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1. The faculty of Marist College mandated the capping course to prompt reflecton upon the relation of the major field's methods and content with broader ethical and humanistic concerns. The course is to encourage students to situate their specialized studies within the broader context and readings must reflect its interdisciplinary and integrative intent. The course provides a means for reviewing and applying perspectives introduced in the foundation courses and reinforced in the distribution studies. The capping course should refer to significant themes of human consciousness and value orientation developed in the core foundation courses.
2. The capping course explores the historical development of psychology as a science by focusing on the various schools of thought, systems and theories that have contributed to its growth -- both from within and without the discipline.
This capping course is to provide a means of reviewing and applying perspectives introduced in the foundation courses. The foundation course in philosophy provided "ways of understanding one's relationship with the world." The framework of these "modes of consciousness" (mythological, religious, scientific, and philosophical) are to help students become more aware of the cultural influences that shape their own understanding of themselves, their world, and how much value judgments are influenced by historical experience. The value-consciousness theme was further developed in the history course taken by all students at this institution.
Students in this capping course should demonstrate, both through their written products and by their classroom participation, a grasp on how their own value judgments are influenced both by the times in which we live and by the historical events which have shaped our present era.
The ethics courses taken in the junior year is designed to make students aware of "value assumptions of our Judaeo-Christian and secular humanistic traditions." The ethics course also exposed students to new ethical demands prompted by our scientific-technological culture.
Students in this capping course should demonstrate, both through their written products and by their classroom participation, an understanding of the value assumptions underlying the Judeao-Christian and secular humanistic traditions as these relate to ethical questions in psychology and related to scientific and technological advances.
Marist College strives for academic excellence, a concept which includes mastery of a body of knowledge.
After completing the course work required for the psychology major our students should be able to demonstrate knowledge of a core body of knowledge identified by their faculty. Students in this section of the capping course must perform at an acceptable level on objective multiple choice exam.
The curriculum for the psychology major at Marist is a highly integrated blend of the theoretical and applied aspects of the discipline.
The final paper for the capping course should reflect the student has adopted a theoretical orientation within the discipline and has a plan for applying it to professional goals.