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USC Catalogue 2018-2019 [ARCHIVED CATALOGUE]

Courses of Instruction

The terms indicated are expected but are not guaranteed. For the courses offered during any given term, consult the Schedule of Classes.
 

Pharmaceutical Sciences
  

  • PSCI 794a Doctoral Dissertation

    Units: 2
    Terms Offered: FaSpSm
    Credit on acceptance of dissertation.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: In-progress to Credit/No Credit

  

  • PSCI 794b Doctoral Dissertation

    Units: 2
    Terms Offered: FaSpSm
    Credit on acceptance of dissertation.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: In-progress to Credit/No Credit

  

  • PSCI 794c Doctoral Dissertation

    Units: 2
    Terms Offered: FaSpSm
    Credit on acceptance of dissertation.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: In-progress to Credit/No Credit

  

  • PSCI 794d Doctoral Dissertation

    Units: 2
    Terms Offered: FaSpSm
    Credit on acceptance of dissertation.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: In-progress to Credit/No Credit

  

  • PSCI 794z Doctoral Dissertation

    Units: 0
    Terms Offered: FaSpSm
    Credit on acceptance of dissertation.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: In-progress to Credit/No Credit


Psychology
  

  • PSYC 100Lg Introduction to Psychology

    Units: 4
    Terms Offered: FaSpSm
    Introduction to psychological science, including historical and contemporary approaches. Behavior examined from biological, cognitive, social, developmental, and personality perspectives. Disorders and treatments.
    Satisfies New General Education in Category D: Life Sciences
    Instruction Mode: Lecture, Lab Required
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • PSYC 165Lg Drugs, Behavior and Society

    Units: 4
    Terms Offered: Irregular
    An integrative systems perspective of drugs; including their historical, economic, and cultural importance, psychopharmacology, addiction, relationship to crime, and therapeutic use in treating psychological disorders.
    Satisfies New General Education in Category D: Life Sciences
    Satisfies Old General Education in Category IV: Science and Its Significance
    Instruction Mode: Lecture, Lab Required
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • PSYC 201Lg The Science of Happiness

    Units: 4
    Evaluates scientific research on human happiness. Integrates research from psychology, economics, and neuroscience in the evaluation of personal and public policy choices.
    Satisfies Old General Education in Category IV: Science and Its Significance
    Instruction Mode: Lecture, Lab Required
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • PSYC 210gmw Social Analysis of Gender

    Units: 4
    Terms Offered: FaSp
    (Enroll in SWMS 210 )
    Satisfies Global Perspective in Category G: Citizenship in a Diverse World
  

  • PSYC 240gx Scientific Inquiry and Reasoning in Health Care

    Units: 4
    Critical analysis and reasoning skills required to solve scientific problems in human behavior, including presentation of data, logic of research design, statistics, and research ethics.
    Satisfies New General Education in Category F: Quantitative Reasoning
    Credit Restriction: Not for major credit for Psychology majors
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • PSYC 274Lg Statistics

    Units: 4
    Terms Offered: FaSpSm
    Introduction to the use of statistics in psychology: basic ideas in measurement; frequency distributions; descriptive statistics; concepts and procedures in statistical inference.
    Recommended Preparation: PSYC 100 .
    Satisfies New General Education in Category F: Quantitative Reasoning
    Instruction Mode: Lecture, Lab Required
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • PSYC 275Lg Language and Mind

    Units: 4
    Terms Offered: FaSp
    (Enroll in LING 275 )
  

  • PSYC 290x Supervised Research in Psychology

    Units: 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8
    Max Units: 8.0
    Terms Offered: FaSpSm
    Supervised Research with department faculty.
    Prerequisite: PSYC 100 .
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • PSYC 301L Cognitive Processes

    Units: 4
    Terms Offered: Irregular
    Experimental and theoretical aspects of human memory, perception, thinking, and language.
    Prerequisite: PSYC 100 .
    Instruction Mode: Lecture, Lab Required
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • PSYC 304L Sensation and Perception

    Units: 4
    Terms Offered: Irregular
    Receptor processes and stimulus organization; traditional topics in the perception of objects, space, time.
    Prerequisite: PSYC 100 .
    Instruction Mode: Lecture, Lab Required
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • PSYC 305 Learning and Memory

