Behavioral Sciences Minor

This course will explore the relationship between individual experiences and the socio-cultural context, focusing on the role socio-cultural institutions play on personality, 健康, 世界观.

This course will present a comparative examination of religion as an aspect of human 文化 and will include substantive and functional approaches to religious behavior, religion as a symbol system, ritual behavior, 魔法, religious movements, and paranormal phenomena. 先决条件: 蚂蚁210 or permission of instructor. Offered alternate years.

This course will study 语言 as a fundamental component of human beings by examining the link between experience, 文化, and 语言 through the investigation of how 语言 communicates, 变化, and is used strategically to accomplish social ends.

The effect of social influences upon the development of personality and behavior patterns will be examined in this course including socialization, attitude formation and change, 沟通, 宣传, roles and stereotypes, 领导, and collective behavior.

This theoretical and research-based course will investigate the mental processes that underlie perception, 图像, 注意, 内存, 语言, 阅读, 推理, decision making, and problem solving.

Unlike traditional models and schools of thought that see diseases solely as mal功能 of organs or breakdowns of body systems, this course will present the approach that 健康 and illness are parts of a complex interplay among biological, 心理, and social factors.

As an introduction to the major problems in contemporary America, this course will focus on the causes, theoretical explanations, and social policy solutions including economic, 政治, 城市化, 环境, family and educational problems; child abuse; social deviance; crime; delinquency; and drug, 酒精, and tobacco abuse.

This course will introduce the sources, 功能, and dynamics of the unequal distribution of wealth, 权力, 知识, and prestige in an historical, comparative perspective.

This course will examine selected social theories and theorists and the history and development of social theory including the following: the formulation and evaluation of social theories such as social systems, 进化, 正式的, phenomenological, symbolic interaction, 社会行动, and exchange theories; sociology of 知识; and functionalism. Offered alternate years.