Intensive Learning Semester (May Term)

The College provides a wide array of Intensive Learning opportunities, including travel courses as well as on-campus courses. The majority of these courses are offered in May, during a three-week term, although some travel courses may run a little over or a little under the three-week period.

These courses do not count towards the psychology major.

Examples of Past Intensive Learning Courses:

Psychology of Thinking and Decision Making
Examination of psychological research on the way we evaluate arguments, determine the causes of things, solve problems and make decisions. Effective thinking techniques were introduced and applied to a variety of content areas.  (Instructor: M. Camac)

Psychology of Consciousness
An intensive study of the psychological epi-phenomenon of self-awareness and/or consciousness from multi-disciplinary perspectives including cognitive psychology, neuroscience, computer neural networks and artificial intelligence, philosophical psychology, and Judeo-Christian and Eastern religious traditions. Students surfed the internet searching for, reading and evaluating sites on consciousness, viewing and reviewing contemporary films dealing with the topic, and built and presented a web site on a chosen topic in consciousness studies. (Instructor: G. Pranzarone)

Nonverbal Behavior
An examination of the research, theory, and methods of the psychological study of nonverbal behavior. Topics included types of nonverbal behavior, uses and purposes of nonverbal behavior, and problems connected to the misinterpretation of nonverbal behavior. Student participation in research projects is required. (Instructor: C. Camac)

Psychology in Film
The goal of this course was to examine the interaction between film and psychology.  Throughout the course, students explored and attempted to answer several questions: How are the discipline of psychology and psychologists portrayed in films?, What are some common film techniques emplyed to create specific psychological recations?, What are some examples of psychological concepts that are depicted in film and are they accurately portrayed? (Instructor: C. Buchholz)

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