Course	PSY COG Independent Research in Cognitive Psychology
Professor	Barbara Luka
CRN	97193
Schedule	Th 2:30 -4:30 pm PRE 111
Distribution	Laboratory Science

Cross-listed: Cognitive 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. (This course may be repeated for a maximum of 8 credits and must be taken twice to fulfill the Laboratory Science distribution requirement.)

Course	PSY DEV Independent Research in Developmental Psychology
Professor	Sarah Lopez-Duran
CRN	97194
Schedule	Th 2:30 -4:30 pm PRE 101
Distribution	Laboratory Science

Cross-listed: Cognitive Science

(2 credits) In this course, students will participate in laboratory research in child developmental psychology. Special emphasis will be placed on 3- to 5-year olds' social cognition, perspective-taking, and memory in the context of games. The majority of time in this course will consist of independent laboratory work and research, and students will work with young children, parents, and members of the community to initiate research protocols in our Preston-based laboratory . 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. (This course may be repeated for a maximum of 8 credits and must be taken twice to fulfill the Laboratory Science distribution requirement.)

Course	PSY NEU Independent Research in Neuroscience
Professor	Frank Scalzo
CRN	97192
Schedule	Th 2:30 -4:30 pm PRE 128
Distribution	Laboratory Science

Cross-listed: Cognitive Science

(2 credits) In this course, students will participate in laboratory research in developmental psychopharmacology, behavioral neuroscience, 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 (this course may be repeated for a maximum of 8 credits and must be taken twice to fulfill the Laboratory Science distribution requirement).

Course	PSY 103 A Introduction to Psychology
Professor	Sarah Lopez-Duran
CRN	97181
Schedule	Wed Fr 9:00 - 10:20 am OLIN 205
Distribution	Social Science

Cross-listed: Cognitive 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	Barton Meyers
CRN	97182
Schedule	Tu Th 10:30 - 11:50 am OLIN 202
Distribution	Social Science

Cross-listed: Cognitive 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	Barbara Luka
CRN	97183
Schedule	Tu Th 9:00 - 10:20 am HDR 106
Distribution	Social Science

Cross-listed: Cognitive 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 203 Introduction to Statistics for Psychology
Professor	Kristin Lane
CRN	97184
Schedule	Mon Wed 9:00 - 10:20 am HDR 101A LAB A: Th 9:30 - 11:30 am HDR 101A or LAB B: Th 1:30 -3:30 pm HDR 101A
Distribution	Mathematics & Computing

Cross-listed: Cognitive 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 210 Development & Psychopathology
Professor	Sarah Lopez-Duran
CRN	97185
Schedule	Mon Wed 1:30 -2:50 pm OLIN 202
Distribution	Social Science

Cross-listed: Cognitive Science

This course investigates the early and multiple factors contributing to psychopathology emerging in childhood, as well as the diagnostic and treatment standards now in practice. We will emphasize an empirically-based developmental psychopathology perspective, with an emphasis on the risk and protective factors that shape abnormal and normal developmental trajectories. We will explore various models for understanding maladaptive development (e.g, the role of genes, psychosocial influences) through the examination of current research and diagnostic practices in specific diagnostic areas (e.g., autism, Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder). Throughout this course, students will be encouraged to relate empirical findings to the field’s theoretical models in considering the genetic, biological, cognitive, and cultural influences on child development.

Course	PSY 230 Introduction to Neuroscience
Professor	Frank Scalzo
CRN	97186
Schedule	Mon Wed 10:30 - 11:50 am OLIN 202
Distribution	Social Science

Cross-listed: Cognitive 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 235 Counseling from a Multicultural Perspective
Professor	Christie Achebe
CRN	97189
Schedule	Tu Th 1:00 -2:20 pm PRE 128
Distribution	Social Science

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.

Course	PSY 253 Introduction to Counseling Psychology
Professor	Christie Achebe
CRN	97188
Schedule	Tu Th 10:30 - 11:50 am PRE 128
Distribution	Social Science

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.

