THE UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT ASHEVILLE

                                FACULTY SENATE 


                            Senate Document Number    0893F 

                           Date of Senate Approval     12/16/93


 
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Statement of Faculty Senate Action:

APC DOCUMENT #9:  CHANGE TO PSYCHOLOGY SOCIAL SCIENCE COURSE                  
                     OPTIONS

EFFECTIVE DATE:  Fall Semester, 1994


SOCIAL SCIENCE REQUIREMENT (p. 50)

DELETE:     PSYC 100    Introduction to Psych   3 semester hours

ADD:
PSYC 101    General Psychology: Basic Processes 3 sem hours
PSYC 102    General Psychology: Individual      3 sem hours
             and Social Processes

RATIONALE:

   Although the explosion of information in Psychology results in the need for
   a 2-course sequence for majors, each of these courses is designed to cover
   an integrated set of topics in the discipline.  Therefore, taking either
   course alone will provide a student with an in-depth examination of the
   basic theoretical and research issues within a subset of fields.  As with
   our current introductory course, the Department will maintain in these new
   courses an emphasis on the evolution of psychological theories and
   perspectives and on their relationships to other disciplines such as
   sociology, anthro- pology, medicine, and law.


ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT:

   We view this change as the only workable compromise between the Department's
   need to provide adequate preparation for its 150 majors and the University's
   mandate that Psychology provide courses without prerequisites for an
   additional 300 students.  We will continue, therefore, to assume the lion's
   share of the responsibility for servic- ing the Social Science General
   Education requirement.  The Department plans to offer apprxomiately the same
   total number of introductory-level sections as it now offers; however, that
   number will include sections of both PSYC 101 and PSYC 102.