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Professional Studies-Education |
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PSED 6519 - Special Topics in Higher Education
Topical offerings in higher education.
Credits: 1 to 3
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PSED 6520 - Special Topics:
Special Topics:
Credits: 1 to 3
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PSED 6521 - Special Topics in Education
Topical Offerings in Education
Credits: 1 to 3
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Professional Studies-Education Web-Based |
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PSEW 6100 - Intro. to Lesson Planning, Research and Collaborative Tools for eTeachers
Focuses on increasing proficiency in the use of technology to engage and inspire students. Encourages students to integrate technology by modeling best practices, gaining an understanding of millennial students, and designing a lesson. Encourages collaboration within the learning community.
Credits: 1 to 3
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PSEW 6101 - Practical Applications and Sustained Support for 21st Century eTeaching
Guides participants through experiences that encourage them to practice and apply skills with the support of a collaborative, professional learning community (PLC). Encourages participants to develop sophisticated, technology-rich lessons and learning modules, while learning how to sustain instructional changes by leveraging the support of their PLC.
Credits: 1 to 3
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PSEW 6102 - 21st Century eTeacher Project-Based Technology Skills
Focuses on project-based learning with student-centered instruction. Increases proficiency in the use of digital media for instruction.
Credits: 1 to 3
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PSEW 6103 - Facilitating Online Professional Development Practicum
Explores developing facilitation skills, learning to set tone, finding an online voice, understanding the basics of assessment in new environments, and stimulates productive learner interaction. Develops skills to facilitate asynchronous online learning using a Course Management System/Learning Management System (CMS/LMS).
Credits: 1 to 3
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PSEW 6501 - Special Topics in Leadership & School Improvement
Special Topics in Leadership & School Improvement
Credits: 1 to 3
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PSEW 6502 - Special Topics in School Program Assessment
Special Topics in School Program Assessment
Credits: 1 to 3
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PSEW 6503 - Special Topics in Curriculum, Instruction, and Classroom Assessment
Special Topics in Curriculum, Instruction, and Classroom Assessment
Credits: 1 to 3
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PSEW 6504 - Special Topics in Adult Education
Special Topics in Adult Education
Credits: 1 to 3
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PSEW 6505 - Special Topics in Classroom Community, Student Success, and Special Needs
Special Topics in Classroom Community, Student Success, and Special Needs
Credits: 1 to 3
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PSEW 6506 - Special Topics in Legal and Personnel Issues
Special Topics in Legal and Personnel Issues
Credits: 1 to 3
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PSEW 6507 - Special Topics in Science Instruction
Special Topics in Science Instruction
Credits: 1 to 3
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PSEW 6508 - Special Topics in Mathematics Instruction
Special Topics in Mathematics Instruction
Credits: 1 to 3
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PSEW 6509 - Special Topics in Social Studies Instruction
Special Topics in Social Studies Instruction
Credits: 1 to 3
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PSEW 6510 - Special Topics in English Instruction
Special Topics in English Instruction
Credits: 1 to 3
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PSEW 6511 - Special Topics in Reading Instruction
Special Topics in Reading Instruction
Credits: 1 to 3
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PSEW 6512 - Special Topics in Visual Arts
Special Topics in Visual Arts
Credits: 1 to 3
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PSEW 6513 - Special Topics in Music, Dance, and Drama
Special Topics in Music, Dance, and Drama
Credits: 1 to 3
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PSEW 6514 - Special Topics in Foreign Language and ESOL Instruction
Special Topics in Foreign Language and ESOL Instruction
Credits: 1 to 3
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PSEW 6515 - Special Topics in Library Media Specialist
Special Topics in Library Media Specialist
Credits: 1 to 3
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PSEW 6516 - Special Topics in Early Childhood Education and Human Development
Special Topics in Early Childhood Education and Human Development
Credits: 1 to 3
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PSEW 6517 - Special Topics in Children’s Literature
Special Topics in Children’s Literature
Credits: 1 to 3
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PSEW 6518 - Special Topics in Using Technology for Teaching and Learning
Special Topics in Using Technology for Teaching and Learning
Credits: 1 to 3
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PSEW 6519 - Special Topics in Higher Education
Special Topics in Higher Education
Credits: 1 to 3
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PSEW 6520 - Special Topics:
Special Topics:
Credits: 1 to 3
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Professional Studies-Leadership Skills |
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PSLS 5003 - Leadership Skills for Experienced Supervisors
Examines first-level leadership, styles of leadership, and situational leadership. Covers effective writing, conflict management, teamwork, collaboration and strategic planning.
