Course	PSY 103 A Introduction to Psychology
Professor	Frank Scalzo
CRN	95143
Schedule	Mon Wed 1:30 -2:50 pm OLIN 202
Distribution	OLD: E	NEW: SOCIAL SCIENCE

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.

Course	PSY 103 B Introduction to Psychology
Professor	Barbara Luka
CRN	95144
Schedule	Tu Th 9:00 -10:20 am HDR 101A
Distribution	OLD: E	NEW: SOCIAL SCIENCE

See description above.

Course	PSY 115 Introduction to Social Psychology
Professor	Matthew Newman
CRN	95145
Schedule	Tu Th 10:30 -11:50 am OLIN 201
Distribution	OLD: C/E	NEW: SOCIAL SCIENCE

Social psychology is the study of the social world and its influence on people’s thoughts, feelings, and behaviors. The field covers a broad range of topics, such as prejudice, aggression, persuasion, and the ways we try to understand others and ourselves. In this course, you will: 1) gain an understanding of the major theories and findings in social psychology; 2) learn how social psychologists do research—and how to evaluate this research critically; and 3) gain an appreciation for the powerful ways that behavior is influenced by the immediate situation.

Course	PSY / HIST 172 The History of Medicine and Psychiatry
Professor	Noga Arikha
CRN	95463
Schedule	Mon Wed 12:00 – 1:20 pm OLIN 204
Distribution	OLD: A/C	NEW: SOCIAL SCIENCE

See History section for description.

Course	PSY 203 Introduction to Statistics and Research Design
Professor	Barton Meyers
CRN	95146
Schedule	Tu Th 10:30 -12:30 pm HDR 101A
Distribution	OLD: E/G/Q	NEW: SOCIAL SCIENCE

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.

Course	PSY 215 Stereotypes, Prejudice, and Discrimination
Professor	Matthew Newman
CRN	95147
Schedule	Mon Wed 1:30 -2:50 pm OLIN 306
Distribution	OLD: C/E	NEW: SOCIAL SCIENCE / DIFF

A great deal of social psychological research and theory over the past century has focused on the inferences people draw about others based on their group membership. These inferences have dramatic consequences for the ways people evaluate and behave towards others. In this course, we will explore stereotyping, prejudice and discrimination from two different perspectives. First, we will examine when and why people use stereotypes. Second, we will examine how these issues impact the experience of minority group members. We will also examine the implications of these processes for intergroup conflict, violence, and anti-discrimination policies.

Course	PSY 228 Introduction to Cognitive Psychology
Professor	Barbara Luka
CRN	95150
Schedule	Mon Wed 10:30 -11:50 am PRE 128
Distribution	OLD: E	NEW: SOCIAL SCIENCE

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 or permission of the instructor.

Course	PSY 230 Introduction to Neuroscience
Professor	Frank Scalzo
CRN	95148
Schedule	Tu Th 9:00 -10:20 am OLIN 202
Distribution	OLD: E	NEW: SOCIAL SCIENCE

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.

Course	PSY 241 Abnormal Psychology
Professor	Richard Gordon
CRN	95152
Schedule	Mon Wed 9:00 -10:20 am PRE 128 / PRE 110
Distribution	OLD: E	NEW: SOCIAL SCIENCE

This course provides an intensive introduction to the clinical description, causes and treatments of psychological disorders. Included will be a discussion of various anxiety disorders (for example, phobias, panic, obsessive-compulsive disorder), somatoform disorders (hypochondria, body dysmorphic disorder), eating disorders (anorexia and bulimia nervosa), schizophrenic disorders, personality disorders, mood disorders (depression, bipolar disorder), and substance abuse/dependence. There will be an emphasis on current approaches to treatment (especially cognitive-behavioral therapies and psychopharmaceuticals), as well as a spectrum of causal factors, ranging from social and interpersonal influences to problems in brain functioning. Requirements will include papers on research studies as well as a midterm and final exam. Because of substantial overlap, students who have taken Psychology 140 should not take this course.

Course	PSY 319 Current Treatments of Psychological Disorders
Professor	Richard Gordon
CRN	95155
Schedule	Tu 9:30 -11:50 am OLIN 309
Distribution	OLD: E	NEW: SOCIAL SCIENCE

The fields of clinical psychology and psychotherapy have undergone dramatic changes in recent years. Classical approaches to treatment, although contributing much to our understanding of how therapeutic relationships work, were focused on the entire personality of the individual and the evidence for their effectiveness in bringing about lasting behavioral changes is limited. The newer approaches have given greater emphasis to cognitive and behavioral processes and the effort to develop more efficient and evidence-based approaches to behavioral change and the resolution of symptoms. In this course we will examine a number of these newer approaches through the intensive reading of a new and dynamic advanced text, David Barlow’s The Clinical Handbook of Psychological Disorders. In this work, experienced clinicians not only provide a review of current knowledge of psychological disorders but also offer extensive clinical examples of treatment, including the transcripts of sessions. Students will also be expected to examine the research literature on treatment approaches and disorders. In-class presentations and research papers will be required. A previous course in psychological disorders or abnormal psychology is a Pre-requisite. This course fulfills satisfies a research conference credit for moderated psychology students.

Course	PSY 348 The Man and the Experiment that Shocked the World: The Work and Legacy of Stanley Milgram
Professor	Stuart Levine
CRN	95154
Schedule	Mon 4:00 -6:20 pm OLINLC 118
Distribution	OLD: E	NEW: SOCIAL SCIENCE

Cross-listed: Science, Technology & Society

The title for this course is taken from the title of a recent biography of Stanley Milgram authored by Thomas Blass, a professor of social psychology at the University of Maryland Baltimore County campus. It has now been forty years since the original work of Stanley Milgram demonstrated the remarkable and unpredicted finding that large numbers of individuals in multiple samples of American men and women studied were willing to punish another person when ordered to do so by an experimenter. The prominence of the initial work and the continued salience of such study in social psychology cannot be over-stated. In a review of the personal and situational determinants of obedient behavior in the "Milgram design" format, Thomas Blass (1991) lists as many as 200 references. It could well be that 100 more have appeared since the Blass review. Beside the volume of studies conducted and the attempts at review and theorizing, the domain of the "Milgram" study is worthy of continuing interest not only because of the vastness of both criticism and praise to which the work was subjected but because of events of our current time. These suggest that the continuing study of obedience phenomena is necessary and that social scientists should likely find a way to safely and ethically investigate the conditions which promote destructive obedience. This is an upper college seminar which serves as a Research Conference for psychology majors but is not limited to psychology or even social studies majors. The single criterion for membership is a willingness to read with care. A portion of the work contained in the body of the obedience literature will be reviewed from the perspective of trying to assess the continuing status of the phenomenon and the explanations and understandings that have been brought to light.

Course	PSY 374 Independent Research: Cognitive Psychology
Professor	Barbara Luka
CRN	95451
Schedule	Th 2:40 -5:00 pm PRE 101
Distribution	OLD: E	NEW: SOCIAL SCIENCE

2 credits This course provides an opportunity for guided research in psycholinguistics. You will contribute to ongoing studies of language comprehension, including preparing stimuli, working with participants, analyzing collected data, reviewing recently published empirical papers, and developing your independent project. Requirements include consistent participation in weekly lab meetings and two short papers (a literature review and a summary of your empirical project). Open to all students with consent of instructor.

Course	PSY NEU Independent Research in Neuroscience
Professor	Frank Scalzo
CRN	95149
Schedule	Mon 3:00 – 5:20 PRE 101
Distribution	OLD: E	NEW: SOCIAL SCIENCE

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.