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Delivery mode: Individualized study or grouped study.
Online-enhanced.
Credits: 3 - Social Science
Prerequisite: PSYC 289, PSYC 290, and a senior-level psychology or social sciences course are recommended.
Centre: Centre for Psychology
PSYC 432 has a Challenge for Credit option.
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This course examines the transactions between people and their everyday physical environment. Topics include environmental perception and cognition, environmental stressors such as noise, spatial behaviour such as personal space and territoriality, physical settings where we live, work, and learn, and designing for more fitting environments.
Unit 1: Introduction
Unit 2: Environmental Perception and Cognition
Unit 3: Ambient Environments
Unit 4: Personal Space and Territoriality
Unit 5: Privacy and Crowding
Unit 6: Our Residences
Unit 7: Our Communities
Unit 8: Our Schools
Unit 9: Our Workplaces
Unit 10: Designing More Fitting Environments
To receive credit for PSYC 432, you must achieve a composite course grade of at least “D” (50 percent) and a grade of at least 50 percent on the final examination. The weighting of assignments is as follows:
Written Exercise | Two Quizzes | Course Project | Final Exam | Total |
---|---|---|---|---|
10% | 15% | 35% | 40% | 100% |
To learn more about assignments and examinations, please refer to Athabasca University's online Calendar.
Gifford, R. (2002). Environmental psychology: Principles and practice (3rd ed.). Colville, WA: Optimal Books.
Krupat, W. (1985). People in cities: The urban environment and its effects. New York: Cambridge University Press.
The course materials include study guide, student manual, and a reading file.