Prerequisites: WRIT 010 with a grade of C or better or WRIT 010S with a grade of C or better or WRIT 009 with a grade of C or better; or consent of instructor
Description: Studies topics at the borderland of psychology (extra-sensory perception, repressed memory, pseudoscientific beliefs, parapsychology, psychic phenomena, faith healing, and mass hysteria). Explores 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.