MAIN MENU

HOME

Speaking

Pop Culture

Cinema

Gen Ed

English

Comm

Psychology

Chronos

Plagiarism

Writing Help

About the Prof

About the Site

Great Thinkers

Topic Outline

Assignments

Psychic Explorer

Memos

Week 1            

Introduction to course                                                               

Jan. 8-12          

*discussion of course outline & topic outline  

Week 2            

Understanding Personality Types                                               

Jan. 15-19        

A First Step to Human Relations Mastery

• Who am I?      

• Personality types         

• Type classifications

Read:    CHAPTER 1  

Week 3             

Psych-Smart Communications

Jan. 22-26        

• How to Communicate Effectively...

• Different Personality Types

• The importance/Process of Communication      

• Influence of Type on Communication

• Styles of Communication

• sensing & intuitive; thinking & feeling

Read:    CHAPTER 2     

Week 4             Psycho-Logical Defensiveness  

Jan. 29-Feb. 2            

• Defensiveness (How defensive are you?)

• Defence Mechanisms  

• Thinking Straight          

• Fallacies

Read:    CHAPTER 3     

Week 5             Games People Play:

Feb. 5-9           

• Better Relationships through Transactional Analysis

• Transactional Analysis (T.A.)  

• Types of Transactions  

• Strokes

• Life Positions

• Games

Read:    CHAPTER 4  

Week 6             Leadership Perspective                                                 

Feb. 12-16      

• Life & leadership       

• Approaches to Leadership

• TEST #1: Chapters 1 through 4

Format: multiple-choice     

Value: 15%  

Read:    CHAPTER 5  

Week 7             Conflict

Feb. 19-23    

• The Experience & Nature of conflict

• Types of conflict   

• Benefits of conflict

• Psychological orientations to conflict  

• Conflict Management Styles

Read:    CHAPTER 6  

Feb. 26-Mar. 2             INTERSESSION WEEK  

Week 9             Perception and the Self: 

Mar. 5-9           

• What I See Depends on Me

• Perception  

• Perceptual Errors  

• How to reduce errors in perception      

• The Self                     

Read:    CHAPTER 7     

Week 10           Gender, Culture, and Nonverbal Cues 

Mar. 12-16       

• Gender Communication

• Culture & Communication  

• Nonverbal Communication      

Read:    CHAPTER 8  

Week 11           Motivation Matters: 

Mar. 19-23       

• Why You Do the Things You Do

• Motivational Mysteries

• The Nature of Motivation  

• Theories of Motivation

•   TEST #2: Chapters 4 through 8  Format: multiple-choice                    

Value: 15%

Read:    CHAPTER 9  

Week 12           Stress and Lifestyle Management:   

Mar. 26-30       

• Good News for Jitterbugs and Adrenalin Junkies

• The Nature of Stress

• Stressors   

• Stress as a Response  

• Distress vs. Eustress  

• Stress as an Interaction                       

• Ways to Cope with Stress

• ESSAY DUE:               Content T.B.A.    Value: 30%

• PRESENTATIONS      (in pairs)    Value: 10%

Read:    CHAPTER 10  

Week 13           The Road to Self-Transcendence:  April 2-6 

• The Self & Self-Transcendence  

• Enneagrams    

• The Meaning of Life   

• Heroic Journeys: Archetypal Psychology

• PRESENTATIONS   (cont’d)        

Read:    CHAPTER 11  

Week 14           Final Examination      Value: 30%

April 9-13        

• Format: multiple-choice, short-answer

• Final date to submit essays.  

Week 15           Closure            

April 16-20       

On-time essays will be returned

Exams returned          

TOP

GSSC 1084 HOME PAGE