Credits: 2
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PSLS 5004 - Leadership Skills for New Managers
Enhances the skills of new managers through curriculum that focuses on influence management, generational differences, creativity and innovation, and collaboration.
Credits: 2
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PSLS 5005 - Leadership Skills for Experienced Managers I
Provides the knowledge and fundamentals of theory for the advanced role of the manager. Focuses on the paradoxes of executive leadership, building coalitions, and developing a vision for their organization.
Credits: 2
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PSLS 5006 - Leadership Skills for Experienced Managers II
Builds on the initial course for experienced managers to include theory and practice related to power thinking, high performance, and the strategies of outstanding leaders.
Credits: 2
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Professional Studies-MT |
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PSMT 6010 - eMarketing Tools and Techniques
Explores how to use integrated web, email and database technologies in pre-built, personalized marketing campaigns to acquire and retain customers. Demonstrates practical skills by developing effective email offer letters and landing pages, and by using web analytics tools, search engine marketing strategies, webinars and online surveys to accomplish eMarketing objectives.
Credits: 3
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PSMT 6020 - Strategic Database Marketing
Explores ways to identify, retain, and build customer loyalty to generate sales that drive higher profits to the bottom line. Explores how to use databases to deliver these results. Includes such topics as database design, data warehouses, data mining, and marketing techniques such as customer lifetime value, and recency-frequency-monetary analysis.
Credits: 3
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PSMT 6030 - Customer Relationship Management
Studies Customer Relationship Management (CRM) technologies and strategies. Reviews various business approaches for managing all aspects of the customer lifecycle across the Internet and off-line channels.
Credits: 3
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PSMT 6040 - Legal Aspects of eMarketing
Studies how the Internet, along with its success and growth, faces pressure from consumer groups and government regulators. Examines trends in eMarketing laws and regulations, as well as techniques to comply with legal and regulatory requirements of eMarketing.
Credits: 3
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PSMT 6050 - Web Marketing: Building Awareness on the Internet
Applies marketing principles and best practices in an Internet environment. Uses case studies and extensive online research evaluating practical Web-based marketing communication strategies, including banner ads, search engine keyword campaigns, online public relations, content providers, and other online media.
Credits: 3
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PSMT 6070 - Social and New Media eMarketing
Explores how new media is being used to create relationships, market products and services, engage key audiences, create brand awareness, and drive loyalty. Covers techniques such as social networking, wiki’s, widgets, blogging, podcasting, webcasting, social bookmarking, mobile marketing, and mashups.
Credits: 3
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PSMT 6071 - Social Media Marketing Strategies
Provides an in-depth study of Web 2.0 social media marketing strategies. Provides insight on using social media tools such as Facebook, Twitter, Blogging, and Youtube to reach target audiences in the business, non-profit, government, and political sectors.
Credits: 3
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PSMT 6080 - Mobile Marketing Strategies
Provides an understanding of mobile marketing strategies, as well as practical knowledge of how to implement mobile marketing campaigns. Includes building a mobile web site, creating text message campaigns, other mobile methods such as QR codes, and integrating mobile campaigns within the marketing mix.
Credits: 3.0
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Professional Studies-Public Administration |
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PSPA 5000 - Intro to Public Administration
Provides students with an overview of the theory and practice of public administration. Covers topics such as the historical development of public administration, public organizational dynamics, public personnel administration, public budgeting, public policy, and ethics. Applies analytical skills using case studies focusing on current issues.
Credits: 3
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PSPA 5010 - Public Policy Analysis
Introduces tools and concepts in performing policy analysis. Focuses on critical thinking skills to synthesize and evaluate theoretical models and policy alternatives. Covers environmental policy, healthcare, welfare, terrorism, immigration, and foreign policy. Links between federal, state, and local public policy and public administration.
Credits: 3
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PSPA 5020 - Public Organization Management
Familiarizes students with public organization management literature. Covers historically important works in the field, major current schools of thought, and writers in organization theory and behavior. Examines different ways to view organizations.
Credits: 3
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PSPA 5030 - Public Budgeting and Financial Management
Exposes students to the theoretical foundations and applied practices of public budgeting and financial management of public organizations. Focuses on the issues of budgeting and finance in a broad sense and specifically as it pertains to public administration.
