Graduate & Continuing Studies Undergraduate Catalog and Handbook 2007-2008

Minors

Business Management :: English :: Psychology

Business Management

A student who minors in Business Management (that may emphasize accounting/finance, marketing or management) may elect additional BUS/ACC electives up to a total of 8.0 courses in a 40.0 course degree program. Entrepreneurship and Business Management minors do not require a specific grade in required courses nor a specific grade point average in BUS/ACC courses. A list of specific courses approved for inclusion in the emphasis areas may be obtained from your advisor.

Accounting/Finance Emphasis:

Major Course Work                              Semester Hour

Marketing Emphasis:

Minor Course Work                              Semester Hour

Management Emphasis:

Minor Course Work                              Semester Hour

Refer to main program section of study for course descriptions.

English

A minor in English requires completion of a minimum of 15 semester hours, including:

Minor Course Work                              Semester Hour

Students may elect additional ENG electives up to a total of 24 hours.

ENG 115: Introduction to Literature
An introduction to different forms of literature, this course is designed to help the student appreciate and enjoy literature and also to introduce ways of writing critically about it.
Method of Evaluation: Response journal, two essay exams, and a graded poetry project.

ENG 210: Introduction to Creative Writing
Prerequisite: ENG101 and ENG102 or their equivalent
This course helps students discover and sharpen their skills as creative writers, readers and editors. Concentrating on the genres of creative nonfiction, poetry, fiction and drama, the instructor will evaluate student's work by assessing student portfolios on the bases of completeness, production, approach to arrangement, and success of revisions.
Method of Evaluation: A series of writing exercises, three manuscripts (one short story, one personal narrative, and five poems).

ENG 240: Writing Creative Non-Fiction
Prerequisite: ENG 102 or program recommendation
The powerful expressive and persuasive impact of the essay has been recognized and celebrated by many of the greatest writers of the past and present. Women, especially, now publish substantial volumes of influential and moving essays. This course studies traditional and contemporary essays and provides practice (in a workshop setting) in the form and style of writing nonfiction prose.

Method of Evaluation: Student portfolios will be assessed on the basis of completeness, production, approach to assignment, and success of revisions.

ENG 242: Intermediate Creative Writing

Prerequisite: ENG 210F or permission of instructor

Note:  May be repeated, up to 12 hours in different genres
Concentrating on one or more creative writing genres (fiction, poetry, autobiography or drama) this course focuses on the craft and technique, and helps prepare students for the advanced, single-genre workshops. Students sharpen their writing, reading, and revision skills as well as explore the structural and content possibilities of the studied genre(s).
Method of Evaluation: Student portfolios will be assessed on the basis of completeness, production, approach to assignment, and success of revisions.

ENG 255: Literary Studies: Austen, Brontë, Burney, Eliot
Prerequisite: ENG 102
Texts: Austen, Jane. Pride and Prejudice.
Austen, Jane. Emma.
Brontë, Emily. Wuthering Heights.
Brontë, Charlotte. Jane Eyre.
Burney, Fanny. Evelina.
Eliot, George. Adam Bede.
Eliot, George. Daniel Deronda.
Lester, J.D. Writing Research Papers, latest ed.
Method of Evaluation: Students must submit five brief essays, one on each novelist. The instructor will suggest topics.

ENG 269: American Literature I
Prerequisites: ENG 102 and permission of the English Program Chair
Note: Open to English majors or minors only
This course, in a variety of ways, questions and explores the geopolitical category "American" and the cultural category "literature" as they intersect to locate a constantly changing set of text called "American Literature." The course introduces students to a range of primary texts in many genres, both contemporary and historical, and challenges them to ask what kinds of circumstances in the writing and the reading process, as well as in the culture at large, come together to make an "American Literature." The instructor supplies a syllabus designed for the individual student.
Methods of Evaluation: Include a response journal and brief essays.

ENG 270: American Literature II
Prerequisites: ENG 102 and permission of the English Program Chair
Note: Open to English majors or minors only
Usually more narrowly focused than ENG 269, this course intensively studies a particular American literature. Depending on the individual instructor, the course will use an organizing principle such as a specific time, place, cultural movement, or event to bring together a set of related texts, often from a number of literary genres.

