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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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