This course builds on Psychology 1 and provides students with more in-depth studies of major concepts. These concepts are personality theory, mental disorder and abnormal behavior, psychological assessment, and social psychology. Students are expected to design and conduct basic psychological research. This course is concerned with human groups and the factors that unite or divide them. Areas of study are culture, values, social groups, social stratification, population, the family, socialization, propaganda, and social institutions.
Emphasis is given to the impact of change on mores, norms and customs.
Students are expected to engage in modest research projects. This course is designed to help students understand the processes by which American society seeks justice and order through law. Emphasis is on the ways in which people can participate intelligently in those processes. Students study the history and philosophy of law as a part of the political structure of our society. Emphasis is placed on how the law works in actual situations and how it can be made to work.