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2011 – 2012Course DescriptionsPSY 345 INDIVIDUALS WITHDISABILITIES IN SOCIETY (3)Three hours lecture per weekMajor types of disabilities andgiftedness, including definitions, causes,characteristics, and educationalimplications. Topics include: disabilityperspectives and social, legal, andeducational considerations of disabilityissues.Same as SPED 345GenEd: D, E, InterdisciplinaryPSY 346 HUMAN MOTIVATION (3)Three hours lecture per weekExamines different biological, social,learning and cognitive approaches tothe topic of motivation. The key theoriesof motivation will be reviewed andapplied. Topics include: contemporary,psychological, biological andsociocultural principles, issues includingdrug addiction and gang affiliation.GenEd: E, InterdisciplinaryPSY 348 HEALTHY AGING (3)Three hours lecture per weekExplores physical, cultural andpsychosocial factors influencing healthissues during the elderly years of life.Topics include aging stereotypes, culturaland family influences on the elderly,physiology of aging, lifestyles choicesassociated with healthy aging, and endof life care.Same as NRS 348, SOC 348GenEd: D, E, InterdisciplinaryPSY 357 PSYCHOLOGY OF FAMILIES (3)Three hours lecture per weekA study of the dynamics of the family asa social system, with emphasis on recentresearch regarding processes of familychange, dissolution, disorganizationand reorganization. Traces the historicaldevelopment of the modern family; roleexpectations of husbands, wives, parentsand children; examines family diversitywith respect to ethnicity/race, sexuality,and income.PSY 370 FUNDAMENTALS OFCOUNSELING THEORY (3)Three hours lecture per weekPrerequisites: PSY 100, PSY 213, andPSY 217Overview of selected counseling theoriesand models used in private practice,school, and community settings. Focus ison relating theory to practice, counselorclientrelationships, counseling in aculturally diverse society, case studies,methods of adult and child assessment,and professional ethics.PSY 375 PSYCHOLOGY OF HEALTHCOUNSELING (3)Three hours lecture per weekPrerequisite: PSY 213Examines health counseling methodsdesigned to promote good health andprevent illness, deal effectively with thetreatment people receive for medicalproblems, help people cope with andreduce stress and pain, and aid in therecovery, rehabilitation, and psychosocialadjustment of patients with serious healthproblems.PSY 383 CHICANA/O LATINA/O IDENTITYAND EMPOWERMENT (3)Three hours lecture per weekPrerequisites: PSY 100 and/or CHS 100or EquivalentExamines theories of identity developmentand empowerment applied to Latina/oadolescents and adults living in amulticultural society. Psychological, social,and cultural issues will be examined fromthe perspective of Latinas/os from diverseethnic, cultural and socioeconomicbackgrounds.Same as CHS 383PSY 400 CASE STUDIES INPSYCHOPATHOLOGY ANDCLINICAL PSYCHOLOGY (3)Three hours lecture per weekPrerequisites: PSY 313 or Consent ofinstructorAn advanced undergraduate course onthe etiology, classification, and treatmentof human psychopathology.PSY 410 PSYCHOLOGICAL TESTING (3)Three hours lecture per weekPrerequisites: PSY/MATH 202 or Consentof instructorSurveys the administration andinterpretation of objective and projectivepersonality and educational assessmentinstruments. Basic assessment issues willbe discussed as well as ethical andcultural issues related to testing.PSY 415 ASSESSMENT OF CHILDREN (3)Three hours lecture per weekPrerequisites: PSY 333 or PSY 410An intensive study in the cognitiveintellectual,emotional, and developmentalassessment of children. Topicsinclude: testing instruments, conceptsof intelligence, cognition, emotionaldevelopment, and specific developmentaldisorders in children, issues of languageand culture related to the assessment ofchildren.PSY 420 AFRICAN AMERICANFAMILIES (3)Three hours lecture per weekExamines the structure, values, andbehavior patterns of the contemporaryAfrican American family as influenced byAfrican culture and kinship systems andthe institution of slavery in association withother factors. The orientation to AfricanAmerican family life will emphasize itsstrengths, weaknesses, adaptations,strong kinship bonds, and family roles.PSY 424 ORGANIZATIONALBEHAVIOR (3)Three hours lecture per weekPrerequisites: MGT 307 or Consent ofinstructorAn application of behavioral sciencetheory and concepts with a focus onindividual, interpersonal and groupprocesses in a diverse work force.Topics include personality traits,emotions, values, work attitudes, workmotivation, organizational politics, groupeffectiveness and conflict. Extensive use ofindividual and group case analysis.Same as MGT 424PSY 429 INTERGROUP RELATIONS (3)Three hours lecture per weekPrerequisite: Junior or Senior standingProvides an overview of the socialpsychological study of intergrouprelations, emphasizing underlying socialand individual dynamics. Considerstheory and research in the field andthe application of these to a variety ofsocieties and groups. Topics include theimportance of groups in individual identitydevelopment; stereotypes, prejudice, anddiscrimination; intergroup inequality andinjustice; collective action, and socialprotest.PSY 432 SEMINAR IN LEADERSHIP (3)Three hours seminar per weekPrerequisite: Consent of instructorThis course gives students anopportunity to both study andexperience communicative, managerial,psychological, and sociologicalperspectives related to leadership. Thisincludes in-depth study of aggressionand dominance, group structure andbehavior, decision-making, and the roleof personality in leadership.GenEd: D, E, Interdisciplinary290 www.csuci.edu • California State University Channel Islands • 2011 - 2012 Catalog