This class covers basic tennis techniques. Our focus will be on developing smooth confident strokes. Students will also spend time learning the rules of the game and playing. 5-College students will be graded pass/fail.

This course is an intensive laboratory experience to complement the physiology and health science/biology courses. Students explore fundamental physiological principles and laboratory techniques, through completion of multiple lab activities. Concepts may include metabolism, membrane transport, enzyme activity, electrophysiology, sensory physiology, and others. Students will also practice the research skills of hypothesis formation, experimental design, data analysis, and information presentation.

This social psychology class focuses on contextual factors of and potential obstacles to pursuing peace and reconciliation following violent intergroup conflict. Themes that will be addressed include: the role of history and memory, perceptions of victimhood, group-based emotions, the desire for retribution, and ideology. The course will also address means of fostering reconciliation through justice mechanisms, apologies, and reparations.

Personality psychology (along with the related field of social psychology) seeks to understand people's characteristic patterns of social behaviors, attitudes, and emotions with an emphasis on how individuals differ from one another (compared to social psychology's emphasis on situational effects). This course will explore major theoretical contributions and empirical evidence. Personality psychologists attempt to understand why different people do different things in the same situation using quantitative research (correlational and experimental).

Survey of curriculum techniques, methods, materials, and programs related to teaching urban children. Students develop innovative methods and curricula for urban schools.

This course will introduce the students to ideas and controversies related to the concept of abnormality/normality in psychology. In order to discuss and explore these concepts, we will present an overview of contemporary diagnostic categories as described in the DSM-V, the diagnostic manual used in the field of mental health. The course will emphasize the social and historical context for our culture's ideals and assumptions about mental illness. In order to reflect on the experience(s) of mental illness, films, case studies, and memoirs will be included.