    Units: 4
    Terms Offered: Irregular
    Principles involved in classical and operant conditioning. Concentration on basic causes of behavior; consideration of the relevance of simple behavioral laws to complicated human behavior.
    Prerequisite: PSYC 100 .
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • PSYC 314L Research Methods

    Units: 4
    Terms Offered: FaSpSm
    Experimental research methods in psychology; nature and concepts of scientific method.
    Prerequisite: PSYC 100  and PSYC 274 .
    Instruction Mode: Lecture, Lab Required
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • PSYC 316L Non-Experimental Research Methods

    Units: 4
    Terms Offered: FaSpSm
    Non-experimental research methods in psychology. Observational, survey and data analysis exercises.
    Prerequisite: PSYC 100  and PSYC 314 .
    Instruction Mode: Lecture, Lab Required
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • PSYC 320 Principles of Psychobiology

    Units: 4
    Terms Offered: Irregular
    The integrative study of bio-behavioral systems. Evolutionary, developmental, ecological, social, ethological, and physiological factors mediating representative behavioral and psychological phenomenon are examined in detail.
    Prerequisite: PSYC 100Lg 
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • PSYC 326 Behavioral Neuroscience

    Units: 4
    Terms Offered: FaSp
    Neural bases of behavior. Concentration on sensory and motor processes and the interaction of neural, chemical, and hormonal systems.
    Prerequisite: PSYC 100 .
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • PSYC 336L Developmental Psychology

    Units: 4
    Terms Offered: FaSp
    Child and adolescent behavior and associated theories; exploration of the continuity between child and adult behavior.
    Prerequisite: PSYC 100 .
    Instruction Mode: Lecture, Lab Required
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • PSYC 337L Adult Development and Aging

    Units: 4
    Genetic, physical, and social influences during adult years on perception, learning and memory, intelligence, personality, social roles, and normal and deviant behavioral patterns.
    Prerequisite: PSYC 100 .
    Instruction Mode: Lecture, Lab Required
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • PSYC 339Lg Origins of the Mind

    Units: 4
    Terms Offered: Sp
    Exploration of ancient philosophical questions concerning the origins of human knowledge through empirical studies of infants, animals, and adults from diverse cultures.
    Satisfies New General Education in Category D: Life Sciences
    Satisfies Old General Education in Category IV: Science and Its Significance
    Instruction Mode: Lecture, Lab Required
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • PSYC 353g Close Relationships

    Units: 4
    Terms Offered: FaSp
    Scientific perspective of close relationships: intimate relationships, friendships and others, evolutionary and biological bases of attraction and love, historical, social , cultural influences.
    Prerequisite: PSYC 100 .
    Satisfies New General Education in Category C: Social Analysis
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • PSYC 355 Social Psychology

    Units: 4
    Terms Offered: FaSp
    Theoretical and experimental analysis of human behavior. Social processes involved in attitudes, conformity, compliance, interpersonal perception, liking, affiliation, aggression, altruism, and group dynamics.
    Prerequisite: PSYC 100 .
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • PSYC 360 Abnormal Psychology

    Units: 4
    Terms Offered: FaSp
    The commonly diagnosed behavior pathologies; biological, social, cultural, and developmental antecedents of abnormal behavior; principles of learning, perception, and motivation, as they relate to psychopathology.
    Prerequisite: PSYC 100 .
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • PSYC 361 Introduction to Clinical Psychology

    Units: 4
    Terms Offered: Irregular
    Introduction to the scientist-practitioner model of clinical psychology, including research methods, psychological assessment and diagnosis, psychotherapeutic interventions, and treatment of special populations.
    Prerequisite: PSYC 100 .
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • PSYC 363 Criminal Behavior

    Units: 4
    Genetic, biological, psychological, and sociological characteristics of those who evidence criminal behavior; theoretical formulations to be reviewed and appraised.
    Prerequisite: PSYC 100 .
    Duplicates Credit in the former PSYC 463.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • PSYC 365 Introduction to Forensic Psychology

    Units: 4
    Terms Offered: FaSpSm
    Survey of current topics, technologies and techniques. Students acquire a basic understanding of how forensic psychologists contribute their unique expertise to the American legal system.
    Prerequisite: PSYC 100 .
    Duplicates Credit in the former PSYC 465.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • PSYC 367g Stress, Health, and the Mind-Body Connection

