Course Expectations



PSY 211: Learning and Memory
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Course Expectations	This is a 200-level review course of the topics of learning and memory within the discipline of Psychology. It meets a general education requirement for the social sciences, and a major requirement for Psychology. While there are no prerequisites for the course, you should expect to work at the 200-level.
The basic course meets in 3, 50-minute periods per week. At Wheaton College, the institution expects you to put in about 2 hours of work outside of classtime for each 50-minute period that you spend in class. Thus, in order to make satisfactory progress in this course, you should be spending a minimum of 6 hours a week on the material--reading, writing, reviewing your notes. If you wait until the last minute to do this work, (say, until the weekend of the first exam), then you will have 12 hours of work to do in the 48-hour weekend, even before you attempt the exam. Don't make this mistake. College should be your full-time job. (That's why most colleges require that you live on campus.) If you don't treat it that way, you're wasting your time and money. Take all that you can get from here! And that especially includes KNOWLEDGE!! If you are not being asked to work this much in any of your other courses, you are getting ripped off. Demand more from your professors. It's your future that you're paying for now. Be sure to get what you pay for!
Other Expectations	I expect you at all times to treat me, your fellow students, and any other humans or nonhuman animals that we observe and study with respect.
I expect you to handle gently and humanely any animals that you might be asked to observe in this course, and to report to me any injuries or ill treatment that you see. And I expect you to provide me with due notice if you are unable to complete an assignment or exam on time. Similarly, I promise to treat you with respect as responsible adults. I promise to do my best to answer all of your questions and respond to all of your suggestions so that we can be effective partners in learning. Please let me know if there is any way that I can help to improve your learning in this course.

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