FRS 004 — Sec. 001 — (2 units) — CRN 92652 — M 1:10-3:00 pm — 123 Wellman
Personality Type and Learning Styles

Instructor: Laurie Lippin, Department of Human & Community Development, College of Agricultural & Environmental Sciences

Description: This course will provide students with hands on experience with the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI), the most popularly used personality style inventory in the world today. The MBTI is an often used but underutilized tool that identifies 16 different, normal, healthy personality types distinguished by their source of psychic energy, perception, and decision making. Particular attention will be paid to application of the MBTI for learning style to assist new students in their adjustment to college level academia demands and other aspects of their educational experience.

Format: Reading assignments with reaction papers required, complete the MBTI online, computer research on type, interpersonal interviews, final paper on type and learning style. Grading: This is a P/NP class with criteria based on 20% reading and reaction papers, 20% oral reports in class, 10% original research, 10% interviews, 20% mid-term, 20% Final Paper.

About the Instructor: Laurie B. Lippin, Ph.D. has been a Lecturer at UC Davis for over ten years in Community and Regional Development, teaching the popular CRD2 Ethnicity and American Communities, and CRD173, The Continuing Learner. The last 2 years she has also been teaching for the Contemporary Leadership Minor, teaching SAS130, the foundational course for the minor. Her interests include the use of the MBTI to inform leadership and successful learning experiences, the examining of whiteness and white privilege, and transformative adult education. Her book (co-authored with Helfand) Understanding Whiteness/Unraveling Racism: Tools for the Journey, was published by Thomson Custom Publishing in 2001.