PSY 285 – Current Topics in Psychology  (3 credits)
   This course is designed to be a free-flowing class that invites speculation about social and personal issues.  You, the student, are expected to make the investment of effort and critical reasoning necessary to fully comprehend and suggest answers to the many varied topics.  This course should help you connect and integrate information from diverse research areas.

PSY 301 - Developmental Psychology   (3 Credits)
   Human Growth and Development studies the life span of the individual, tracing the changes occurring from conception to death. Several basic themes of development are examined including the interaction of heredity and environment, physical growth and development, social factors, changes in personality, self concept and emotional growth.
   Prerequisites: SOC 161 or PSY 160

PSY 303 – Psychology of Money   (3 Credits)
   Why do some people become misers and others gamblers, spendthrifts and tycoons, and why do some people gain more pleasure from giving away money than from retaining it?  Comprehensive and cross-cultural, The Psychology of Money integrates fascinating and scattered perspectives from many disciplines to investigate the influences of money on our behavior and psyches.  Including the most recent material to date, the course draws from sources as diverse as anthropology, history and psychology.  The student will come away not only with a better understanding of how and why people think about, feel toward, accumulate and spend money, but why its discussion has so often been considered “taboo”.

PSY 305 - The Troubled Employee   (3 Credits)
   This course will provide the student with a basic understanding of job-related emotional problems and the counseling tools and skills to effectively deal with them. Topics of study will include alcohol and drug problems, anger at work, stress, directive and non-directive counseling, and coping skills for the worker.
   Prerequisite: PSY 160 or consent of instructor.

PSY 307 - Current Topics in Gender   (3 Credits)
   This course is designed to introduce students to the psycho-sociological analysis of sex and gender in American culture. As part of this course, students will learn about the various conceptualizations of sex and gender and the theoretical and methodological issues relevant to gender studies. Students will develop an understanding of the relations between men and women, how these relations have changed over time, and how they are imbedded in social institutions such as families, and the legal, economic, and educational systems. By taking this course students will gain an appreciation of the sex and gender differences in health, career, aging, and demography as well as the diversity of experiences among men and women. This course will provide a broad interdisciplinary examination of issues involving gender such as reproductive rights, gender and body image, power differentials, the origins of patriarchy, and social class. (one-week seminar format)

PSY 311 - Social Psychology   (3 Credits)
   Social psychology is the scientific study of how people's thoughts, feelings, and actions are affected by others.  This course focuses on the consequences of social influences on individuals and the way that they understand the world; on social interaction between and among people; and on group processes.  
   Prerequisite: PSY 160 or consent of the instructor.

PSY 312 - Contemporary Applied Psychology   (3 Credits)
   This course will be a broad ranging exploration of modern psychology and its present day uses to the individual.  Changing roles, rules, and choices as well as health and healing techniques and philosophies available today will be discussed as they apply to the individual functioning in modern industrial society.  Eastern and western philosophies will be explained with no particular bias for either approach.  There will be one topical area each session with flexibility guided by student input.  Aspects of the growing and changing human organism through time and the effect upon mental condition will be shown as very important as to whom we are today.  (One-week seminar format)
   Prerequisite: SOC 161 or PSY 160.

 PSY 340 - Personality Theory   (3 Credits)
   Personality is what makes us differ from one another--yet makes us consistent and stable over time.  This course will review the personality theories of noted psychologists such as Freud, Erikson, Jung, Skinner, Adler, Bandura, and Rogers.  This course will also include historical views of personality.  Assessment of measurement of personality will be discussed, and students will explore both objective and subjective personality tests.  The role of personality in career choice will be included.   
   Prerequisite: PSY 160

PSY 341 -  Abnormal Psychology   (3 Credits)
   This course will deal with the biological, psychosocial, and sociocultural viewpoints, and abnormality and deviance. The historical views of mental illness and abnormality will also be covered. The full range of disorders will be analyzed including additions, personality disorders, mood disorders, anxiety disorders, sexual variations and psychoses. The course will also provide an overview of the available therapies and interventions.
   Prerequisite: PSY 160

PSY 358 - Organizational Psychology   (3 Credits)
   This course will relate the basics of individual and group behavior to the industrial setting, allowing the student to apply basic psychology in personnel selection and evaluation, planning and organizing work and work conditions, and understanding consumer behavior.
   Prerequisite: PSY 160 or SOC 161 or consent of instructor.

PSY 380 - Experimental Psychology   (3 Credits)
   This course provides the student with an in-depth understanding of the methods of psychological research, including research design, data collection and analysis, and utilization of findings. The course will also include an overview of human and animal learning and conditioning, including such concepts as classical conditioning, schedules of reinforcement, aversive conditioning, and potential areas of application for these concepts. Students will be required to prepare a research design project.  
   Prerequisite: PSY 160

PSY 401 - Tests and Measurements   (3 Credits)
   The course will focus on the construction and evaluation of a variety of standardized tests in the areas of aptitude, achievement, intelligence, and personality. Students will study test design, use of findings, and testing concepts such as norms, standardization, reliability, and validity.
   Prerequisite: PSY 160 and STA 326