well as critical periods faced by the maturing human are emphasized using contemporary theories and research as foundation materials. Biological, physical, cognitive, emotional, sociocultural and spiritual changes across the life span are discussed. Prerequisite: PSYC 1100 (3 credits) 117
Supervised internship provides the student with the opportunity to integrate classroom instruction with practical on-the-job learning in various areas of psychology related fields.
PSYC 3900 and all other major courses besides PSYC 4400.
PSYC 4071Internship3
Bachelor of Science Curriculum .................................................................................................................... 12 Free Electives ................................................................................................................................................ 10 NOTE: The 120 total for this major/degree accounts for the reuse of a Major or Concentration Curriculum course to satisfy the General Education Social Science requirement. 184
PSYC 4080Special Topics in Psychology (Upper Level)1-3
This course will provide students and faculty the opportunity to examine current issues or specialized topics within the discipline at an upper- level of study (appropriate for junior or senior academic experience). Topics will be determined by the department. Class will meet 15 hours for each hour of credit offered. Repeatable for different topics. Prerequisite: PSYC 1100. (Offered by department discretion.)
Research course in the academic discipline with individual or group topics determined between student and faculty member. Credit varies from 1-3 hours although a student can repeat for up to six hours of credit. Prerequisite: PSYC 3020
An examination of several of the major theories of counseling in working with individuals, families, and small groups. Included are principles and techniques utilized in assessment, crisis intervention, contracts, and development of the therapeutic relationship. A skills component is also included.
This course provides a basic overview of the principles, theories and applications of learning and memory. We will cover basic research, theory and applications in human learning, memory, information processing, verbal learning, conditioning and social learning. The knowledge you take away from this course will be useful to you in a wide variety of settings- not only psychology but also in your own personal and professional worlds.
Examines the themes of authenticity, self-actualization, and the application of psychological theory in order to explore major Christian worldview questions (what is success in life? How do I become more Christ-like?, etc.).
