Course Prefix and Number: PSY 484, Violence and Aggression
Learner Outcomes
Understand and analyze the lifetime of
developmental processes involved in
violence and aggression
Develop an understanding for the multidisciplinary model that incorporates the
biological, psychological, political, social
and environmental contributors to violent
and aggressive behavior
Analyze and appreciate how mental illness
may or may not be a contributing factor to
violence and aggression
Understand and critically evaluate how the
justice system, imprisonment, other forms
of punishment and the victims rights
movement affect violent and aggressive
behaviors
Analyze how the justice system,
imprisonment, other forms of punishment,
and the victims rights movement affect
individual victims and society as a whole
Learn to articulate the inter-connected risk
factors for violent and aggressive behavior
Learn about the successful and
unsuccessful violence prevention programs
while also integrating the obstacles to
prevention into a coherent framework for
future prevention programs
Develop an appreciation for the varied and
extensive sources of information/research
that encompass topics that psychologists
explore
Understand and assess the various
techniques and tools that are available to
psychologists within each of the venues
that they may be working
Learn about and critically evaluate how
changing social values impact the tasks of
psychologists
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Assessment options
Class participation, essay examinations,
and critical analysis essays.
Class participation, essay examinations,
and critical analysis essays.
Class participation, essay examinations,
and critical analysis essays.
Class participation, essay examinations,
and critical analysis essays.
Class participation, essay examinations,
and critical analysis essays.
Class participation, essay examinations,
and critical analysis essays.
Class participation, essay examinations,
and critical analysis essays.
Class participation, essay examinations,
and critical analysis essays.
Class participation, essay examinations,
and critical analysis essays.
Class participation, essay examinations,
and critical analysis essays.