Psychology Courses

PSYCH 101

Introduction to Psychological Science

3 credit hours

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Introduction to Psychological Science introduces students to the scientific method as it is applied to the study of psychological processes, and surveys theories and research in such areas as sensation and perception, conditioning and learning, motivation, emotion, human development, personality, psychopathology and other aspects of human behavior. Offered fall, spring.

PSYCH 102

Psych Science and Careers Seminar

3 credit hours

P: PSYCH-101 with a C or higher
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This seminar introduces students to the skills necessary to succeed in psychology. The course focuses on study skills, scientific literacy, APA format, and development of a career plan. Students will engage in the exploration of various careers and develop a college plan that will lead to the career of their choosing. Offered fall, spring, summer.

PSYCH 110

Psychology in Film

3 credit hours

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Psychology in Film examines the intersection of psychology and cinema in how films represent psychological concepts and human behavior. Students will critically watch films related to variuos psychological topics, read articles to deepen their understanding of the pdsychological topics addressed in the films, and engage in discussions that analyze the accuracy of the film's portrayal, drawing connections to real-world psychological theories and research. Offered fall, spring.

PSYCH 120

Psychology in Your Life

3 credit hours

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Psychology in Your Life introduces students to basic psychological concepts they are likely to encounter in their day-to-day lives. Through this, the course aims to equip students with knowledge and tools they can use in shaping the life they want to lead. Content includes basic scientific literacy, how we think, personal wellbeing, interpersonal skills, and interacting with the world around us. Offered fall, spring.

PSYCH 199

Lifespan Development

3 credit hours

P: PSYCH-101with a C or higher
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Lifespan Development is a survey of theory and research on development throughout the life span from conception to death. The course focuses on the physical, emotional, social and cognitive changes.

PSYCH 199

Lifespan Development

3 credit hours

P: PSYCH-101 with a C or higher
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Lifespan Development is a survey of theory and research on human development throughout the life span from conception to death. The course focuses on the physical, emotional, social, and cognitive changes. Offered fall, spring, summer.

PSYCH 200

Child Development

3 credit hours

P: PSYCH-101with a C or higher
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Child Development is the study of the physical, psychological and social development of the individual from infancy through childhood.

PSYCH 200

Child Development

3 credit hours

P: PSYCH-101with a C or higher
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Child Development is the study of the physical, psychological, and social development of the individual from infancy through childhood.

PSYCH 201

Adolescent Development

3 credit hours

P: PSYCH-101with a C or higher
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Adolescent Development examines the maturation and developmental challenges that typically characterize adolescence and the transition to adulthood, such as the establishment of autonomy and adult life roles in early adulthood.

PSYCH 204

Abnormal Psychology

3 credit hours

P: PSYCH-101 with a C or higher
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Abnormal Psychology is an introduction to the understanding of problematic behaviors, their development, symptoms, and suggestions for treatment. Offered fall, spring, summer.

PSYCH 206

Social Psychology

3 credit hours

P: PSYCH-101 with a C or higher
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Social Psychology focuses on principles, methods and applications of the study of the effects of people and the broader social environment on human behavior. Topics include social perception, social cognition, relationships, group processes and others. Offered fall, spring, summer.

PSYCH 207

Child Development

3 credit hours

P: PSYCH-101 with a C or higher
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Child Development is the study of the physical, psychological, and social development of the individual from infancy through childhood. Offered fall, spring.

PSYCH 208

Adolescent Development

3 credit hours

P: PSYCH-101 with a C or higher
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Adolescent Development examines the maturation and developmental challenges that typically characterize adolescence and the transition to adulthood, such as the establishment of autonomy and adult life roles in early adulthood. Offered fall, spring.

PSYCH 210

Cultural Psychology

3 credit hours

P: PSYCH-101 with a C or higher
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Cultural Psychology seeks to understand the influence of culture on human behavior. It will examine cultural groups both within and outside of the United States. It will also examine the development of culture as arising from both the physical and social environments. Offered fall, spring.

