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PSY 1010 BASIC PSYCHOLOGY (5-0-5)
Prerequisite: Provisional admission
Presents the basic principles of human behavior and their application to everyday life and work. Topics include: introduction to psychology; social environment; communications and group processes; personality; emotions and motives; conflicts, stress, and anxiety; perception and learning; and life span development.

PSY 150 CUSTOMER RELATIONS - SERVICE SECTOR (5-0-5)
Prerequisite: Provisional admission
This course is designed for students who enter service-oriented occupations, and who will have frequent customer contact. Additionally, the course emphasizes relations with customers. Topics include: developing self-awareness; understanding and relating to others; effective methods of verbal and non-verbal communication; effective listening and explaining; persuasion techniques; and handling complaints.

PSY 1101 INTRODUCTION TO PSYCHOLOGY (5-0-5)
Prerequisite: Program admission
Emphasizes the basics of psychology. Topics include: science of psychology; social environments; life stages; physiology and behavior; personality; emotions and motives; conflicts; stress; anxiety; abnormal behavior; perception; learning; and intelligence.

PSY 2103 HUMAN DEVELOPMENT (5-0-5)
Prerequisite: PSY 1101
This course surveys the changes that occur during the human life cycle beginning with conception and continuing through late adulthood and death. The scientific basis of our knowledge of human growth and development and the interactive forces of nature and nurture are emphasized. Topics include theories; research methods; nature and nurture; physical development: prenatal development, birth, infancy, childhood, adolescence, adulthood, aging, and death; cognitive development: learning, perception, and language development; and social development: temperament, emotions, personality, attachment, parenting and family relationships.