Course Requirements:

• Take three closed book, non-cumulative in-class exams. You will be asked to identify terms and solve brief research problems discussed in lecture and the textbook.
• Turn in four sets of "three questions". Each set of questions should be about a different textbook chapter. One set of questions should be about the research paper that you plan to review for the final paper.
  
• Complete three course projects: 1) develop and pilot test an attitude scale, 2) analyze the content of television programs and 3) design an experiment. For each project, you will be asked to write a two to three page summary of your experience. The paper should include a precise description of the methods you used, present the information that you collect and offer your interpretation of the information. All the course projects will be more fully described in separate handouts.
  
• Complete at least three in-class computer based exercises:
  1) locating empirical journal articles,
  2) exploring data from the SSU psychology alumni survey,
  3) interpreting experimental data, and
• 4) explaining quantitative results.
  All the assignments will be explained more fully during the relevant class period.
  
• Select one controversial issue, and locate three empirical studies that report research related to the issue. You will select one of these three papers to review. Your review of this research study should be summarized in a final paper due on the day of the final. The final paper is more fully described in a separate handout.

Heather Smith, Ph.D.
Stevenson 3092c
664-2587
smithh@sonoma.edu

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