Credits: 3
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PSPA 5040 - Ethics in Public Administration
Incorporates case studies as practical examples of ethical issues. Examines journal articles and debate via blog to grasp the complexity of ethical issues. Focuses on historical ethical issues and the conflicting viewpoints of policy development.
Credits: 3
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PSPA 5050 - Environmental Justice
Designed to provide students with an introduction and overview of environmental justice (EJ). Covers topics such as the origins of the EJ movement, national environmental policy issues, the distribution of the effects of environmental pollution across ethnic, racial, income and occupational groups, environmental risk, economic environmental issues and finally, state and local issue pertaining to EJ.
Credits: 3
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PSPA 5060 - Digital Government
Examines the ways in which the public sector is changing as a result of information technology. Covers various topics such as the social, ethical, policy, and management issues related to information technology. Explores federal, state and local initiatives in digital government. Reviews the theoretical foundations of information technology.
Credits: 3
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Professional Studies-Political Leadership |
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PSPL 5010 - Political Leadership Dev.
Political Leadership Dev.
Credits: 3
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Professional Studies-Project Management |
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PSPM 5030 - Introduction to Project Management
Introduces students to the various aspects of the project life cycle and project management. Explores best practices and the application of these best practices for project success.
Credits: 3
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PSPM 5200 - Project Schedule, Cost, and Budget Control
Introduces students to a variety of project scheduling and cost control techniques that are vital for a project to meet its schedule and cost goals and objectives. Concentrates on the variety of scheduling techniques (Gantt Chart, Critical Path Method, and Program Evaluation Review Technique) that can be used to guide and monitor project performance. Activities that are critical in preparing a realistic schedule are explored, discussed, and practiced. Students are then introduced to a variety of budgeting, cost estimating, and cost control techniques.
Credits: 3
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PSPM 5210 - Project Risk Management
Introduces students to various concepts and techniques that can be used to effectively manage project risks including cost, schedule, technical, quality, managerial and organizational.
Credits: 3
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PSPM 5220 - Leadership and Human Resources Management
Explores the difference between leadership and management, how to apply a variety of leadership techniques in a project environment, key traits of an effective leader, and how effective leadership can result in high performing teams.
Credits: 3
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PSPM 5230 - The Project Manager and Managing the Project Team
Covers the importance that project teams play with organizations, the challenges facing project teams and tools to confront those challenges; the role of the project manager; and the tools that the project manager can use to overcome those challenges.
Credits: 3
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PSPM 5240 - Introduction to Purchasing for Project Managers
Explores the important role that contracting and purchasing play in the project environment, especially in light of meeting or exceeding goals.
Credits: 3
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PSPM 5250 - IT Systems Project Management
Assists participants in recognizing and acting upon the essential elements in the IT system project management cycle. Examines market research and analysis, scheduling and time-lining, budget development and management, performance assessment, benchmarking, and project evaluation. Emphasizes leadership and team development skills.
Credits: 3
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PSPM 5260 - Construction Project Management
Provides students with the fundamentals of construction project management. Includes contracting, inspections, cost code system, insurance estimating, subcontracting, and documentation.
Credits: 3
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PSPM 5280 - Topics in Project Management
Explores contemporary issues in project management.
Credits: 3
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PSPM 5300 - Project Management Body of Knowledge Review
Provides an in-depth review of the Project Management Institute’s required Body of Knowledge to successfully prepare for the Project Management Professional exam (PMP). The major function of the PMP credentialing program is to ensure competence and professionalism in the field of project management.
Credits: 3
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Professional Studies-Workforce Development |
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PSWD 5890 - Workforce Development Professional Competencies
This course provides an overview of and introduction to the competencies necessary for successful workforce development professionals. Experts in the field are used to present the knowledge and skills needed to excel in each competency within the workforce development arena. An extensive survey of best practices in the field will be utilized as a teaching tool in this course. The competencies covered include: The Profession of Workforce Development; Customer Focus; Managing Your Business Unit; Community, Business and Economic Development; Planning and Continuous Improvement; and Leadership and Influence.
Credits: 3
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PSWD 5900 - Professional Assessment and Development
This course provides the opportunity to: identify workforce development competencies that the student has developed and/or enhanced; compare and contrast current workforce development theories, styles and programs; acquire a deeper understanding and appreciation of the student’s role as a workforce development professional; and integrate and apply the student’s learning to his/her work environment. Extensive reading, research, writing, and on-line participation are required.
