Personality Assessments have been used for decades and can be a valuable tool in Academic and Career Planning.  Humanmetrics.com http://www.humanmetrics.com/cgi-win/jtypes2.asp provides a free personality assessment and results analysis.  Students should not merely take the assessment but should delve into their results by looking at the personality types strengths and weaknesses, potential careers and how businesses use personality assessments.  Results should be viewed with a critical lens and should help students have a better understanding of the importance of self-reflection as part of their ACP process. 

How genetics can add to our understanding of cognition, language, emotion, personality, and behavior. Use of gene mapping to estimate risk factors for psychological disorders and variation in behavioral and personality traits. Mendelian genetics, genetic mapping techniques, and statistical analysis of large populations and their application to particular studies in behavioral genetics. Topics also include environmental influence on genetic programs, evolutionary genetics, and the larger scientific, social, ethical, and philosophical implications.

Site provides resources, tools, goal planning, and personal assessments to assist with education and career planning, and to assist with personal, finance, and professional goal planning

This course is a survey of the scientific study of human nature, including how the mind works, and how the brain supports the mind. Topics include the mental and neural bases of perception, emotion, learning, memory, cognition, child development, personality, psychopathology, and social interaction. Students will consider how such knowledge relates to debates about nature and nurture, free will, consciousness, human differences, self, and society.

This course is an introduction to the theory that tries to explain how minds are made from collections of simpler processes. It treats such aspects of thinking as vision, language, learning, reasoning, memory, consciousness, ideals, emotions, and personality. It incorporates ideas from psychology, artificial intelligence, and computer science to resolve theoretical issues such as wholes vs. parts, structural vs. functional descriptions, declarative vs. procedural representations, symbolic vs. connectionist models, and logical vs. common-sense theories of learning.