Prerequisites

Course Credits

4.00

Description

This course number has been changed. Please see PSYCH-222 for the most recent description. Examines the field of human sexuality across the life span. Topics include: sexual anatomy and physiology, sexual development, typical and atypical sexual behavior, sexual dysfunctions, current research on human sexuality, and relationship issues as they relate to sexuality and intimacy.

Term Offered

Course Types

Social Science

Prerequisites

Course Credits

4.00

Description

Surveys core theoretical concepts and contemporary empirical research from the major sub-fields of psychology: physiology; perception; cognition; learning; emotion; motivation; development; personality; psychopathology; psychotherapy; and social behavior. Required for psychology majors. Offered every semester.

Term Offered

Offered Both Fall and Spring

Course Types

Social Science

Prerequisites

PSYCH 114; Restricted to majors only unless with permission of instructor.

Course Credits

4.00

Description

Introduces the use of statistics as tools for description and decision-making, including hypothesis testing. Prepares students for the analysis, interpretation, and evaluation of psychological research. Required for psychology majors; should be taken before the junior year. Offered every semester.

Term Offered

Offered Both Fall and Spring

Course Types

Quantitative Reasoning

Prerequisites

PSYCH 114 and PSYCH 215

Course Credits

4.00

Description

First provides an overview of the historical background and conceptual foundation of psychology as a science before introducing students to research methods employed in psychology including naturalistic observation, qualitative, correlational, quasi-experimental, and experimental designs. The experimental method and principles of experimental design are emphasized. The laboratory component of the class helps familiarize students with practical issues that arise when implementing an empirical research study. Required for psychology majors; should be taken before the junior year. Offered every semester.

Term Offered

Offered Both Fall and Spring

Course Types

Social Science

Prerequisites

Course Credits

4.00

Description

Examines the field of human sexuality across the life span. Topics include: sexual anatomy and physiology, sexual development, typical and atypical sexual behavior, sexual dysfunctions, current research on human sexuality, and relationship issues as they relate to sexuality and intimacy. Normally offered yearly.

Term Offered

Offered Both Fall and Spring

Course Types

Social Science

Prerequisites

PSYCH 114

Course Credits

4.00

Description

Surveys the major theoretical approaches to personality including representative theorists from the psychoanalytic, trait, cognitive, behavioral, and humanistic perspectives. Topics include personality dynamics, personality development, and the study of individual differences. Normally offered yearly.

Term Offered

Offered Fall Term

Course Types

Social Science

Prerequisites

PSYCH 114

Course Credits

4.00

Description

Examines physical, cognitive, emotional, and social development in youth (i.e., from conception through adolescence). Surveys major developmental approaches including biological, learning, and contextual/environmental theories. Major focus is on normal development. Normally offered every semester.

Term Offered

Offered Both Fall and Spring

Course Types

Social Science

Prerequisites

Course Credits

4.00

Description

Focuses on the various forms and structures of families and family life over time and across cultures, with emphasis on the psychological impact of such forms. The complex relationship among individual psychology, family relationships, and the larger social context is addressed. Topics include marriage, parenting, and divorce. Normally offered every semester.

Term Offered

Offered Both Fall and Spring

Course Types

Social Science

Prerequisites

PSYCH 114

Course Credits

4.00

Description

Studies the social determinants of the behavior of individuals in relation to groups and surveys current research findings in such major content areas as attribution, prejudice, conformity, obedience, social cognition, interpersonal attraction, altruism, and aggression. Normally offered every semester.

Term Offered

Offered Both Fall and Spring

Course Types

Social Science

Prerequisites

Take PSYCH-114;

Course Credits

4.00

Description

Focuses on diversity concerns in various aspects of the psychology of the workforce. This includes job analysis, recruitment, selection, evaluation, training, retention, and termination. Employee morale, well-being, stress, and hardiness are considered.

Term Offered

Course Types

Cultural Diversity Opt A,Social Science

Prerequisites

Course Credits

4.00

Description

Investigates the perceptual and motivational bases of consumer decision making in relation to advertising, packaging, brand loyalty, and other marketing considerations. Prior familiarity with psychological principles helpful but not essential. Normally offered alternate years.

Term Offered

Offered Fall Term

Course Types

Social Science

Prerequisites

Course Credits

4.00

Description

Examines theoretical and empirical approaches that provide insight into Asian viewpoints on socialization practices, family systems, health/well-being, cultural traditions/values, and spiritual philosophy/literature. Explores the diversity among Asian cultures in terms of language, history, religion/spiritual faith, and healthcare practices, all of which play a significant role in shaping the psychological characteristics, interpersonal relationships, and work dynamics of Asians and Asian immigrants. Students critically analyze similarities and differences between Asian and Western psychological perspectives of health and work through didactic and experiential learning components. This course fulfills the Cultural Diversity Requirement and may fulfill the Expanded Classroom Requirement. Normally offered alternate years.

Term Offered

Offered Spring Term

Course Types

Social Science,Asian Studies,Cultural Diversity Opt A

Prerequisites

PSYCH 114, PSYCH 215, PSYCH 216; Sophomore Standing.

