INTRO TO PSYCHOLOGY in Spring 2025 (PY1000A)

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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.

Course Master: 
INTRO TO PSYCHOLOGY (PY1000)
Term: 
Spring 2025
Discipline: 
PY (Psychology)
Credits: 
4 credits
Type: 
CCI
Level: 
Undergraduate
Can be taken twice for credit?: 
No
Exam Date: 
Monday, May 5, 2025 - 16:00
Pre-requisites: 
None
Co-requisites: 
None

Professor(s)

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)

Syllabus

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Schedule

Start Date: 
Monday, January 13, 2025
End Date: 
Tuesday, May 13, 2025
DayStart TimeEnd TimeRoom
Monday
15:20
16:40
C-103
Thursday
15:20
16:40
C-103