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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.
Prerequisite: PSYC 3460 (with a B+ or better). Undergraduates who have not taken PSYC 3460 will not be accepted under any circumstances.
Credits: 3
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PSYC 5500 - Current Topics in Psychology
Current topical offerings in Psychology.
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 5710 - Machine Learning and Data Mining
While most psychological studies ask ” is something different between groups?”, in this course we will introduce quantitative methods to answer the question “what is different between groups?”, i.e., we ask which part (or combination) of our data maximizes the chances to distinguish between given groups.
Credits: 3
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PSYC 5720 - Fundamentals of Item Response Theory
This course is designed to introduce you to the concepts of item response theory (IRT) models and their application to substantive psychological problems in measurement, such as test and scale design and analysis.
Prerequisite: Psyc 3005 and 3006 OR 4005 and 4006 at the undergraduate level, OR Psyc 7710 and/or 7720 at the graduate level or the equivalent, or instructor permission.
Credits: 3
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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
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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 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 7255 - Special Topics in Cognitive Development
We will explore how developmental science can interface with the needs and interests of parents, caregivers, teachers, and policy-makers. Our focus will be three-fold: 1.What do we (as a field) know that might be useful to these groups? 2. What developmental issues and concerns do non-developmental scientists actually want to know about (and why)?3. How can we (in our own research programs) frame our work to be more obviously useful?
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 7310 - Human Neuroscience
This class will broadly survey human neuroscience methodology and applications to various fields of psychology. We will cover topics in clinical, cognitive, social and developmental neuroscience.
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 7400 - Practicum to Intervention and Ethics
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.
Credits: 1
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PSYC 7410 - Practicum to Intervention and History and Systems
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.
Credits: 1
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PSYC 7420 - Psychological Intervention I
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.
Credits: 4
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PSYC 7430 - Psychological Assessment
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.
Credits: 4
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PSYC 7440 - Psychological Assessment
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.
Credits: 4
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PSYC 7450 - Psychological Intervention II
Concludes the problem-focused survey of adult psychotherapy. Provides a survey of therapy focused on relationship issues in the family, including couples therapy, divorce issues, and especially, child and family therapy. Three lecture hours, practicum in supervised intervention. Prerequisite: Instructor permission.
Credits: 4
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PSYC 7470 - Experimental Psychopathology
Reviews symptomatological, classificatory, and epidemiological issues, and surveys the psychological, behavior-genetic, and psychophysiological literature in abnormal psychology. Emphasizes adult psychopathology. Prerequisite: Instructor permission.
Credits: 3
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PSYC 7475 - The Psychological Study of Ethnic Minority Issues in Research and Practices
Will examine psychological theory, methodology, and interventions from the vantage of ethnic minority issues.
Credits: 3
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PSYC 7480 - Community Psychology and Prevention Science I: Research and Consultation
Introduces the broad area of community psychology and prevention science. Topics include social ecology and primary prevention; conceptions, strategies, and tactics of social intervention; the creation of settings; and interventions in the education, mental health, mental retardation and criminal justice systems. Weekly seminar meetings and participation in community laboratory required. Prerequisite: Instructor permission.
Credits: 4
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PSYC 7501 - Contemporary Issues: Cognitive Psychology
Discusses contemporary developments in psychological theory, methods, and research. Prerequisite: Graduate standing in psychology or instructor permission.
Credits: 2
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PSYC 7502 - Contemporary Issues: Neuroscience and Behavior
Discusses contemporary developments in psychological theory, methods, and research. Prerequisite: Graduate standing in psychology or instructor permission.
Credits: 2
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PSYC 7503 - Contemporary Issues: Community Psychology
Discusses contemporary developments in psychological theory, methods, and research. Prerequisite: Graduate standing in psychology or instructor permission.
Credits: 2
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PSYC 7504 - Contemporary Issues: Ethics and Clinical Psychology
Discusses contemporary developments in psychological theory, methods, and research. Prerequisite: Graduate standing in psychology or instructor permission.
