85-201 Psychology and Society - Inside Out Program
9 units, Carnegie Mellon University
Psychology and Society focuses on how psychology can inform ways to improve our lives and society, in domains from health to relationships to education to intergroup interactions and more. The course will be largely discussion based, with readings, reading quizzes, and brief written reflections. Students will use the things they learn about psychology to suggest ways to improve problems that they care about. This course offers a special opportunity. It is a CMU Prison Education Project course and will be taught at Mercer State Correctional Institution, combining CMU and incarcerated students. See httpswww.cmu.edudietrichstudentsundergraduateprogramspepindex.html Students will travel together on a bus to and from the prison and will be asked to fill out a short questionnaire before enrolling. The course focuses on active participation and discussion between students. It runs from 1250330 on Friday afternoon. CMU students will travel together by bus, leaving our campus at 1050 and returning by 520. To enroll, students in the course will submit a brief application and interview with faculty. Students will travel together on a bus to and from the prison and will be asked to fill out a short questionnaire before enrolling.
Prerequisites: none listed
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