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PSY 431 PRINCIPLES OF LEARNING3 s.h.Theories and supporting data related to animal and human conditioning. Habituation, classicalconditioning, operant conditioning, schedules of reinforcement, generalization, and discriminationemphasized. Prerequisite: PSY 101. This course is offered every third or fourth semester.PSY 485 RESEARCH SEMINAR3 s.h.Each student selects a research problem in psychology, reviews the problem in the literature, forms a causalhypothesis, designs and conducts an experiment to test the hypothesis, analyzes and interprets the data, andreports the experiment in a manuscript prepared APA style. Prerequisites: PSY 101, PHI 212, PSY 250,and 355 or permission of instructor. This course is offered every spring semester.PSY 499 INDEPENDENT STUDY IN PSYCHOLOGYTBAAn opportunity for a well-qualified, upper-division student to engage in special research in his/her major.Requires approval by the faculty advisor, the supervising professor, the department chair, and the schooldean before approval by the Vice President for Academic Affairs. Credit to be determined. Prerequisite:PSY 101.DEPARTMENT OF SOCIOLOGYDr. John Sill, ChairSOCIOLOGYSOC 151 or consent of the instructor is a prerequisite for all other sociology courses except 220, 256 and361. SOC 151 may be used to meet the Social Science core requirements.Degrees awarded: B.A., B.S., A.A.Requirements for the major: 42 s.h.—SOC 151, 253, 332, and 431; SOC 450 or 470; Statistics (SOC220, PSY 250, MAT 220 or ECO 216); plus 24 additional s.h. in Sociology.All students must receive a grade of C in all core courses taken in the Sociology major.Requirements for the minor: 18 s.h. in sociology, including SOC 151.Requirements for the A.A. Concentration in Sociology: 18 s.h. in sociology, including SOC 151 and253.Writing Enrichment Courses: SOC 253 and SOC 431SOCIOLOGY COURSESSOC 151 PRINCIPLES OF SOCIOLOGY3 s.h.The science of human society with emphasis on description and analysis of society, culture, thesocialization process, social institutions, and social change. This course or consent of the instructor is aperquisite for all higher numbered Sociology courses except SOC 220, 256 or 361. This course is offeredevery fall and spring semester.SOC 220 APPLIED STATISTICS3 s.h.This course will include descriptive and inferential statistics, the logic of probability and hypothesis testingwith emphasis on applications in social research. Statistics covered include measures of central tendency,variability, association and tests of significance. This course is an introduction to SPSS for Windows(comprehensive software for data analysis). The student will gain theoretical knowledge and critical109