Credits: 2
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PSYC 7505 - Contemporary Issues: Developmental Psychology
Discusses contemporary developments in psychological theory, methods, and research. Prerequisite: Graduate standing in psychology or instructor permission.
Credits: 2
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PSYC 7506 - Contemporary Issues: Social Psychology
Discusses contemporary developments in psychological theory, methods, and research. Prerequisite: Graduate standing in psychology or instructor permission.
Credits: 2
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PSYC 7507 - Contemporary Issues: Quantitative Psychology
Discusses contemporary developments in psychological theory, methods, and research. Prerequisite: Graduate standing in psychology or instructor permission.
Credits: 2
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PSYC 7508 - Contemporary Issues in Psychology
Discusses contemporary developments in psychological theory, methods, and research.
Prerequisite: Graduate standing in psychology or instructor permission.
Credits: 2
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PSYC 7600 - Social Psychology
Surveys the major empirical and theoretical concepts in social psychology.
Credits: 3
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PSYC 7605 - Self-Knowledge and the Adaptive Unsconscious
In this course we will examine self-knowledge from a scientific perspective, based on research in social, personality, cognitive, and developmental psychology.
Credits: 3
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PSYC 7610 - Advanced Research Methods in Social Psychology
Surveys various research approaches to social psychological problems; discusses selected methodological issues; and practices designing and criticizing research techniques on assorted psychological topics. Prerequisite: One semester of graduate statistics and PSYC 7600 or instructor permission.
Credits: 3
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PSYC 7615 - Graduate Research Methods
Completion of this course will provide a foundation for the practice of science. We will wrestle with the fundamental issues for designing and executing a program of research, and in the interpretation and reporting of the research results.
Credits: 4
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PSYC 7630 - Nonverbal Communication and Deception
Research and theory in the psychology of nonverbal communication and deception. Prerequisite: Graduate standing or instructor permission.
Credits: 3
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PSYC 7635 - Psychology and Law
Will investigate 10 topics for which psychology has (or might have, or might think it has) things to say to the legal system. Our goal is to learn about the current state of affairs in both domains and propose ways to facilitate the exchange of knowledge between the two disciplines. Topics include eyewitness testimony; confessions; jury decision making, implicit biases; punishment; affective forecasting and decision making about the future. Prerequisites: Background in either (cognitive or social) psychology or in law.
Credits: 3
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PSYC 7650 - Behavior Disorders in Childhood
Surveys the psychological problems encountered by infants, children, and adolescents. Focuses on the descriptive characteristics of each disorder and presents theoretical etiologies and proposed treatments. Emphasizes empirical findings, although various models of disorder are considered including learning, family, developmental, biological, and psychodynamic approaches. Reviews current thinking concerning psychological disorders of children, providing a critical perspective.
Credits: 3
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PSYC 7655 - Social Relationships of Children with Psychological Disorders
This seminar is intended to cover basic theory and research concerning psychopathology and psychological disorders among children. The social relationships of youth with these disorders (e.g., with peers, family, teachers) will be emphasized, and ways in which these relationships contribute to the etiology, manifestation, and treatment of these disorders will be discussed.
Credits: 3
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PSYC 7705 - Multi-Level Modeling
In this course, we will introduce some simple Multi-Level models, introduce some properties of those and some methods to fit data to these models. In the second part, we will advance to more complex multi-level model with possible overlaps between lower levels and non-normal multi-level models.
Credits: 3
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PSYC 7710 - Quantitative Methods I: Probability and Statistical Inference
Studies fundamental probability and statistical inference used in the behavioral sciences: set theory, probability distributions, conditional probability, random variables, estimation, sampling distributions, hypothesis testing (t-test for means, F-test for variances) and confidence intervals. Computer work with SPSS. Three lecture and two laboratory hours. Prerequisite: Graduate status or instructor permission.
Credits: 4
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PSYC 7720 - Quantitative Methods II: Experimental Design
Includes Chi-square tests for contingency tables, correlation, multiple regression, analysis of variance of one-way and factorial designs including repeated measures experiments, and analysis of covariance. Extension work with SPSS and MANOVA computer routines. Prerequisite: PSYC 7710 or equivalent.
