When? Fall 1998
3 Credit Hours
Instructor: James D. Backlund
Office: #35 Academic Bldg.
E-mail: backlunj@k2.kirtland.cc.mi.us
Office Phone: 275-5121, Ext. 336, Mailbox 336
Office Hours: MW 1:30 - 2:30 TR 11:30 - 1:00
Prerequisite: ENG 103
Corequisite: ENG 103
Text: Required: Psychology, John W. Santrock, 5ed.
Required: Psych Online 97, Patricia M. Wallce 1st ed.
Recommended: Study Guide for Santrock's Psychology
These texts ban be purchased at the Kirtland Community College Bookstore.
Course Overview: Introduction to Psychology presents psychology from an eclectic viewpoint (i.e., biological, intra-psychic and social-behavioral). Areas of concentration will include biological foundations of the brain, perception, states of consciousness, motivation, learning and memory, classical and operant conditioning with a general treatment of gender and sexuality, personality theory, abnormal psychology, therapeutic techniques and social behavior.
Course Requirements:
1. For each chapter there will be a 15 question multiple choice quiz. These quizzes will be administered over the Top Class system
2. Each student will write a 5 to 8 page dream paper. This paper will be due December 1, 1998.
Grading:
Your grade in this class will be determined on a percentage, based on the following scale:
89.1% - 100% = A
79.1% - 89% = B
69.1% - 79% = C
59.1% - 69% = D
(e.g. if the point total in the class is 563, and you accumulate through tests, quizzes, the short paper and extra credit 477 points, your percentage is 84.7% which equals a B.)
Tentative Schedule:
Orientation
Chapter WPM - What Is Psychology?
Chapter BRN - The Brain
Chapter S & P - Sensation and Perception (skip The Auditory System p.16 to Perception p.26)
Chapter SOC - States of Consciousness
Chapter L & M - Learning and Memory
Chapter M & E - Motivation and Emotion
Chapter G & S - Gender and Sexuality
Chapter PER - Personality
Chapter ABN - Abnormal Psychology
Chapter SOP - Social Psychology
Academic Dishonesty
If there is clear and convincing evidence that a student has engaged in or is engaging in dishonest academic behavior, the instructor shall have the authority to take appropriate actions. You should be aware that academic dishonesty includes both the "giving" or the taking of improper assistance on quizzes and examinations as well as any other form of attempting to gain credit for work that is not your own. An official copy of policy and procedures governing academic dishonest can be secured form the Dean of Students or Instruction office.
The first thing to remember about this paper is that it is to be typed (or done on a word processor with a font of 12). Second, you are to send, through the U.S. Mail, a Xeroxed copy of it to me in care of Kirtland Community College. Do not submit the original typed manuscript. Now the details of the paper: The first part of the dream paper will be a discussion of three current (or past) dream theories. Your discussion of the various theoris will be approximately 2 - 3 pages in length. In the second part of the paper you will describe, in as much detail as possible, a dream that you have had sometime in your life (even last night would be O.K.) The third portion of the paper involves the anlysis/interpretation of your dream. You will use one, two, OR, three of the theories discussed in the beginning of your paper to analyze you dream. Handwritten papers will not be accepted and dream papers that are handed in past the due date will not be read and given a grade of zero (0%).
ADA STATEMENT
If you need course adaptations or accommodations because of a disability, if you have medical information to share with me, or if you need special arrangements in case the building must be evacuated, please make an appoint with me as soon as possible.
You must also see (if the above statement applies to you) Carole Chilton in the Administration Building, Room 212 (ext. 218); she coordinates services for students and will assist you in obtaining verification of your disability, if necessary.
TITLE IX STATEMENT
Kirtland Community College is an equal opportunity institution, encourages diversity, and does not discriminate against race, color, religion, national origin or ancestry, age, sex, marital status, sexual orientation, disability, or other protected category under Michigan and federal law. Compliance with Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 and with the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) is a priority of the college. Katherine Grosser, Vice President for Operations, is the 504 coordinator. Cary Vajda, Dean of Student Services is the ADA Compliance Officer.
A quote from my pal, Al:
It is not so very important for a person to learn facts. For that they do not really need a college. They can learn them from books. The value of a college education is not the learning of many facts, but the training of the mind to think something that cannot be learned from textbooks.Albert Einstein, 1921, on Thomas Edison's opinion that a college education is useless