CRN |
93051 |
Distribution |
E |
Course
No. |
PSY 103 A |
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Title |
Introduction
to Psychology |
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Professor |
Frank Scalzo |
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Schedule |
Tu Th 11:30 am - 12:50 pm OLIN 203 |
The course is designed to be a broad survey of the academic
discipline of psychology. The text for the course, and therefore the course, is
organized around five main questions: How do humans (and, where relevant, other
animals) act; how do they know; how do they interact; how do they develop; and
how do they differ from each other? Students are responsible for learning the
material in the text without an oral repetition of the material in class.
CRN |
93854 |
Distribution |
E |
Course
No. |
PSY 103 B |
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Title |
Introduction
to Psychology |
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Professor |
Barbara Luka |
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Schedule |
Mon 1:30 pm – 2:50 pm OLIN 204 Wed 1:30 pm – 2:50 pm OLIN 304 |
The course is designed to be a broad survey of the
academic discipline of psychology. The text for the course, and therefore the course,
is organized around five main questions: How do humans (and, where relevant,
other animals) act; how do they know; how do they interact; how do they
develop; and how do they differ from each other? Students are responsible for
learning the material in the text without an oral repetition of the material in
class.
CRN |
93382 |
Distribution |
C/E |
Course
No. |
PSY 113 |
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Title |
Introduction
to Developmental Psychology: Adolescent Development |
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Professor |
Nancy Darling |
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Schedule |
Wed Fri
11:30 am – 12:50 pm PRE 128 |
This course explores the developmental processes
that shape our lives between puberty and the end of college. Adolescence is a time of transition, when children
are prepared to take on the roles they will fill as adults. It is also a time of rapid change: only in
early infancy do minds, bodies, and abilities change as radically as they do
during the teenage years. Although each
life unfolds in its own unique pattern, we will explore the ways in which
biological, psychological, and sociological influences systematically combine
to shape its course. This class will help you to develop an understanding of
the concepts, methods, and research findings central to the study of adolescent
development.
CRN |
93052 |
Distribution |
C/E |
Course
No. |
PSY 141 |
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Title |
Introduction
to Clinical Perspectives |
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Professor |
Richard Gordon |
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Schedule |
Mon Wed 1:30 pm -2:50 pm OLIN 301 |
In this introductory course, we will
attempt to understand the viewpoints and practices of the clinical psychologist
through a variety of primary source readings.
These will include autobiographical writings, case histories, writings
about the experiences of psychotherapists, and scientific evaluations of
psychopathology and psychotherapy. An
effort will be made to understand the unique intersection of the personal and
scientific that is at the core of clinical psychology. Enrollment will be limited and a certain
number of openings will be reserved for first-year students.
CRN |
93050 |
Distribution |
E/G |
Course
No. |
PSY 203 Q Course |
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Title |
Introduction to Statistics and Research Design |
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Professor |
Barton Meyers |
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Schedule |
Tu Th 10:30 am - 12:30 pm PRE 128 |
This course provides an introduction to the
concepts and methods of statistics and is aimed at helping the student to gain a
fundamental understanding of the tools needed to understand and conduct
research in psychology. Topics to be
covered include frequency distributions and probability, descriptive
statistics, simple correlation and regression, sampling distributions, t-tests
and basic analysis of variance. This
course is the first of a two-course sequence in statistics and research methods
that is required of all prospective psychology majors. The course is ordinarily taken in the first
semester of the sophomore year, and the student should have at least one
previous psychology course.
CRN |
93053 |
Distribution |
A/E |
Course
No. |
PSY 213 |
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Title |
Theories
of Personality |
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Professor |
Richard Gordon |
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Schedule |
Mon Wed 10:00 am - 11:20 am OLIN 301 |
Although building grand theories of personality has gone out of fashion
in contemporary psychology, these systems play an important role in
understanding the history of psychology and continue to provide central, although
often implicit, frameworks for clinical thinking. Moreover, personality theories have influenced knowledge in many
other disciplines, including literary studies, anthropology, politics, history,
and art criticism. In this course we
will review the major theories of personality, including but not limited to
Freud, Jung, Erikson, Sullivan, Horney, Rogers, Eysenck and Kelly. A central perspective of the course will be
how the biography of the theorist as well as various historical and
intellectual influences came to shape the theory.
CRN |
93055 |
Distribution |
E |
Course
No. |
PSY 228 |
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Title |
Introduction to Cognitive Psychology |
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Professor |
Barbara Luka |
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Schedule |
Tu Th 8:30 am -9:50 am OLIN 201 |
How do people acquire information? And once information is acquired, what
happens to it? Does it sit, still, in
the mind/brain? Or does it change,
either knowingly or unknowingly? If
information in the brain changes with time, how might that change come about
and to what end? This course is about how people perceive, remember, and think
about information. The major topics
that will be covered include object recognition, memory, concept formation,
language, visual knowledge, judgment, reasoning, problem solving, and conscious
and unconscious thought. In addition,
we will consider the neural underpinnings of these topics where possible.