    Units: 4
    Terms Offered: Fa
    Introduction to psychological, biological, and behavioral processes affecting physical health, including stress, coping with disease, health behaviors, and socioeconomic and cultural influences on health.
    Prerequisite: PSYC 100  
    Satisfies New General Education in Category C: Social Analysis
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • PSYC 372 Human Sexuality

    Units: 4
    Psychological and physiological base of sexuality; gender identity, childbearing, birth control, venereal diseases; dysfunctions and treatments.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

    Crosslisted as SWMS-372
  

  • PSYC 380 Junior Honors Seminar

    Units: 2, 3, 4
    Max Units: 8.0
    Terms Offered: Sp
    Advanced study of scientific inquiry in psychology with in-depth analysis of current research by faculty in the Psychology Department. Preparation for senior honors thesis research.
    Corequisite: PSYC 314 .
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • PSYC 390 Special Problems

    Units: 1, 2, 3, 4
    Supervised, individual studies. No more than one registration permitted. Enrollment by petition only.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • PSYC 391 Directed Field Experience in Psychology

    Units: 1, 2, 3, 4
    Max Units: 4.0
    Terms Offered: FaSpSm
    Individual field experience and independent study supervised by an on-site professional and USC faculty sponsor.
    Prerequisite: PSYC 100 ;
    Recommended Preparation: minimum of three courses completed in psychology.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • PSYC 404L Psychophysiology of Emotion

    Units: 4
    Terms Offered: Irregular
    Introduction to the scientific study of emotional behavior. Emphasizes research into relations between physiological and psychological variables underlying emotional experience.
    Prerequisite: PSYC 100 , PSYC 274 , and PSYC 314 .
    Instruction Mode: Lecture, Lab Required
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • PSYC 405 Child Language Acquisition

    Units: 4
    (Enroll in LING 405 )
  

  • PSYC 406 Psycholinguistics

    Units: 4
    (Enroll in LING 406 )
  

  • PSYC 407 Atypical Language

    Units: 4
    (Enroll in LING 407 )
  

  • PSYC 412 Current Topics In Social Psychology

    Units: 4
    Terms Offered: Sp
    Extensive examination of select current research in social psychology, based on original research papers. Specific topics change by semester.
    Prerequisite: PSYC 274Lg  and PSYC 314L 
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • PSYC 415L Psychological Measurement

    Units: 4
    Classical and modern approaches to psychological measurement; scaling; test construction; true score reliability model; generalizability theory; validity; decision theoretic selection; item analysis; item response theory.
    Prerequisite: PSYC 314 .
    Instruction Mode: Lecture, Lab Required
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • PSYC 418 Experimental Exploration into the Origins of Cognition

    Units: 4
    Exploration of the origins of cognition via the basics of experimental design, 3D computer modeling, data analysis, and scientific presentation.
    Recommended Preparation: PSYC 314  or background in experimental research.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • PSYC 420 Animal Behavior

    Units: 4
    Exploration of human nature through studies of nonhuman animals, including topics of navigation, culture, object representation, social cognition, music, and morality.
    Prerequisite: PSYC 100 .
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • PSYC 421L Data Analysis for Psychological Research

    Units: 4
    Multivariate analysis emphasizing model estimation and testing; topics vary, e.g., multiple regression, logistic regression, factor analysis, multilevel linear modeling, structural equation modeling, multiway frequency analysis.
    Prerequisite: PSYC 314 .
    Instruction Mode: Lecture, Lab Required
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • PSYC 422 Human Judgment and Decision Making

    Units: 4
    Descriptive and normative models of decision making; topics include probability judgments, inference, correlation, emotion, mental accounting, decision analysis, lens model, equity, social dilemmas, time, risk.
    Prerequisite: PSYC 314 .
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • PSYC 423 User Experience

    Units: 4
    Terms Offered: FaSp
    (Enroll in MDA 423 )
  

  • PSYC 424 Neuropsychology

    Units: 4
    Terms Offered: Irregular
    Effects of brain damage on human behavior and abilities, particularly language, memory, and emotion.
    Prerequisite: PSYC 100Lg  
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

    Crosslisted as NEUR 422
  

  • PSYC 425 Functional Imaging of the Human Brain

    Units: 4
    Terms Offered: Irregular
    Introduction to the physical and physiological bases of Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI), and principles of functional MRI, safety, design and analysis of experiments, and operation.
    Prerequisite: PSYC 100Lg  and PSYC 274Lg 
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • PSYC 426 Motivated Behaviors and Addiction

