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• PSY 240: Educational Psychology

  3.00 Credits

  Reading Area Community College

  
  Educational Psychology is a course designed to give students an introduction to the psychological principles in education. Learning styles, program, and methods will be explored. Educational implications of research pn child development, cognitive science, learning, and teaching will be analyzed. Prerequisite:    Take COM-121; Minimum grade D. (Required, Previous). | Take PSY-130; Minimum grade C. (Required, Previous).
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• PSY 245: Biological Basis of Human Behavior

  3.00 Credits

  Reading Area Community College

  
  Biological Basis of Human Behavior is a course designed to give the student a broad knowledge base of neurophysiology.This course will focus on applications of this knowledge base to adaptive and maladaptive human behaviors. the emphasis of this course is on brain stucture and function and the neurophysiologic processes fundamental to learning and memory, reward, perception, hunger, thirst, sleep, sexual behavior, emotions, and pschological disorders. This course is designed to meet the needs of Physchology and other Social Science and Human Sevices students. Prerequisite:    # Take COM-121 or COM-122 # Take PSY-130; Minimum grade C. (Required, Previous).
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• PSY 250: Sensation and Perception in Psychology

  3.00 Credits

  Reading Area Community College

  
  This course is an introduction to the biological processes of sensation and perception. The basics of neural anatomy, physiology and psychophysics will be covered. Some rudimentary concepts of how neuronal circuits affect sensory processes will be presented. Topics related to brain development, damage, and abnormal functioning will also be discussed in the light of modern theories of sensory system malfunction. Mechanisms of sensory processing in human and other mammalian brains will be discussed with some emphasis on human clinical techniques (e.g. magnetic resonance imaging and optical imaging). Three general levels are covered: a)the level of events in the peripheral sensory organ, b)the level of central nervous system; and c) the level of behavioral phenomena & sensory perceptual abilities. Prerequisite:    Take COM-121; Minimum grade D. (Required, Previous). | Take PSY-130; Minimum grade D. (Required, Previous).
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• PSY 255: Interpreting Lives: Rites of Passage, Personal History, and the Life Cycle (Honors)

  3.00 Credits

  Reading Area Community College

  
  This interdisciplinary course considers the stages of life and their cross-cultural variation, including the rites of passage that mark transitions throughout the human life cycle. Further, the course examines how people construct and reaffirm their lives through the process of personal narrative. Students will be taught life history interview methods and guided to do independent research with an individual "tradition bearer". Such life history research facilitates the coming to voice of women and minority people who are often ignored in standard historical writing. Prerequisite:    Take COM-121; Minimum grade D. (Required, Previous).
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• PSY 261: Psychology in the World of Harry Potter (Honors)

  3.00 Credits

  Reading Area Community College

  
  The Psychology in the World of Harry Potter will use the Harry Potter books to examine a variety of topics in psychology. Topics include child and adolescent development, personality theory, psychopathology,cognitive behavioral therapy, psychoanalysis, curiosity, grief, racism, power, cooperation, and the nature/nurture controversy. Honors courses include more activities such as more essay writing, exploratory learning, research, and collaboration than non-honors focused courses. Prerequisite:    Take PSY-130. (Required, Previous).
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• PSY 265: Theories of Personality

  3.00 Credits

  Reading Area Community College

  
  This course is designed to provide you with an introduction to personality psychology. Personality psychology is a broad area of study that includes a number of different theories and approaches and it is a rapidly growing field of research. This course introduces you to different perspectives or approaches to studying personality as well as theories, historical background, modern research, and research methods used in the study of personality. This class will provide the opportunity to broaden your understanding of the science of personality and to think critically about the application of personality theory in everyday life. Prerequisite:    Take COM-121; Minimum grade D. (Required, Previous). | Take PSY-130; Minimum grade C. (Required, Previous).
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• PSY 270: Research Methods in Psychology

  3.00 Credits

  Reading Area Community College

  
  Research methods in psychology as a course provides a venue for the application of basic research methods in psychology to include design, data analysis, and interpretation. Prerequisite:    Take COM-121; Minimum grade D. (Required, Previous). | Take PSY-130; Minimum grade C. (Required, Previous). | Take MAT-210; Minimum grade D. (Required, Previous).
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• REL 200: World Religions: One World, Many People

  3.00 Credits

  Reading Area Community College

  
  In this course, students will develop an understanding of concepts, traditions, and ideals of specific religious groups, including Buddhism, Christianity, Hinduism, Islam, and Judaism. Prerequisite:    Take COM-121 or COM-122. (Required, Previous).
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• RES 150: Respiratory Care I

  5.00 Credits

  Reading Area Community College

  
  This course introduces a respiratory care student to the fundamental practice of respiratory care including an overview of pathophysiology related to the cardiopulmonary system. Emphasis is placed on client assessment, respiratory therapeutics, infection prevention, and incorporating evidence-based practice into plans of care. Students will be introduced to patient assessment including laboratory and radiology studies. Ethics, professionalism and interdisciplinary communication are also introduced. Students demonstrate assessment skills, fundamental therapeutic interventions and procedures in the laboratory and selected settings. Prerequisite:    Take BIO-250; Minimum grade C. (Required, Previous).
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• RES 200: Cardiopulmonary Physiologic Processes

  2.00 Credits

  Reading Area Community College

  
  This course focuses on specific concepts of normal cardiopulmonary anatomy and physiology. Content includes the process of ventilation, gaseous diffusion and transport to the periphery, matching of ventilation and perfusion, and acid base balance. Prerequisite:    Take RES-150; Minimum grade C. (Required, Previous). | Take RES-212; Minimum grade C. (Required, Previous).
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