Syllabus for Psych WI/409b
Spring 1999/ G11

Instructor:  Dr. Leon James, Professor of Psychology, University of Hawaii

Office Hours...Gartley 213A.......12:00 to 1:00 M, T, R
Telephone: Instructor's office 956-8005
Home office and recording messages: 261-2382
e-mail: leon@hawaii.edu

The G11 Main Page is here:
www.soc.hawaii.edu/leonj/leonj/leonpsy11/g11reportsindex.html

Class time: T 1:00 to 3:30 in Gart 217 (classroom) and Crawford 201 (computer lab).

Course Description:
Cyber-Psychology is the study of cyberspace and online relationships. Topics to be covered include: Newsgroups; Cyber-Identity; Virtual Selves, Computer Addiction, Citizen Activism in Driving, and the Psychology of Web Architecture. For this class, no special Internet computer skills are required, only a willingness to face and overcome your technophobia. You will receive hands-on training in the computer lab. You will learn to set up your Home Pages on the World Wide Web and use search engines to investigate and access course related Web Sites. There will be no exam, but all reports and assignments are to be published on your Home Page according to instructions. Classes are in the form of discussions and oral presentations by students.  Attendance is required.

Textbooks:
Sherry Turkel (1995), Life on the Screen: Identity in the Age of the Internet (New York:
Touchstone Book).
Elizabeth Castro (1996), HTML For the World Wide Web (Berkeley, CA:   Peachpit Press).

Absence Penalty:  -5 points/per class absent (also: 3 lates = 1 absence).

Late Work Penalty:  -2 points/per day late unless you write email to Dr. James explaining why and giving the date you will be completing the late work.

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