2007-2008 Academic Catalog (4-Aug-2007).indd - AUK

AMERICAN UNIVERSITY of KUWAIT
2007-2008 ACADEMIC CATALOG
PSYC 370 Death, Suicide and Trauma (3) [S]
This course introduces students to diverse community permissiveness and taboos related to
death, the role of individuals in their own deaths, modes of death, and changing ideas of
death and life span. The course also addresses the impact of deaths, through violent crime
or war, on families and societies including posttraumatic and grief reactions. Offered Spring
term only. Prerequisite: PSYC 101.
PSYC 388 Independent Study (1-3)
Prerequisite PSYC 101. Permission of Instructor. Can be repeated for credit.
PSYC 389 Special Topics (1-3)
Permission of Instructor. Can be repeated for credit.
PSYC 440 Cognitive Psychology (3)
This course offers current perspectives on how people acquire, represent, transform, and
use verbal and nonverbal information. Topics include perception, attention, memory, action,
thinking, language and representations of knowledge. Offered fall term only. Prerequisite:
PSYC 101.
PSYC 442 Sensation and Perception (3)
In this course, students evaluate how we acquire information about the physical and social
world through basic sensory systems, including vision, smell, hearing, and touch, and the
impact of such sensations on our perceptions of objects, events and human interactions.
Offered in Spring term only. Prerequisite: PSYC 101.
PSYC 475 Current Issues (3)
Seminar on current research, theory and applications of psychological principles. Offered fall
term only. Prerequisite: PSYC 101.
RELIGION (RELG)
RELG 101 Introduction to Islamic Studies (3) [H]
Analysis of the structure and dynamics of the Islamic belief system, including law, traditions,
culture and society. Original readings illustrating the classical Islamic paradigm are assigned.
Contemporary issues of reform, renewal, modernization and fundamentalism, as well as
contemporary debates among Muslims are addressed.
RELG 315 Religions of the World (3) [H]
Review and analysis of major religions of the worl d, including varieties of Christianity,
Islam, Judaism, Hinduism, and Buddhism. Comparative social organization of religion and
religious practices, currents in religious transformations; the rise of fundamentalism in the late
twentieth century, and the role of religion in social, political and economic life are included.
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