- 332. Psychological Foundations of Education.
- Scientific contributions to the understanding of human behavior and
educational processes: cultural influences, processes of learning and
socialization, classroom management, development, intellectual functioning, and
educational achievement. Prerequisite: Upper-division standing, a
University grade point average of at least 2.50, and credit or registration for
other professional education courses designated by the department.
- 162, 262, 362. The Individual and Education.
- Frames of reference for studying human behavior, self-concepts and
individual attributes, individual and cultural nature of human learning,
societal impacts on the individual personality, individualization of guidance
and teaching. One, two, or three lecture hours a week for one semester. May be
repeated for credit when the topics vary. Prerequisite: Upper-division
standing. Additional prerequisites may be required for some topics; these are
given in the Course Schedule.
- Topic 1: Emergent Views of Intelligent Behavior.
Topic 2: Early Childhood.
Topic 3: Selected Topics.
Topic 4: Mexican Americans in the Schooling Process. Educational
Psychology 362 is same as Mexican American Studies 374 (Topic 8: Mexican
Americans in the Schooling Process).
- 362T. Tests and Measurements.
- Fundamental psychometric concepts; educational and psychological
measurement instruments; constructing, administering, scoring, and interpreting
tests for educational and individual evaluation. May be repeated for credit
when the topics vary.
- Topic 1: Tests and Measurements--Elementary.
Topic 2: Tests and Measurements--Secondary.
Topic 3: Tests and Measurements--Reading.
Topic 4: Tests and Measurements--Elementary/Secondary/Reading.
- 363. Personality and Behavior.
- Selected approaches to the study of the dynamics of behavior, its
antecedents and its appraisal. May be repeated for credit when the topics vary.
Prerequisite: Educational Psychology 310 or another introductory
behavioral science course.
- Topic 1: Selected Topics.
Topic 2: Personality Development.
Topic 3: Human Sexuality.
- 363M. Personality and Mental Health.
- Exposition of theories of personality, research literature on mental health
and character development, applications of principles and theories to the
educative enterprise; applications of personality theory to the guidance of
children and youth. May be repeated for credit when the topics vary.
Prerequisite: Six semester hours of upper-division education or other
behavioral sciences.
- Topic 1: Character Development.
Topic 2: School Promotion of Mental Health.
Topic 3: Adolescent Development.
Topic 4: Life Span Adjustment.
- 366P. Foundations of Guidance.
- Interdisciplinary bases of guidance with a focus on the educational,
vocational, and social concerns of individuals. Prerequisite: Six
semester hours of upper-division education or other behavioral sciences.
- 367. Studies in Counseling and Psychotherapy.
- Nature of the counseling process, dynamics of behavior change,
client-counselor roles and relationships; an experiencing of the group process
as a basis for studying dynamics of individual and group behavior. May be
repeated for credit when the topics vary. Prerequisite: Completion of
ninety semester hours of coursework, twelve semester hours of upper-division
behavioral sciences, and consent of instructor.
- Topic 1: Introduction to Individual Counseling and
Psychotherapy.
- 169K, 269K, 369K. Upper-Division Seminar.
- Issues and research in various areas of educational psychology and the
behavioral sciences examined in relation to human development. One, two, or
three lecture hours a week for one semester. May be repeated for credit when
the topics vary. Prerequisite: Six semester hours of upper-division
education or other behavioral sciences, and consent of instructor.
- Topic 1: Career Planning. Additional laboratory hour to be
arranged.
Topic 2: Resident Assistant Development.
Topic 3: Students and Community Involvement.
Topic 4: Selected Topics.
- 371. Introduction to Statistics.
- Measures of central tendency and variability; correlation and regression;
probability and statistical inference; analysis of variance; nonparametric
statistics.
- 379L. Problems in Educational Psychology.
- Supervised individual research on selected problems in educational
psychology. May be repeated for credit. Prerequisite: Educational
Psychology 310 or another introductory behavioral science course.