Credits: 3
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PSWD 5910 - Practicum: Workforce Development
The most powerful teaching tool is the application of knowledge. The practicum experience provides the opportunity to combine previous knowledge and skills with newly acquired knowledge and skills (from the prior two courses, PSWD 589: Introduction to Workforce Development Professional Competencies PSWD 590: Professional Assessment and Development). The student will incorporate this ‘combined’ knowledge into his/her institution’s workforce development activities (i.e., increased job responsibilities, new program or partnership development, marketing strategies) while strengthening contributions to workforce development (at the system, institution and profession levels).
Credits: 3
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PSYC 5025 - Wise Interventions: Social Psychology for Public Policy
We will explore classic and contemporary psychological interventions aimed at improving human welfare. Specifically, we will examine the role of psychological factors in health and healthcare, the workplace, education, intergroup relations, and other domains. Theory, empirical evidence, policy implications, and policy implementation will be emphasized through weekly assignments and discussions.
Credits: 3
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PSYC 5035 - Leading and Managing Diverse Groups
This course will focus on interpersonal, organizational, and societal factors leaders must negotiate to lead effectively in socially diverse environments. Students will be exposed to cases and empirical research that will enable them to (1) develop well-articulated positions on diversity-related issues and (2) form strategies to promote sustainable settings for productive exchange among diverse groups of individuals.
Credits: 3.0
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PSYC 5150 - Advanced Cognition
Focuses on advanced topics in cognitive psychology. Begins with basic questions regarding the nature of cognitive psychology’s goals and methods, then moves on to core findings regarding representation, and in the fields of attention, memory, motor control, and higher thought. Prerequisite: PSYC 215.
Credits: 3
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PSYC 5160 - Emotion and Cognition
The cognition-emotion seminar covers the connection between thinking and feeling in two ways. Part 1 concerns the nature and definition of emotions and the role of cognitive appraisals in their elicitation and intensity. Part 2 concerns the consequences of emotion for cognition, experience, and behavior. Of interest will be such topics as the effects on judgment and decision-making, processing and performance, and memory and attention, and the role of culture. Prerequisite: PSYC 305
Credits: 3
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PSYC 5200 - Seminar in Psychobiology
Examines a major subject in psychobiology. Prerequisite: PSYC 220, 222, or 420.
Credits: 3
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PSYC 5210 - Developmental Psychobiology
Examines behavior and neural development with an emphasis on animal models. Topics include the role of both intrinsic and extrinsic factors in directing maturation, attachment and early learning, theoretical conceptions of development, and regulatory mechanisms. Prerequisite: PSYC 220, 222, or 420 or instructor permission.
Credits: 3
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PSYC 5215 - Neuroplasticity and Perception/Cognition/Behavior
Description of course contents: This course begins by examining the long-held view that functions are localized in particular places in the brain, fixed by adulthood. After reviewing the history of these ideas we will examine the tide of research challenging that view: how imagination and virtual reality might change thinking; how memory can be enhanced; and correction of language disabilities with training. Prerequisite: 3006.
Credits: 3
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PSYC 5220 - Critical Period Plasticity
A survey of sensory systems and plasticity. Organizational principles common for sensory systems, and mechanisms of plasticity will be discussed. Prerequisite: PSYC 4200.
Credits: 3
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PSYC 5260 - Psychobiology and Memory
Studies the major theories, findings, and conceptual issues important to an analysis of the neuronal mechanisms that underlie memory storage. Prerequisite: PSYC 220, 222, or 420.
Credits: 3
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PSYC 5265 - Functional Neuroanatomy
An overview of the structure of the vertebrate nervous system with an emphasis on the mammalian brain. Prerequisites: PSYC 4200 or BIOL 3170 or graduate standing.
Credits: 3
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PSYC 5310 - Developmental Psycholinguistics
Examines current research and theoretical models of children’s language acquisition. Topics include normal children’s acquisition of spoken language skills, and the development of communication skills in deaf, autistic, and other groups of language-handicapped children. Prerequisite: Upper-level psychology major or linguistics student, or graduate student in Arts and Sciences or Education.
Credits: 3
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PSYC 5320 - Theories of Cognitive Development
Studies current theories of cognitive development from birth through adolescence. Includes the views of Piaget, Werner, Bruner, G. H. Mead, and others; cybernetic approaches covered briefly; with some discussion of the measurement and assessment of cognitive processes. Prerequisite: Instructor permission.
