Behavioral Science

This course is designed to support student learning and development in the critical first semester of college. Through a shared relationship with the course instructor and an academic advisor, students explore the purposes of higher education and begin to develop the skills needed to utilize information technology and academic resources successfully in college. Using a strength-based curriculum, the course also focuses on topics useful to college students including time management, teamwork, study skills, leadership, and education and career planning. 

Survey courses of human behavior. The student will be introduced to the development and learning aspects of human behavior. Specific emphasis is placed on motivation, emotion, personality, perception, social interaction, adjustment and mental health. 

This course will study the factors in the social life of people. It will include the study of group behavior, culture, socialization, social groups. The nature of specific organizations of groups; their activities and the social influences that affect personalities, behavior and social change. 

The course will introduce the student to the discipline of Anthropology including but not limited to principles, definitions, terminology, concepts, theories, and research techniques. Critical thinking will be facilitated by providing opportunities to apply anthropological perspectives to daily activities.

This course is the study of how and why people change over time, as well as how and why they remain the same, from conception to death. Attention is given to emotional, social, intellectual, physical, perceptional and psychological development.