Interpersonal Relations

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Required text: David W. Johnson, Reaching Out: Interpersonal Effectiveness and Self-Actualization, Boston: Allyn and Bacon, 2003

¹Referenced text Don E. Hamachek, Encounter with Others: Interpersonal Relationships and You, New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston,1982

Date Assignment Due	Lesson	Assignment	Points	Total Points
	Lesson 1	Why are relationships important?	10	10
	Lesson 2	Are you looking into a glass window or into a looking glass?	10	20
	Lesson 3	How strong and lasting are first impressions?	10	30
	Lesson 4	How can we perceive others accurately?	10	40
	Lesson 5	What is self-disclosure?	10	50
	Lesson 6	How is my past related to my present?	10	60
	Lesson 7	What are self-disclosing questions?,	10	70
	Lesson 8	What is the Johari window?,	10	80
	Test	16PF Questionnaire	50	130
	Lesson 9	How do I see my current relationships?	10	140
	Lesson 10	How do I fantasize my relationships to be ?	10	150
	Lesson 11	How am I different in different situations?	10	160
	Lesson 12	How do I see myself in groups?	10	170
	Lesson 13	What are the patterns in my interpersonal relationships?	10	180
	Lesson 14	What issues do I want to explore in more depth?	10	190
	Lesson 15	How can we recognize *them* from us?	10	200
	Lesson 16	Can you imagine being in my shoes?	10	210
	Lesson 17	Can you take a risk?	10	220
	Lesson 18	Is every problem in a relationship a problem of projection?	10	230
	Lesson 19	Am I looking through a glass window or into a looking glass?	10	240
	Lesson 20	How can I stop others' projections?	10	250
	Lesson 21	How can I build trust? Complete 16 PF for full credit by this date!	10	260
	Lesson 22	How can I put it all together?	10	270
	Lessons 23	What did you say?	10	280
	Lesson 24	What are you feeling?	10	290
	Lesson 25	What happens when you don't express your feelings?	10	300
	Lesson 26	Who listens anyway?	10	320
	Lesson 27	Does practice make perfect?	10	330
	Lesson 28	Do opposites attract or repel?	10	340
	Lesson 29	What if we don't like ourselves?	10	350
	Lesson 30	Why are people attracted to each other?	10	360
	Test	Final	40	400
	Extra Credit	Discussion Group, Chat Room, Hyperlinks,16PF	50	450

Grading System

Percent	Points	Decimal points	Grade Equivalent

100	400	4.00	A+
93	370	3.7	A
89	340	3.4	A-
86	310	3.1	B+
83	280	2.8	B
79	240	2.4	B-
78	210	2.1	C+
73	180	1.8	C
69	140	1.4	C-
68	130	1.3	D+
66	100	1.0	D
61	70	.70	D-
60	60	.60	NC

Instructor: Robert D. Brehm, M.A.
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