Credits: 3
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PSYC 5325 - Cognitive Neuroscience
Several approaches have been used to investigate relations between mind (or cognition) and brain. For example, the case study perspective focuses on cognitive deficits of patients with localized brain damage, and the cognitive neuroscience perspective attempts to determine the neurobiological substrates of cognitive processes in normal humans, usually by means of structural or functional neuroimaging. Prerequisites: PSYC 3006, PSYC 2150, PSYC 2200 or equivalents.
Credits: 3
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PSYC 5330 - Neural Network Models of Cognition and Brain Computation
Introduces, from an elementary but somewhat mathematical viewpoint, the newly developing field of neural networks. Examines the basic principles of neural network theory as it relates to biological neural networks. Prerequisite: Must be PC-literate and willing to program.
Credits: 3
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PSYC 5350 - Neurochemical Systems in Learning and Memory
Examines historical and current theories implicating the involvement of specific neurotransmitter, amino-acid, and peptide systems in regulating learning and the encoding of memory. Provides an extensive review of the literature in order to understand mechanisms by which chemical compounds modify learning and the brain sites where neurochemicals exert their effects. Prerequisite: PSYC 220 or 222, or instructor permission.
Credits: 3
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PSYC 5401 - Chemical Senses: Taste and Smell
Explores the neurobiology of the chemical senses by examining the biophysical basis of sensory transduction, the anatomical organization of two systems, and the physiological properties of peripheral and central structures along the gustatory and olfactory pathways. Emphasizes new, important findings in taste and smell. Prerequisite: PSYC 220, 222, or 420 or instructor permission.
Credits: 3
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PSYC 5410 - Juvenile Justice and Violence
Seminar focuses on the current state of juvenile justice and its treatment of violent and aggressive youth. Topics such as developmental maturity in culpability and competence to stand trial, transfer to adult court, and relevant topics in developmental, clinical, social and community psychology are emphasized.
Credits: 3
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PSYC 5500 - Current Topics in Psychology
Current topical offerings in Psychology.
Credits: 3
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PSYC 5559 - New Course in Psychology
This course provides the opportunity to offer a new topic in the subject area of psychology.
Credits: 1 to 4
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PSYC 5600 - Dynamical Systems in Social Behavior
Applies dynamical systems theory to the analysis of action, interaction, and interpersonal relationships. Includes a review of research employing dynamical systems models and analytic techniques, and close consideration of the application of these ideas to psychological contexts. Prerequisite: PSYC 260 and PSYC 230; completion of PSYC 305, 306 is strongly recommended.
Credits: 3
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PSYC 5650 - Psychology of Morality and Politics
Moral motives are all around us, but they are often hard to see because of our own moralism: we dismiss actions and people we disagree with as evil or misguided. The first part of this course will be a primer on moral psychology, including the evolutionary basis of human morality and its cultural diversity. Then we’ll move on to politics, partisanship, and the culture war; then finally, to terrorism. Prerequisite: PSYC 3005 and 12 additional credits in PSYC, graduate standing, or instructor permission.
Credits: 3
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PSYC 5703 - Culture and Personality
This course explores various issues in the intersection of personality, social, and cultural psychology. It is designed to expose you to different research perspectives, methodologies, and most recent developments in this area. Topics covered in this course include theories of self and culture, the measurement of personality across cultures, cross-situational consistency, cultural influences on personality and emotion.
Credits: 3
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PSYC 5704 - Social Ecological Psychology
This course explores the processes in which individuals and society ‘make up’ each other. Specifically, the course explores the way in which socio-ecological factors such as residential mobility, density, and geography affect individuals’ thoughts, feelings, and actions, and the way in which individuals’ thoughts, feelings, and actions help create particular socio-ecological conditions.
Credits: 3
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PSYC 6559 - New Course in Psychology
This course provides the opportunity to offer a new topic in the subject area of psychology.
Credits: 1 to 4
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PSYC 6745 - Stigma and Social Disparities
Introduces classic and contemporary theory and research on the social psychology of stigma, primarily from the perspective of the stigmatized. Topics include stigma’s origin and nature, stigma and self-concept, stereotype threat, attributional ambiguity, stigma and social interaction, and implications of stigma for education, health, and life attainment more generally. Provides an overview of this area of psychology and its policy implications.
