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| Semester: | Spring 2024 |
| Number: | 0501-277-001 |
| Instructor: | Lawrence Josephs |
| Days: | Monday Wednesday Friday 10:00 am - 10:50 am |
| Note: | Traditional In-Person Class |
| Location: | Garden City - NEX 157 |
| Credits: | 3 |
| Course Materials: | View Text Books |
| Description: |
Evolutionary Psychology looks at the human mind through the prism of Darwin’s theories of natural and sexual selection. Students will learn about areas of psychology such as human mating strategies and parent/offspring conflict. Students will also learn about how our closest primate relatives, like chimpanzees, negotiate the same adaptive problems. (Distribution Reqs:Social Sciences) |
| Learning Goals: |
Students would learn Darwin’s theories of natural and sexual selection and how that might apply to the evolution of human psychology. Students would become knowledgable of findings of well researched areas such as human mating, parenting, kinship, and group living. Students would also become familiar with the research methods of evolutionary psychology. Students will demonstrate their knowledge of the basic ideas, methods, and findings of evolutionary psychology through two multiple choice tests. Students will also hand in two written projects. One project will be a library research paper picking an area of evolutionary psychological research in which to conduct a literature review. Students will demonstrate their ability to do library research in this subject area. Students will also do an observational project in which they will observe some area of human behavior and do an evolutionary psychological analysis of their observations. This will demonstrate their ability to informally collect observational data and think like an evolutionary. Psychologist.Teaching and Learning Methods:1) In class lecture2) In class discussion3) Library research4) Writing a scholarly paper5) Writing a practical application of evolutionary concepts *The learning goals displayed here are those for one section of this course as offered in a recent semester, and are provided for the purpose of information only. The exact learning goals for each course section in a specific semester will be stated on the syllabus distributed at the start of the semester, and may differ in wording and emphasis from those shown here. |
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