Hello, this is Dr. Brouk. I'm so sorry that I could not be with you tonight.
However, I'm very
Happy that. Mr. Didier could suffer me in this brief video?
We are going to go over your course information
Your course is blended introduction to psychology
8 or 9 1 9 8 1 K and 1
This is the announcement page and
All of the information
that
you need will be communicated via this page and
I
Try to email you also the information however, some information are very difficult to email
Because they contain videos
This is the syllabus and the calendar you also have a hard copy of this
The information here is
About how often we need we meet on Tuesdays from 6 o'clock to 9:20
Tonight will be a short night. However
for the rest of the semester
We're going to need from 6 to 9 20
Because this course is so intense and we have so much to cover
The room but we will be meeting is in the academic building of the Kenosha campus room a
219
As I said, I'm dr. Brooke
My phone number is two six two six one nine two six three three zero
My office is the same level as this class right around the corner a 205
And
Since this is the summer semester, we don't have set schedule
So if you would like to see me, please make an appointment. I will also try to
Be here every Tuesday for the entire semester
So I can be available to you
with any questions you may have
Please when you send me an email, make sure that you use your gateway email
Because that's how we are going to do our online
communication and
To assure my prompt response
Please include your name phone number
course title course number and course section and I have received several emails from you and
You have been very kind in including that
Those required information, I'm really thankful to you for that
and
When you call me, please do the same include all of that information
This course is a three credit course
What do we do in a blended section
Well, this is an accelerated
Combination of face-to-face and online
Class
That is you do half of the work
on your computers at home or at school or at work and
Then we do the other half
work in class
we go over the chapters that you have already read and done assignments for
You will devil need
access to a computer and be able to
send and receive messages and
access blackboard
And
Get on the discussion board
And complete your assignments and read other people's posts and so on
In this course
You are introduced to topics such as
Physiological basis of behavior. This is chapter 3
personality and learning theories memory consciousness stress
intelligence development
Psychopathology, which is
Pathology of the psyche or the mind and
This is chapter 15 when we talk about psychological
disorders and
We study social behavior
the textbook is by Schachter and NOC and it's available in many places including
your
bookstore
on campus
as
We mentioned you need to have access to a computer
be able to get on blackboard and
use your
gateway email account
There are two areas here competencies and core abilities
Competencies are the topics that we are going to cover
during the next
six weeks and
core abilities or the soft skills
That employers and
the state of Wisconsin
would like us to exercise so you can master them and be
professionals
When you get out into the workforce
Communicating clearly and effectively and that includes not only talking
Expressing yourself. Verbally, we're also listening. We're going to talk about this a little bit more
Thinking critically
Effectively and
Engage in abstract thinking these are all related to each other think outside of the box
the topics that we cover in psychology are
Often not black and white. They're very gray
Understand about your own behavior and the way you think and feel in different situation a
Last but not least
respect cultural diversity and pluralism
The differences make us unique and it's really important for us to
understand those differences and
Appreciate and respect them
How do we
Move forward in this class. Well, let's talk about our
assignments and the way
we do our
evaluation
There are weekly reading and writing
assignments
Let me show you where they are
For each chapter
There are series of questions that
Once you read the chapter
You should be able to answer know
If you need a little bit more help for some chapters that are more complex. I
have created video lectures
so you read the book and
if
you want to simplify the information you have read you can go and
Click on this page
And
You have access to my own lecture notes
I have done this again for more complex chapters
so you have my notes and
Also, you have a video
explaining these notes
Hello this is doctor bra
So
You not only have your textbook but you have my lecture notes that
Really simplifies what you have read
And
You have a complete lecture in this video
So for next week you are
Required to complete these assignments
Meaning you read the textbook
You watch these videos and then you answer these questions
We're going to go over them in class
This is expected to be done before coming to class that's why it's called homework
and
At the beginning of each class to exercise your
Understanding of what you have read and what you have watched
We are going to have a little practice quiz
These are
Right here
These are in class open notebook
Quizzes that we do a quiz at the beginning of the class
Individually and you can use your notes not a textbook or not the computer
and
Then we go over the chapters and at the end we get into groups and
Take the quiz as a group and you can again use your notes
So we have practice quizzes that are first individually and then ask groups
Each quiz will cover the chapters that are due that
evening for instance
Next week we are
Expected to read these three chapters chapters 1 2 & 3 and
Do the assignment questions
These are the assignment questions
the quizzes are
Going to be based on these questions. So if you read something in your textbook for chapter one
But it's not covered here. You will not be responsible for that. So it really
Minimizes the amount of information you need to know
for these in-class practice quizzes
We're having a hard time here, okay. Here we go
So there are four of these each worth 25 points
so by the end of the semester, this is hundred points of
in-class open notebook quizzes
Then we have two
main quizzes that are each 150 points
but you can a lot of the information that are covered on these quizzes will
reappear on
your main two quizzes and
we're going to correct these in class and you can take him home and use them as
Study guides these open notebook quizzes are true or false
But your in-class
closed
quizzes that are
worth a lot more or
closed
resource quizzes
Please read these sections and email me any questions you may have so
Here we have
300 points and this is 100 points
So that's 400 points on the things that you're going to be quizzed on
But the majority of your points for this class will come from discussion board
They are five online activities. These are really super easy activities
That means that you can easily gain
600 points
By doing five easy
assignments
So everybody should really be able to pass this class easily
Because 600 points of the 1,000 points available in this class
Will come from your discussion board, so let's go over this
Reading and writing assignments reading and writing assignments or indicated on the course calendar as I showed you before
for successful course completion
students are expected to read the chapters watch the video lectures and complete the assignment questions a
Maximum of 1,000 points is possible in the course on for in class open note
practice quizzes - in class hos
resource quizzes and 5 discussion board activities in addition
We're going to have daily in-class
extra-credit
tasks in
each class for
Instance tonight you're going to have an extra credit
short activity
At the end of the semester if you have between 930 points and a thousand you get an A
8:30 to 9:00
20.9 at B and
So on
Please note that we're not going to have
any
really time to do makeups
unless
We have military deployment
Illness that requires bad rest or
hospitalization and we cannot make any
exceptions
You can make up
Tasks, but there will be point deduction. So please be aware of
makeups that if there is a make up
It's going to be
There will be point deduction
If there is anybody who needs to get an incomplete they have to have a see
At least a C
meaning that they have done really well in class and God forbid some happens, but they are not able to
Continue with the course or maybe something great happens like they're having a baby and they just cannot complete the course in that case
They will get incomplete you will get an incomplete and you will be able to complete it
I'm not going to read the rest of the information here because you're fully capable of doing that
Let's go over the calendar
Everything is spelled out here
For next week
We are going to go over chapters 1 2 & 3 at the beginning of the class
There will be a practice quiz that you take
Individually, you can use your notes at the end. There will be a group practice quiz
But you're going to get into groups and do it together
And this is after we have gone over the information
So we are going to have a quiz before the information and after the information to see
How much the lecture?
The in-class lecture has helped you. Of course, you're gonna get the lecture on those study guides
Before you come to class
This Friday, oh, I'm sorry if we're here
This Friday. There is your first activity due which is
Incredibly simple it's on student success. You all have a hard copy of
The article or the piece that I'd like you to read
It is
Define your student success and you have a video explaining how to do that
there are 4 people who have
already completed this assignment
You click on this
Modern technology slow Wi-Fi
Okay, and you create a thread you
Read this and you basically type in your response
Which is which are going to include
Following these instructions and then you submit it
Have a great rest of the class and I look forward to meeting you next week