Credits: 4
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PSYC 7740 - Practicum to Intervention and Multicultural Issues
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.
Credits: 1
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PSYC 7750 - Practicum to Intervention and Supervision
Designed to provide a working introduction to the ethical issues, principles, and techniques of psychotherapy and supervision. Additionally, case conceptualization, designing intervention plans, and active listening skills are introduced and practiced. Individual psychotherapy with adolescents and adults will be the primary focus of this aspect of the course.
Credits: 1
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PSYC 7755 - Advanced Practicum in Supervision and Consultation
This course is designed to provide students with a context for supervision and consultation through sharing with each other their experiences with various clients, providing peer supervision to each other (with the instructor in the room), receiving immediate feedback from the instructor regarding their supervision of each other, and receiving feedback from each other, at the end of the course.
Credits: 1 to 3
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PSYC 7760 - Introduction to Applied Multivariate Methods
Introduces major statistical methods used for the data analysis of multiple measures. Includes elementary matrix algebra, multivariate regression (canonical correlation; multivariate analysis of variance and covariance; and discriminant analysis and classification), correlational methods (principal components and exploratory and confirmatory factor analysis), and the analysis of multivariate contingency tables using log-linear models. Emphasizes concepts, issues, and examples over mathematical derivations. Prerequisite: PSYC 7710-7720 or equivalent.
Credits: 3
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PSYC 7765 - Fundamentals of Statistical Computing for Behavioral and Social Scientists
This course will provide students with a basic understanding of statistical computing and programming using the R language. Students will learn methods of integrating the computational skills they acquire into a workflow making the process from analysis to publication more efficient.
Credits: 1
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PSYC 8040 - Forum on Scientific and Professional Ethics
Studies scholarly writings, empirical research, and current developments relating to ethics in psychology, and relevant ethical codes and regulations influencing the conduct of scientists and educators. Focuses on recognizing and resolving ethical dilemmas in academic and research settings. Prerequisite: second-year standing in a graduate program in the Department of Psychology or instructor permission.
Credits: 1
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PSYC 8200 - Internship in Teaching Neuroscience
Students will collaborate with instructor in co-teaching an advanced level undergraduate course, Psyc 4200 Neural Mechanisms of Behavior, which is concurrently taught. Student responsible for preparing, presenting and assessing three topics from Psyc 4200 syllabus. Objective is to provide a formal environment to obtain teaching experience, while allowing the student to explore different teaching techniques in an advanced survey course setting.
Credits: 3
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PSYC 8460 - The Minority Family
A critical examination of the current state of research on minority families, including Black, Native American, Chicano, and Asian-American.
Credits: 3
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PSYC 8501 - Current Problems in Psychology
Examines procedures employed in the investigation of current controversial problems.
Credits: 3
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PSYC 8610 - Psychological Study of Children, Families and the Law
To acquaint the student with various issues in the law that have an impact on children and with psychological research and practice regarding children and families that is germane to legal policy. The course is based in developmental, clinical and community psychology theory and research. Prerequisite: instructor permission.
Credits: 3
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PSYC 8650 - Social Development
Analyzes current theory and research in social and personality developments from infancy through adolescence. Prerequisite: Instructor permission.
Credits: 3
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PSYC 8670 - Cognitive Development
This course reviews current and classic literature concerning theory and experimental findings in cognitive development across infancy and childhood.
Credits: 3
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PSYC 8725 - Life-Span Development: Methodological Issues
The course is focused on key methodological issues associated with the study of development from a life-span perspective. Includes the conceptualization of research problems, research design, measurement, and data analysis and modeling and promotes the acquisition of skills in formulating and executing life-span research.
Credits: 3
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PSYC 8730 - Dynamical Systems Analysis
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.
Credits: 3
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PSYC 8997 - Nontop Res: Pract to Inter & History and Systems
Research designed to provide an in-depth exploration into psychology’s history, the development of important Systems of thought, and the historical and current relationships with philosophy, as well as an investigation of the role of History and Systems on our current theories and techniques of psychotherapy and ethics.
