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  • 1.00 Credits

    This course will answer some of the universal questions we have about sex, particularly gender expectations during courting and mating, the physiological responses that happen during sex, how physical and psychological aspects interfere with sex, and historical research about sex. (1 lect.) Prerequisite:    Currently Not Available Corequisite:    Currently Not Available
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    This personality-primer course provides an avenue for students to determine underlying characteristics of themselves. A variety of standard and unorthodox tests will help provide students with questions psychologist are now trying to answer about personality: Where did you get your personality? Have you always been "you" or did you become "you" through environmental factors? Does your personality change under stress, or is there a core personality that carries you through all life's situations? (1 lect.) Prerequisite:    Currently Not Available Corequisite:    Currently Not Available
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    The course is designed to be a brief encounter with the physiological and psychological impacts of music and an analysis of the basic components of music in psychological terms. It helps to answer the following questions: Why music is so emotionally compelling? Why is rhythm physically arousing? What has been the evolutionary role of music in the social development of humans? How does a culture determine what you hear? (1 lect.) Prerequisite:    Currently Not Available Corequisite:    Currently Not Available
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    This course examines the many facets of the behaviors and resulting emotional bods that are created when we develop relationships with the animals that live and work with us. It explores the psychology of both human and animal in this interaction. (1 lect.) Prerequisite:    Currently Not Available Corequisite:    Currently Not Available
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    Psychology of Morality is an entry-level course for exploring the neurological and developmental processes of moral development through the life span. The challenges of each age group are discussed with accompanying activities: toddlers and violence; youth and intentional/accidental distinctions; teenagers and identification of moral consequences; adults and "the defining moment," forgiveness, and the lure of power. (1 lect.) Prerequisite:    Currently Not Available Corequisite:    Currently Not Available
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    This course explores various states of consciousness, including hypnotism, meditation and altered states, chemically induced altered states, the paranormal and out-of-body experiences, and ESP. The brain-mind controversies and neurological basis for these states are the foundation for these discussions and activities. (1 lect.) Prerequisite:    Currently Not Available Corequisite:    Currently Not Available
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    This is a personal group-based workshop designed to help students become aware of their individual potential. The activities of the course are structured to help students become more self- determining, self-motivating and develop greater self-worth. (1 lect.) Prerequisite:    Currently Not Available Corequisite:    Currently Not Available
  • 1.00 Credits

    Death is examined as both a psychological and physical process. Topics include and are not limited to personal attitudes and myths, cultural and religious rituals, death as a choice, death as entertainment in the media, superstitions, notions of an afterlife, near-death experiences, the evolutionary need for death, and euthanasia. (1 lect.) Prerequisite:    Currently Not Available Corequisite:    Currently Not Available
  • 4.00 Credits

    This course introduces the student to some of the methods of psychological inquiry. Students will study various research strategies from naturalistic observation to experiments. This course is writing intensive and requires written/oral reports. Prerequisite: Completion of PSYC 1000 (3 lect., 2 lab) Prerequisite:    Currently Not Available Corequisite:    Currently Not Available
  • 3.00 Credits

    This course introduces the biological bases of behavior. It includes ethnology and comparative behavior, psychobiological development, physiological and sensory mechanisms of behavior, and evolutionary and behavioral genetics. The course presents basic structural and functional properties of the nervous system. Prerequisites: PSYC 1000 and BIOL 1010. (3 lect.) Prerequisite:    Currently Not Available Corequisite:    Currently Not Available