This study of personal ecology leads students through an exploration of personal strengths, attitudes, values, and preferences. Study, discussions, and experiences focus on nurturance and preservation of the personal ecosystem as it grows and develops through the experience of higher education. Students learn to identify their personal strengths using the personality framework described by Carl Jung and others and popularized by Isabel Myers and Katherine Briggs through the development of the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator.
Students also keep a journal using the guided journal approach.
This course is intended to be a part of a three-course series for Environmental Studies majors but may be taken by any student regardless of major. Offered in the first half of the semester. Semester Hours A survey of the fundamental principles governing human behavior. Topics include learning, emotions, motivation, personality, psychological testing, and abnormal behavior. It examines the relationship between theory and practice in the field of child development.