2008 TENTATIVE CLASS CALENDAR

Week

Dates

Class

Topic

Assignment

1

AUG 27

         29 

1

2

Introduction to Class:

Selection and Search of a Thesis Topic.

Overhead Transparency and PowerPoint Presentations.

Weiten (Chapters 1-8 & Appendices B-E,

Rosnow & Rosnow (Entire Book) &

Annual Review or Other Journal Article.

2

SEP 01

03 

         *05

3

4

5

Annual Review or Other Article Reports Begin:

5-Minute Article Presentation with Overhead Transparency Outline.

3

         08

         10

         12 

6

7

8

 

 

Chapter Presentations Begin:

Appendix C:  Industrial Psychology

 

4

                      15

         17

         19

9

10

11

Chapter 1: The Evolution of Psychology

Chapter 2 & B: Research & Statistics

Chapter 3:  Biological Bases of Behavior

50-Minute Chapter Presentation with Revised PowerPoint Slide Set.  PowerPoint file must be posted on ACELINK afterwards

5

22

24

26

12

13

14

Chapter 4: Sensation & Perception

Chapter 5: Variations in Consciousness

Chapter 6: Learning

 

6

29

 OCT 01

03

15

16

17

Chapter 7: Human Memory

Chapter 8: Language & Thought

FIRST PRELIMINARY EXAMINATION

 

 

Weiten (Chapters 1-8, Appendices B,C,D&E) & Rosnow & Rosnow (Entire Book).

7

06

08

10

18

19

20

Chapter 9: Intelligence & Testing

Chapter 10: Motivation & Emotion

Chapter 11: Human Development

THESIS PROSPECTUS DUE

Weiten (Chapters 9-16) &

Strunk & White (2000).

8

OCT 11-14:

15

17

 

21

22

FALL RECESS

Chapter 12: Personality

Chapter 13: Stress, Coping & Health

 

9

20

22

24

23

24

25

Chapter 14: Psychological Disorders

Chapter 15: Treatment

Chapter 16: Social Psychology

 

10

27

 

29

 

 

31

26

 

27

 

 

28

SECOND PRELIMINARY EXAMINATION

 

ETS MAJOR FILED TEST IN PSYCHOLOGY (6:00-8:30pm in Koch Center 100)

 

Thesis Format & Submission Guide

Weiten (Chapters 9-16) & Strunk & White (Entire Book).

 

11

NOV 03

05

07

29

30

31

Career Alternatives & Graduate Studies

 

12

10

12

**14

32

33

34

THESIS/PORTFOLIO DUE

Thesis Topic Presentations Begin: 

 

15-Minute Thesis Presentation with Overhead Transparency or PowerPoint Outline.

13

17

19

21

35

36

37

Thesis Topic Presentations

 

 

 

14

24

NOV 26-31

38

Thesis Topic Presentations

THANKSGIVING RECESS

 

15

DEC 01

03

05

39

40

41

Thesis Topic Presentations

 

16

08

42

Thesis Topic Presentations 

 

17

DEC  16

(TU)

 

Thesis Grades Due From Outside Readers

No Final Exam