PSYCHOLOGY (087)

PSYCHOLOGY 115
Psychology of Personal Adjustment Personality development, human relationships, personal efficiency, principles of adjustment, and mental hygiene. Writing assignments, as appropriate to the discipline, are part of the course. 100 minutes per week. 2 credit hours.

PSYCHOLOGY 201
General Psychology Historical survey of psychology and a study of the sensory and perceptual processes: learning, thinking, remembering, emotional behavior, motivation, mechanism of adjustment, and the total personality. Writing assignments, as appropriate to the discipline, are part of the course. Prerequisite: Grade of C or better in Social Science 101 or English 101, or Consent of Department Chairperson. 150 minutes per week. 3 credit hours.

PSYCHOLOGY 206
Business and Industrial Psychology Psychological principles and techniques applied to activities and problems in business and industry; selling, advertising, market research, personnel work, employee selection and training, supervision, and morale. Writing assignments, as appropriate to the discipline, are part of the course. Prerequisite: Psychology 201, or Consent of Department Chairperson. 150 minutes per week. 3 credit hours.

PSYCHOLOGY 207
Child Psychology Development, adjustment, and psychological problems of the child from birth through adolescence; relationship of scientific psychological findings to practical methods of child guidance and training by parents, teachers, and others. Writing assignments, as appropriate to the discipline, are part of the course. Prerequisite: Psychology 201, or Consent of Department Chairperson. 150 minutes per week. 3 credit hours.

PSYCHOLOGY 209
Black Psychology Relationship of psychology to colonized situation; understanding colonial experience in psychological terms, emphasis on effects for black and white persons in America of status of blacks during and after legalized slavery. Writing assignments, as appropriate to the discipline, are part of the course. 150 minutes per week. 3 credit hours.

PSYCHOLOGY 210
Principles of Supervisory Psychology Psychological principles applied to problems with employees, both from the standpoint of management and of employees. Writing assignments, as appropriate to the discipline, are part of the course. 100 minutes per week. 2 credit hours.

PSYCHOLOGY 211
Social Psychology Analyzes development of personality structures and patterns; cultural environment, social roles and status, attitude formation, personality types and measurement of personality. Writing assignments, as appropriate to the discipline, are part of the course. Prerequisite: Psychology 201, or Sociology 201, or Consent of Department Chairperson. 150 minutes per week. 3 credit hours.

PSYCHOLOGY 213
Abnormal Psychology Abnormal behavior and its social significance; symptoms and dynamics of psychological disorders; neuroses and psychosomatic reactions, sociopathic psychoses; consideration of therapies and theories of prevention. Writing assignments, as appropriate to the discipline, are part of the course. Prerequisite: Psychology 201, or Consent of Department Chairperson. 150 minutes per week. 3 credit hours.

PSYCHOLOGY 214
Adolescent Psychology Continuation of Psychology 207. Physical, intellectual, educational, personality, and social development of adolescents in contemporary society; emphasis on problems of the adolescent's adjustment to personal and social environment. Writing assignments, as appropriate to the discipline, are part of the course. 150 minutes per week. 3 credit hours.

PSYCHOLOGY 215
Psychology of Personality Major personality theories to familiarize the student with systems concerned with comprehensively and dynamically interrelating developmental, motivational. and adaptive aspects of behavior; methods of personality assessment and experimental evidence relevant to the theories will also be considered. Writing assignments, as appropriate to the discipline, are part of the course. Prerequisite: Psychology 201, or Consent of Department Chairperson. 150 minutes per week. 3 credit hours.

PSYCHOLOGY 216
Mass Manipulation and Brainwashing Empirical survey of methods of human manipulation; analysis of commercial mass persuasion techniques used in advertising, on police and military methods of thought reform (brainwashing) as practiced in Eastern European and Asian countries; methods of psychological warfare in the Cold War and Vietnam. Writing assignments, as appropriate to the discipline, are part of the course. 150 minutes per week. 3 credit hours.

PSYCHOLOGY 222
Adult Development and Aging Introduction to psychological problems, issues, facts, and theories relating to later adulthood and old age; societal values and institutions, socio economic variables, biological and psychological changes, perception, cognition, psychosocial development, personality factors, sexuality and relationships, work and skill issues, adjustment and coping, psychopathology, and therapeutic intervention. Writing assignments, as appropriate to the discipline, are part of the course. 150 minutes per week. 3 credit hours.