Prerequisite: Psychology 103 and sophomore standing.
CRN |
93058 |
Distribution |
C |
Course
No. |
PSY 235 |
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Title |
Counseling from a Multicultural Perspective |
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Professor |
Christie Achebe |
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Schedule |
Mon Wed 8:30 am -9:50 am OLIN 307 |
Cross-listed: AADS, CCSRE
The contemporary demographic profile of the major communities
and school systems in America is one of rapid change and growing diversity
especially in language, ethnic origin, socioeconomic status, religion, family,
spirituality, disability, gender, sexual orientation etc. This trend is
expected to continue unabated into the next millennium. While there is no doubt
that some mental health needs are commonly shared, how they are met often
resonates in unique ways within and among this diversity. Such a scenario must
sit uneasily with any mental health professional no matter how well meaning,
who is only versed in the traditional mono-cultural approach to helping.
Against this backdrop, the course (1)explores the history, aims and assumptions
of traditional counseling, (2)examines
some innovative approaches to diversity -sensitive practices with African
Americans, Latina/o ,Asian Americans, Native American Indians and Whites; (3)broadens students' counseling repertoire
with the attitudes/beliefs, knowledge and skills needed to both effectively and
sensitively meet the needs of all
variations of clients in diverse human service settings.
CRN |
93056 |
Distribution |
C/E |
Course
No. |
PSY 252 |
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Title |
Drugs
and Human Behavior |
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Professor |
Frank Scalzo |
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Schedule |
Mon Wed 10:00 am - 11:20 am OLIN 205 |
This course will explore the biological bases for
the behavioral effects of several psychoactive substances including therapeutic
compounds, such as antipsychotics and antidepressants, and drugs of abuse. The course will focus on mechanisms of drug
action and physiological and behavioral effects. Broader societal issues such as drug addiction, drug policies and
drug testing, and controversial therapeutic interventions will be discussed in
relation to selected compounds.
Prerequisite: An introductory
Psychology or Biology course, or consent of the instructor.
CRN |
93057 |
Distribution |
A/C |
Course
No. |
PSY 261 |
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Title |
Introduction to Counseling Psychology |
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Professor |
Christie Achebe |
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Schedule |
Tu Th 8:30 am -9:50 am OLIN 307 |
Counseling Psychology has been described as the
most broadly based applied specialty of the American Psychological Association
(APA), whose “practitioners focus on the broadest array of professional psychological
activities of any specialty.” This
course untangles this claim by exploring the following questions. What is counseling psychology? What are its defining features and roots,
areas of overlap with and dissimilarities to other psychological specialties? Who is a counseling psychologist, how and
where is she/he trained and what is the range of activities referred to
above? Our comprehensive overview of
the field will cover the historical beginnings of the field, highlighting
counseling psychologists’ scientist-practitioner basis. It will address the four paradigms that
comprise the fundamental approaches to counseling (the
psychoanalytic/psychodynamic, cognitive-behavioral, humanistic/experiential and
the “fourth force” of multiculturalism.
We will also examine counseling techniques, assessment in counseling,
career development and interventions, group procedures and consultation.
CRN |
93060 |
Distribution |
A/E |
Course
No. |
PSY 311 |
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Title |
Theories
of Development: From Idea to Practice |
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Professor |
Nancy Darling |
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Schedule |
Fri 8:30 am -10:50 am ASP 302 |
The assumptions we make when approaching research
fundamentally shape how we read the scientific literature, how we design studies,
and how we interpret results. This
course is designed to give you a broad basis for understanding theoretical
approaches to the study of human development and to help you use theory
effectively in the evaluation and design of original research. The course has five goals (1) To gain
knowledge of six major theoretical approaches to development; (2) To develop a
clear understanding of the role of theory in empirical research; (3) To learn
to evaluate empirical research in light of the link between theory and method;
(4) To develop your ability to use theory in the conceptualization, design, and
interpretation of your own research; and (5) To improve your ability to
communicate your ideas effectively.
Specific topics will include Kuhn and the process of scientific
inference, Piaget, Freud and his legacy, attachment theory, learning theory and
its derivatives, lifespan/lifecourse theories, and ecological systems
theory. We will move back and forth
between reading theoretical treatments and the empirical literature. The primary focus of discussions will be on
understanding key elements of each theory and the fit between theory and the
way each theory has been operationalized and tested in the empirical literature. Although the focus of this course is on
developmental psychology, this course is broadly conceptualized as an
introduction to the philosophy and practice of science and a further extension
of your understanding of research design and methods. This course is designed for upper-level psychology students, but
students from all backgrounds who are comfortable reading primary source
empirical journal articles and have a background in research methods and
quantitative approaches are welcome.