Methods of Evaluation: Include a response journal and brief essays.

ENG 271: English Literary Traditions I
Prerequisite: ENG 102 and permission of the English Program Chair
Note: Open to English majors or minors only.
A study of early and early modern English literatures and language with emphasis on three historical and cultural texts selected in part for their interest in light of new readings about women and popular culture, such as those on the representation of the warrior woman or the outsider. The instructor supplies syllabus for the individual student.
Methods of Evaluation: Includes a response journal and brief essays.

ENG 272: English Literary Traditions II
Prerequisite: ENG 102 and permission of the English Program Chair
Note: Open to English majors or minors only.

A study of Restoration and Post-Restoration English and Colonial literatures, arranged to consider the cultural politics of canons. Readings include both canonical and popular literature.

Methods of Evaluation: Includes a response journal and brief essays.

ENG 310: Women Writers: Women of Color
Prerequisite: ENG 102 and 3 semester hours in the lower level liberal arts other than the fine arts or mathematics requirement
A study of essays about and works by women writers of color to include such works as Emerging Voices: A Cross-Cultural Reader, Hurston's Their Eyes Were Watching God, Walker's The Color Purple, Hong Kingston's The Woman Warrior, Cisnero's The House on Mango Street, Tan's The Joy Luck Club, Erdrich's Love Medicine, and Morrison's Beloved.
Method of Evaluation: A journal of responses to discussion questions and four documented essays.

ENG 311: Creative Writing Workshop: Fiction
Prerequisite: ENG 210F or ENG 242 or permission of instructor
This course advances the experienced creative writer to more sophisticated fictional projects. Reading published short fiction as well as each other's work, students explore issues of form, craft, and subject matter from the perspective of the fiction writer's position in contemporary culture.
Method of Evaluation: Advanced portfolio evaluation.

ENG 313: Creative Writing Workshop: Poetry
Prerequisite: ENG 210F or ENG 242 or permission of instructor
This course advances the experienced creative writer to more sophisticated poetic projects. Reading published poetry as well as each other's work, students explore issues of form, craft, subject matter and audience from the perspective of the poet's position in contemporary culture.
Method of Evaluation: Advanced portfolio evaluation.

ENG 314: Creative Writing Workshop: Autobiography
Prerequisite: ENG 210F or ENG 242 or permission of instructor
Note: Open to English majors only
This course advances the experienced creative writer to more sophisticated projects focused on autobiographical subjects. Emphasis is on both theoretical and craft issues surrounding the constitution of the gendered self through autobiographical writing such as sketches, journals, memoirs, dream cycles, and autobiographical narratives.
Method of Evaluation: Advanced portfolio evaluation.

ENG 345: Shakespeare
Prerequisite: ENG 102 and 3 semester hours in the lower level liberal arts other than the fine arts or mathematics requirement

Designed to provide the student with some knowledge of the themes, conventions, and techniques of Shakespearean plays, especially those helpful in understanding cross-cultural issues related to gender, race, class and nationality.
Method of Evaluation: Two open-book essay examinations and two documented essays.

ENG 367: Development of the Novel
Prerequisites: ENG 102 and one 200-level ENG course or permission of instructor
A study of the phenomenal growth and popularity of the novel written in English from its early forms through the beginnings of the 20th century. Historically arranged, the texts are explored with special attention to the representations of gender, class, race and nationality.
Method of Evaluation: Students must submit five brief essays.

ENG 372: Criticism and Culture
Prerequisites: ENG 102, 3 semester hours of liberal arts course and junior standing
This course studies contemporary critical trends as they apply to literature, film, fashion and other cultural patterns, and considers specifically the numerous trends that have coalesced into "Cultural Criticism."

ENG 380: Topics in Literature: Modern and Contemporary World Drama
Prerequisite: ENG 102 or permission of instructor
Students will read selected modern and contemporary world drama.
Method of Evaluation: Grade based upon two open book essay exams and two major essays.

