Syllabus for Psych 409a, Fall 1996
Cyberpsychology

Instructor: Dr. Leon James, Professor of Psychology

Cyber-Psychology Seminar

Exploring social psychological factors that are important in understanding cyber-communities. Topics relate to self-witnessing reports on technophobia and resistance in the computer environment; stages of acquiring information seeking skills; and social psychological factors in participating in a cyberspace learning community. Students are given UNIX accounts and publish their weekly written assignments on their own World Wide Web Home Page using campus computers or dial in modems. Aimed and organized for computer novices since most students are unfamiliar with the Internet and its operations.

Textbook: All required reading for cyberpsychology will be on the Internet. There are two required books: for publishing your Home Page reports: Internet Basics (UH SL Teaching & Curriculum Series) and HTML 3: A Manual of Style (L. Aronson, Ziff Davis Press).

Help Hours: Gartley Hall 213, T, W, R 12-1 and Porteus 635, T, W, R 2:00-3:30.

Telephone: Campus office: 956-8005; Home office & messages: 261-2382

e-mail: leon@hawaii.edu

URL: http://www.soc.hawaii.edu/~leonj/leonj/leonpsy/leon.html

Class time: Tuesday 1:00 - 3:30, Dean 105 and Lab in Porteus 635

Grades: Point system as follows:

Weekly Internet Reports published on WWW Home Page = 70 points

Oral class presentations = 30 points

A=85 points; B=84-70; C=69-60; D=50-50; F=49

Absence penalty= -5 per class (week); Late work penalty= -3 per week late.

Reports and Assignments

Initial Exercises

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