PSY 101 - INTRODUCTION TO PSYCHOLOGY
This course is intended to provide you with an overview of the foundational concepts and principles of the field of psychology. This includes covering the history of psychology, formative individuals, key perspectives, fields of inquiry, and application into real-world phenomena. Key components of this course include: psychological systems and methods, structure and functions of the nervous and endocrine systems, learning, motivation and emotion, perception, memory, thought and language, personality, development, social cognition and behavior, psychopathology, and psychotherapy.
Offered: 5 week 2 (Dates 7/13/20 - 8/12/20)
PSY 230 - PSYCHOLOGICAL MEASUREMENT AND STATISTICS
Does sleep improve memory? Does having friends improve mental health? These questions can be examined through controlled scientific experiments. This course will teach students the methods of statistics that are used for exploring data collected in experiments and for evaluating scientific hypotheses. Students will learn how to apply the core statistical tools used in science such as t-tests, ANOVA, regression, and Chi-square tests. In addition, a basic introduction to bayesian statistics will be included.
Offered: 5 week 1 (Dates 6/8/20 - 7/9/20) and 5 week 2 (Dates 7/13/20 - 8/12/20)
PSY 290A - RESEARCH METHODS
Psychology majors must learn the content of psychology, but they also must learn how psychologists know what they know. Research Methods is a critical thinking skills class in which the main goal is to help you become a better consumer of information – both in psychology and in the real world. You will learn how to systematically evaluate the validity of different claims that you might encounter in classes, research articles, the media, or in casual conversation. This class will also teach you how to plan psychological research that can test different claims. You will learn to articulate the pros and cons of different research choices and plan research that optimizes these pros and cons.
Offered: 5 week 1 (Dates 6/8/20 - 7/9/20) and 5 Week 2 (Dates 7/13/20 - 8/12/20)
PSY 300 - COGNITIVE NEUROSCIENCE: MIND AND BRAIN
Explore 'the last frontier in science': the human brain. Go on a whirlwind tour of theories, tools, techniques, and findings of the highly interdisciplinary, growing field of cognitive neuroscience. Aim to understand how the human brain allows us to think, feel, imagine, and act in the world (and how developmental or abnormal occurrences -such as aging or head injury- change this).
Offered: 5 week 2 (Dates 7/13/20 - 8/12/20)
PSY 340 - INTRODUCTION TO COGNITIVE DEVELOPMENT
In this course you will learn how young children learn to think, starting in infancy and extending into early and middle childhood, along with theories and experimental methods used to study cognitive development. For example, you will learn about the negative effects of early media exposure, how children learn to take another person's perspective, that infants and toddlers understand much more than they can say, about the development of self-control, the reliability of children's eyewitness testimony, surprising ideas children have about the size of themselves and their toys, how well we can predict children's school performance from tests of basic cognitive processes, how children "learn" to learn, and the effect of culture on the developing mind. This is a Writing Emphasis course.
Offered: 5 week 2 (Dates 7/13/20 - 8/12/20)
PSY 360 - SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY
How did you know you did something bad as a child? How do you know if someone is an agreeable person when you’ve only seen their face? What’s love got to do with any of it? This course will introduce the major theories and research findings of social psychology. Specific topics covered in the class include social learning, social affect, the self, social perception, social interaction, and groups and culture.
Offered: 5 Week 2 (Dates 7/13/20 - 8/12/20)
PSY 364 - HUMAN SEXUALITY
How much do you really know about sex? This is an introductory course in human sexuality. We will spend our time discussing historical perspectives and cultural differences in sexuality, sexual anatomy, pregnancy and reproduction, sexual expression, relationships, and sexually deviant behaviors. By the end of this course, you will have a greater appreciation for the psychology of human sexuality and you will know a lot about sex. You will also learn numerous fun facts about human sexuality that you can share with your friends and family.
Offered: 5 week 2 (Dates 7/13/20 - 8/12/20)
PSY 381 - ABNORMAL PSYCHOLOGY
Who is most likely to suffer from a mental health disorder? What factors contribute to (and buffer against) the likelihood of developing a mental health disorder? Abnormal psychology is a branch of psychology that empirically studies abnormalities in cognition, emotion, and behavior. During this class, you will learn a broad overview of mental illness, with a special emphasis on the classification of mental illness by the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual 5 (DSM-5). Additionally, we will cover theoretical approaches to treating mental health problems and specific treatments that work and do not work for different diagnoses. Finally, students will be introduced to the biopsychosocial model and the causal theories behind diagnoses.
Offered: 5 Week 1 (Dates 6/8/20 - 7/9/20) and 5 Week 2 (Dates 7/13/20 - 8/12/20)
PSY 456 - PSYCHOLOGY OF DEATH AND LOSS
This course covers issues associated with education about death, dying, and bereavement. It will include topics on issues related to death itself, changing patterns of death-related encounters, attitudes and practices, issues related to dying, coping with loss and grief, conceptual and moral issues related to law, suicide, euthanasia, and the meaning of death in life. This course will also cover developmental issues in the field of death, dying, and bereavement as they are associated, in turn, with children, adolescents, young and middle-aged adults, and older adults. This is a Writing Emphasis course.
Offered: 5 week 2 (Dates 7/13/20 - 8/12/20)
PSY 480 - FORENSIC PSYCHOLOGY
The major goal of this course is to provide a broad overview of the field of forensics and the numerous ways that psychology interacts with the law. A good understanding of forensic psychology will benefit students entering into a number of professions including: corrections, child protective services, probation, mental health, forensic sciences, the law, etc. Forensic psychology addresses the application of psychological research, methods, and expertise to issues that come before the legal system. Some topics include, insanity, competency, jury-selection, expert-testimony, decision making, child custody, dangerousness, and interrogations.
Offered: 5 week 2 (Dates 7/13/20 - 8/12/20)