Course: Introduction to Psychology (PSYC 1315) Maymester 2011 Meeting place and time: Life Sciences Bldg Room 424; MoTuWeThFr 1:00PM - 4:45PM Instructor: Linda Perrotti, Ph.D. Office: 511, Life Sciences Bldg. Office Hours: by appointment Email: [email protected] Please use Blackboard email ONLY. Before you email me, be sure to read this syllabus.If the answer to your question can be found in this syllabus, and you email me, you will receive an email with a simple “RS” meaning “read syllabus”. Department website: http://www.uta.edu/psychology/ Required Textbook: "Psychology around us" by Ron Comer and Elizabeth Gould, 1st edition Wiley ISBN 978-0-471-38519-6, © 2011 Note: this textbook is REQUIRED meaning that you will need to read and study from it in order to pass this course. Course Business communication: The use of Blackboard is required in this course. Occasional syllabus updates and course announcements will be communicated via Blackboard. Quiz and course grades are posted on Blackboard only. Go to http://www.uta.edu/blackboard/students/index.html and login with your usual UTA Net ID and password. If you are unfamiliar with how to work within this system contact the Help Desk in the Central Library. You must bring a photo ID with you. You can also email them for assistance: [email protected]. Stay tuned….this may change we may be using engrade Course Description: The course is a general survey of the various areas of psychology and is intended to provide a scientific basis for understanding thoughts, emotions, and behavior. The course is designed to interest and meet the needs of both majors and non-majors. Course Learning Goals and Objectives: Instructional goals are directed toward enabling students to recognize and recall basic facts and describe major concepts and terminology in all fields of psychology. Instructional materials will be provided in assigned textbook, study guide and lecture presentations. Assessment of mastery of these goals will be via exams with questions that focus on each of the above knowledge skills. Specific Course Requirements: 1) Attendance: Attendance is technically not mandatory. However, students do not do well in this course unless they are present, but I have no attendance requirement. Students who miss a class meeting(s) due to absence, or portions of a class or classes due to tardiness or early departure will still be held accountable for all of the material that is covered during those sessions. In other words, you are responsible for anything you miss during your absence. 2) Drop Policy: A course drop grade will be assigned in accord with UTA policy (see current catalog). Examinations: There will be three (3) exams. These will cover lectures, videos and assigned textbook readings. Exams will be taken in class. Students arriving after the scheduled class start time, on an exam date, are not allowed to take the exam after the first completed exam is turned in. Questions will be drawn from text, lectures, videos, etc. covered during the semester.Exam grades will be posted on Blackboard. Individual grades will not be emailed to students for security reasons. It is your responsibility to keep track of your grades/attendance and obtain access to your grades via Blackboard when they are posted. Protocol for Exam Day: Bring with you 2 General Purpose Scantron Answer Sheets form no. 4521, two number 2 pencils an eraser and your university administered id (MAV ID). Desks must remain clear except for your university administered ID, no baseball caps are to be worn, cell phones, are to be TURNED OFF. Use a “cover sheet” to cover your test answers. Note: this is the ONLY scantron form (form no. 4521) which is acceptable tests taken on any other form will not be graded. The only identifying information you may write and bubble in on your scantron is the following: - Your name: last followed by first - Your Mav ID number (one thousand number, ex 1000123456) 3) Quizzes: Each quiz consists of 10 multiple choice type questions and will be administered via Blackboard. The quizzes are timed assessments meaning that once an individual quiz has been started it must be completed within 15 minutes. Students must take 10 quizzes to attempt to obtain the total possible points (i.e., 100/100 points). If you exceed the time allowance for a quiz, the system will end the quiz and it will be graded accordingly. Missed Exams & Quizzes: Makeup exam requests will be approved only when appropriate documentation is provided that indicates compelling circumstances prevented a student from taking a scheduled exam (http://wweb.uta.edu/catalog/content/general/academic_regulations.aspx#4). Examples of such circumstances include funeral attendance, religious holidays, and illness. No information should be provided in a makeup exam request that is private or confidential in nature. A note from a friend or family member is not acceptable documentation. A request for a makeup exam must be made in writing within one day of the missed exam. There will not be any occasion to make up the quizzes. Since you can miss one quiz and still have the opportunity to earn 100 points, no make-ups will be given for quizzes under any circumstance. There will be no opportunity to make-up a makeup exam. 4) E-Mail Communications. When communicating with faculty members and other professionals, you are expected to communicate in a professional and formal manner. This includes addressing your audience using their proper title, using proper grammar, and using proper spelling. Indeed, how you deliver your message is often as important as the message itself. Thus, I expect you to communicate professionally when e-mailing me (and to use your grammar and spell-check functions before you send me an e-mail). 5) Research Participation Requirement: The Psychology Department requires that all students taking Introduction to Psychology complete a 3-credit research requirement. This consists of participating in experiments conducted by Department Faculty and their Research Assistants. These experiments are approved by the UT Arlington Human Research Review Committee. A typical 30-minute experiment isworth 0.5-credit. The purpose of the requirement is to give you first-hand knowledge of psychological experimentation. In lieu of participating in experiments, you may choose to write reviews of current research articles. Each review
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