INTRO TO PSYCHOLOGY (PY1000)

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This course discusses the intellectual foundations of contemporary psychology. Students learn about the concepts, theories and experiments basic to an understanding of the discipline, including classic thought and recent advances in psychology such as psychoanalysis, learning theory,biological mechanisms, developmental, social, cognitive, personality and abnormal psychology.

Code: 
PY1000
Name: 
INTRO TO PSYCHOLOGY
Discipline: 
PY (Psychology)
Type: 
CCI
Level: 
Undergraduate
Credits: 
4
Can be taken twice for credit?: 
No
Pre-requisites: 
None
Co-requisites: 
None

Learning Outcomes

  1. Awaken students’ intellectual curiosity about how psychological approaches can help to better understand persons and real world social problems.
  2. Students will improve their ability to write clear and effective arguments.
  3. Students will learn how psychologists study human beings, begin to understand the limits of various methods of investigation and to question how knowledge is constructed.
  4. Students will understand and be able to apply a broad range of psychological theories.
  5. Local and Global Perspectives: Students will enhance their intercultural understanding of languages, cultures, and histories of local societies and the global issues to which these relate. (CCI LO1)
  6. Exploring and Engaging Difference: Students will think critically about cultural and social difference; they will identify and understand power structures that determine hierarchies and inequalities that can relate to race, ethnicity, gender, nationhood, religion, or class. (CCI LO3)
  7. Civic and Ethical Engagement: Students will demonstrate awareness of ethical considerations relating to specific societal problems, values, or practices (historical or contemporary; global or local) and learn to articulate possible solutions to prominent challenges facing societies and institutions today so as to become engaged actors at various levels in our interconnected world. (CCI LO4)

Offering(s)

Term Code Name
Fall 2024 PY1000A INTRO TO PSYCHOLOGY
Fall 2024 PY1000B INTRO TO PSYCHOLOGY
Fall 2024 PY1000C INTRO TO PSYCHOLOGY
Spring 2025 PY1000A INTRO TO PSYCHOLOGY
Spring 2025 PY1000B INTRO TO PSYCHOLOGY

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