Course

PSY 103 A  Introduction to Psychology

Professor

Frank Scalzo

CRN

90102

 

Schedule

 Mon Wed  10:30  - 11:50 am 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

90103

 

Schedule

Tu Th          9:00  - 10:20 am  HDR 101A

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

Professor

Barton Meyers

CRN

90104

 

Schedule

 Tu Th         1:00  -2:20 pm     OLIN 309

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

Professor

Stuart Levine / Matt Newman

CRN

90241

 

Schedule

 Mon Wed  1:30  -2:50 pm     OLIN 204

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

Professor

Barton Meyers

CRN

90105

 

Schedule

Tu Th          10:30  - 11:50 am 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 213   Theories of Personality

Professor

Richard Gordon

CRN

90106

 

Schedule

 Mon Wed  1:30  -2:50 pm     OLIN 301

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

CRN

90242

 

Schedule

 Tu Th         1:00  -2:20 pm     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 256   Psycholinguistics

Professor

Barbara Luka

CRN

90110

 

Schedule

Mon Wed   10:30  -11:50 am HDR 101A

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

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

Professor

Richard Gordon

CRN

90243

 

Schedule

Tu               9:30  - 11:50 am  OLIN 303

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

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

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

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

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.