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Instructor Bio
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My name is Michel (Me-kell) Arnold, and I am from San Diego, Ca, however I currently reside in sunny Oakland, Ca near Lake Merritt. Please refer to me as Professor Arnold or Dr. Arnold. I received my Bachelor of Science in Psychology from a small private historically black liberal arts college, in Greensboro, NC (Bennett College for Women) in May of 1999. I received my Master of Science in Clinical Applied Psychophysiology & Biofeedback from the California School of Professional Psychology (now Alliant International University) in San Diego, Ca in August of 2000. I have been teaching academically for over 22 years. I currently teach courses in Human Sexuality, Child Development, Personality Theories, Adolescent Psychology, General Psychology, Biological Psychology and Lifespan Development just to name a few.
For the past 10 years I have worked in both the Clinical and Academic settings. As a Health Educator II and Biofeedback Therapist for Kaiser Permanente where I facilitated groups in Stress Management, Smoking Cessation and saw individual client’s with Psychophysiological disorders such as hypertension, headaches and chronic pain to Family and Children services where I facilitated parenting classes for those court mandated by San Mateo County. I also began simultaneously teaching at Grossmont College and Southwestern College in San Diego, Ca, as an adjunct Psychology Professor, teaching Human Sexuality and Introduction to Psychology.
I obtained my Ph.D. from Capella University in General Psychology (Experimental Research) in the Fall of 2019. My research areas of interest include: HIV, sexology, cognition and death and dying. Since 2005 I have been exclusively teaching at Contra Costa College in San Pablo, Ca and in the Fall of 2008 acquired a position as a full-time tenured Professor of Psychology.
I enjoy yoga, cooking, films (old and new), traveling, live music, reading and the beach! I have two pets an 8lb Yorkshire Terrier named Juliette and a little Yorkshire Terrier puppy named Romeo! Please feel free to ask questions for anything you are unsure about, (after reading the syllabus of course!).
You can contact me via email at: [email protected], Monday-Friday between 9am-6pm, or click on the inbox under your calendar between those hours. I will reply to all emails within 24-48 hours excluding holidays. I look forward to working with you in this course! Let’s get started!
My name is Michel (Me-kell) Arnold, and I am from San Diego, Ca, however I currently reside in sunny Oakland, Ca near Lake Merritt. Please refer to me as Professor Arnold or Dr. Arnold. I received my Bachelor of Science in Psychology from a small private historically black liberal arts college, in Greensboro, NC (Bennett College for Women) in May of 1999. I received my Master of Science in Clinical Applied Psychophysiology & Biofeedback from the California School of Professional Psychology (now Alliant International University) in San Diego, Ca in August of 2000. I have been teaching academically for over 22 years. I currently teach courses in Human Sexuality, Child Development, Personality Theories, Adolescent Psychology, General Psychology, Biological Psychology and Lifespan Development just to name a few.
For the past 10 years I have worked in both the Clinical and Academic settings. As a Health Educator II and Biofeedback Therapist for Kaiser Permanente where I facilitated groups in Stress Management, Smoking Cessation and saw individual client’s with Psychophysiological disorders such as hypertension, headaches and chronic pain to Family and Children services where I facilitated parenting classes for those court mandated by San Mateo County. I also began simultaneously teaching at Grossmont College and Southwestern College in San Diego, Ca, as an adjunct Psychology Professor, teaching Human Sexuality and Introduction to Psychology.
I obtained my Ph.D. from Capella University in General Psychology (Experimental Research) in the Fall of 2019. My research areas of interest include: HIV, sexology, cognition and death and dying. Since 2005 I have been exclusively teaching at Contra Costa College in San Pablo, Ca and in the Fall of 2008 acquired a position as a full-time tenured Professor of Psychology.
I enjoy yoga, cooking, films (old and new), traveling, live music, reading and the beach! I have two pets an 8lb Yorkshire Terrier named Juliette and a little Yorkshire Terrier puppy named Romeo! Please feel free to ask questions for anything you are unsure about, (after reading the syllabus of course!).
You can contact me via email at: [email protected], Monday-Friday between 9am-6pm, or click on the inbox under your calendar between those hours. I will reply to all emails within 24-48 hours excluding holidays. I look forward to working with you in this course! Let’s get started!