Prerequisites: a grade of “C-” or better in ENGL 001A or consent of instructor
Description: Studies topics at the borderland of psychology (e.g., extra-sensory perception, repressed memory, pseudoscientific beliefs, parapsychology, psychic phenomena, faith healing, mass hysteria). Explores the relationship among skepticism, cynicism, and “gullibility” and the rhetoric of extraordinary claims. Stresses the development of scientific literacy, critical thinking skills, hypothesis testing, and understanding psychology as an empirical science.