Educational Psychology (EDPS)
Description: This is an eight week seminar course for first semester students in the General Studies Learning Community. Students will complete activities to identify interests, research majors that match their interests and complete a "Guided Professional Shadowing" experience to gain first-hand knowledge about a career of their choice. EDPS 97 is Pass/No Pass only.
Description: Understanding and applying individual strengths, interests, values and personality type, as they apply to an individual's choosing a college major(s) and career option(s). Active participation in self-assessment activities, exploration of majors/careers, experiential activities, utilization of the decision-making process and conducting occupational research as considered through several career development theories.
Prerequisites: Good standing in the University Honors Program or by invitation.
Description: Ideas from cognitive psychology, educational psychology, and various other disciplines (i.e., art, music, and chess) presented to help students understand learning and talent development, improve academic learning skills, and improve personal talents.
Description: Comprehensive examination of learning theory and practice of learning strategies related to motivation, time management, memory, lecture note taking, text processing, knowledge representation, test review, test taking, and error analysis in academic settings.
Description: Fundamental concepts and principles of human development with reference to cognitive and social/emotional development from infancy to early adolescence. Biosocial forces which affect behavior and development in children in relation to educational practice.
Description: Fundamental concepts and principles of human development with reference to cognitive and social/emotional development from late childhood to early adulthood. Biosocial forces which affect behavior and development in adolescents as they relate to educational practice.
Three 1-credit, special topics courses are offered each spring semester. Each course is 5 weeks and offered one after another throughout the semester, allowing students to enroll in one, two, or three special topics courses.
Description: Various special topics pertaining to positive psychology such as talent development, motivation, and neuro-psychology.
Recommended concurrent enrollment with EDPS 251. Assignments assume knowledge of content from EDPS 251 or equivalent course.
Description: Guided participation in schools/agencies offering programs for youth. Participating students are provided with introductory experiences working with youth in educational contexts, opportunities for one-on-one instruction and support, and prepared for subsequent advanced practicum experiences. Placements range from after-school academic programs to middle school and high school classrooms.
This course is a prerequisite for: SPED 454
Description: Introduction to positive psychology. Learn to identify personal strengths and assets that lead to flourishing as human beings; Explore major topics of positive psychology that lead to happiness and well-being.
Description: Procedures for describing data. Concepts related to selecting psychomotor tests; constructing and evaluating cognitive paper and pencil examinations; utilizing computer technology in delivering, collecting, and evaluating information.
Prerequisites: Sophomore standing or above.
Description: Introduction to developing basic helping skills that can help emerging professionals working in human services. Develop an understanding of communication processes, develop helping skills, and gain an awareness of self in relation to acting as a helper. Learn about theories, techniques, and research regarding effective helping skills and human behavior, develop and refine helping skills in practice with peers, and explore how culture and sociocultural factors play a role in helping others.
Description: Training in theories and research-based practice in learning, motivation, and assessment that supports teaching and learning within diverse elementary educational settings. Topics include human cognition, theories of motivation, classroom management, and classroom-based assessment.
This course is a prerequisite for: TEAC 304
Prerequisites: At least one of the following: PSYC 181 OR PSYC 289, OR EDPS 250 OR EDPS 251,OR CYAF 160
Description: An introduction to children's mental health as a framework for understanding both psychological disorders and well-being across childhood and adolescence. Gain a broad understanding of developmental psychopathology and positive psychological development of children and the skills to critically evaluate popular notions of psychopathology and positive psychology, as well as how to frame these notions within the context developmental research.
Prerequisites: Admission to Teacher Education Program.
Description: Guided observations and/or clinical experiences in schools and/or agencies offering programs for children and/or youth.
Description: This course will provide secondary education majors with training in theories and research-based practice in learning, motivation, and assessment that supports teaching and learning within diverse secondary educational settings. Topics include human cognition, theories of motivation, classroom management, and classroom-based assessment generally and as applied to specific secondary education content areas.
Description: Computation and interpretation of measures of central position, variability, and correlation; introduction to sampling, probability, and tests of significance.
This course is a prerequisite for: ABUS 341, MRKT 341; BLAW 371; BLAW 371H; ECON 311A; ECON 311B; ECON 312A; ECON 312B; ECON 315; ECON 417; ECON 448; ECON 452; EDAD 892, EDPS 892, EDUC 892, SPED 892, TEAC 892, CYAF 892; EDPS 470, EDPS 870; EDPS 860; EDPS 936; EDPS 941; EDPS 942; EDPS 969; FINA 361; FINA 361A; FINA 361H; MNGT 301; MNGT 301H; MUED 980; NUTR 486, NUTR 886; SCMA 250; SCMA 331; SCMA 350; SCMA 350H; SOCI 333; TEAC 924
Description: Research methods and findings, concepts, and principles of operant conditioning as related to the experimental analysis of human behavioral events and to the development of behavior engineering technologies.
Description: Basic practices and related research in counseling and helping practices in educational or other youth-serving agencies.
Description: Basic practices and related research in counseling and helping practices in educational or other youth-serving agencies.
Description: Basic practices and related research in counseling and helping practices in educational or other youth-serving agencies.
Description: Basic practices and related research in counseling and helping practices in educational or other youth-serving agencies.
Description: Basic practices and related research in counseling and helping practices in educational or other youth-serving agencies.
Prerequisites: EDPS 459/859
Description: Introduction to the construction, evaluation, and ethical use of measurement instruments commonly used in education and psychology. Test construction principles, item analysis, reliability, validity, ethical issues in testing, and evaluation of standardized tests.
This course is a prerequisite for: EDPS 970
Prerequisites: Junior or Senior standing
Open to advanced students planning careers in the professions in which knowledge of human behavior and society is important (e.g., helping professions, medicine, law, ministry, education, etc.).
Description: Interdisciplinary approach to the study of human sexuality in terms of the psychological, social, cultural, anthropological, legal, historical, and physical characteristics of individual sexuality and sex in society.
Description: Learn evidence-based principles and practices for developing, maintaining, and expanding professional expertise. Topics will include deliberate practice, performance feedback, the pursuit of "range," the need for strategic problem-solving skills in a complex and hyper-specialized technical world, the factors affecting professional judgment and decision-making, how social context affects productivity and success, and experts in relation to the public's expectations.
Prerequisites: Junior standing and permission.
Description: An interdisciplinary analysis of topical issues in Latin American Studies.
Prerequisites: Permission of instructor.
Description: Complete education-based experiences in research or applied settings under faculty supervision.
Prerequisites: Permission.
Prerequisites: Permission of instructor.
Description: Seminar on current issues or topics in educational psychology. Topics vary.
Prerequisites: Good standing in the University Honors Program or by invitation.
Description: Conduct a scholarly research project and write a University Honors Program or undergraduate thesis.