    Units: 4
    Terms Offered: Other
    Social, environmental, and physiological influences on behaviors associated with aggression, eating, reproduction, and sleep. Will focus on behavioral disorders such as addiction.
    Prerequisite: PSYC 100  
    Recommended Preparation: Junior or Senior Standing
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • PSYC 428 Advanced Psychobiology Seminar

    Units: 4
    Terms Offered: FaSp
    Topics in psychobiology, including brain mechanisms that provide for perception, motivation, and memory. Student led mini-lectures and discussion in seminar format.
    Prerequisite: PSYC 304L  or PSYC 326 
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • PSYC 430 Social Development of Infants, Children and Adolescents

    Units: 4
    An analysis of selected topics and issues in child social development.
    Prerequisite: PSYC 100 ;
    Recommended Preparation: PSYC 274 , PSYC 314 , PSYC 336 .
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • PSYC 433 Children’s Learning and Cognitive Development

    Units: 4
    Principles of cognitive development, learning, and motivation applied to the development of literacy; includes tutoring a child two hours per week.
    Prerequisite: PSYC 336 .
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

    Crosslisted as LING-433
  

  • PSYC 434 Intelligence, Problem Solving and Creativity

    Units: 4
    Psychometric and experimental approaches to the study of intelligence, problem solving, reasoning and creativity, including analysis of mental test construction and validity.
    Prerequisite: PSYC 100  and PSYC 274 .
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • PSYC 437 Adolescent Development

    Units: 4
    Terms Offered: FaSp
    The adolescent years from both an applied and a research-oriented perspective. Topics include physical, cognitive, and moral development; socialization; and sexual and sex-role development.
    Prerequisite: PSYC 100 .
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • PSYC 438 Behavioral Genetics

    Units: 4
    Terms Offered: Irregular
    Inheritance and evolution of behavioral characteristics in man and other species.
    Prerequisite: PSYC 274 .
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • PSYC 440 Introduction to Cognitive Neuroscience

    Units: 4
    Terms Offered: Sp
    Introduction to the major components of cognition (perception, memory, intelligence) in terms of the neural coding characteristic of the relevant brain areas.
    Prerequisite: PSYC 100 .
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

    Crosslisted as NEUR-440
  

  • PSYC 450 Neural Network Models of Social and Cognitive Processes

    Units: 4
    Terms Offered: Irregular
    Introduction to using neural network or connectionist models to simulate cognitive, social, emotional and motivational processes; basic concepts and tools in computational neuroscience.
    Prerequisite: PSYC 100Lg 
    Recommended Preparation: Basic knowledge of programming is helpful, but not required
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • PSYC 451 Formation and Change of Attitudes

    Units: 4
    Terms Offered: Irregular
    Effects of socialization, personal influence, propaganda and social structure on private attitudes and public opinion.
    Prerequisite: PSYC 100  and PSYC 355 .
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • PSYC 453 Intergroup Relations

    Units: 4
    Examination of the nature of relations between human groups and the psychological mechanisms relating to intergroup conflict, war, genocide, stereotyping, prejudice, and discrimination.
    Prerequisite: PSYC 355 .
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • PSYC 454 Social Cognition

    Units: 4
    Terms Offered: Irregular
    Theory and research on cognitive processes in social behavior, to include social inference, cognition and emotion, the Self, social categorization, person memory, and attribution processes.
    Prerequisite: PSYC 100 ; PSYC 355  recommended.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • PSYC 456 Conservation Psychology

    Units: 4
    Terms Offered: Fa
    Examination of theories, research, interventions regarding psychology of environmental sustainability including cognition, emotion, behavior, attitudes, persuasion, values, social identity, consumerism, and science of happiness.
    Recommended Preparation: PSYC 100Lg  
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • PSYC 459 Industrial/Organizational Psychology

    Units: 4
    I/O Psychologists develop and apply scientifically supported solutions to the workplace. “Industrial” deals with human resource functions, and “Organizational” with psychological aspects of the organization.
    Prerequisite: PSYC 100 
    Recommended Preparation: PSYC 316 
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • PSYC 462m Culture and Mental Health

    Units: 4
    Terms Offered: Irregular
    The influence of culture, ethnicity, race and gender on human behavior. Mental health issues relevant to ethnic minorities in the U.S.
    Recommended Preparation: sophomore standing or higher; PSYC 100 .
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • PSYC 464 Psychology of Marriage and the Family

