Psychology

Topical Offerings in Psychology

This course will survey contemporary research and theory in affective science. We will examine the origins, functions, and behavioral and social consequences of emotions, paying particular attention to cross-cultural and cross-species evidence.

A two-semester course in which the student prepares a thesis under the supervision of a departmental faculty member. The thesis may be based on empirical research conducted by the student or a critical review or theoretical analysis of existing findings. Prerequisite: Participants in the Distinguished Majors Program in Psychology.

This seminar provides an overview of the cognitive perspective in accounting for thought (e.g., varieties of representation) as well as particular cognitive processes (e.g., attention, memory).

Discusses contemporary developments in psychological theory, methods, and research. Prerequisite: Graduate standing in psychology or instructor permission.

Discusses contemporary developments in psychological theory, methods, and research. Prerequisite: Graduate standing in psychology or instructor permission.

Discusses contemporary developments in psychological theory, methods, and research. Prerequisite: Graduate standing in psychology or instructor permission.

Discusses contemporary developments in psychological theory, methods, and research. Prerequisite: Graduate standing in psychology or instructor permission.

Discusses contemporary developments in psychological theory, methods, and research. Prerequisite: Graduate standing in psychology or instructor permission.

Discusses contemporary developments in psychological theory, methods, and research. Prerequisite: Graduate standing in psychology or instructor permission.

Discusses contemporary developments in psychological theory, methods, and research. Prerequisite: Graduate standing in psychology or instructor permission.

An overview of psychotherapy process and outcome research, ethnicity issues in psychotherapy and ethical considerations. Begins the survey of adult psychotherapy. Emphasizes a problem-focused, rather than a treatment-focused perspective. Three lecture hours, practicum in supervised intervention. Prerequisite: Instructor permission.

Topics include strategies of assessment, issues of reliability and validity, test construction; theory and practice of individual, couple, family, and community assessment techniques, including testing, interviewing, observation; and assessment research. Three lecture hours, two lab hours. Prerequisite: Instructor permission.

Reviews symptomatological, classificatory, and epidemiological issues, and surveys the psychological, behavior-genetic, and psychophysiological literature in abnormal psychology. Emphasizes adult psychopathology. Prerequisite: Instructor permission.

In this graduate seminar, we will take a close look at concepts and theoretical perspectives emerging from and guiding the field of community psychology including empowerment, resilience, critical race theory, Black feminism, intersectionality, critical consciousness, and sociopolitical resistance. This course will encourage students to apply these frames to critically examine their own research.

This course provides the opportunity to offer a new topic in the subject area of psychology.

Course will provide professional guidance, discussion, preparation and practice for skills necessary for professional careers with an MA degree or applying to PhD programs with a terminal MA. Students will gain experience in attending research presentations and will have the opportunity to make presentations. Preparation for applying to professional positions and PhD programs will be included, e.g., resume, letters, applications, interviews.

Course covers the foundations of psychology & statistical techniques used in behavioral science, in particular foundations of traditional statistical testing, R programming, modern statistical testing using bootstrapping & resampling, & very basic introduction to Factor Analysis & applications of information theory. The course has 3 lecture hours & 2 lab hours that teaches computational aspects of the course in R. Basic training in R required.

This course will provide students exposure to current knowledge in the area of affect, mood, and emotion, including research on models of emotion and emotion regulation, historical and developmental perspectives on emotion, and prominent measures and methods used to advance understanding of affective sciences. This will include basic research on affect and healthy emotional functioning, along with research on psychopathology and mood disorders.

This course will provide students exposure to current knowledge in the area of developmental aspects of behavior, including transitions, growth, and development across an individual's life, along with prominent methods used to advance understanding of developmental processes. This will include basic research on both typical and atypical development across the lifespan.

This course has a two-fold purpose. First, it is designed to provide a working introduction to the ethical issues, principles, and techniques of psychotherapy and supervision. Second, will explore psychology's history and development and then investigate the role of History and Systems on our current psychotherapy.

This course will provide clinical psychology doctoral students exposure to current knowledge and challenging issues in ethical decision-making and practices tied to being a clinical scientist. The course will focus on clinical science roles as a researcher, educator (e.g., teacher, mentor), and member of the broader field.

Analyzes current theory and research in social and personality developments from infancy through adolescence. Prerequisite: Instructor permission.

This course intends to give the student a practical working understanding of some of the techniques for data analysis of dynamical systems in psychology. The course will concentrate on the development and testing of dynamical systems models for behavior and learning practical methods for fitting models of continuous time differential equations for real world data. Prerequisites: R and Structural Equation Modeling.

For master's research, taken before a thesis director has been selected.