Credits: 3
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PSYC 7005 - The Science of Self-Regulation and Decision Making
Self-regulation is the management of social, cognitive, and motivational resources in goal pursuit. It is critical to understanding psychological processes (e.g., self control, decision-making) and influencing economic & health behavior (¿40% of US deaths involve self-reg. failures). Via in-depth reading and discussion of the science of self-regulation, researchers will aim to generate new ideas, and MPPs to inform policy analysis and solutions.
Permission is not required, but students are strongly urged to discuss their interest with instructor before enrolling.
Credits: 3.0
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PSYC 7010 - Theoretical Psychology
Evaluates prominent historical and contemporary theoretical positions in psychology.
Credits: 3
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PSYC 7055 - Strategies and Processes of Negotiation
This course examines the art and science of negotiation. The science of negotiation involves learning to recognize the structure of a conflict situation and knowing what techniques tend to be most effective given that structure. Because there is no substitute for negotiating experience, this class will rely heavily on role-playing exercises and analyses designed to help students develop their own styles and learning the art of negotiation. Prerequisities: Graduate Student
Credits: 3
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PSYC 7100 - Cognition
Studies the facts of human information processing and their theoretical implications. Topics include memory, pattern recognition, problem solving, and psycholinguistics.
Credits: 3
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PSYC 7110 - Psycholinguistics
Surveys the psychology of language for graduate students in disciplines related to linguistics. Topics include linguistic theory applied to the production and comprehension of language, development of language, biology of language, and pathologies of language.
Credits: 3
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PSYC 7150 - Cognitive Processes
Explores, in depth, the life of the mind. Topics include pattern recognition; observational skills; remembering; language and thought; categorization; the nature of similarity; discovery and invention; problem and puzzle solution; animal cognition; and views of intelligence in man and machine. Prerequisite: Instructor permission.
Credits: 3
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PSYC 7155 - Subjective Well-Being
This course explores various issues in the merging field of well-being research. It is designed to expose you to different research perspectives, methodologies, and most recent developments in the area. Topics covered in this course include conceputal issues in well-being research, measurement judgmental proceses, goals and values, adaptation, close relationships, culture, psychophysiolgical temperaments, and personality.
Credits: 3
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PSYC 7160 - Emotion and Cognition Seminar
Seminar examines the nature and consequences of emotion. Review of recent research and new ideas about how cognition shapes emotion and how emotion in turn shapes cognition.
Credits: 3
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PSYC 7200 - Advanced Neural Mechanisms of Behavior
Introduces basic concepts in neuroanatomy, neurophysiology and neurochemistry needed for an understanding of brain and behavior. Prerequisites: Instructor Permission
Credits: 3
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PSYC 7250 - Cognitive Research Methods
You will acquire the tools you need to design experiments with human participants. We will focus on general methods that cut across sub-disciplines. Most of these methods were originally developed for research on perception and cognition, but they are now widely applied in other contexts.
Credits: 3
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PSYC 7300 - Advanced Cognition
The course begins with basic questions on the nature of cognitive psychology’s goals and methods, then moves on to core findings and theoretical development in representation, and in the fields of attention, memory, and higher thought. The semester closes with some consideration of topics more recently added to the cognitive agenda, e.g., consciousness.
Credits: 3
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PSYC 7302 - Neurobiology of Learning and Memory
This seminar will examine the neural basis of learning and memory. Study of brain systems that mediate different types of learning and memory as well as the cellular and molecular mechansims that allow these systems to acquire and store information. Topics will include memory consolidation, neural plasticity, cellular competition for memory storage, the role of neurogenesis in learning and memory and mechaisms of retention and forgetting.
Credits: 3
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PSYC 7305 - Biological Models of Cognition
This seminar examines animal models that have been developed to study neurobiological mechanisms of cognition. Topics to be covered include goal-directed learning, decision-making, navigation, action selection, motivation, working memory and addiction. Each section will cover a specific cognitive process, the development and validation of animal models to study this process and a discussion of identified neurobiological mechanisms. Prerequisites: Psyc 2200 or 4200.
Credits: 3
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PSYC 7315 - Theories of Perception
Perception is the means by which we become aware of the world and of ourselves. This seminar presents an overview of theories about perception including the following perspectives: philosophy, physiology, Gestalt psychology, cognitive psychology, ecology, and artificial intelligence. Prerequisites: PSYC 2300 or instructor permission.
Credits: 3
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PSYC 7360 - Advanced Perception
A systematic study of visual, auditory, and cutaneous perception.
Credits: 3
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