The student agrees to spend 2 to 4 hours per week at the site during the academic quarter. Service-learning tutors work with the students to help them relate class material to their placement site. Recommended preparation This course is intended for students with little or no background in psychology, women studies or biology. Exposure to any of these fields at the introductory level would be helpful but is not necessary. Amount of reading is very light early in the quarter and increases for the second half of the course.
Additional assignments are in the form of opinion papers required for many discussion sections.
These are discussed above. Course grade is based mainly on test scores. Three midterms and a final are given. Additional credit is given for participation in quiz sections and for participation in Service Learning. The information above is intended to be helpful in choosing courses.