PSYC 3700: Personality. Covers historical and contemporary views of individual differences in behavior, affect, health, coping, and motivation. Students study the biographies of famous psychologists and their schools of thought. Covers topics such as personality development and structure, personality assessment, cross-cultural issues, and applications of personality psychology
PSYC 3830: Abnormal Psychology. Introduction to the diagnosis and treatment of mental illnesses. Students cover topics in the DSM V and use current diagnostic standards for mental disorders as a framework for understanding the symptoms, causes, and treatments of the most commonly observed maladaptive behaviors
PSYC 3060: Human Sexual Behavior. Offers psychophysiological, behavioral, and cultural perspectives on human sexual behavior. Evolutionary, historical, and cross-cultural perspectives are considered.
PSYC 3400: Lifespan Developmental Psychology. A survey of human growth and development across the lifespan from conception to death. Major topics include developmental methods, physical maturation, cognition, socialization, personality, psycholinguistics, intelligence, learning, behavior problems, and exceptionality.
PSYC 4930: Practicum in Clinical Psychology. Students complete a clinical internship in the local area and attend lectures on careers in the field of clinical psychology. Students write reflection papers and create mock clinical documents. .
PSYC 4980: Teamwork in Sports. Students in this creative inquiry project collaborate with a graduate student and a professor at Clemson University. The course researches and analyzes the relationship between student-athletes and NIL deals. Students complete literature reviews, engage in group discussions, write rough drafts of a potential research paper, and conduct thematic analysis of interviews.
PSYC 3090: Intro to Experimental Psychology. Transfer Credit for PSY 230: Psyc Measurement + Stat from the University of Arizona. Introduction to the analysis of data from experimental and correlational research in psychology.
PSYC 3100/3101: Advanced Experimental Psychology. A continuation of PSYC 3090. This class focuses on techniques for empirical research, examining experiments, quasi-experiments, and non-experimental research. Students design and conduct their own empirical research projects using data collected from human participants. They analyze their findings in a research paper and present their data at the end of the semester.
PSYC 3220: Sensation and Perception. Explores the study of psychophysical techniques of measurement and sensory and perceptual processes related to vision, hearing, smell, taste, and touch.
PSYC 3330: Cognitive Psychology. Examines higher-order mental processing in humans from various psychological perspectives. Topics include memory, concept learning, problem solving, and the psychology of language
BIOL 1030: General Biology I. Transfer credit for BOL 101: Principles of Biol from Liberty University. This class introduces students to various topics in biology related to human and plant life.
BIOL 1050: General Biology Lab I. Transfer credit for BIOL 101: Principles of Biol from Liberty University. This lab encourages students to visualize various biology concepts through hands-on experiments and analysis.
BIOL 2220: Human Anatomy and Physiology I. Taught in a combination of class lectures and lab work. Students learn about various topics, including muscle, skeletal, and neural anatomy and physiology.
BIOL 3530: Forensic Anthropology. An introduction to forensic anthropology. Uses methods from skeletal biology and archaeology as tools in human identification in a medico-legal context.
GEOL 1200: Natural Hazards. Transfer credit for GLG 110: Geol Disasters & Environment from Mesa Community College. Students learn about various natural formations and disasters through the context of Arizona geography.
NUTR 1010: Intro to Food Science and Human Nutrition. Introduces students to nutrition and all it entails. Provides an orientation to the principles of food science and human nutrition, as well as possible careers in the field.