COURSE NAME: Psychology

SCHOOL DISTRICT: Schalmont

INSTRUCTOR: Bronson Knaggs

HALF YEAR

Maximum Total Class Enrollment - All Sites: 24

COURSE PREREQUISITES: Juniors or seniors who are serious students.  

BRIEF COURSE DESCRIPTION / OUTLINE: A systematic analysis of the behavior of humans and some
animals; study of basic psychological phenomena. Major topics include introduction to research methods,
major schools of thought, the biological basis of behavior, consciousness, perception, learning, memory,
motivation, abnormal behavior, and stress. Students will learn more about social and biological aspects of
human behavior as they draw from the course material to gain insight into their life and the lives of those
around them. This course seeks to follow the National High School Psychology standards.

Students will keep a journal, participate in various classroom activities, complete quarter projects, and
take quizzes and tests in order to be evaluated in this course. Each quarter grade will be worth 40% of
the final grade. Students will take a final exam worth 20% of their course grade at the end of the
semester.

OTHER NOTES / MISCELLANEOUS: This course is designed to prepare students to succeed in their post
high school studies.

This is NOT a college credit course.

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