PSYCH 201 Scientific Reading and Writing in Psychology

3 Credits

This course examines the fundamental subfields of psychology, including psychobiology, perception and consciousness, cognition, and social psychology. Students in this course learn how to approach an academic journal article, how to conduct a literature search, conventions of APA style and scientific writing skills. The culminating assignment is to write a literature review on a psychological topic of their choice.

Prerequisite(s): Sophomore standing by start of class and PSYCH 101 (with a minimum grade of C).

Writing Intensive Course