MnSCU Faculty Discipline Meeting
Cragun’s Conference Center, April 19, 2002
Psychology Discipline Report Summary
Transfer
issue/problem one:
How can we, as a discipline, arrive
at a common understanding of what is included in the study of “general
psychology”?
Strategy(s) to address transfer issue/problem one:
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Establish a common core of topics, with recommendations that a specific number (e.g., 8 of 12) be required to assure transferability.
Recommended content areas were:
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research and statistics
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biology and physiology
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learning and conditioning
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developmental approaches
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intelligence
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sensation and perception
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social psychology
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memory and cognition
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psychological disorders and therapeutic approaches
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thought and language
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history of psychology and the development of schools of psychological thought
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personality theories
Transfer
issue/problem two:
What can be done to resolve credentialing concerns?
Strategy(s) to address transfer issue/problem two:
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Recognize that schools that accept courses in transfer do so on the basis of course content, rather than credentials.
Transfer
issue problem three:
What can be done to solve the problem of similarly named courses
having different levels of numbering?
Strategy(s) to address transfer issue/problem number three:
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The group did not identify a strategy, but recognized that there are good reasons for different numbering strategies for similarly named courses.