Psychology Minor

Human Diversity Minor

Logic Minor

 

 

Psychology Minor                            Hours

 

PSY     1013            General Psychology                                                                           3

PSY     2023            Abnormal Psychology                                                                        3

Psychology Electives (including at least one junior or senior level course)                             9         

Total Minor Requirements                                                                                                15 hours

 

Human Diversity Minor

 

The undergraduate minor in Human Diversity provides students with a broad intellectual framework for understanding common human experience and differences. Courses fulfilling this requirement foster respect for the diversity of people and cultures within the bond of humankind. This minor examines differences and similarities in individual human behavior as related to issues such as race, ethnicity, gender, gender roles, creed, religion, culture, age, body type, physical conditions, sexual orientation, learning differences, social skills differences, intelligence level, regional differences, language, dialect, socioeconomic status, and other areas of individual and group differences. 

 

The minor is jointly administered by the departments of Psychology and Sociology. Students are required to take 18 hours of coursework including Human Diversity (PSY 2373); Racial and Cultural Minorities (SOC 2193); Social Psychology (either SOC 3143 or PSY 3063 -- although we normally stress the deep differences between these two classes, for purposes of this minor either provides a useful foundation for considering interactions with diverse people); and nine hours of electives.

 

Core Required Courses                                                                                               Hours

 

PSY     2373            Human Diversity                                                                                 3

SOC    2193            Racial and Cultural Minorities                                                              3

PSY     3063            Social Psychology or

SOC    3143            Social Psychology                                                                               3

Diversity Electives                                                                                                               9            

Total Minor Requirements                                                                                                 18 hours

 

Nine hours of electives from the following, including at least 3 hours from Group A:

 

Group A: Broader Diversity Issues

 

ANT/SOC       3063/3053   World Cultures

COM               3413            Female/Male Communication

EDU                4493            Global Studies

GEO                2163            World Geography

PHI                  3023            Religions of the World

PSY                 2023            Abnormal Psychology

PSY                 3043            Cross-Cultural Psychology

PSY                 3053            Multicultural Mental Health

SOC                4263            Stratification and Poverty

SOC                4293            Sociology of Gender Roles

SOC                4383            Social Gerontology

           

Group B: Specialized Diversity Issues

 

CED                4713            Advanced Human Development

ENG                4483            Acquisition of English as a Second Language

FRE                 3223            French Culture and Civilization

GEO                3153            Geography of Latin America

GER                 3223            German Culture and Civilization

HIS                  4333            American Women's History

PSY                 2263            Developmental Psychology

PSY                 3113            Personality

SOC/HS          4443            Human Services for the Aged

SPA                 3623            Civilization and Culture of Latin America

SPE                 3013            Psychology of the Exceptional Child

or any Non-Western Culture course not in Group A

 

Classes used to meet the requirements of this minor may not also count toward major requirements. To promote exposure to a variety of perspectives on diversity issues, no more than 9 of the 18 hours may come from a single discipline without prior chair approval. Because studies in human diversity should include interaction with one's fellow human beings, no coursework other than Multicultural Mental Health may be completed by distance learning (correspondence or Internet) for this minor. No course can count toward both the major and the minor for the same degree; for example, a Psychology student must take Abnormal Psychology as a core course and therefore cannot use it for this minor. When a course is required for both your major and your minor (e.g., SOC2193 for a student majoring in Human Services while minoring in Human Diversity), you can only count the hours toward one of them and must take an additional elective for the other, subject to chair approval.

 

Logic Minor

 

Whereas logical thought is a cornerstone of the liberal arts education, students may minor in Logic by completing any 15 hours from the following interdisciplinary list of courses. No more than one sophomore or junior level statistics course (PSY 2143, MTH 2323, SOC 3103) may count toward this minor. To encourage students to explore a greater variety of ways of thinking, no more than 9 hours may come from a specific area (such as COM, PSY, or MTH). Classes used to meet the requirements of this minor may not also count toward major requirements. At least 3 hours must be classes at the 3000 level or higher. No course can count toward both the major and the minor for the same degree.

 

Through these varied classes, students learn about argumentation; rhetoric; inference; inductive, deductive, or transductive reasoning; logical fallacies; symbolic logic; scientific reasoning; analytical reasoning; critical thinking; and other forms of using logic and recognizing the illogical.

 

Fifteen hours from the following:

 

COM   2013            Argumentation & Debate

COM   3093            Persuasion

COM   3133            Rhetorical Theory

 

CSC    1104            Foundations of Computer Science I

CSC    1114            Foundations of Computer Science II

 

ENG    2133            Logic and Argument

ENG    4643            Rhetoric and Composition

 

PHI      3043            Ancient Philosophy

PHI      3053            Modern Philosophy

 

PSY     2143            Experimental Statistics

PSY     3153            Cognitive Psychology

PSY     3233            Critical and Analytical Thinking

PSY     4323            Advanced Statistics

 

MTH    2283            Discrete Mathematics

MTH    2323            Statistical Methods

 

SOC    3103            Statistics