Course Credits

4.00

Description

Examines the process of understanding the immediate environment with particular emphasis on the visual system. Topics include: the neurophysiology of the sensory systems; the elements of psychophysics; visual perception (color, depth, motion, illusions); and the process of perceptual inference. Normally offered yearly.

Term Offered

Offered Spring Term

Course Types

Social Science

Prerequisites

PSYCH 114, PSYCH 215, PSYCH 216 and sophomore standing.

Course Credits

4.00

Description

Examines theory and research on a number of human cognitive processes, including topics of attention, perception, learning, memory, language processing, problem solving, and reasoning. The field of cognition integrates knowledge from the multiple disciplines of neuropsychology, neuroscience, linguistics, and information science. Normally offered yearly.

Term Offered

Offered Fall Term

Course Types

Social Science

Prerequisites

PSYCH 114, PSYCH 215 and PSYCH 216.

Course Credits

4.00

Description

Explores the organic basis for human and animal behavior. Topics include nervous system structure and function as well as neurological contributions to motivation, emotion, stress, and abnormal functioning. Normally offered yearly.

Term Offered

Offered Fall Term

Course Types

Social Science

Prerequisites

PSYCH 114 and Sophomore standing

Course Credits

4.00

Description

Considers the process of the storage of information including its affective coloration and the role of incentives and rewards. Topics include: principles of classical and operant conditioning; verbal and episodic learning; and traditional and contemporary theory. Normally offered alternate years.

Term Offered

Offered Fall Term

Course Types

Social Science

Prerequisites

Take PSYCH-215 PSYCH-216;

Course Credits

4.00

Description

Provides students with a neuropsychological perspective on common neuropsychological disorders, including attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), learning disabilities, autistic spectrum disorders, seizure disorders, traumatic brain injury (TBI), multiple sclerosis, HIV, and various dementias. Normal aging will also be considered.

Term Offered

Offered Fall Term

Course Types

Social Science

Prerequisites

PSYCH 114 and Sophomore standing

Course Credits

4.00

Description

Examines patterns of addictive behavior with an emphasis on physiological etiology. Social, historical, and other psychological perspectives are also discussed. Populations at high risk, the consequences of addiction, and research on interventions and treatment will also be addressed. Normally offered yearly.

Term Offered

Offered Spring Term

Course Types

Social Science

Prerequisites

PSYCH 114 and Sophomore standing

Course Credits

4.00

Description

Explores and examines basic models of helping and provides supervised practice of helping skills. Format includes lecture, discussion, role play, and video feedback. Normally offered yearly.

Term Offered

Offered Fall Term

Course Types

Social Science

Prerequisites

PSYCH 114 and Sophomore Standing.

Course Credits

4.00

Description

Focuses on the processes by which self-knowledge, self-awareness, self-conceptions, self-esteem, self-consciousness, and self-blame are developed and maintained. May also include consideration of: identity and the life story; biography, narrative, and lives; cognition and personality; cultural conceptions of self; and self psychology. Normally offered alternate years.

Term Offered

Offered Spring Term

Course Types

Social Science

Prerequisites

PSYCH 114, and Sophomore standing or permission of the instructor

Course Credits

4.00

Description

Introduces the concepts of psychological disorder and focuses on description and etiology of various mental health problems from a variety of different theoretical perspectives. Students develop familiarity with the DSM classification system and major disorders described within it, including topics such as mood and anxiety disorders, thought disorders, personality disorders. Normally offered yearly.

Term Offered

Offered Both Fall and Spring

Course Types

Social Science

Prerequisites

PSYCH 114 and Sophomore Standing.

Course Credits

4.00

Description

Surveys theory and research about the physical, mental, and psychological aspects of life-span development. Age-related changes in mental health, personality, self-image, sexual relations, friendships, career development and spirituality are explored. Aging may also be explored as a global, demographic and cross-cultural issue. Research surrounding death and dying, bereavement, and hospice/nursing home care is also presented. Normally offered alternate years.

Term Offered

Offered Both Fall and Spring

Course Types

Social Science

Prerequisites

PSYCH-114 and sophomore standing

Course Credits

4.00

Description

Examines the physical, cognitive, emotional and social aspects of adolescence. Attention is given to identity, parent-adolescent relationships, values, sexuality, and career development as well as psychopathology, drug use and abuse, delinquency, and alienation. Normally offered yearly.

Term Offered

Offered Fall Term

Course Types

Social Science

Prerequisites

PSYCH 114 and sophomore standing

Course Credits

4.00

Description

Examines the etiology and symptoms of disorders of childhood and adolescence, as well as current therapeutic approaches. Developmental changes in the incidence of externalizing disorders, such as conduct disorder and attention deficit disorder, and internalizing disorders, such as depression and eating disorders, are addressed. Disorders that affect both behavioral and mental functioning such as Fetal Alcohol Syndrome and autism may also be included. The role of development in the understanding and treatment of the childhood disorders is reviewed. Normally offered yearly.

