CRN

CRN	15370	Distribution	E
Course No.	PSY 103
Title	Introduction to Psychology
Professor	Sharon Hannigan
Schedule	Mon Wed 1:30 pm - 2:50 pm PRE 128

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	15382	Distribution	E
Course No.	PSY 111
Title	Introduction to Child Development
Professor	David Lopez
Schedule	Tu Th 10:00 am - 11:20 am OLIN 305

This course is a survey course of childhood development. From a psychological perspective, we will examine the cognitive, social, and motor development of children from infancy through middle childhood. The course itself is divided into three sections. In the first section, we will introduce the psychological theories of cognitive, social and motor development, which will serve as the theoretical foundation of the course. We will also examine the biological and environmental underpinnings of development, prenatal development, and birth. The second section of the course will cover development in infancy, and the final section of the course will cover early and middle childhood development

CRN	15383	Distribution	E
Course No.	PSY 204
Title	Research Methods in Psychology
Professor	David Lopez
Schedule	Mon Wed 10:00 am - 11:20 am PRE 128 Lab: Wed 1:30 pm - 2:50 pm HDR 101A

Cross-listed: CRES

This course is a continuation of Psychology 203. Its objective is to extend to the area of methodology the skills and abilities students acquired in the fall semester and to give students hands-on experience in doing social psychological research. The primary focus is the measurement of psychological constructs, nonexperimental research designs, and the statistical analysis of correlational data. Students develop an understanding of research methods and design through reading, lectures, and conducting research. Quasi-experimental methods are emphasized. Students participate in modest projects in the areas of reliability, replication, sampling, and scaling and also design and conduct their own survey study. We discuss ethical issues relevant to each stage of the research process and work to develop students' ability to assess research reports critically. Prerequisite: eligibility for a "Q" course.

CRN	15371	Distribution	E
Course No.	PSY 230
Title	Introduction to Neuroscience
Professor	Frank Scalzo
Schedule	Mon Wed 8:30 am - 9:50 am OLIN 204

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	15384	Distribution	E
Course No.	PSY 241
Title	Abnormal Psychology
Professor	Carla Dunahoo
Schedule	Mon 6:00 pm - 9:00 pm PRE 128

The course reviews the principal forms of psychopathology, with an emphasis on clinical definition, formal diagnosis, etiology, and treatment. The system of psychiatric diagnosis offered by the DSM-IV will be utilized in defining clinical syndromes including anxiety disorders, conversion disorders, psychophysiological disorders, antisocial and impulse disorders, schizophrenia, affective disorders, alcoholism, and eating disorders. Case descriptions will also be included in the reading. Theoretical perspectives include psychodynamic, social-learning, biological and contemporary research on the etiology of syndromes. Prerequisite: one previous Psychology Course.

CRN	15369	Distribution	E
Course No.	PSY 262
Title	Language and Cognition
Professor	Sharon Hannigan
Schedule	Tu Th 11:30 am - 12:50 pm OLIN 306

The focus of this course is on how people acquire language, and, once acquired, how language is represented and processed in the brain. Topics that will be studied include the basic units of linguistic knowledge and rules (i.e., phonemes, morphemes, syntax, phrase-structure rules, etc.), letter and word recognition (i.e., parallel processing of linguistic units and associative networks), concept formation (i.e., categories, exemplars, and prototypes), text comprehension (i.e., inferences vital to reading fluency), and reasoning via language (i.e., the relations that hold between two or more ideas: comparative, analogical, causal, etc.). We will also explore phenomena that fall within the relatively new discipline of neurolinguistics including the neural bases of various linguistic processes, the neural organization of language in mono- and bilinguals, and aphasia, or the loss of certain aspects of language as a result of brain damage. Prerequisite: one introductory level psychology course (PSY 103, 115).

CRN	15385	Distribution	E
Course No.	PSY 265
Title	Lifestyle and Career Development
Professor	Christie Achebe
Schedule	Tu 4:30 pm - 6:50 pm PRE 128

Encompassing lifestyle and career development are topics such as the relationships between career choice and lifestyle, sources of occupational and educational information, approaches to career decision processes, exploration techniques, etc. In this course, we will explore sources of career information and information gathering processes, delivery systems, evaluation and use of career information and selected vocational/career counseling theories. In exploring the latter, we will be sensitive to the limitation of traditional approaches and methods, to issues of ethnic minorities and women and the knowledge, attitudes and skills needed to communicate effectively with diverse clients including midlife career changers, older workers and the dynamic relationship between career and leisure.

CRN	15368	Distribution	E
Course No.	PSY 302
Title	Seminar in Cognitive Neuropsychology
Professor	Sharon Hannigan
Schedule	Th 1:30 pm - 3:50 pm OLIN 305

In cognitive neuropsychology, investigators seek and establish connections between types of brain dysfunction and various cognitive processes. This approach to the study of the mind-brain not only illuminates specific forms of cognitive impairment but provides valuable insights into so-called Anormal@ brain structure and functioning. The types of brain dysfunction that will be explored in this course, broadly defined, include amnesia, or memory loss, aphasia, or language loss, and agnosia, or the loss of specific kinds of knowledge. We will also examine disorders of attention, in particular those implicated in various spatial neglect syndromes. This course is an upper college seminar and may count as credit toward the research course requirement. Grounding in experimental method and statistics is recommended.

CRN	15386	Distribution	E
Course No.	PSY 392
Title	Perspectives on Racial Identity
Professor	Christie Achebe
Schedule	Wed 10:30 am - 12:50 pm PRE 101

Cross-listed: MES

The American Psychological Association (APA) at it's 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.

CRN	15364	Distribution	E/G
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, neuroanatomy 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, student presentations. Open to all students with consent of instructor.