Students will read and synthesize primary source literature. In this course students examine the components and structure of personality as seen by major personality theorists. . Students will read and synthesize primary source literature. This course presents principles of survey construction which students use with their existing research skills in service projects to community service agencies. Students solicit project requests from agencies, develop instruments to complete projects, sample the served population, analyze the data, and write an interpretive report of their findings for the agency.
Students consider ethical issues relevant to data collection and information dissemination.
Two semesters of the course or one semester of the course and an interterm Field Trip in Social Inequality fulfill the departmental service requirement. Section A or B offered every semester in conjunction with BS392A or B . Qualified department majors investigate a problem of interest which arises from previous course work. The original research may be field, lab, or library oriented. In any case, an evaluation of the literature and work toward a formal research paper are required.