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Psychology Department
About the Professor
Dr. Richard Dowdall retired from full-time teaching in May 2002 after teaching Psychology in the California Community Colleges for 36 years. During his 33 years as a full-time faculty member at Sacramento City College he pioneered a number of new courses: Human Behavior, Abnormal Behavior, Life/Career Planning, Psychology of Aging, Understanding Cancer, Behavioral Biology, and Issues in Psychology.
Dr. Dowdall was a founding member of the SCC Experimental College in 1970, and has enjoyed team-teaching, and collaborative teaching environments through out his career.
Beginning in 1989 Dr. Dowdall became interested in Distance Education especially Courses by Television. Click on Curriculum Vitae for a full list of the various research projects related to Interactive Television.
It was his interest in educational television that attracted Dr. Dowdall to the Telecourse Psychology: The Study of Human Behavior in the Fall of 1990, to The World of Abnormal Psychology in 1992, and to Psychology: The Human Experience in Spring 2002.
Dr. Dowdall pioneered live interactive television (ITV) classes from the Learning Resource Center facilities at SCC during Fall 2001 and Spring 2002.
Dr. Dowdall is also a licensed Marriage & Family Therapist (inactive) and has conducted numerous workshops for professional and lay audiences on biofeedback, stress management, behavioral medicine, and the development of human potential. His current interests include: Open Learning (Distance Education) with TeleWeb courses, grandparenting, gardening, and digital photography.
Dr. Dowdall has written and produced a series of instructional videotapes presenting biofeedback training and stress management.
Sacramento City College
3835 Freeport Blvd * Sacramento * CA * 95822
This page was last updated: Wednesday, July 18, 2007 at 2:10:10 PM
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