PSYCH 224

Adulthood and Aging

3 credit hours

P: PSYCH-101 with a C or higher
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Adulthood and Aging considers physical changes with aging, psychological and sociological theory and research concerned with the changes and developmental tasks characteristic of adulthood with an emphasis on middle and late adulthood. Offered fall, spring.

PSYCH 232

Personality Theories

3 credit hours

P: PSYCH-101 with a C or higher
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Personality Theories covers representative theories and research from each of the major approaches to the study of personality: psychoanalytic, learning, cognitive, dispositional, humanistic, and intervention strategies derived from these approaches.

PSYCH 242

Stress Management

3 credit hours

P: PSYCH-101with a C or higher
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Stress Management is an experiential course focusing on the sources and consequences of stress. Students learn how to cope with stress and are introduced to a wide range of stress-reduction techniques.

PSYCH 300

Statistics for the Social Sciences

3 credit hours

P: PSYCH-101 with a C or higherMATH-135 with a C or higher
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Statistics for the Social Sciences is an introduction to the basic concepts of and applications of descriptive (frequencies, central tendency, variability) statistics and inferential (parametric and nonparametric) statistics. Students will test hypotheses via statistical software, such as IBM SPSS. Offered fall, spring, summer.

PSYCH 301

Research Methods

4 credit hours

P: PSYCH-101 with a C or higher,PSYCH-102 with a C or higher,PSYCH-300 with a C or higher
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Research Methods is a comprehensive analysis of the design and methods used in psychological research. Students will review published research findings and methods in major topic areas in experimental psychology. Laboratory work is included in this course. Offered fall, spring.

PSYCH 303

Human Motivation

3 credit hours

P: PSYCH-101 with a C or higher
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Human Motivation focuses on the question: 'Why do people do what they do?' The course involves exploration of biological, learned, and cognitive factors influencing human behavior. Specific topics may include emotions, curiosity and exploration, achievement, aggression, addiction, stress, work and others.

PSYCH 311

Physiological Psychology

3 credit hours

P: PSYCH-101 with a C or higher
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Physiological Psychology is a study of the physiological and neurochemical correlates of perception, motivation, emotion, and learning. Includes background information on the structure and physiology of the nervous system. Offered annually.

PSYCH 312

Sensation and Perception

3 credit hours

P: PSYCH-101 with a C or higher
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*Formerly Perception. Sensation and Perception covers research on and theories of the phenomena of perception. This will entail an in-depth analysis of the sensory systems, the various aspects of the environment they detect and the theories that have been developed to account for these phenomena.

PSYCH 313

Learning and Memory

3 credit hours

P: PSYCH-101 with a C or higher
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Learning and Memory examines experimental procedures, research data, and theories for such topics as learning, structure of knowledge, memory, retrieval, forgetting and others. Laboratory demonstrations and experimentation are included in this course. Offered annually.

PSYCH 315

Cognitive Psychology

3 credit hours

P: PSYCH-101 with a C or higher
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Cognitive Psychology examines human thought processes, primarily from the information-processing viewpoint. Topics include learning, memory, problem solving, pattern recognition, language, and artificial intelligence. Laboratory demonstrations are included in this course. Offered annually.

PSYCH 316

Consciousness

3 credit hours

P: PSYCH-101with a C or higher
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Consciouness provides an in-depth analysis of the various theories of consciousness and the various methods used to study it.

PSYCH 317

History of Psychology

3 credit hours

P: PSYCH-101 with a C or higher
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History of Psychology is a study of the historical sources of contemporary psychology. Topics include a survey of major historical movements, such as structuralism, functionalism, Gestalt psychology, behaviorism, existential and phenomenological psychology, and others. As the course fulfills the psychology degree capstone requirement, it is recommended that students have successfully completed most of their required psychology courses prior to enrollment.

PSYCH 319

Hormones and Behavior

3 credit hours

P: PSYCH-101 with a C or higher
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Hormones and Behavior is taught from a comparative perspective and includes examples of hormone-behavior interactions in a variety of organisms. Animal data will be related to human development, physiology and ultimately human behavior.

