CRN	94077	Distribution	E / * (Social Science)
Course No.	PSY 103 A
Title	Introduction to Psychology
Professor	Frank Scalzo
Schedule	Tu Th 10:00 am - 11:20 am OLIN 202

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	94076	Distribution	E / * (Social Science)
Course No.	PSY 103 B
Title	Introduction to Psychology
Professor	Barbara Luka
Schedule	Tu Th 8:30 am - 9:50 am HDR 101A

See description above.

CRN	94078	Distribution	E / * (Social Science)
Course No.	PSY 112
Title	Introduction to Developmental Psychology: Infancy and Childhood
Professor	Nancy Darling
Schedule	Mon Wed 11:30 am - 12:50 pm PRE 128

A human life begins with a single cell and unfolds in almost inconceivable complexity. Developmental psychology is the scientific study of change and continuity over the lifecourse. This course is an introductory survey course in developmental psychology that focuses on the period between conception and puberty. While each life unfolds in its own unique pattern, we will explore the ways biological, psychological, cultural, and sociological influences systematically combine to shape its course.

CRN	94079	Distribution	E / * (Social Science)
Course No.	PSY 140
Title	The Nature and Treatment of Psychological Disorders: An Introduction
Professor	Richard Gordon
Schedule	Mon Wed 1:30 pm - 2:50 pm PRE 128

In this introductory course, we will look at some of the most important behavioral disorders, such as phobias, panic disorder, obsessive-compulsive disorder, eating disorders, schizophrenia, and mood disorders. These syndromes are the bread and butter of the clinical psychologist and other mental health workers, and they have also become a part of the common cultural vocabulary of our time. Our aim will be to become familiar with the basic descriptive characteristics of these disorders, how common they are, and what is known about their causes and treatment. We will be particularly interested in how the contemporary study of psychopathology is aided by fundamental scientific knowledge about learning and conditioning, development and cognition, social and cultural influences, genetic influences and brain mechanisms.

CRN	94080	Distribution	E/G / *(Social Science)
Course No.	PSY 203 Q course
Title	Introduction to Statistics and Research Design
Professor	Barton Meyers
Schedule	Tu Th 10:00 am - 12:00 pm HDR 101A

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	94081	Distribution	A/E / * (Social Science)
Course No.	PSY 213
Title	Theories of Personality
Professor	Richard Gordon
Schedule	Mon Wed 10:00 am - 11:20 am OLIN 307

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	94082	Distribution	E / * (Social Science)
Course No.	PSY 230
Title	Introduction to Neuroscience
Professor	Frank Scalzo
Schedule	Mon Wed 11:30 am - 12:50 pm OLIN 202

The ability to express thoughts and emotions, and to interact with the environment, is dependent in large part on the function of the nervous system. This course will examine basic concepts and methods in the study of brain, mind and behavior. Topics include the structure and function of the central nervous system, brain development, learning and memory, emotion, sensory and motor systems, the assessment of human brain damage, and clinical disorders such as schizophrenia, epilepsy and Parkinson's disease.

Prerequisite: Introduction to General Psychology, Introduction to Developmental Psychology or Introduction to Biology.

CRN	94083	Distribution	C/E / * (Social Science)
Course No.	PSY 235
Title	Counseling from Multicultural Perspective
Professor	Christie Achebe
Schedule	Mon Wed 8:30 am - 9:50 am PRE 128

Cross-listed: Africana Studies, SRE

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	94084	Distribution	C/E / *(Social Science)
Course No.	PSY 261
Title	Introduction to Counseling Psychology
Professor	Christie Achebe
Schedule	Mon Wed 10:00 am - 11:20 am PRE 128

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	94086	Distribution	E/G / *(Social Science)
Course No.	PSY 327
Title	Cognitive Psychology: Conceptual and Laboratory-Based Approaches
Professor	Barbara Luka
Schedule	Mon Wed 1:30 pm - 2:50 pm HDR 101A Lab: Th 1:30 pm - 4:30 pm HDR 101A

Cognitive psychology is a comparatively young and rapidly growing research domain concerned with the representation and use of knowledge in the human brain. In this course we examine the processes of attention, perception, mental imagery, learning, memory, and decision making with special attention to the methods used to investigate properties of the mind. The course includes a laboratory component where participants actively engage in testing how people acquire, remember, and use knowledge. We examine cognition from a variety of perspectives, including biological and computational models, and we examine the ways our cognitive systems structure or constrain our experience of reality.

CRN	94087	Distribution	E/G / *(Social Science)
Course No.	PSY 344 / Q course / *Rethinking Difference
Title	Studying Development in Cross-Cultural Context
Professor	Nancy Darling
Schedule	Tu 10:30 am - 12:50 pm HDRANX 106 or Tu 10:30 am - 12:50 pm PRE 128

Studying individuals in a variety of cultural contexts is both critical for our understanding of development and one of the most challenging tasks that psychologists undertake. This seminar will focus on different philosophical and methodological approaches to multicultural research in developmental psychology. The class will have three components: readings and discussions of multicultural research on children and adolescents; readings and discussions of the philosophical, statistical, and methodological quandaries of researchers when they try to extend their work beyond their own cultural boundaries; and hands-on exploration of previously-collected data from the US, Chile, Italy, and the Philippines. Students from all disciplines are welcome. A basic grounding in statistics and social science research methods or permission of the instructor is required.

CRN	94085	Distribution	C/E / *(Social Science)
Course No.	PSY 382
Title	Psychology of Social Influence: Conformity, Norm Formation, Obedience and Reisistance
Professor	Stuart Levine
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 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 a vast number of studies have been conducted to clarify and extend the work of Asch, Sherif and Milgram. 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 have considerable background in reading original contributions to the social science literature. Social studies majors from disciplines other than psychology who have the appropriate background and maintain an interest is social science research may also enroll. 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 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 seriously attend to that task.

CRN	94124	Distribution	E / * (Social Science)
Course No.	PSY DEV
Title	Research in Developmental Psychology
Professor	Nancy Darling
Schedule	Th 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm .

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.

CRN	94125	Distribution	E / * (Science)
Course No.	PSY NEU
Title	Independent Research in Neuroscience
Professor	Frank Scalzo
Schedule	TBA .

2 credits In this course, students will participate in laboratory research in developmental psychopharmacology, neurochemistry, neuro-anatomy 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.