2012-2013 Undergraduate Academic Catalog

Page 269 2012–13 Undergraduate Catalog Introduction Admissions Academic Information Academic Departments Course Descriptions Financial Information Appendix Index PYCH-3901 Medications and Behavior –Fa 3 hours An overview of the major categories of psychotropic medications. Emphasis is on general understanding of how these medications affect behavior, their mechanism of action, and common side effects. Prerequisite: PYCH-1600 General Psychology or permission of instructor.. PYCH-4400 Counseling Skills –Sp 3 hours Emphasis is on assisting individuals in ways of dealing with solving or transcending their problem situations. The methods and skills of helping others are investigated. PYCH-4640 3 hours Psychology Comprehensive Review –Fa, Su Reports and discussions of research literature in psychology. Required of all psychology majors during their senior year. Prerequisite: permission of instructor. (Fee: $20) PYCH-4650 Special Topics Seminar 1–3 hours Various topics to be offered as interest demands. Available to students with special interests in psychology. Prerequisite: permission of instructor. PYCH-4700 Counseling Children –Fa 3 hours An in-depth analysis of the effects of genetic, family, and environmental factors on the developmental patterns of children. A special emphasis will be placed on behavioral disorders of dysfunctional families. PYCH-4950 Psychology Thesis –Fa, Sp 3 hours Provides opportunities for students to conduct an independent research project on a topic of interest and prepare a publishable paper under the supervision of an individual faculty advisor. (Fee: $20) PYCH-4960 Independent Study in Psychology 1–3 hours Independent research carried out by the advanced psychology student in an area of interest and usefulness to the student. Prerequisite: permission of instructor. PYCH-4990 Psychology Internship –Fa, Sp, Su 1–9 hours Junior and senior psychology majors may, with approval of the department, engage in psychological activity at a human service setting. One member of the psychology department will supervise the student’s internship. The department will determine the number of credit hours that will be given for individual work experience. Repeatable to nine hours. Capstone course. Prerequisite: permission of instructor. (Fee: $20) Public Administration (PUAD) PUAD-3100 Public Budgeting –Fa 3 hours Analysis of public sector budgeting at all levels of government in the United States with an emphasis on budgets as reflectors of priority, power, and control. Crosslisted as POLS or PUAD. (odd years) PUAD-3390 Public Finance –Fa 3 hours A consideration of the financing of local, state, and federal governments. Much attention is given to three functions of government: stabilization, distribution, and allocation. All major taxes that are present in the United States are studied as to structure, revenue gained, and present status. Crosslisted as ECON. Prerequisite: ECON-2340 Macroeconomics. (even years) PUAD-3600 Public Administration –Fa 3 hours Introduction to public administration both as a discipline and profession, including organization theory, budgeting, public policy analysis and evaluation, and public sector administration. Crosslisted as POLS or PUAD. PUAD-3690 Public Policy –Sp 3 hours Focus on decision making, problem solving, and methods of program analysis. Crosslisted as POLS or PUAD. Prerequisite: GSS-1100 Politics and American Culture PUAD-4300 Great Books in History and Politics –Sp 3 hours This course will require the student to read a single classic work of history and political thought (or a limited number of related works) and with other students, to closely and critically analyze the argument of the work. Crosslisted as POLS, INTL, PUAD or HIST. Prerequisite: GSS-1100 Politics and American Culture (odd years) PUAD-4440 Special Topics-Public Administration 1–3 hours Investigation of specific topics in Social Science and History that have intrinsic worth and engage student interest. PUAD-4640 Strategies for Public Administration –Fa 3 hours Designed to acquaint the advanced student in public administration or international studies with some of the policy decisions facing American government. All three levels of American government, federal, state, and local, will be examined in light of their particular relationships with foreign governments. (odd years) PUAD-4800 Applied Public Administration –Sp 3 hours Capstone course for public administration majors, involving the research of issues related to public administration in the United States from a normative and/or empirical perspective. (Fee: $100) PUAD-4970 1–3 hours Independent Study in Public Administration Provides the means whereby gifted and interested students may explore, in a more in-depth and intensive manner, general information acquired in the major courses. Further, independent study provides a logical way to complete required hours not obtained in normal sequencing. Prerequisite: permission of the instructor. S Science Education (SCED) SCED-3110 Clinical Teaching in Science –Sp 1 hour This course is designed to provide preservice science teachers clinical experiences within grad 7–12 classrooms. Students are assigned to assist cooperating science teachers in facilitating student learning in science content and process skills. Preservice science teachers will plan instructional outcomes, teaching strategies and assessments for the experience and implement them in the local school science classroom. Prerequisites: teacher education core courses. SCED-3120 Teaching Science –Fa 3 hours Introduces prospective secondary school science teachers to the curriculum, materials, and methods of classroom and laboratory science teaching. Attention will be given to the philosophy and education psychology theories that are currently influencing science education and the methods of instruction that arise from these theories. Teacher education students participate in activities and complete assignments designed to provide experience in science lesson planning, acquisition of classroom and laboratory resources, and strategies of maintaining science laboratory safety. Prerequisite: admission to the Teacher Education Program. (Fee $100) Sport and Exercise Studies (SES) SES-4850 1–3 hours Independent Study in Sport and Exercise Studies –Fa, Sp Independent Study in the area of sport and exercise studies by students pursuing the sport and exercise studies major. Departmental approval is required. Course Descriptions | PYCH-3901 – SES-4850