Psychology:
Sensation & Perception
Students will be able to:
~define perception as the way we interpret sensations and organize them into meaningful experiences
~describe the field of study known as psychophysics
~define and discuss threshold, Weber’s Law and signal detection
~describe the nature and functioning of the sense organs
~identify the skin and body senses and explain how they work
~outline the principles involved in perception
~describe how we learn to perceive and what illusions are
Monday:
Lecture & discussion over Chpt. 8 Section 1 Sensation
Tuesday:
Lecture & discussion Chpt. 8 Section 2 The Senses & Section 3 Perception
Wednesday:
Dr. Philip Zimbardo film: Sensation & Perception
Thursday & Friday: At First Sight

Introduction to Journalism:
Students will be able to:
~identify the roots of cinematography in photography
~identify the inventions and innovations that made movies possible
~create a timeline of the rise of the motion picture industry from 1902 to the emergence of the Studio System; the arrival of sound; depression-era Hollywood; Wartime Hollywood; Decline of the Studio System; labor unrest in Hollywood; anti-communism in Hollywood; the Foreign Market; courting the Youth Market; the decline of film censorship; civil rights & Hollywood; impact of television on the movie industry; & the contemporary Motion Picture Industry
Monday:
Lecture & discussion of historical background to create Hollywood
Tuesday:
Conclude the above
Wednesday:
Create a outline of important points from history handout
Thursday & Friday:
film clips across the various periods of Hollywood history