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Sep 16, 2024
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PSYC& 100 General Psychology5 credits
This course will introduce students to the principles of motivation, communication, human development and learning. Practical applications will be made to individual difference, group process and behavior in organizations.
This course meets the Social Science general education distribution requirement.
Prerequisites: ABED 40 or AHSE 56 (or placement into MATH 87 or AHSE 66 or higher) and ABED 46 (or placement into ENGL 93 or higher)
Course Outcomes
Upon successful completion of this course students will be able to:
- Correctly use basic psychological terminology, concepts, and theories
- Describe how biological, psychological, social factors affect behavior
- Critically analyze information about human behavior
- Distinguish between scientific and non-scientific ways of knowing
- Appreciate how psychology explains personal experience and social interaction
- Explain how culture, gender, and group identity can influence self-awareness and relationships between and among groups
- Develop, organize, implement, and present a term project
College-Wide Learning Outcomes
This course teaches to the college-wide learning outcome of Cultural Humility, the ability to practice lifelong learning and critical self-reflection in order to understand one’s own cultural identity and its impact on being open to and supporting the cultures of others.
Total Hours: 50 Theory (Lecture) Hours: 50
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