Course |
PSY 103 A Introduction to Psychology |
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Professor |
Frank Scalzo |
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CRN |
90102 |
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Schedule |
Mon Wed 10:30 - 11:50 am OLIN
202 |
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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 |
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Professor |
Barbara Luka |
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CRN |
90103 |
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Schedule |
Tu Th 9:00 - 10:20 am HDR 101A |
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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 C Introduction to Psychology |
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Professor |
Barton Meyers |
|
CRN |
90104 |
|
Schedule |
Tu Th
1:00 -2:20 pm OLIN 309 |
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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 115 Introduction to Social Psychology |
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Professor |
Stuart Levine / Matt Newman |
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CRN |
90241 |
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Schedule |
Mon Wed
1:30 -2:50 pm OLIN 204 |
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Distribution |
OLD: C/E |
NEW: Social
Science
|
Social psychology is
the study of the social world and how it influences people’s thoughts,
feelings, and behaviors. The field covers
a broad range of topics, such as prejudice, aggression, persuasion, attitudes,
group dynamics, and the ways we try to understand others and ourselves. One of
the most fascinating things about the field is the way it has evolved and
changed both in perspective and methodology over the last several decades,
while continuing to explore the same issues about how people relate to the
world around them. This team-taught
course is designed to emphasize both the “classic” findings and the newest
developments in social psychology, and to explore the pathways between them.
Course |
PSY 203 Introduction to Statistics and Research Design |
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Professor |
Barton Meyers |
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CRN |
90105 |
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Schedule |
Tu Th 10:30 - 11:50 am HDR 101A |
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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 213 Theories of Personality |
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Professor |
Richard Gordon |
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CRN |
90106 |
|
Schedule |
Mon Wed
1:30 -2:50 pm OLIN 301 |
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Distribution |
OLD: A/E |
NEW: Social
Science
|
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.
Course |
PSY 230 Introduction to Neuroscience |
|
Professor |
Frank Scalzo |
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CRN |
90242 |
|
Schedule |
Tu Th
1:00 -2:20 pm OLIN 202 |
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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 256 Psycholinguistics |
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Professor |
Barbara Luka |
|
CRN |
90110 |
|
Schedule |
Mon Wed 10:30
-11:50 am HDR 101A |
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Distribution |
OLD: C/E |
NEW: Social
Science
|
This course is an
introduction to the field of psycholinguistics: the study of the relationship
between language and cognition. Its
main goal is to develop a deeper understanding of this relationship, examining
the following questions: How is language
represented, processed, and acquired?
What is the relationship between language as a social construct and
cognitive processes embodied in individual language users? What do the patterns of language breakdown
tell us about linguistic representation and normal language processing? What experimental methods are used to study
the relationship between language and the brain? The course will address
research areas relevant to psychology, linguistics, philosophy, computer
science, and neuroscience.
Course |
PSY 261 Theories of Counseling |
|
Professor |
Christie Achebe |
|
CRN |
90107 |
|
Schedule |
Tu Th 1:00 -2:20 pm PRE 128 |
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Distribution |
OLD: C/E |
NEW: Social
Science
|
This course is an overview of selected counseling
models whose attraction is their potentiality for wide application to normal
developmental issues, by counselors and social workers and for teaching
self-counseling skills. We shall examine them in the context of their
historical or intellectual origins. In particular we shall look out for what
they deal with best (their focus of convenience) and aspects which have been
kept outside their scope (range of convenience- especially in the context of
the increasing diversity in the demographics of our schools. Approaches to be
explored will include: Psychoanalytic (Sigmund Freud), person-centered (Carl
Rogers), Adlerian therapy (Alfred Adler), reality therapy (William Glasser),
behavior therapy (Lazarus), cognitive behavior therapy (Albert Ellis), and
family systems (Minuchin).
Course |
PSY 319 Current Treatments of Psychological Disorders |
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Professor |
Richard Gordon |
|
CRN |
90243 |
|
Schedule |
Tu 9:30 - 11:50 am OLIN 303 |
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Distribution |
OLD: E |
NEW: Social
Science
|
The field of psychotherapy
has been in considerable turmoil and transition in recent years. Owing to the rapid changes in the health
care system, shifting cultural expectations and the emergence of effective
methods of behavioral change as well as medications, powerful trends have
emerged in the direction of treatments that are shorter term, evidence-based,
and directed at more specific targets (in particular, the problems associated
with particular psychological disorders).