PSYCH 323

Behavior Management

3 credit hours

P: PSYCH-101with a C or higher
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Behavior Management is a study of theory and research in conditioning with particular attention to their applications to practical problems in a variety of settings such as psychotherapy, schools, family, hospitals, etc.

PSYCH 325

Individual and Group Therapy

3 credit hours

P: PSYCH-101 PSYCH-204
P: PSYCH-199 or PSYCH-200
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Individual and Group Therapy introduces students to theories and research in counseling and psychotherapy. It introduces intervention strategies and counseling skills. Lectures and readings address theories of therapy. Experiential learning activities and counseling lab exercises promote interpersonal effectiveness in interactions with individuals and groups. Modules address career awareness, diversity awareness, ethical decision-making and personal development.

PSYCH 326

Introduction to Clinical Psychology

3 credit hours

P: PSYCH-101 with a C or higher,PSYCH-325
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Introduction to Clinical Psychology will introduce students to basic aspects of clinical psychology and mental health service delivery. Students will participate in weekly discussions of relevant topics such as mental health career paths, psychological assessment, differential diagnosis, evidence-based treatment, case presentation, and ethics related to the provision of mental health care.

PSYCH 328

Sex and Gender

3 credit hours

P: PSYCH-101 with a C or higher
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Formerly named Psychology and Gender, Sex and Gender examines and seeks to understand sex and gender differences in behavior from evolutionary, biological, sociocultural, and cognitive perspectives.

PSYCH 329

Comparative Behavior

3 credit hours

P: PSYCH-101 with C or higher
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Comparative Behavior is an overview of psychological processes and how they vary across taxonomic groups. lt takes an evolutionary and ecological approach to understanding differences in behavioral adaptations across animal species, including humans. Students will be expected to understand basic processes which shape animal behavior, utilize primary literature, synthesize information from multiple sources, and demonstrate critical thinking. Offered annually.

PSYCH 334

Attention and Memory

3 credit hours

P: PSYCH-101 with a C or higher
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This course will explore the cognitive processes underlying attention and memory. Students will examine how attention influences the encoding, storage, and retrieval of information, and how memory systems interact with attentional mechanisms. Topics include selective attention, working memory, long-term memory, and the impact of interruptions, dual-tasking, and task switching on attention and memory processes and more. Offered annually.

PSYCH 335

Sport Psychology

3 credit hours

P: PSYCH-101 with a C or higher
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Sport Psychology examines the interaction between psychological variables and performance in athletic and physical activities. The American Psychological Association, Division 47 - Society for Sport, Exercise and Performance Psychology-contributes to the standards of this course. The objective of this course is to survey theories and practical skills that contribute to performance in sports. Offered fall, spring.

PSYCH 339

Human Evolution

3 credit hours

P: PSYCH-101 with a C or higher
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This course examines the path of human evolution. lt explores the ways evolution affects human anatomy, physiology, and behavior. lt also examines the bidirectional relationship between behavior and biological evolution. We will use insights from our hominin past and present to examine various topics including encephalization, language, tool use, compassion, and sociality. Offered spring.

PSYCH 341

Health Psychology

3 credit hours

P: PSYCH-101 with a C or higher
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Health Psychology is an interdisciplinary study of health and psychology. The primary emphasis of the course is a biopsychosocial one. Content includes the history and focus of health psychology, an examination of stress, its relation to illness, and methods for coping with and reducing it, physical and psychological pain, methods for managing and controlling it, and procedures to enhance health and prevent illness. Offered fall, spring.

PSYCH 345

Forensic Psychology

3 credit hours

P: PSYCH-101 with a C or higher
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This course provides an overview of criminal and civil forensic psychology. Topics include, but are not limited to police and investigative psychology, legal psychology, criminal psychology, victimology and victim services, and correctional psychology. Offered fall, spring.

