PSYC 395 - Special Topics in Psychology

Credits: 1, 2, or 3
Planned Offering: Offered when interest is expressed and departmental resources permit.

These seminars are designed to help the advanced student integrate his or her knowledge of specific fields into a comprehensive view of psychology, both as a science and as a profession. Specific topics vary and are determined, in part, by student demand. May be repeated for degree credit if the topics are different.

Fall 2013 topic:

PSYC 395: Parenting (3). Prerequisites: Either PSYC 113 and 250, or WGS 120. This class uses an interdisciplinary approach to understand parenting with respect to history, culture, and developmental psychology. We explore how parental beliefs, attitudes, and expectations affect the manner in which parents interact with their children and how this interaction then influences child outcomes. Topics such as discipline strategies, choice of schooling, the parent relationship, and non-traditional family structure are addressed. Whipple. Fall 2013