All of the due dates for the semester can be found in our course schedule and I will also be sending weekly announcements.

• 3/5/2025- Semester Beings
• 5/11/2025– Last day to withdraw from class.
• 6/6/2025– Last day of the semester.

This PSY 11 is a course that encourages students to explore identity, psychological theories and how our life experiences impact our identities and psychosocial development. Students will also engage in interactive learning and gain skills important for college transition and success.

Introduction to psychology as a science. Topics covered in this survey course include historical backgrounds, subfields and divisions, scientific methods, biological underpinnings of thought and behavior, learning and memory. Flexible core: Scientific World (Group E)

1. Relate psychological concepts to the real world and to apply your own life experiences to psychological concepts.
2. To use the space to strength your creative expression through writing assignments that allow us to view the world through a psychological lens.
3. Recognize that psychology is a discipline with many sub-fields or specialties both applied and research-based, such as clinical, counseling, developmental, industrial/organizational, experimental and school psychology.
4. Discover the functional aspects of the brain and the nervous system.
5. Examine the different mechanisms of learning, including conditioning processes, observational learning, and modeling through various worldviews.
6. Analyze and examine the historical development of the various paradigms of psychology and how those paradigms have impacted bias, racism, institutional racism, prejudice and stereotypes. Identify the influence of social groups, contexts, and culture on mental processes and behavior. Explore one’s own social group while exploring issues around social justice.
7. Assess the core issues surrounding human psychological development, including the importance of both heredity and environmental factors.
8. Demonstrate an understanding of the relevance of motivation and drives to human behavior. Examine ones owns motivation and drives.
9. Articulate an understanding of the various perspectives of psychology such as the structuralist, functionalist, psychoanalytic, behaviorist, humanistic, cognitive and neuroscience approaches
10. Analyze current perspectives on abnormal behavior and psychological disorders; the major categories of mental illness as delineated in the most recent edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual, including schizophrenias, mood (especially major depressive and bipolar disorder) anxiety and personality disorders.

Students will:

1. Explore the camera as a photographic tool over time.
2. Be able to map historical photographic concepts to current digital references.
3. Identify a variety of successful photographers by their work.

OpenStax Textbook: Textbook Link Here

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You will need a laptop, smartphone, iPad or desktop to complete assignments and engage with content via Brightspace.

You will use Brightspace for this course. If you need help accessing Brightspace, contact the KCC student helpdesk.  Brightspace Log-In