Students read articles both on basic communication skills and the skills of leadership such as decision making, team-building, conflict management, and personal influence. They accomplish projects which assess and develop their skills in each of these areas. Students receive feedback from their peers and the instructor on interpersonal and leadership skills. The salient contributions of physical maturation and health, qualitative cognitive changes, and family and societal influences to the processes of individual development over the normal life-span will be analyzed. An introduction to the study of individual behavior in social situations.
Course focuses on human interaction or how individuals affect and are affected by others.
Topics such as interpersonal perception, attitudes, prejudice, aggression, altruism, attraction, group behavior, and social exchange are explored and discussed. PSYC100 or permission of the instructor. A survey approach to the topic of learning with emphasis placed upon the major theoretical orientations of the 20th century and how they have influenced education, psychotherapy and technology. Primary emphasis will be placed throughout the course on the influence of early behaviorist theories and cognitive theories upon approaches to education and therapy, and how later theorists have attempted to clarify, extend and eliminate contradictions in earlier theoretical formulations. Emphasis will also be placed upon the recent advent of mathematical and machine models of learning and how they have challenged traditional explanations.