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Dr. Cutting's PSY392 Course Syllabi
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Course Catalog description
Senior standing; PSY majors only.
A capstone course for psychology majors
featuring in-depth study of selected topics.
Consult department for specific content of
each section.
Course Description & Objective.
A seminar is a group of advanced students
studying under a professor, with each student
contributing to class participation through
active reading, doing library research,
presenting and discussing the material with one
another and the professor. The senior seminar
course, the pinnacle of one's undergraduate
education, examines contemporary psychological
issues and problems of the future. Issues vary
from instructor to instructor. This section
focuses on cognitive psychology, including
issues about perception, learning, memory, and
language.
There are two major goals for this course. The
first is to promote critical thinking in
students; the second is to help prepare the
students for their career paths following
graduation. Both goals will be addressed through
a number of different techniques, including
writing critical and review papers, writing
proposals, and giving presentations (both oral
and in poster format). The topics on which these
techniques will be developed will be drawn from
both the instructor's interests (cognitive
psychology) and input from the students enrolled
in the course.
Objectives. My teaching objectives are:
- to help students learn to think critically
- to help students learn the benefits of
thinking critically
- to give students a number of different
techniques to promote critical thinking
- to give students an opportunity to think
about some of the current (and perhaps past
and future) issues in cognitive psychology and
cognitive science
- to encourage an exchange of
ideas/information among all members of the
class.
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