In this course, following a brief but intensive review of traditional
concepts associated with psychoanalysis, client-centered, and insight-oriented
therapies, we will examine some representative examples of these more
contemporary treatments. In particular,
we will study such approaches as cognitive therapy, interpersonal therapy,
dialectical behavior therapy, and contemporary family-based methods as they
apply to such problems as anxiety disorders, mood disorders, eating disorders
and addictions, and personality disorders.
This course should lead to an understanding of the current tensions in
the field between these newer evidence-based approaches and the more
traditional approaches, tensions that are the subject of heated professional
debate. This course satisfies a
research-conference credit and enrollment is limited to moderated psychology
students who have had an introductory course in abnormal psychology.
Course |
PSY 355 Psychological Research on Sex and Gender |
|
Professor |
Matt Newman |
|
CRN |
90113 |
|
Schedule |
Tu
9:30 - 11:50 am OLIN 309 |
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Distribution |
OLD: C/E |
NEW: Social
Science
|
Cross-listed:
Gender & Sexuality Studies
Gender is one of the
most basic categories used to perceive and describe an individual. But what are the consequences of this categorization? What does it mean to be “male” or
“female?” In what ways do men and women
really differ? In this course, we will
explore these and other questions about the psychology of gender, using
empirical findings as the basis of our discussion. Topics to be covered include gender identity, gender stereotypes,
real vs. perceived sex differences, and the biology of sex and gender. In-class presentations and research papers
will be required. This course fulfills
a research conference credit for moderated psychology students. Prerequisite: moderated status in psychology or consent of instructor.
Course |
PSY 392 Perspectives on Racial Identity |
|
Professor |
Christie Achebe |
|
CRN |
90111 |
|
Schedule |
Fr
1:30 -3:50 pm PRE 128 |
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Distribution |
OLD: E |
NEW: Social
Science
|
Cross-listed:
Africana Studies, SRE
The American Psychological Association (APA) at its
National Multicultural Summit in January 1999 endorsed a number of aspiration
guidelines to develop and enhance new domains of proficiency for psychologists
with special focus on racial and ethnic identity. While recognizing that the integration into psychological theory,
research, and practice of racial and ethnic identity as psychological constructs
has only recently begun, it called for a deeper knowledge and awareness of race
and ethnicity in psychology and a more active response. More specifically, psychologists are urged
to learn about cultural, ethnic, racial groups, biracial and multicultural
identity development as these relate to practice, research, education, and
theory. This seminar is an attempt for students to begin to enhance this
awareness and knowledge of ethnic/racial identity development through readings,
discussions, critiques of seminal works, recent formulations, reformulations
and controversies skirting extant and emerging racial and ethnic identity
developmental models of diverse cultural, racial, bicultural and multicultural
groups in the United States. Students
will be encouraged to explore and lead discussions on related topics of
interest that will lead to new learning about self and others.
Pre-requisites: Open to moderated social studies
students, or with permission of instructor.
Course |
PSY COG Independent Research: Cognitive Psychology |
|
Professor |
Barbara Luka |
|
CRN |
90115 |
|
Schedule |
Th 2:30 -4:30 pm PRE
111 |
|
Distribution |
OLD: n/a |
NEW:
Laboratory 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 first-year,
second-year and junior students with consent of the instructor.
Course |
PSY NEU Independent Research in Neuroscience |
|
Professor |
Frank Scalzo |
|
CRN |
90114 |
|
Schedule |
Th 2:30 -4:30 pm PRE 128 |
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Distribution |
OLD: E |
NEW:
Laboratory Science
|
2 credits In this course, students will participate in
laboratory research in developmental psychopharmacology, neurochemistry,
neuroanatomy and/or neurobehavioral teratology using the zebrafish as an animal
model. 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 and research.
There will be a weekly laboratory meeting, readings, assignments, two short
papers (a literature review and a summary of your empirical project) and
student presentations. Open to first-year, second-year and junior students
with consent of the instructor.
Course |
PSY SOC Independent Research in Social Psychology |
|
Professor |
Matt Newman |
|
CRN |
90116 |
|
Schedule |
Th 2:30 -4:30 pm PRE 101 |
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Distribution |
OLD: G |
NEW:
Laboratory Science
|
(2 credits) This course provides an opportunity for guided
research in social psychology. Students
will participate in laboratory research on stress and social relationships,
including an independent project. The
majority of time in this course will consist of independent laboratory work and
research. Requirements include
participation in a weekly laboratory meeting, readings, assignments, two short
papers (a literature review and a summary of your empirical project), and student
presentations. Open to first-year, second-year,
and junior students with consent of the instructor.