ENG 490: Senior Essay
Prerequisite: ENG 102 and permission of the English Program Chair
Note: Open to English majors only
The capstone of the Stephens College B.A. English major. The student designs and completes a major research or creative writing project in consultation with a faculty evaluation committee.
Method of Evaluation: To be determined.

SPN 338: Topics in Hispanic Civilization and Culture: Mexico, Central America and the Caribbean
This course surveys the political, social and cultural history of Mexico, Central America and the Spanish speaking Caribbean. The initial study will focus on geography, the Indoamerican world, and the Spanish Conquest of the Americas. After exploring problems associated with the Colonial Period and Latin American Independence movements and their aftermath, we will discuss in detail the general trends of the nineteenth century. After examining the historical development of Mexico, Cuba and Central America in the nineteenth century, we will devote our attention to the political events that have shaped these in the twentieth century.
Method of Evaluation: Two examinations and two essays.

SPN 357: Topics in Hispanic Literature
This course is organized around a topic or literary genre, and may also be taught in translation in order to accommodate all students interested in Hispanic literature. Recent offerings have included Spanish American Poetry, Latin American Drama, Latin American Women Writers, and the Spanish American Short Story.
Method of Evaluation: Two examinations and two essays.

Psychology

Minor Course Work                              Semester Hour

Students my elect additional PSY electives up to a total of 24 hours.

Course Descriptions:

CHS 114: The Child: Life span and Cross-Cultural Perspective
The developmental period that spans the early childhood and elementary years is studied from the traditional areas of child development (physical, social, emotional and intellectual) within a life span and cross-cultural perspective. Through opportunities to interact with children, students develop an understanding of the whole child, using observation and participation as a base. Students will have opportunities to clarify career interests.

MAT 207: Introduction to Statistics
Prerequisites: Elementary Algebra or one year of high school algebra and good arithmetic skills.

A study of elementary statistics as used in psychology, business or information management.  Topics include organization of data, measures of central tendency and variability, the normal distribution, sampling distributions, estimation, statistical inference, correlation, and chi-square tests.  Equipment:  Calculator with a square root key.

Method of Evaluation : Nine assignments and four examinations, and a comprehensive final exam.

PSY 111: Introduction to Psychology
A survey of the methods, concepts and findings of contemporary psychology. Areas covered are perception, motivation and emotion, learning and cognition, the biological aspects of behavior, consciousness, and development of personality. This diversity gives the student the opportunity to become familiar with the various fields of psychology today and to become prepared to take further courses in psychology and related areas.
Method of Evaluation : The student will respond to essay questions corresponding to each chapter.

PSY 203: Psychological Research Methods
Prerequisite: PSY 111 and one other PSY course.
Designed to introduce research methods, which are used in psychology. Students will incorporate the class materials into research on their own, guided by the instructor.
Method of Evaluation : Study questions will be required following each chapter, and several projects are assigned which will lead the student into the development of a research project.

PSY 211: Educational Psychology
Prerequisite: PSY 111 or equivalent.
A study of the nature and conditions of human learning, methods of assessing relevant intellectual and personality characteristics of pupils, and personality and social dynamics as they enter into the learning process.
Method of Evaluation : To be determined.

PSY 271: Human Sexuality
Prerequisite: PSY 111 or sophomore standing
Course examines human sexuality from several perspectives (biological, social, cultural, ethical). Topics include anatomy and reproduction, gender roles, love, varieties of sexual expression, birth control, the development of sexuality over the life span, diseases, dysfunction and treatment.

PSY 280: Topics in Psychology
Topics courses are devoted to special subjects that may not be covered in depth in other courses. Topics previously offered include Health Psychology.

PSY 301: Psychology of Women
Prerequisite: PSY 111 and one other PSY course.
A survey of research findings and theory on the psychology of women and sex differences. Physiology, developmental psychology, personality theory and social theory will be studied.
Method of Evaluation : To be determined.

PSY 310: Developmental Psychology
Prerequisite: PSY 111 or permission of instructor; must be psychology major or minor
This course uses major psychological theories to explore the normal stages of development from birth until death. Selected controversial issues and case studies relating to development will also be discussed.

