Courses

This course is concerned with an analysis of behavior and mental disorders including those with organic causes and with special focus of attention on diagnostic criteria. Emphasis on the nature and etiology of the most common deviant mental and emotional behaviors will be covered. Particular emphasis on the various potentials for treatment and rehabilitation will be discussed.

A survey of the etiology, symptomatology, dynamics, and treatment of major psychological disorders.

Nature and development of deviant behavior.

The anxiety related disorders, psychoses, personality disorders and mental deficiencies will be covered.

This course provides an introduction to the psychological, biological, and socio-cultural factors involved in the development, diagnosis, and treatment of psychological disorders. It includes a review of the historical understanding of abnormal behavior and the development of modern diagnostic systems. It includes discussion of psychological research and practice as it relates to mental health and psychological functioning, as well as legal and ethical issues.

Examines abnormal behavior and its classification, causes, treatment, and prevention. (SS3)

Examines abnormal behavior and its classification, causes, treatment, and prevention.

Examines abnormal behavior and its classification, causes, treatment, and prevention. This is a statewide Guaranteed Transfer course in the GT-SS3 category.

An examination of the movement to end slavery in the United States from the Revolutionary Age to the Civil War era. Special attention will be given to the centrality of African Americans' efforts to end slavery, the abolition movement's techniques, its relationship to broader American society, and the role women played in the movement.

This course will focus on the movement to end slavery in the United States from the Revolutionary Age to the Civil War and Reconstruction era looking at both the abolition movement itself and manumission and emancipation(s) in the Early Republic and during the Civil War Special attention will be given to how the activism and intellectual thought of African Americans shaped the movement.