Credits: 1
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PSYC 8998 - Non-Topical Research, Preparation for Thesis
For master’s research, taken before a thesis director has been selected.
Credits: 1 to 12
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PSYC 8999 - Non-Topical Research
For master’s research, taken under the supervision of a thesis director.
Credits: 1 to 12
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PSYC 9501 - Topical Research
Independent laboratory research undertaken with advisor. Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory and can be repeated. Instructor permission required.
Credits: 1 to 12
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PSYC 9502 - Topical Research
Independent laboratory research undertaken with advisor. Graded and can be repeated. Instructor permission required.
Credits: 1-12
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PSYC 9940 - Readings in Psychology
Readings in Psychology
Credits: 1 to 12
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PSYC 9941 - Readings in Psychology
Independent Study.
Credits: 3
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PSYC 9942 - Readings in Psychology: Causation in Law
Independent study.
Credits: 1 to 12
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PSYC 9980 - Practicum in Case Consultation
Supervision in case assessment, evaluation, and intervention. Emphasizes issues involved in case management; types of issues and decisions that may affect the outcome of intervention; pragmatic issues in dealing with people referred as clients; consultation procedures with referral agencies; and liaisons with community agencies. Student performance is evaluated on a satisfactory/unsatisfactory basis. Prerequisite: Instructor permission.
Credits: 1 to 3
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PSYC 9998 - Non-Topical Research, Preparation for Doctoral Research
For doctoral research, taken before a dissertation director has been selected.
Credits: 1 to 12
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PSYC 9999 - Non-Topical Research
For doctoral dissertation, taken under the supervision of a dissertation director.
Credits: 1 to 12
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PHS 5000 - Introduction to Biostatistics
Covers the fundamentals in medical statistics including descriptive statistics, estimation, hypothesis testing, precision, sample size, correlation, problems with categorization of continuous variables, multiple comparison problems, and interpreting of statistical results. Prerequisite: Instructor permission.
Credits: 3
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PHS 5010 - Fundamentals of Epidemiology
Introduces the field of Epidemiology and the methods of epidemiologic research. Students learn how to interpret, critique, and conduct epidemiologic research, including formulating a research question, choosing a study design, collecting and analyzing data, controlling bias and confounding, and interpreting study results. Prerequisite: Instructor permission.
Credits: 3
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PHS 5015 - Qualitative Methods for Community and Global Health
Designed to introduce undergrads to a graduate level coursework. This course advances methodological and cultural competency in the design and implementation of community health qualitative research investigations. Coursework provides opportunities to practice specific methodologies such as surveys, interviews, focus groups, case studies, and historiographies in accordance with standards of rigor (e.g., reliability, generalizability, validity). Prerequisites: Instructor Permission.
Credits: 3
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PHS 5050 - Public Health Law, Ethics, & Policy
Explores the legitimacy, design, & implementation of a variety of policies aiming to promote public health & reduce the social burden of disease & injury. Highlights the challenge posed by public health’s pop-based perspective to traditional ind-centered, autonomy-driven approaches to bioethics & const. law. Other themes center on conflicts between PH & pub morality & the relationship between PH and social justice. Prerequisites: Instructor Permission
Credits: 3
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PHS 5060 - Program Planning and Evaluation
Provides an overview of the principles and methods of evaluation in public health and health informatics. Covers evaluation paradigms, program planning, evaluation plan design, and use of evaluation findings. Frequent tools in evaluation (surveys, focus groups, and interviews) will be discussed in depth. Students will have the opportunity to design and conduct an evaluation for an existing program in public health or application in health informatics. Prerequisite: Instructor permission.
Credits: 3
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PHS 5070 - Introduction to Health Care Informatics
Explores nature and functions of health informatics, the current state of the science, present and future applications, and major issues for research and development. Includes information processing and management, decision support, computer-based patient records and information systems, standards and codes, databases, outcomes research, and the generation and management of knowledge. Also surveys current developments in instructional technology. Prerequisite: Instructor permission.