PSY 315: Social Psychology
Prerequisites: PSY 111 or permission of instructor
A survey of major topics in social psychology, including social perception, social interaction and social influence, will form the core of this course, with attention to stereotypes, aggression, conformity and persuasion.

PSY 317: Psychology of Personality
Prerequisite: PSY 111 or equivalent with grade of C or better
Review and evaluate the major theories of personality--from the psychoanalytic, to the humanistic, to the behaviorist. To accomplish this review and evaluation, the student selects eight key ideas on which to analyze each theory for its strengths and weaknesses.
Method of Evaluation : Grade is based on evaluation of the eight papers on key ideas, plus two chapter summaries.

PSY 320: Abnormal Psychology
Prerequisite: PSY 111 and one other PSY course; PSY 317 strongly recommended.
A survey of the field of abnormal behavior. Review the history and status, concentrating on the various approaches to the etiology and treatment of neuroses and functional psychoses.
Method of Evaluation : Grading will be based on the quality of papers and exercises. A final examination may be required.

PSY 331: Learning and Cognition
Prerequisites: PSY 111 and 6 hours of PSY/EDC courses
Provides an introduction to the study of learning and cognition through an examination of the basic learning paradigms of classical and instrumental conditioning and issues fundamental to the structure and function of cognitive theory. Emphases on applied and theoretical findings.

PSY 333: Sensation and Perception
Prerequisites: PSY 111 and 6 hours of PSY/EDC courses; BIO 111 recommended
Surveys (1) the anatomy and physiology of the various sensory organs, neural processing and brain centers for the different sensory systems; and (2) psychological studies of the various aspects of perception and brain anatomy and sense organs. Offered every other year.

PSY 380: Topics in Psychology
Topics courses are devoted to special subjects that may not be covered in depth in other courses.

PSY 390: History and Systems of Psychology
Prerequisite: PSY 111 and two other PSY courses.
Study of the history of the major schools and concepts of modern psychology and of the people who developed them. Attention is placed primarily on the emergence of modern psychology from the work in philosophy and physiology in the time period, from the 17th to 20th centuries, and mostly in Europe . A key course in many undergraduate school programs in psychology, and is usually required for admission to graduate school in psychology.
Method of Evaluation : Students performance will be evaluated on the basis of 9 written papers. Six of these papers will be primarily biographical; three will be conceptual. These will be graded on the basis of their comprehensiveness, organization and clarity.

PSY 430: Physiological Psychology
1.0 course
Prerequisites: at least 9 hours of PSY/EDC courses
This course uses current knowledge of the brain, nervous system and endocrine system to explore the roles of physiological factors in health, disease, behavior, emotions, and mental disorders.

PSY 441: Senior Research: "Health and Psychology"
Prerequisite: Five full courses in psychology plus Senior standing as a Health Care/Health Science and Psychology major
Note: Available ONLY through contract study
This course is a senior capstone writing experience that will, in collaboration with the faculty member, provide the student with the opportunity to complete original research and write a 15-page (approximately) APA (American Psychology Association) style research paper. The student will, with help from the faculty member and a variety of readings, choose a hypothesis/topic within the area of "Health and Psychology." This hypothesis will then be tested by the student with the results being part of the final research paper.
Method of Evaluation : One 15-page (approximately) APA style research paper.

PSY 441: Senior Research: "Arranged Topic"
Prerequisite: Five full courses in psychology plus Senior standing as a psychology major
Note: Available ONLY through contract study
This course is a senior capstone writing experience that will, in collaboration with the faculty member, provide the student with the opportunity to complete original research and write a 15-page (approximately) APA (American Psychology Association) style research paper. The student will, with help from the faculty member and a variety of readings, choose a hypothesis/topic. This hypothesis will then be tested by the student with the results being part of the final research paper.
Method of Evaluation : One 15-page (approximately) APA style research paper.

PSY 481: Internship
(Prerequisites: psychology major and at least sophomore standing
Students complete 126 hours (per 3 semester hours of credit) of work in an agency or institution as a contributing member of the staff. Student carries on as wide a range of duties as she is qualified to execute under the direct supervision of a professional in the agency or institution.