Courses
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- Graded: S/U
- Prerequisites: PA 500
The student develops a thesis with the help of a three member thesis committee (chair and two readers). The student will submit a three- to five-page research proposal which must be approved before registering for credit. Appropriate thesis forms must be completed prior to enrollment. The thesis must be approved by the thesis committee and the Office of Graduate Education. The student should consult with the department and the Office of Graduate Education for specific requirements.
- Prerequisites: Department consent
- Offered: Fall
This course will provide an in-depth exploration of the theoretical, methodological, and applied aspects of environmental and nonprofit campaign design. Students will put those understandings into practice with the creation of a campaign related to communicating an ecological or social issue, e.g., water quality, local climate change impacts, etc. Additionally, students will learn how to translate complex scientific information for diverse, public Audiences.
- Offered: Contact department
- Prerequisites: PSY 100 or PSY 101
Examination of the philosophical and historical roots of psychology culminating in an analysis of major theoretical perspectives leading to modern scientific psychology.
- Offered: Contact department
- Prerequisites: PSY100 or PSY101; PSY201 and PSY202; PSY 220 recommended.
A focus on empirically researched areas of organizational behavior including performance management, leader behavior, organizational environments, feedback, etc., and on implementing programmatic changes through the use of researched psychological techniques. Field and laboratory investigations included when appropriate.
- Offered: Fall
- Graded: A/F
Advanced examination of the variety of mental health psychology patterns of disordered or dysfunctional behavior and the procedures through which they may be understood and assessed. Course will include relevant theory in psychological assessment, basic principles of psychometrics, and practical applications of psychological assessment.
- Offered: Contact Deptartment
- Graded: A/F
A combination of theoretical and practical applications of positive psychology. This course includes a focus on the background and history of positive psychology, and includes research, experience, and application of positive psychology.
- Offered: Fall
- Graded: A/F
- Prerequisites: PSY 100 or PSY 101; PSY 250 or PSY 251; PSY 201 and PSY 202 recommended.
Seminars on relevant topics, selected by students, including independent laboratory experience involving psychophysiological research in bio-behavioral or sensory processes of humans or other animals. Includes a focus on neuroscience techniques.
- Offered: Contact department
- Prerequisites: PSY 100 or PSY101; and PSY201, PSY 202, and PSY 230; and PSY 250 or PSY 251.
Scientific exploration of sensory and perceptual phenomena with emphasis on relevant psychological laws, neurological mechanisms, the relationship between brain function and mental experience, and the practical implications of each. Laboratory investigation of methods and phenomena.
- Graded: A/F
- Prerequisites: PSY 100 or PSY 101; PSY 201 and PSY 202; PSY 250 or PSY 251, or instructor permission.
This course explores how emotions interact with cognition and other mental processes to motivate behavior. The underlying brain basis of emotional behaviors and emotional states are explored in this course.
- Graded: A/F
- Prerequisites: PSY 100 or PSY 101; PSY 201 and PSY 202; PSY 250 or PSY 251, or instructor permission.
This course provides advanced coverage of psychoactive drugs used for recreational or therapeutic purposes. The major topics covered include basic pharmacology, psychoactive drug effects on nervous system functioning and behavior, recreational drugs, and pharmacotherapeutic drugs.
- Offered: Winter
- Prerequisites: PSY 100 or PSY 101, or instructor permission.
Study of psychological applications in the field of sports and coaching. Topics include behavioral coaching of motor skills, competition anxiety analysis and management, mental rehearsal techniques and aggression control.
Content addresses the beginnings of modern psychology from the late 19th century founding of the American Psychological Association (1892) through the 20th-century developments of physiological, learning theory, cognitive, Gestalt, humanistic, behavioral, social, psychoanalytic, and the various applied psychologies of the 21st century. Students will also learn about the structure of the American Psychological Association and its role in both the academic and professional components of the discipline.
- Prerequisites: PY 204 or BI 201, BI 202 or consent of instructor
- Prerequisites: Graduate level standing
Survey of designing qualitative, quantitative, and mixed methods research in the behavioral sciences. The course will emphasize database searching and thesis preparation.
- Prerequisites: Graduate level standing
Provides a conceptual approach to learning descriptive and inferential statistical procedures in the behavioral sciences, including topics on statistical decision theory, analysis of variance, factorial designs, multiple comparison procedures, correlation, and regression. This course emphasizes the use of statistical software.
- Graded: A/F
- Prerequisites: Enrollment in MS Psychological Science Degree program or instructor permission
Ethical principles and practices in the conduct of psychological research and professional psychology, with an emphasis on the American Psychological Association ethics code.
- Prerequisites: Prerequisites: PY 305, PY 505, PY 506 or consent of instructor
- Prerequisites: PY 211 and senior or higher standing or consent of instructor
- Prerequisites: PY 435 or consent of instructor
- Prerequisites: Graduate standing. An undergraduate course in developmental psychology is recommended.
Theory and research concerning physiological and psychological development with an emphasis on current research findings and methodology.
- Prerequisites: PY 211 or PY 311; PY 305 and PY 205 or consent of instructor
Advanced course in cognition and selected issues in cognitive psychology. Includes theoretical review of memory and cognition issues and seminar-style presentations of selected topics in cognition.
- Offered: Contact department
- Graded: A/F
- Prerequisites: Graduate Level Standing in the Department of Psychological Science or Consent of Instructor
This course explores theory and applications of adult psychotherapy interventions for correcting or resolving mental or emotional problems.
- Graded: A/F
- Prerequisites: Enrollment in the MS in Psychology Program or instructor permission
Advanced study of specialized content areas of psychology which have a research or theoretical base, but which are not regularly offered as part of the curriculum.
Note: This course may be repeated for credit if topic differs.
- Graded: A/F
- Prerequisites: Enrollment in the MS in Psychology Program or instructor permission.
A weekly seminar for students in the MS Program in Psychological Science. Students, faculty, and/or external speakers will make research, career development, or other psychological science related presentations during the weekly seminar.
Note: PSY 588 is offered at 1cr. and taken for a total of 4cr.