PSYCH 354

Psychology of Addiction

3 credit hours

P: PSYCH-101with a C or higher
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Psychology of Addiction will be explored from the psychological, biological, and treatment perspectives. Students will gain an understanding of the history of drug use and drug policy, and will identify sociological factors that promote substance abuse and incarceration. Students will be introduced to pharmacological principles and the neuroanatomical basis of drug abuse. Theories of addiction and contemporary treatment and prevention paradigms will be explored.

PSYCH 357

Industrial and OrganizationalýPsychology

3 credit hours

P: PSYCH-101 with a C or higher
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This course provides a general understanding of industrial and oganizational psychology including motivation, job attitudes, teamwork, leadership, and organizational development. Students will be able to summarize the basic theories and concepts within industrial and organizational psychology and propose potential solutions to organizational problems using theories and findings from industrial and organizational psychology. Offered fall, spring.

PSYCH 360

Special Topics: Applied BehaviorýAnalysis

3 credit hours

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This course is an introduction to applied behavior analysis (ABA), which is a field dedicated to the application of behavioral principles and procedures. lt will cover basic principles such as reinforcement, punishment, stimulus control, extnction, etc. and address how these principles relate to common behavioral procedures.

PSYCH 360

Special Topics: LGBTQ+ Psychology

3 credit hours

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This course reviews psychological perspectives and research to explore lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ+) identities and how they intersect with other identities, such as race and class. It also explores how social marginalization impacts the mental health of LGBTQ+ people and communities, as well as LGBTQ+ experiences across the lifespan, from youth to old age.

PSYCH 361

Special Topics in Psychology

3 credit hours

P: PSYCH-101 with a C or higher
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Special Topics in Psychology is a concentrated study of a special topic within the field of psychology. The subject matter of this course will vary depending on student interest and faculty resources.

PSYCH 361

SpTop:Substance Abuse

3 credit hours

P: PSYCH-101with a C or higher
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Concentrated study of a special topic within the field of psychology. The subject matter of this course will vary depending on student interest and faculty resources.

PSYCH 361

SpTop:Animal Behavior

4 credit hours

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PSYCH 361

Special Topic: Positive Psychology

3 credit hours

P: PSYCH-101with a C or higher
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Principles, methods and applications of the study of happiness and optimal well-being. Topics include motivation, emotion, social and intimate relationships, choice, and others.

PSYCH 361

Biological Basis of Human Attachment

3 credit hours

P: PSYCH-101with a C or higher
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An interdisciplinary course that addresses the biological basis of human attachment, the capacity to seek, manintain and respond to bonding with other humans. Key findings from the emerging field of social cognitive neuroscience are presented following a review of basic concepts from Life Science and Introductory Psychology.

PSYCH 361

Special Topics:Art Therapy

3 credit hours

P: PSYCH-101with a C or higher
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Art Therapy is an introduction to the, historical, philosophical, psychological, and social foundations of art therapy. Students will work with groups to apply hands-on approaches to art therapy in a variety of behavioral and healthcare-related fields. We will practice modalities that can be applied to community, health centers, hospitals, clinics, disaster, relief programs, meuseums and non-clinical, settings like Gilda's Club Twin Cities.

PSYCH 361

Special Topics:Cultural Psychology

3 credit hours

P: PSYCH-101with a C or higher
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Cultural Psychology seeks to understand the influence of culture on human behavior. It examines cultural groups both within and outside of the United States. It will also examine the development of culture as arising from both the physical and social environments. This course will count as fulfilling a social domain requirement.

PSYCH 361

Emotion

3 credit hours

P: PSYCH-101with a C or higher
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Emotions are complex dynamic personal experiences that have been argued to be at the heart of what it means to be human. Because of this, we all think we understand emotions, bt we know remarkably little about what emotions are and how they work. In this course, we will discuss what we do know about the psychology and neuroscience of emotion, and the future of emotion research.

PSYCH 361

Latinx Psychology

3 credit hours

P: PSYCH-101 with a grade of C or higher
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This course examines the psychological research and literature related to the experiences of Latinxs in the U.S., from Latinx cultural and minority-majority group U.S. status perspectives. A variety of topics will be examined, including cultural characteristics and values, intersectionality, immigration, acculturation, ethnic/racial identity, discrimination, mental health services access and barriers, and education.

