WEB-BASED INI COURSE Section 200, 4 Credit Hours
Myers, D. G. (2006). Psychology (8th Ed.). New York: Worth.
Straub, R. O. (2006). Study guide to accompany "Psychology" (8th Ed.). New York: Worth.
The textbook for this course has been one of the most widely used introductory psychology texts since the first edition was published many years ago. The author of your text, David Myers, has obtained numerous awards for his teaching, research, and textbook writing over the course of his illustrious career. I believe you will find the text extremely readable and interesting. The text provides an up-to-date examination of the current field of psychology. As you will see, psychology is a scientific field of inquiry. Its breadth as a discipline continues to increase (there are currently over 50 divisions in the American Psychological Association). As a survey text for the entire discipline, the textbook can only touch the surface of many of the topics that are introduced. However, I believe that Myer´s talent and sophistication as both teacher and researcher, serve to engage the reader and will facilitate your desire to learn more about the science of psychology.
You will need the textbook and computer with access to the Internet. Make sure that you have the correct textbook for Section 200 of Psy 1003 General Psychology.
You have chapters and web-based assignments to complete. If you have problems with time management in general or believe you need the traditional structure of a class that meets on a weekly basis, an INI course may not be your best choice.
There will be required outside requirements with various options. The options consist of research readings, videotapes, or experiments with potential for extra credit..
You are also required to complete at least one web-based activity from each of the assigned chapters.
Each chapter has a web activity that you are required to complete. These take a variety of forms, but usually involve your responding to questions regarding the material being covered. The majority of the activities function, in part, as means of relating the material to your own life and should facilitate your learning the course content. You should always keep a copy of each web assignment. You will need to use the drop box to turn in assignments. These will be kept in your file and counted toward your final grade.
The chapter summaries that begin each of the sections of the course do more than simply describe the material in the chapter. They provide guidelines for learning and studying the material in each chapter. The content of psychology is diverse. Given that the science of psychology might best be seen as a field of enquiry that developed out of physiology and philosophy, this should not be surprising. It does however mean that the content of the study of human behavior and cognition will rely on basic and advanced content from a wide array of physical and social sciences. The guidelines provided in most of the chapter summaries will suggest a number of ways of learning and studying the content of a specific chapter. Following these suggestions should help you to organize the chapter content in ways that will facilitate your understanding the content and thus, your long-term retention of the information and content found in the textbook.