Psychology (PSYC) 432
Psychology and the Built Environment (Revision 3)
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Delivery Mode: Individualized study online
Credits: 3
Area of Study: Social Science
Prerequisite: PSYC 289, PSYC 290, and a senior-level psychology or social science course are recommended.
Faculty: Faculty of Humanities & Social Sciences
PSYC 432 has a Challenge for Credit option.
Overview
This course examines the transactions between people and their everyday physical environment. Topics include environmental perception and cognition, environmental stressors such as noise, spatial behaviour such as personal space and territoriality, physical settings where we live, work, and learn, and designing for more fitting environments.
Outline
- Unit 1: Introduction
- Unit 2: Environmental Perception and Cognition
- Unit 3: Ambient Environments
- Unit 4: Personal Space and Territoriality
- Unit 5: Privacy and Crowding
- Unit 6: Our Residences
- Unit 7: Our Cities and Communities
- Unit 8: Our Schools
- Unit 9: Our Workplaces
- Unit 10: Designing More Fitting Environments
Evaluation
To receive credit for PSYC 432, you must achieve a composite course grade of at least “D” (50 percent) and a grade of at least 50 percent on the final examination. If you receive less than 50 percent on your final exam, your final exam mark will become your course grade. The weighting of assignments is as follows:
Written Exercise | Two Quizzes | Course Project | Final Exam | Total |
---|---|---|---|---|
10% | 15% | 40% | 35% | 100% |
To learn more about assignments and examinations, please refer to Athabasca University's online Calendar.
Course Materials
Textbook
Gifford, R. (2007). Environmental psychology: Principles and practice (4th ed.). Colville, WA: Optimal Books.
Other Materials Online
The course materials include study guide, student manual, and a reading file accessible at the course website.
Challenge for Credit Course Overview
The Challenge for Credit process allows students to demonstrate that they have acquired a command of the general subject matter, knowledge, intellectual and/or other skills that would normally be found in a university level course.
Full information for the Challenge for Credit can be found in the Undergraduate Calendar.
- Undergraduate Challenge for Credit Policy
- Undergraduate Challenge for Credit Procedures
Challenge Evaluation
Please contact the course coordinator for the challenge process.
Undergraduate Challenge for Credit Course Registration Form
Athabasca University reserves the right to amend course outlines occasionally and without notice. Courses offered by other delivery methods may vary from their individualized-study counterparts.
Opened in Revision 3, February 11, 2010.
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