Credits: 3
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PHS 5080 - International Health Policy
Addresses the questions of what makes a good health system, how we know whether a health system is performing well, and what makes a health system fair through a comparison of the financing, delivery, and operation of health systems throughout the world. Focuses on differences both in health system performance (as measured by death, disability, morbidity, access, and patient satisfaction) and in health system inputs. Prerequisite: Instructor permission.
Credits: 3
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PHS 5090 - Health Care Economics
Reviews principles of economics most relevant to analyzing changes in health care provision and applies those principles to current health care institutions and their performance, trends in health care service delivery, and methods of forecasting future trends. Prerequisite: Instructor permission.
Credits: 3
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PHS 5095 - Health Policy in the United States - An Economic Perspective
This course uses an economic perspective to analyze the health policies and institutions that shape the health care system in the US. The consequences of current health care policies on health outcomes are discussed. The processes through which health policies are developed, implemented, and evaluated are analyzed.
Credits: 3
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PHS 5100 - Health Care Policy & Management
Seminar to introduce undergraduates to graduate level work. Examines the evolution of the U.S. health care system from a health policy and health values perspective, with an emphasis on the current health system. Topics include issues surrounding the financing, organization, and delivery of health care, including acess, coverage, cost, and quality of health services. Prerequisite: Instructor Permission
Credits: 3
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PHS 5101 - Current Issues in Health Policy
This 1 credit seminar will examine current issues in U.S. health policy and will include areas surrounding access and coverage to health services, the cost of health care, quality measures within the health care delivery system, and health reform initiatives. Students will examine the current literature within health policy and be responsible for formal and informal presentations. Prerequisites: Instructor Permission
Credits: 1
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PHS 5102 - Introduction to Public Health Research: Population Data Analysis
This course is designed to provide students with the knowledge & skills needed to use population data to answer research questions. Students will utilize SPSS to access, evaluate, & interpret public health data. The course will give students an opportunity to generate hypotheses & variables to measure health problems. The course will also describe how the public health infrastructure is used to collect, process, maintain & disseminate data.
Prerequisite: Instructor Permission
Credits: 3
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PHS 5103 - Intro to Epidemiology:Case Studies on Hlthy Lifestyles & Disease Prevention
This undergraduate course provides an introduction to basic epidemiology concepts, including measures of frequency & association, study design, & methodological issues such as confounding. Students will use case studies & team projects, as well as literature reviews, to examine strategies for promoting healthy behavior & lifestyles & addressing such public health challenges as obesity & tobacca abuse.
Prerequisite: Instructor Permission
Credits: 3
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PHS 5130 - Introduction to Health Research Methods
Much of what we know about human health & health-related behavior is based on quant & qual research. This course involves students in the research process from start to finish, including formulating a research question; conducting a background literature review; choosing a study design; developing data collection tools; recruiting a study population; collecting data; assuring data quality; analyzing data; & interpreting & presenting results.
Credits: 3
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PHS 5182 - Emerging Issues in Global Public Health
Global public health as a field of study focuses on the use of tools, skills, & knowledge to benefit the health of everyone, regardless of geogr & polit borders. This seminar will introduce Global Public Health minors to the opportunities & challenges involved in improving global health & topics ranging from infectious diseases & natural disasters to env. toxins & social/political structures. Issues of human rights & soc justice. Prerequisites: Instructor Permission
Credits: 0
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PHS 5183 - Emerging Issues in Global Public Health
Global public health as a field of study focuses on the use of tools, skills, & knowledge to benefit the health of everyone, regardless of geogr & polit borders. This seminar will introduce Global Public Health minors to the opportunities & challenges involved in improving global health & topics ranging from infectious diseases & natural disasters to env. toxins & social/political structures. Issues of human rights & soc justice.
Credits: 1
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PHS 5184 - Global Health Policy & Practice
The Policy & Practices in Global Health Course will enhance the students’ understanding of the social, political, and economic context of common global health challenges and issues. The course will review case studies that review organizations’ responses to global health challenges and their successes and failures.
