|
Complete Course Descriptions
In addition to courses listed below, psychology graduate students may enroll
in 100 level or higher classes, both
in the psychology department and university-wide. Graduate students may also
enroll in courses offered by other schools in the consortium.
PSYCHOLOGY 203
(Seminar in Physiological Psychology)
Contemporary and historical issues in the relationship between physiology and behavior. Topics chosen for this
semester will depend on student interest.
PSYCHOLOGY 212 (Psychopathology)
This course will explore in depth the current research regarding the
phenomenology, classification, biology, course, and treatment of major
psychiatric disorders. The use of cognitive and neuroscience methods to study
patients with psychiatric disorders will be emphasized
Prerequisite: Open to graduate students only.
PSYCHOLOGY 213 (Contemporary Problems in Social Psychology)
Topics to be covered include attribution theory,
interpersonal attraction, and social attitudes.
Prerequisite: Permission of instructor.
PSYCHOLOGY 214 (Seminar in Social Psychology)
Multidisciplinary approaches to the study
of social thought and behavior. Readings and discussions will explore the
utility of integrating social-psychological perspectives with other perspectives
(e.g., developmental, personality, and clinical) to arrive at a more
comprehensive view of human behavior. Topics will vary from year to year.
Prerequisites: Psychology 233 or graduate standing
PSYCHOLOGY 218 (Developmental Theory and Research)
Contemporary problems in developmental psychology related to developmental theory.
Prerequisite: Permission of instructor.
PSYCHOLOGY 229 (Cognitive Neuroscience)
PSYCHOLOGY 231 (Graduate Core Seminar in Biopsychology)
The goal of this course is to help graduate students integrate neurobiology
and its methods with behavioral and motivational issues in psychology. We will
cover the essentials of neuroanatomy, neurophysiology and neurochemistry and
use that information to understand current theories and experiments on the
biological bases of sexual behavior and sexual differentiation, hunger and body
weight control, and learning and memory. Readings will include texts in
neuroscience and original literature in physiological psychology. We will discuss
the readings and in these discussions I will take into account the varying levels
of familiarity with this literature and the different interests of the students.
This heterogeneity can be an asset in a seminar and lead to the uncovering of some
interesting alternative perspectives. During the semester each student will pick
one topic in physiological psychology to research in depth and write a paper on
that subject. In addition, there will be a comprehensive exam at the end of the
course.
Prerequisite: Graduate standing.
PSYCHOLOGY 232 (Core Course in Cognitive Psychology)
An integrative survey of cognitive psychology focusing on the broad theoretical
issues that pervade the field, such as, the nature of knowledge representation,
discrete versus continuous processing, connectionism versus symbolic processing,
and other aspects of cognitive architecture. These issues will be related to
specific content areas, such as attention, memory, language processing,
reasoning and problem solving, cognitive development, social cognition, animal
cognition, and neuroscience (particularly electrophysiology).
PSYCHOLOGY 233 (Core Course in Social Psychology)
This course offers an advanced overview of theory and research in social psychology.
The major representative topic areas to be covered include person perception, social
cognition, social influence, aggression, altruism and attitudes. Several special topics
representing current developments in the field will also be discussed (e.g.,
personality and social behavior; life-span social psychology). In addition to
discussing prevalent theoretical perspectives, typical methodological strategies
will be critically evaluated. The course format will consist of mini-lectures
and demonstrations, seminar-style discussions and student presentations. This
course fulfills one of the core course requirement in the graduate curriculum of
the Psychology Department.
Prerequisite: Consent of the instructor.
PSYCHOLOGY 234 (Core Course in Developmental Psychology)
This course offers an advanced overview of current perspectives and issues in
developmental psychology. Topics to be covered include perceptual-motor development,
language acquisition and rules of cognitive development. These will be linked to
social development. Emphasis will be placed on development as a process in time
and on the determinants and constraints which affect that process. Course format
will be variable, including mini-lectures, seminar-style discussions, and student
presentations.
Psychology 234 fulfills one of the core course requirements in the graduate
curriculum of the Psychology Department.
PSYCHOLOGY 240 (Mathematical Psychology)
Survey of quantitative models and modeling techniques useful in psychology.
Prerequisite: Graduate standing.
PSYCHOLOGY 242 (Seminar in Affective Neuroscience)
Graduate seminar on the systems-level brain bases of emotion.
Topics usually include basic theories of emotion, positive and negative affect,
hemispheric asymmetries, emotional memory, emotion regulation, and selected
topics in common forms of psychopathology such as depression.
Prerequisite: Graduate standing.
PSYCHOLOGY 243 (Structure and Process in Cognitive Theory)
This seminar focuses on problems of distinguishing between
theoretical cognitive structures and processes, and empirical methods for
separating structural and processing components of performance in particular
cognitive domains. Topics include computation versus search in models of
semantic memory; analog versus propositional knowledge representation in models
of mental imagery; attention; automaticity, and modularity. PSYCHOLOGY 244
(Cognition/Learning)
Seminar on contemporary issues in the areas of cognition, memory and learning.
Prerequisite: Permission of instructor.
PSYCHOLOGY 247 (Nature of Scientific Discoveries)
This seminar will focus on the cognitive and social processes of scientific
discovery. What thought processes are involved in making important discoveries?
Why are some more successful at this than others. How do we identify important
problems for study? Is there a science to conducting science? Are there ways that
we can enhance our own chances of making an important contribution to science by
examining these processes? These and related questions will form and inform the
discussion in this class.
PSYCHOLOGY 250 (Seminar on Decision Making and Judgment)
How people reason about probability, risk, value and choice. When and why
people deviate from the prescriptions of purely rational theories.
Prerequisites: Graduate standing or permission of instructor.
PSYCHOLOGY 260 (Seminar: Teaching in Psychology)
This seminar focuses on how to teach and related pedagogical issues. Because it is
designed to help prepare students for being a teaching assistant, this course is
strongly suggested as the one to take in meeting the master's degree
requirements.
PSYCHOLOGY 261 (Seminar on Research/Teaching in Psychology)
This seminar focuses on research-related
issues. Topics to be covered include, for instance, writing a research article,
grant writing and preparation, and laboratory management. The seminar is to work
in tandem with meeting the fourth-year writing requirement.
PSYCHOLOGY 291, 292 (formerly PSYCHOLOGY 293, 294) (Graduate Individual Research)
Guided individual experimentation in an approved area.
PSYCHOLOGY 295, 296 (Master's Thesis)
Guided research on a topic that has been approved as a suitable
subject for a Master's thesis. PSYCHOLOGY 297, 298 (Doctoral
Dissertation)
Guided research on a topic that has been approved as a
suitable subject for a doctoral dissertation. PSYCHOLOGY 401, 402
(PT/FT Masters Continuation, Masters Degree only) PSYCHOLOGY 501, 502
(PT/FT Doctoral Continuation, Ph.D. Degree only)
Back to top.
|