PSYC1315-002 Introduction to Psychology Spring 2012 Monday, Wednesday, & Friday 11 – 11:50 am Life Science Building 122 Instructor: Emily Farris, MA, ABD Office: LS 521 E-mail: [email protected] Office Hours: Monday 12pm – 1pm, Tuesday 10am-11am, or by appointment Course Website: www.uta.edu/blackboard Required Text: King, L. A. (2011). The Science of Psychology: An Appreciative View. (2nd Ed.) New York, NY: McGraw Hill. Course Description: The course is a general survey of the various areas of psychology and is intended to provide 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 Objectives & Goals: Instructional goals are directed toward enabling students to recognize and recall basic facts, and describe major concepts and terminology in several areas of psychology. Attendance It is your responsibility to attend class and be on time. Attendance will be periodically monitored. There will be 4 randomly chosen days where students can have 2 points extra credit added to their grade if they are present in class. Exams: There will be 4 equally weighted, multiple-choice and short answer exams. Each exam will be worth 100 points and will consist of multiple-choice and short answer questions. The exam dates are listed in the tentative schedule section of this syllabus. Material on the exams will be based upon information contained in the text as well as information presented in the lecture. YOU WILL NEED A SCANTRON (Form 882-E) FOR EVERY EXAM! Please come prepared with a Scantron and No. 2 pencil(s) on exam days. I will drop your lowest exam grade. This means that if you are content with the points that you have acquired throughout the semester then you may choose to not take the final exam. Also, there will be no make-up exams. You are expected to be in class on time for exams. I will not give exams to late students after the first completed exam has been turned in. If you arrive after the first exam has been turned in, you will not be allowed to take the exam. Students who are absent on the day of an exam due to an absence authorized by the University must contact the instructor 1 week in advance of the excused absence to arrange to take the examination prior to the scheduled exam day. Failure to notify the instructor or to comply with these arrangements will void the excused absence I will not go over examinations in-depth in class, and I will not email grades. Grades will be posted on Blackboard. It is your responsibility to obtain access to your grades via Blackboard.Research Participation Requirement: Students enrolled in Psyc 1315 MUST complete a 6 hour research participation requirement. This requirement may be satisfied by serving as a participant in psychological research or by preparing brief summaries of published research in journals or some combination of the two options. Completing this assignment will be done via SONA (http://uta.sona-systems.com/). A departmental handout detailing this requirement and important deadlines can be found at www.uta.edu/psychology at the participant pool information link. Any questions pertaining to this assignment that are not covered in the handout can be sent to [email protected]. Points are NOT added to the course grade for completion of the research participation requirement. Failure to meet this requirement will result in an Incomplete. Grading Policy: There are a total of 300 possible points for this course. Grades are not based on a curve, and I do not “bump” grades up for any reason. Grades are based on the total number of points accumulated over the course of the semester. Any course work not completed by the last day of class (Friday May 4th) will be converted to a ‘0’. If you are taking the course PASS/FAIL, you must have at least 210 points (70%) to pass. POINTS DISTRIBUTION POINTS TO RECEIVE A LETTER GRADE A = 270 - 300 points Exam 1 100 points B = 240 - 269 points Exam 2 100 points C = 210 - 239 points Exam 3 100 points D = 180 - 209 points TOTAL = 300 points F = 0 - 179 points Remember that you have the opportunity to earn up to 8 extra credit points through attendance taken at the discretion of the professor. Additionally, up to 8 extra credit points may be earned by completing class participation assignments. Details regarding class participation assignments will be provided later. Drop Policy: Students may drop or swap (adding and dropping a class concurrently) classes through self-service in MyMav from the beginning of the registration period through the late registration period. After the late registration period, students must see their academic advisor to drop a class or withdraw. Undeclared students must see an advisor in the University Advising Center. Drops can continue through a point two-thirds of the way through the term or session. For the Spring 2012 semester, the last day for undergraduates to drop a course is Friday, March 30th. It is the student's responsibility to officially withdraw if they do not plan to attend after registering. Students will not be automatically dropped for non-attendance. Repayment of certain types of financial aid administered through the University may be required as the result of dropping classes or withdrawing. Contact the Financial Aid Office for more information. Americans with Disabilities Act: The University of Texas at Arlington is on record as being committed to both the spirit and letter of all federal equal opportunity legislation, including the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA). All instructors at UT Arlington are required by law to provide "reasonable accommodations" to students with disabilities, so as not to discriminate on the basis of that disability. Any student requiring an accommodation for this course must provide the instructor with official documentation in the form of a letter certified by the staff inthe Office for Students with Disabilities, University Hall 102. Only those students who have officially documented a need for an accommodation will have their request honored. Information regarding diagnostic criteria and policies for obtaining disability-based academic accommodations can be found at www.uta.edu/disability or by calling the Office for Students with Disabilities at (817) 272-3364. Academic Integrity: It is the
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