Credits: 3
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PHS 5185 - Global Health Research Methodologies
A curriculum of practice approach will imbue within students the skills & methods of global health practitioners. Global health will take on the broadest definition to include not only medical practice by health professionals, but also the complex socio-technical system that affects public health worldwide. We will use the Water & Health in Limpopo (WHIL) Project as a study for a broader understanding of how this system works in the real world
Credits: 3
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PHS 5186 - Comparative Health Care Systems
Provides a background for students who may be interested in learning about challenges & opportunities for improvement in health status for citizens in all countries. Although at the operational level, each national system is unique, there are common characteristics that permeate the design & structure of most health care delivery sectors. The major health reform activities occurring in developed & developing countries will be highlighted.
Prerequisite: Instructor Permission
Credits: 3
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PHS 5200 - U.S. Healthcare: Policy, Organization, and Administration
Examines the U.S. health care system from health policy, health systems, and health administration perspectives, with an emphasis on current challenges facing the financing, administration, and delivery of health services. Using a case-based method, the course will employ lecture, discussion, and student-led group projects that encourage analysis of real-world scenarios in today’s complex health and medical environments. May be open to undergraduates as PHS 5200 with instructor permission. Prerequisite: instructor permission.
Credits: 3
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PHS 5210 - Community Engagement for Research & Policy
This course is designed to introduce undergrads to a graduate level course. It will expose students to community-based factors that influence the health of populations and individuals. The principal objective of the class is to provide the rationale for meaningful engagement of diverse communities and introduce effective strategies that will enhance research and policy protocols designed to improve health status. Prerequisites: Instructor Permission
Credits: 1
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PHS 5212 - Community Health Assessment and Strategic Planning
This course will introduce ugrads to a grad level course. Concentrate on designing & completing comm hlth assessments & associated strategic planning to improve priority areas identified in these assessments. Emphasis will be on field work with local health departments. Students should be able to work independently as well as work well within multi-disciplinary groups.
Prerequisite: Instructor Permission
Credits: 2
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PHS 5213 - Community Health Assessment and Strategic Planning II
Introduce undergraduate to graduate level work. This course builds on community health assessment strategies used in PHS 5212 to do fieldwork with local health departments. This course is open to student who were in PHS 5212 as wll as those who were not.
Prerequisite: Instructor Permission
Credits: 2
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PHS 5250 - Public Health Ethics: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives
This interdisciplinary seminar focuses on the ethical dimensions of the choices societies and individuals make when addressing threats to and responsibilities for the public’s health. A range of philosophical theories and contemporary positions are examined to explore the complex concepts of “public” and “health.” Investigated are the impact of various understandings of the public, not only as a numerical population that can be defined and measured, but also as a political group that operates under legally defined obligations and relationships, and as a “communal” public with diverse cultural and moral beliefs. The various methods and content of public health ethics, including utilitarian perspectives and the role of the Code of Ethics for public health professionals are also examined. Prerequisite: Instructor permission.
Credits: 3
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PHS 5360 - Health Disparities
This seminar will explore the core issues and theoretical frameworks for the development of health policy and public health interventions to address health disparities. Students will examine the current epidemiological and social science evidence on both health status disparities and healthcare disparities among racial and ethnic minority populations, including data on mortality, longevity and life expectancy, quantitative and demographic analysis and access, and utilization of health services. The course also will explore the complex and poorly understood reasons for health disparities, which may largely reflect socioeconomic differences, differences in health-related risk factors, environmental factors, direct and indirect consequences of discrimination, and differences in access to health care. Finally, students will consider multifaceted ways to address disparities that focus on health care providers; health care delivery issues, such as access; and health system policies and regulations, such as insurance and quality improvement measures. Prerequisite: Instructor permission.
Credits: 3
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PHS 5380 - Environmental Health: Principles and Practices
Interdisciplinary approach to understanding, assessing, and controlling environmental factors that impact public health. Practical examples are used to help public health professionals understand how epidemiology, health surveillance, and exposure surveillance can be used to determine the potential for health problems that result from various environmental factors, and how monitoring and control techniques can reduce the impact of the environment on human health. Prerequisite: Instructor permission.
Credits: 3
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