Senate Document #18 (APC Document #16) Psychology Curriculum Revisions Effective: Fall 1984 I. REVISION OF PSYCHOLOGY 218, "HUMAN DEVELOPMENT AND EDUCATION" A. Catalog pages affected: pp. 174-176. B. CHANGES: 1. Under "Track A - Major in Psychology" (p. 174), Section I: "Required courses in the major -- 36- 37 hours, including 100, 200, 205 or 218 . . ." DELETE "218" ADD "217" 2. Under "Track B - Reading Education" (p. 174- 175), Section II: "Required courses in the major -- 34 hours, including 100, 200, 218 . . ." DELETE "218" ADD "217, 200" 3. In listing of courses on p. 176: DELETE "218 Human Development and Education (4)" and subsequent course description. ADD "217 Human Development (4)" "Survey of human development from conception through adolescence, focusing on current theory and research in physical, cognitive, linguistic, and social-emotional development. Requires projects with children. Prerequisite: Psych 100. (Replaces Psych 205 AND Psych 210, OR Psych 218, as certification requirements. Replaces Psych 205 as Psych major requirement for certification students. No credit for students who have credit for Psych 205, 210 or 218.)" Page 2 C. RATIONALE: Recent revisions in the state guidelines for teacher certification, and the National Teacher Exam, require a revision of the Psychology courses provided to certification students. Expanded coverage of Educational Psychology information is needed, dictating that students must once again take a separate course in that topic (Psych 220). The old method of covering Educational Psychology within Psych 218 is not adequate for their needs. Additionally, expanded coverage of Adolescent Development is needed. By removing the Educational Psychology content from Psych 218, it will be possible to expand the coverage of adolescence in the newly created version, Psych 217. II. CATALOG ADDITION: "PSYCHOLOGY OF CLOSE RELATIONSHPS" A. Catalog page affected: p. 179 (among course listings). B. CHANGES: 1. ADD: "368 Psychology of Close Relationships (3)" "Social psychological theory and research on close personal relationships, including friendship, heterosexual and homosexual love and liaisons, marriage, parenthood, breakups and divorce, and singlehood. Prerequisites: Psych 100, Psych 303 OR permission of the instructor." C. RATIONALE: Psychology of Close Relationships has been offered twice before as a Special Topics course (Psych 373), with an enrollment of 58 in Spring '82 and 29 in Spring '83. The course is a logical extension of topics introduced in Psych 200 (Social Psychology) and Psych 309 (Advanced Social Psychology). The course also represents a useful connection between Psychology and the Sociology Department's "Marriage and Family Living" sequence (Sociology 230 and 231). The topic is not only popular and pragmatic for students--both traditional and non-traditional-- but also represents a growing subdiscipline in the social sciences, merging research in psychology, sociology, communication, and counseling and clinical psychology. Page 3 III. CATALOG ADDITION: "HEALTH PROMOTION AND WELLNESS" A. Catalog page affected: p. 175 (among course listings). B. CHANGES: 1. ADD "110 Health Promotion and Wellness (3)" "Theory, research and skills relating to physical fitness, stress management, interpersonal communication and health. Includes self-behavior change methods, small group discussions, lecture, perspectives from psychology, medicine, physical education, sociology. Prerequisites: None." C. RATIONALE: The health promotion class is now in its third offering, with an enrollment of some 60 students in two sections. The class has received a good student response in terms of enrollment and evaluations. It is timely now to provide a regular catalog description and course number. Since this class is interdisciplinary in contents and instructors, and unusual in other ways, an extended rationale is attached for the information of the committee. D. Psychology 110 Health Promotion and Wellness -- BACKGROUND INFORMATION AND EXTENDED INFORMATION: In 1982, the W. K. Kellogg Foundation made a large grant to UNC-Asheville, in association with the Mountain Area Health Education Center and the UNC- Chapel Hill School of Medicine, Department of Family Medicine. The purposes of the grant are to develop two model programs: (1) a model course which would integrate health promotion with liberal education; (2) a model program providing training in health promotion for family physicians. Psychology 110 is the health promotion class at UNC-Asheville. This class is interdisciplinary. University faculty, MAHEC physicians, and Chapel Hill consultants involved in its development have provided expertise in psychology, medicine, exercise physiology and fitness, and health. The class emphasizes scientific information and concepts, taught in two lectures each week. A series of self-assessments and skills are explored in one Page 4 small group "laboratory" session every week. The primary instructors for the course are Dr. William Bruce, Dr. M. W. Buckalew, and Ms. Roxann Schaffhausen. In the current semester, four physicians from MAHEC are lab group co-leaders and we expect special lectures from Dr. Allan Combs, Dr. Bill Haas, and Dr. Paul Martin (MAHEC). Perhaps still unfamiliar to the Committee, Dr. Buckalew was appointed a lecturer in Psychology last January. He was formerly a tenured member of the faculty at St. Lawrence University. While the course is interdisciplinary in contents and instructors, we estimate the emphasis very subjectively as psychology, 60%; fitness skills and exercise physiology, 25%; medical subjects and issues (e.g. alcohol use/abuse), 10%; other, 5%. Of course we emphasize the ties and connections across these areas. Thank you for your attention to this rationale and request.