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Eligibility Criteria

High School Diploma, GED Or Equiv. International Education

Credit Hours

36 Hours

Course Duration

6 Months (Self-Paced) Program

Courses Offered

6

Courses Offered In UNDERGRADUATE DIPLOMA

  • Courses Name

  • Courses Description

  • Credit Hours

  • Personality Theories

  • This introduction to theories of personality course introduces you to rich history of psychology and practical information that helps you understand their own lives and relationships with others. Using a theorist-by-theorist approach, course summarizes major theories of personality and emphasizes that best understanding of personality comes from variety of viewpoints.

  • 6 Credits

  • Introduction to Organizational Psychology

  • Course focuses on how industrial-organizational psychology directly influences our lives as job applicants, trainees, employees, managers, and consumers. Topics include employee selection, psychological testing, performance appraisal, and training; leadership, motivation, job satisfaction, and job involvement; working conditions, safety, violence, and health in the workplace; and engineering and consumer psychology.

  • 6 Credits

  • Introduction to Human Factor Psychology

  • This course provides an accessible overview of major psychological concepts and techniques that conveys how to exercise a solid professional performance and achieve personal satisfaction. Approaches to perception, learning, personality, conflict and motivation are examined, as well as theories of human behavior at work.

  • 6 Credits

  • Organizational Behavior

  • Organization behavior is an interdisciplinary field dedicated to better understanding and managing people at work. This course is designed to acquaint you with the theories of behavior of people in social organizations. It examines cross-cultural relationships, challenges of leadership, global issues that impact businesses today, and the relevance of OB to future careers.

  • 6 Credits

  • Group Theories

  • This course presents a broad, integrative overview of group dynamics presented in a well researched, readable, and experiential format. This course introduces you to the theory and research findings needed to understand how to make groups effective, and it helps build skills required to apply that knowledge in practical situations.

  • 6 Credits

  • Fundamentals of Psychological Testing

  • This course provides detailed overview on neuropsychological and geriatric assessment, the early uses and abuses of testing, assessment of learning disabilities, testing in special settings, race differences in IQ, and cheating on national group achievement tests. The course also includes latest versions of the most widely used tests.

  • 6 Credits
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Personality Theories

Topics Covered in This Course:
  In Section 1 of this course you will cover these topics:
    What is personality?
    Sigmund freud
  In Section 2 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Carl jung
    Alfred adler
  In Section 3 of this exam you will be evaluated on below listed topics:
    Karen horney
    Erik h. erikson
  In Section 4 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Gordon allport
    Raymond b. cattell and hans j. eysenck
    B.f. skinner
  In Section 5 of this course you will cover these topics:
    John dollard and neal miller
    Albert bandura and walter mischel
    David m. buss
    George kelly
    Carl rogers
    Abraham maslow
    Rollo reese may
    A final word

Introduction to Organizational Psychology

Topics Covered in This Course:
  In Section 1 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Principles, practices, and problems.
    Techniques, tools, and tactics.
  In Section 2 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Employee selection principles and techniques.
    Psychological testing.
  In Section 3 of this exam you will be evaluated on below listed topics:
    Performance appraisal.
    Training and development.
  In Section 4 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Leadership.
    Motivation, job satisfaction, and job involvement.
  In Section 5 of this course you will cover these topics:
    The organization of the organization.
    Working conditions.
    Safety, violence, and health in the workplace.
    Stress in the workplace.
    Engineering psychology.
    Consumer psychology.

Introduction to Human factor Psychology

Topics Covered in This Course:
  In Section 1 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Foundations of business psychology.
    Perception, learning, values, and ethics.
    Individual differences and work performance.
  In Section 2 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Understanding yourself.
    Problem solving and creativity.
    Motivating yourself and others.
  In Section 3 of this exam you will be evaluated on below listed topics:
    Achieving wellness and managing stress.
    Managing conflict and anger.
    Building workplace relationships.
  In Section 4 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Coping with a variety of personalities.
    Communicating with people.
    Groups and group decision making.
  In Section 5 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Teamwork and adapting to the organization.
    Leading and influencing others.
    Achieving personal productivity.
    Achieving a rewarding and satisfying career.

Organizational Behavior

Topics Covered in This Course:
  In Section 1 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Work and its place in life.
  In Section 2 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Perception.
  In Section 3 of this exam you will be evaluated on below listed topics:
    Primary communications.
    Improving communications and managing conflict.
  In Section 4 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Jobs, from design to appraisal.
  In Section 5 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Formal organizations: how people organize.
    Understanding management.
    Small groups and the informal organization.
    Individuals and self-management.
    Motivation and morale.
    Job satisfaction and the quality of work life.
    The dynamics of change.
    Leadership.
    Stress.

Group Theories

Topics Covered in This Course:
  In Section 1 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Group dynamics.
    Experiential learning.
  In Section 2 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Group goals, social interdependence, and trust.
    Communication within groups.
  In Section 3 of this exam you will be evaluated on below listed topics:
    Leadership.
    Using power.
  In Section 4 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Decision making.
    Controversy and creativity
  In Section 5 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Managing conflict of interests.
    Valuing diversity.
    Cooperative learning in the classroom.
    Leading growth and counseling groups.

Fundamentals of Psychological Testing

Topics Covered in This Course:
  In Section 1 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Applications and consequences of psychological testing
  In Section 2 of this course you will cover these topics:
    A brief history of psychological testing
  In Section 3 of this exam you will be evaluated on below listed topics:
    Reliability and test standardization
  In Section 4 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Validity and test development
    Theories and the nature of intelligence
  In Section 5 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Cognitive tests: intelligence, achievement and aptitude
    Testing special populations
    Origins of personality test
    Structured personality assessment
    Neuropsychological and medical applications
    Assessment in employment and forensic settings
    Legal issues and the future of testing