Term Offered

Offered Fall Term

Course Types

Social Science

Prerequisites

PSYCH 114

Course Credits

4.00

Description

Exposes students, particularly those interested in helping and service careers, to the terminology and approaches used in the study and critical discussion of culture and diversity. This course will be useful for students seeking to develop sensitivity, respect, and understanding of the meaning that individuals attach to their own definitions of culture. While topics relevant to specific, ethnic, racial, gendered and differently abled groups will be covered to varying degrees in each semester, attention is also given to culture as a personal and societal construction. Normally offered alternate years. This course fulfills the Cultural Diversity Requirement.

Term Offered

Offered Spring Term

Course Types

Cultural Diversity Opt A,Social Science

Prerequisites

PSYCH 114 and sophomore standing

Course Credits

4.00

Description

Examines effective approaches to building and maintaining successful teams in today's global and diverse workplace. Relevant theories and research concerning the cultural, organizational and individual factors that impact the structure, function and interpersonal dynamics of teams across settings are discussed. Topics include team characteristics, communication, leadership style, emotional and social intelligence, conflict and negotiation strategies, and challenges of working with multicultural, diverse and global team members and effectiveness of virtual teams. Students will explore essential components of functional versus dysfunctional teams, role of individual and cultural diversity, interpersonal relationship dynamics, globalization, and effective team work strategies across business, community and social organizational settings. Normally offered alternate years. This course fulfills the Cultural Diversity Requirement.

Term Offered

Offered Fall Term

Course Types

Social Science,Cultural Diversity Opt A

Prerequisites

JR Standing; Majors only or instructor's consent; ECR

Course Credits

4.00

Description

Explores the efforts of psychologists to enhance the well-being of groups and communities. Complementing clinical approaches, community approaches have implications for both theory (e.g., environmental and/or person-environment theories) and practice (e.g., prevention-oriented paradigms targeted to groups and social systems). Students will be expected to attend weekly two-hour lectures to examine key concepts within the field (e.g., competence building, empowerment) as well as to engage in weekly community service activity. Normally offered every semester. This course fulfills the Expanded Classroom Requirement.

Term Offered

Offered Both Fall and Spring

Course Types

Social Science,Expanded Classroom Requirement

Prerequisites

PSYCH 114 and Soph standing.

Course Credits

4.00

Description

Examines the role of cybertechnology, such as web Internet use, and its psychosocial correlates across gender, age, and culture. The course focuses on the complex and multidimensional approaches to the study of behavioral informatics. Explores theoretical and empirical research issues concerning the psychological, organizational, and cultural factors that impact online behavior both at home and in the workplace. Use of the Internet/web in mental health service areas will also be addressed. Normally offered alternate years.

Term Offered

Offered Fall Term

Course Types

Social Science

Prerequisites

Junior Standing. Restricted to majors only unless persmission of instructor. This course fulfills the Expanded Classroom Requirement

Course Credits

4.00

Description

Focuses on interacting with others in a service environment in a professional role. Seminar emphasizes tools for interacting with recipients in a respectful manner, emphasizing strengths and resources of the recipient, and sensitivity to various kinds of diversity in the service setting. Students work in service settings for a minimum of 6-8 hours per week during the semester, with most of that time in direct contact with service recipients. Internship arrangements must be made before the course begins. Normally offered every semester. This course fulfills the Expanded Classroom Requirement.

Term Offered

Offered Both Fall and Spring

Course Types

Social Science,Expanded Classroom Requirement

Prerequisites

PSYCH 114,PSYCH 215, PSYCH 216 and senior standing

Course Credits

4.00

Description

Presents the historical context for the development of core ideas, theoretical positions, and research in the field of Psychology. The interconnections between systematic orientations and domains of psychology are examined along with their relation to contemporary concepts and issues in the field of psychology. Offered every semester.

Term Offered

Offered Both Fall and Spring

Course Types

Social Science

Prerequisites

Senior status and permission of department chair required.

Course Credits

4.00

Description

An overview of the various group counseling formats utilized in schools, and related theories. Issues related to the development and implementation of small counseling groups (e.g., group dynamics and processes for group member selection) and larger educational and prevention-based groups (e.g., fostering positive mental health, career-related programming, anti-bullying) will be explored and discussed.

Term Offered

Prerequisites

PSYCH 114, PSYCH 215 & 216; Senior standing and admission by invitation only.

Course Credits

4.00

Description

Emphasizes the reading of primary source material, critical thinking, seminar discussion, and critical writing. Examines both historical and contemporary theories in the field, along with current empirical research. Assessment and measurement issues emphasized, along with substantive writing, typically an empirical research proposal or a critical review of the theory and research in a focused domain. Admission by invitation only. Normally offered yearly.

Term Offered

Offered Fall Term

Course Types

Social Science

Prerequisites

JR or SR status; Majors Only; Department chair consent.

Course Credits

1.00- 4.00

Description

Substantive reading/research in area of special interest directed by a faculty member.

Term Offered

Offered Both Fall and Spring

Course Types

Social Science