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College of Undergraduate Studies Course Descriptions
under stress; it examines significant aspects of relationships
including codependence and addictive relationships, loving
relationships, and relationships in transition. May be repeated for
credit with a change of topic.
PYJ 4000 Community Psychology 3
Looks at the application of psychology in relation to the com munity.
Students will look at issues such as the nature of com munity,
community involvement, community organizations and how they
work, conflict resolution and mediation, and diversity and how the
field of psychology relates to and can possibly help in regard to these
issues.
PYC /PYJ 4005 learning and Cognition 3
This survey course addresses historical and current theoretical
assumptions and approaches to learning and cognition. Special
attention is given to the relationship between learning and cognitive
process. Topics addressed include operant condition ing, social
learning theory, learning styles, perception, memory, problem
solving, thinking, and intelligence.
PYC /PYJ 4010 Psychological assessments
and outcomes 3
This course looks at the latitude and utilization of various
psychological assessment tools. The assumptions, limits, and
challenges to psychological assessment will also be addressed. The
focus will be on the construction and evaluation of psycho logical
tests and their performance in clinical situations. Students will be
engaged in self-assessment in their learning experience.
PYC 4120 emotions, intelligence, and awareness 3
Although emotions have long been considered to be secondary, if
not detrimental, to our mental efficiency in finding success in life,
mounting evidence demonstrates that thinking is literally impossible
without feeling, that it plays an organizing role in thought itself, and
that true success is totally dependent upon a highly developed
emotional life. EQ is as important as, if not more so than, IQ. This
course will examine the evidence and search for practical ways of
developing an intelligent heart and a compassionate mind.
PYC 4200 Jungian Psychology 3
An examination of Jung’s life and works including the basic
structures of Jungian theory, the nature and structure of the psyche,
and the four functions of consciousness.
PYC 4203 humanistic Psychology 3
This course explores the major concepts, theories, techniques,
applications, and trends in the field of humanistic psychology, often
called the Third Force in psychology. Influenced by humanism,
existentialism, and phenomenology, humanistic psychology is
fundamentally interested in human capacities and potentials.
Humanistic psychology helped to birth the human potential
movement, transpersonal psychology, and positive psychology. The
course examines the nature of self, love, creativity, spontaneity, play,
warmth, ego-transcendence, autonomy, responsibility, authenticity,
meaning, transcendental experience, courage, and other topics of
vital human interest.
PYC /PYJ 4205 Transpersonal Psychology 3
The philosophical and empirical foundations of transpersonal
psychology and the transpersonal principles used in counseling are
explored. Theorists include Roberto Assagioli, Ken Wilber, Stanislav
Grof, Francis vaughn, and A.H. Almaas.
PYC 4207 integral Psychology 3
This introduces the five elements of Ken Wilber’s integral theory,
including quadrants, levels, lines, states, and types, and examines
their relevance to psychology and as a framework for today’s world.
This course also explores different transpersonal psychological
theories and philoso including those of Carl Jung, Roberto Assagioli,
A.H. Almaas, and Stanislav Grof. Topics include models of
consciousness and human development, the relationship of Self/self;
and the potential of Integral Psychology to deepen our
understanding of; and help bring about, personal psycho-spiritual
development, as well as socialiglobal change.
PYC 4209 Spiritual Counseling 3
This course introduces the basic approaches, knowledge, and skills
involved in interfaith spiritual counseling. Interfaith spiritual
counseling is a companioning process that helps individuals to
sense, savor, and integrate the presence and movement of spirit in
their lives and to cultivate their spiritual lives. We will study
interfaith and cross-cultural perspectives on spiritual experience,
examine different approaches to spiritual discernment, discuss the
spiritual counseling process, learn contemplative listening skills,
explore the nature of prayer, and practice offering spiritual support
and guidance.
PYC 4211 evolutionary Psychology 3
The course is designed to introduce and critically assess the exciting
and often controversial movement of Evolutionary Psychology. The
emerging new field of psychology is emphatically interdisciplinary,
involving all of the following: evolutionary theory, paleoanthropology,
cognitive psychology, philosophy, ethics, sociology,
religion, and political theory. The course will be a focused
engagement that will give the student a working familiarity with
both the breadth of inquiry and the goals of Evolutionary
Psychology.
PYC 4213 Planetary Psychology 3
This course explores a psychology of ecological homecoming. We
will survey various perspectives and approaches that deal with the
psychological dimension of our relationship with the environment,
including mainstream ecology, deep ecology, bioregionalisin,
ecopsychology, ecotherapy (applied ecopsychology), integral
ecology, and the relatively new field of terrapsychology, the deep
study of our psychological connections to specific places.
PYC /PYJ 4217 Creativity and intuition 3
Explores from a psychospiritual and interdisciplinary perspective
the theories and processes in the development of creativity and
intuition. Students engage in various forms of creative expression
such as writing, drawing, and guided imagery.
PYC 4218 healing Stories 3
This course explores how stories and myths powerfully influence
our perceptions, desires, values, and behaviors. Indeed, they shape
our personal and social identities. By becoming aware of the nature
of stories and storytelling, we learn to deconstruct false and
disempowering stories and to create truer and more empowering
ones. In this course we will examine powerful stories that not only
portray the themes of healing and transformation but also have the
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