PSYCH 361

Special Topics: Forensic Psychology

3 credit hours

P: PSYCH-101 with a C or higher
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This course will focus on five main areas involving the interaction between the discipline of psychology and the criminal justice system. It embraces psychology and the law, police and investigative psychology, criminal psychology, victimology and victim services, and correctional psychology. This course provides a strong foundation of understanding for individuals interested in psychology, law, criminal justice, and related fields.

PSYCH 361

Special Topics: Community Psychology

3 credit hours

P: PSYCH-101with a C or higher
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Community psychology goes beyond an individual focus and integrates social, cultural, economic, political, environmental, and international influences to promote positive change at the individual and systemic levels; multidisciplinary in focus, global in nature - examining behavior in context and promoting well-being through scientific inquiry, while honoring human rights and respecting diversity.

PSYCH 361

Special Topics: Industrial andýOrganizational Psychology

3 credit hours

P: PSYCH-101 with a C or higher
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Industrial & Organization Psychology is designed to give students a general understanding of organizational psychology and the following subtopics: motivation, job attitudes, teamwork, leadership, and organizational development. Students will be able to list and discuss the basic theories and knowledge regarding these subtopics by the end of the class, as well as be capable of given a description of an organizational situation, applying their knowledge by identifying aspects of the situation that relate to organizational psychology subtopics and theorizing potential solutions for the situation based on theories and perspectives from organizational psychology.

PSYCH 361

Special Topics: Attention and Memory

3 credit hours

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This course will explore the cognitive processes underlying attention and memory. Students will examine how attention influences the encoding, storage, and retrieval of information, and how memory systems interact with attentional mechanisms. Topics include selective attention, working memory, long-term memory, and the impact of interruptions, dual-tasking, and task switching on attention and memory processes. Research methods and applications will be emphasized. **The course will count toward the COGNITIVE domain in the psychology major.

PSYCH 361

Special Topics: Introduction toýClinical and Counseling Psychology

3 credit hours

P: PSYCH-101 with a C or higher,PSYCH-204 with a C or higher
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Introduction to Clinical and Counseling Psychology provides an overview of the fields of Clinical and Counseling Psychology. The course summarizes the similarities and differences between the two fields. It covers assessment, legal and ethical issues, the various types of psychotherapy theories and orientations, historical considerations, cultural considerations, and treatment guidelines and manuals and the controversies associated with them.

PSYCH 388

Psychology Course

1 credit hour

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PSYCH 390

Research Capstone

3 credit hours

P: PSYCH-101 with a C or higherPSYCH-300 with a C or higher,PSYCH-301 with a C or higher
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The Research Capstone offers students the option to develop and execute their own research project. Each student produces an empirical research paper and then present their study to their peers at the conclusion of the course. As a capstone requirement option, students have most of their required psychology courses prior to enrollment. Enrollment is limited to 15 students, and preference is given to students in their senior year. Offered fall, spring.

PSYCH 391

Directed Research

1 credit hour

P: PSYCH-101 with a C or higher and consent of instructor
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Directed Research provides students with advanced experiences in research. Students may be engaged in activities related to a research project with a faculty member. Such activities could include collecting data, conducting literature searches, analyzing data, writing manuscripts, presenting project results, etc., in collaboration with a faculty member. These opportunities occur at the individual level or in a small group setting.

PSYCH 397

Internship

1 credit hour

P: PSYCH-101 with a C or higher,PSYCH-102 with a C or higher
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The Psychology Internship experience allows students to apply academic knowledge they have learned to a psychology related professional setting. This internship is by arrangement; the student should work with the Psychology Program to identify an appropriate internship site and receive program approval prior to enrollment. Offered fall, spring, summer.

PSYCH 399

Independent Study

1 credit hour

P: PSYCH-101 with a C or higher and consent of instructor
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Independent Study is a student-initiated independent program of study or research experience.

PSYCH 399

Independent Study: FirefighterýPsychological Support

3 credit hours

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