CRN |
93671 |
Distribution |
E |
Course
No. |
PSY 356 |
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Title |
Psycholinguistics |
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Professor |
Barbara Luka |
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Schedule |
Th 1:30 pm – 3:50 pm OLIN 301 |
This course integrates topics in linguistics,
psychology, computer science, and neuroscience. We will examine recent research
addressing the comprehension, production, and acquisition of language. We will
also begin to examine the neurological bases of language. Individuals enrolled
in the course should have some background in cognitive psychology and
psychological research methods.
CRN |
93061 |
Distribution |
C/E |
Course
No. |
PSY 382 |
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Title |
The
Psychology of Social Influence - Conformity, Norm Formation, Obedience and
Resistance |
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Professor |
Stuart Levine |
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Schedule |
Mon 3:00 pm -6:00 pm LC 118 |
It has been fifty years since the pioneering works
of Soloman Asch and Muzafer Sherif, and it has been forty since the profound
and controversial investigation of Stanley Milgram. During the intervening years and extending to the very present,
social psychologists have learned much about the facts and dynamics of
conformity, norm formation, obedience and resistance to social influence. Because of the significance of the topic it
is not surprising that a vast number of studies have been conducted to clarify
and extend the work of Asch, Sherif and Milgram. Indeed, investigators still explore the conditions under which
each behavioral form is either minimized or minimized. Also observed has been the formulation of
so-called theories of the middle range that attempt to provide a comprehensive
understanding of the behaviors under scrutiny.
This conference is designed primarily for moderated psychology majors
who therefore have considerable background in reading original contributions to
the social science literature. However,
social studies majors from disciplines other than psychology who have the
appropriate background and maintain an interest is social science research may
also enroll with the permission of the instructor. Students will do multiple class presentations throughout the
semester. These will be taken from the
body of research on each topic and from attempts at theory designed to
understand social influence processes.
Enrollment in the conference will be limited to 8 students and admission
to the conference will be by permission of the instructor and dependent on a
student's interest in reading primary works and a willingness to seriously
attend to that task.
CRN |
93059 |
Distribution |
E |
Course
No. |
PSY 391 |
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Title |
The
Psychobiology of Stress and Mental Illness |
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Professor |
Frank Scalzo |
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Schedule |
Wed 1:30 pm -3:50 pm OLIN 310 |
Recent advances in the understanding of the
neurobiology and physiology of stress have changed the way stress is viewed, both
as a primary phenomenon and as a secondary factor that precipitates or causes a
variety of psychiatric disorders. The latter include phobias, panic disorder,
obsessive-compulsive disorder, post-traumatic stress disorder, depression and
schizophrenia. This research conference will examine recent findings on the
mechanisms and biological consequences of stress and will explore links between
these effects and psychiatric disorders as reported in journal articles.
Students will be expected to read and develop critiques of these articles as
well as make class presentations. This
seminar is intended for students who have moderated in psychology or biology,
but is open to students with suitable background.
CRN |
93176 |
Distribution |
E |
Course
No. |
PSY NEU |
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Title |
Independent
Research in Neuroscience |
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Professor |
Frank Scalzo |
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Schedule |
TBA |
2
credits In this course, students will participate in
laboratory research in developmental psychopharmacology, neurochemistry,
neuroanatomy and/or neurobehavioral teratology. Within these general fields,
specific roles of neurotransmitter systems in normal behavioral development and
the neurobehavioral effects of chemical insults during early development will
be investigated. The majority of time
in this course will consist of independent laboratory work. In addition, there will be weekly laboratory
meetings, readings, and student presentations.
Open to all students with consent of instructor.
CRN |
93381 |
Distribution |
E |
Course
No. |
PSY DEV |
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Title |
Research
Practicum in Developmental Psychology |
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Professor |
Nancy Darling |
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Schedule |
TBA |
2
credits The
Research Practicum in Developmental Psychology is designed to give students a fuller
understanding of adolescent and adult development, the research process, and
how research methods and statistics are applied in collecting and analyzing
data. Students enrolled in this course
will participate in ongoing research in developmental psychology that involves
interview, observational, and questionnaire methodologies. Although the
majority of student time will be spent in supervised laboratory work, each
student will also be expected to participate in weekly laboratory meetings,
undertake library research, and carry out an independent research project. Open
to all students with consent of the instructor.