Course	PSY / REL 266 Mind, Brain & Religious Experience in the 21^st Century
Professor	Frank Scalzo / Paul Murray
CRN	97187
Schedule	Mon 2:00 -4:00 pm RKC 111 Tu Th 1:00 -2:20 pm OLIN 202
Distribution	Social Science

Cross-listed: Cognitive Science, STS; Theology

This course will examine modern approaches to understanding the role of neural systems in mediating conscious everyday experience and mind alterations during religious experience. Mechanisms of sensation, perception and consciousness will be discussed with an emphasis on their alterations during a variety of paths to religious experience including prayer and meditation. The course will also examine the locus of religious experiences within diverse religious systems, including, for example, the cultivation and interpretation of various states of consciousness. What impact do contemporary scientific perspectives have on the study of religious systems? Film screenings, demonstrations and group work will take place during the laboratory meeting.

Course	PSY 343 The Medication of Distress
Professor	Richard Gordon
CRN	97190
Schedule	Tu 9:30 - 11:50 am OLIN 301
Distribution	Social Science

Cross-listed: STS

This course will examine the remarkable rise in the use of psychotropic medications to deal with a wide spectrum of human behavioral difficulties. The increased use of medication cannot be understood apart from the development of a biological / neuroscience perspective on human psychological disorders. After a look at the historical origins of modern medication in the antipsychotic, antidepressant and anti-anxiety drugs in the 1950s, this course will focus on three disorders in which medications have played a central role: depression, obsessive-compulsive disorder, and attention-deficit disorder. Contrasting viewpoints on the nature, origins and treatment of these disorders will be emphasized. The social implications of the new medical perspective on problems that were previously viewed as primarily psychological as well as the impact of the enormous influence of the pharmaceutical industry on the use of medication will be critically examined. In addition there will be some commentary on the psychotherapy / medication dichotomy that is dividing the mental health field. Prerequisites: Moderated in psychology or permission of the instructor.

Course	PSY 361 Cognitive Psychology and Psychophysiology: Conceptual and Lab-Based Approaches
Professor	Barbara Luka
CRN	97458
Schedule	Tu Th 1:00 -2:20 pm RKC 101 LAB: Wed 1:30 -3:30 pm HDR 101A
Distribution	Social Science

Cross-listed: Cognitive Science

In this course we study the processes of perception, attention, learning, memory, emotion, language processing and decision making. Our focus is to examine closely the methods used to investigate cognition, including how the physiology of the body can reflect concurrent cognitive processes. We will explore the interaction of the mind and the body using measures such as skin conductance, respiration, and electroencephalography (EEG) (methods that may be familiar to people from studies of lie detection or sleep research). We will also investigate other methods in cognitive neuroscience such as eye-tracking and magnetic resonance imaging. In addition to lectures and discussions, a significant component of the course will include supervised laboratory research work, and each student will conduct an independent research project. Prerequisites: Moderated students or consent of instructor.

Course	PSY 381 Social Psychology: Classic,  Contemporary  and Continuing Study in Social Psychology
Professor	Stuart Levine
CRN	97191
Schedule	Mon 3:00 -5:20 pm LB3 302
Distribution	Social Science

This conference is designed primarily for moderated psychology majors (see below) who therefore have considerable background in reading original contributions to the social science literature. Assignments will be paired classic and contemporary studies compiled from the array of topics investigated with the domain of social psychology. These topics range from social influence to prosocial behavior to attitude change and many others. Studies will be read and reviewed in order to assess both the persistence of issues explored by those who seek to understand social behavior and the role and use of changing methodologies. Students will do multiple class presentations throughout the semester. Each week we will examine paired studies, which include first, a classic study in a particular area and then a second more contemporary investigation in the same topic area. Before long in the semester, as students become more and more familiar with the nature and use of psychology archives, a third more recent investigation will be sought to expand the topical and historical study. Another methodology used in this conference will be directed toward finding tri-partite studies in subject areas not among those originally listed in the course syllabus. Enrollment in this conference will be strictly limited to 8 students and admission to the course will be by permission of the instructor and dependent on both experience with and interest in reading primary works in the social sciences and a willingness to seriously attend to that task. As noted, a premium in seminar work will be placed on student presentation. Social studies students from disciplines other than psychology who have the appropriate background and maintain an interest in social science research may also enroll with the permission of the instructor. Finally, it is noted that this conference is very much about and designed to be instrumental in process of developing senior project topics and proposals.