University - Social Sciences

Abnormal Psychology

A standard undergraduate abnormal psychology course: defining abnormality, classification systems (DSM-5-TR), research methods, anxiety disorders, obsessive-compulsive disorders, trauma/stress disorders, depressive and bipolar disorders, schizophrenia spectrum, personality disorders, substance use disorders, eating disorders, neurodevelopmental disorders, and treatment approaches (psychotherapy, pharmacotherapy).

American Government

A standard introductory undergraduate course on American government: the Constitution, federalism, civil liberties and rights, the three branches, elections, political parties, interest groups, and public policy.

Cognitive Psychology

A standard undergraduate cognitive psychology course: perception, attention, memory systems (sensory, working, long-term), knowledge representation, language processing, problem-solving and decision-making, reasoning and judgment, cognitive development, and cognitive neuroscience foundations.

Cultural Anthropology

A standard undergraduate cultural anthropology course: anthropological methods (ethnography, fieldwork, participant observation), culture concepts, language and communication, subsistence strategies, economic systems, kinship and family, political organization, religion and belief systems, gender and sexuality, race and ethnicity, globalization, and applied anthropology.

Developmental Psychology

A standard undergraduate developmental psychology course: research methods in development, prenatal development and birth, infancy (physical, cognitive, social-emotional), early and middle childhood, adolescence, emerging and early adulthood, middle and late adulthood, death and dying, with coverage of major theories (Piaget, Vygotsky, Erikson, Bowlby, Kohlberg, Bronfenbrenner).

Health Psychology

A standard undergraduate health psychology course: the biopsychosocial model, health behavior and behavior change theories, stress and coping, psychoneuroimmunology, pain perception and management, chronic illness and adjustment, cardiovascular disease and behavioral risk factors, cancer psychology, HIV/AIDS and infectious disease, eating behavior and obesity, substance use and addiction, sleep and health, health disparities, patient-provider communication, and health promotion.

Human Development Across the Lifespan

An interdisciplinary lifespan development course covering physical, cognitive, and psychosocial development from conception through death: prenatal development, infancy and toddlerhood, early and middle childhood, adolescence, emerging and early adulthood, middle adulthood, and late adulthood — with emphasis on practical applications for nursing, education, social work, and counseling.

Human Geography

A standard undergraduate human geography course: thinking geographically and the discipline, population geography, migration, folk and popular culture, languages and linguistic geography, religions and their geographic expression, ethnicity race and identity, political geography, agriculture and food systems, economic development, industry and services, and urbanization and urban patterns.

Introduction to Criminal Justice

A standard introductory criminal justice course: the criminal justice system overview, crime measurement and theories of crime, criminal law foundations, policing (history, structure, operations), the court system (structure, processes, key actors), sentencing and punishment philosophies, corrections (jails, prisons, community corrections), juvenile justice, victimology, and current issues in criminal justice.

Introduction to Political Science

A standard introductory political science course: the study of politics and political science methods, political ideologies, the state and sovereignty, constitutions and constitutional design, legislatures, executives, judiciaries, political parties and elections, interest groups and media, comparative political systems, international relations foundations, and political economy.

Introduction to Psychology

A standard introductory college psychology course covering the brain and behavior, cognition, learning, memory, development, personality, social psychology, and psychological disorders.

Introduction to Sociology

A standard introductory college sociology course covering the sociological perspective, research methods, culture, socialization, social structures, deviance, stratification, race, gender, family, and social institutions.

Principles of Macroeconomics

An introductory college macroeconomics course: GDP and national income, inflation and unemployment, aggregate demand and supply, monetary and fiscal policy, and international trade fundamentals.

Principles of Microeconomics

An introductory college microeconomics course: supply and demand, elasticity, market structures, welfare analysis, factor markets, and market failures.

Research Methods in Psychology

A core undergraduate research methods course for psychology majors: the scientific method, ethics in research, measurement and reliability, experimental design, correlational research, quasi-experimental designs, survey methods, observational research, descriptive and inferential statistics, APA-style writing, and critical evaluation of published research.

Social Psychology

A standard undergraduate social psychology course: social cognition (attribution, schemas, heuristics), the self (self-concept, self-esteem, self-presentation), attitudes and persuasion, conformity and obedience, group processes, prejudice and discrimination, aggression, prosocial behavior, interpersonal attraction, and applied social psychology.

World Geography

A standard undergraduate world regional geography course: geography as a discipline and spatial thinking, physical geography foundations, population and migration, cultural geography, political geography, economic geography and development, North America, Latin America and the Caribbean, Europe, Sub-Saharan Africa and the Middle East & North Africa, Asia (East, South, Southeast, Central), and Oceania, Antarctica, and globalization.