PIA 261: Environmental Psychology 3 credits A survey of the interrelationships between human behavior and the built and natural environment. Topics include the ways people perceive and react to their physical surroundings; the effects of noise, air pollution, and other stressors on behavior and emotion; people's use of space, the psychological consequences of crowding; methods of changing human behavior so as to preserve the natural environment; and ways in which the environment might be molded to 'fit' behavior such as through the appropriate design of buildings, parks, and cities.