PSY 4720 - Human Stress

• Students will be able to articulate insights about one’s own cultural rules and biases related to human stress processes.
• Students will be able to demonstrate an understanding of the complexity of elements important to members of another culture in relation to its history, values, politics, communication styles, economy, or beliefs and practices, which impact human stress.
• Students will be able to interpret stress-related intercultural experience from their own and others’ worldview and to act in a supportive manner that recognizes the feelings of another cultural group.
• Students will be able to demonstrate an understanding of cultural differences in stress-related verbal and non-verbal communication and to negotiate a shared understanding based on those differences.
• Students will be able to ask complex questions of other cultures and to articulate answers to these questions that reflect multiple cultural perspectives in relation to human stress.
• Students will be able to initiate and develop interactions related to human stress processes with culturally different others while suspending judgment in valuing his / her interactions with culturally different others.
• Students will be able to critically state, describe, and consider stress-related issues or problems.
• Students will be able to use information from source(s) with enough interpretation/evaluation to develop a comprehensive analysis or synthesis related to human stress.
• Students will be able to systematically and methodically analyze assumptions and carefully evaluate the relevance of contexts when presenting a position related human stress research.
• Students will be able to state a specific position (i.e., perspective, thesis, or hypothesis) that is thoughtful, recognizes complexities, and acknowledges limitations as it pertains to human stress research.
• Students will be able to state conclusions and related outcomes (consequences and implications) of stress-related research logically and in a priority order.
• Students will be able to connect relevant experience and academic knowledge of human stress.
• Students will be able to see and make connections across disciplines and perspectives to understand human stress processes.
• Students will be able to adapt and apply skills, abilities, theories, or methodologies regarding human stress gained in one situation to a new situation.
• Students will be able to deliver a report on on recent human stress research that enhances meaning.
• Students will be able to demonstrate a developing sense of self as a learner and build on prior experience to respond to new and challenging contexts through a self-study of human stress.