    Units: 4
    Theories and research on family relationships across the life span, including research methods, cultural and developmental perspectives, communication, conflict, attachment, individual psychopathology and family violence.
    Prerequisite: PSYC 100 .
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • PSYC 469 Schizophrenia Research

    Units: 4
    Terms Offered: Irregular
    Current research on possible causes of schizophrenia. Topics: history, diagnosis, genetics, neural development, obstetrics, psychosocial factors, brain imaging, psychopharmacology, premorbid signs and aging.
    Prerequisite: PSYC 100 ;
    Recommended Preparation: read current professional journals related to schizophrenia.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • PSYC 480x Senior Honors Seminar

    Units: 2, 3, 4
    Max Units: 8.0
    Terms Offered: Sp
    Advanced study of empirical approaches in psychology. Progress presentations and evaluations of Senior Honors Thesis research. In-depth exploration of issues in science.
    Prerequisite: senior standing in Psychology Undergraduates Honors Program.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • PSYC 490x Directed Research

    Units: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8
    Max Units: 12.0
    Terms Offered: FaSpSm
    Individual research and readings.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • PSYC 499 Special Topics

    Units: 2, 3, 4
    Max Units: 8.0
    Terms Offered: FaSp
    Selected topics in the various specialty areas within psychology. Topic will vary from semester to semester.
    Prerequisite: PSYC 100 .
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • PSYC 500L An Overview of Quantitative Methods in Psychology

    Units: 4
    Team taught introduction to analysis of variance, regression analysis, multivariate measurement, and significance testing. Computer laboratory linked to class material using SAS, SPSS, and R.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture, Lab Required
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • PSYC 501L Classic and Modern Statistical Methods I

    Units: 4
    Terms Offered: Fa
    An introduction to classic statistical techniques as well as modern robust methods for dealing violations of standard assumptions.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture, Lab Required
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • PSYC 502 Classic and Modern Statistical Methods II

    Units: 4
    Terms Offered: Sp
    Classic and modern ANOVA, ANCOVA methods, multiple comparison procedures, basic multivariate methods, robust regression methods and basic methods for analyzing categorical data.
    Prerequisite: PSYC 501L 
    Instruction Mode: Lecture, Lab
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • PSYC 503L Regression and the General Linear Model

    Units: 4
    Terms Offered: Fa
    Multiple regression as a tool in experimental and non-experimental data; analysis of variance and covariance as regression on coded variables. Computer applications Laboratory exercises.
    Prerequisite: PSYC 501 .
    Instruction Mode: Lecture, Lab Required
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • PSYC 504 Research Design

    Units: 4
    Terms Offered: Sp
    Intensive review of research methods in the behavioral sciences. Problem analysis, formulation of research propositions, and procedures for research inference.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • PSYC 505 Research Methods in Applied Social Psychology

    Units: 4
    Terms Offered: FaSpSm
    Various research techniques that are useful in a variety of different real world settings, such as business, governmental agencies and charities.
    Registration Restriction: Open only to M.S., Applied Psychology students.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • PSYC 506 Learning and Cognition

    Units: 4
    Terms Offered: Irregular
    Survey of learning theory and research, including conditioning and information-processing approaches with human and animal subjects.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • PSYC 508 Historical Foundations of Psychology

    Units: 4
    Terms Offered: Irregular
    History of psychology: clinical, cognitive, developmental, experimental, quantitative, and social; epistemology and philosophy of science as applied to psychology.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • PSYC 512 Seminar in Social Psychology

    Units: 4
    Terms Offered: Fa
    Problems and theories of the person in the social context. Person perception, interpersonal relations, attitude dynamics, social systems.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

    Crosslisted as EDUC-601
  

  • PSYC 513 Attitudes and Social Influence

    Units: 4
    Terms Offered: FaSpSm
    Current theories of attitudes and behavior, measurement, attitudes as predictors of behaviors, effects on changing attitudes and behavior.
    Registration Restriction: Open only to M.S., Applied Psychology students.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • PSYC 514 Psychopathology

    Units: 4
    Terms Offered: Fa
    Study of psychopathology: in-depth survey of theory and research concerning psychological disorders; introduction of diagnosis. (One of three clinical psychology core courses: PSYC 514, PSYC 515 , PSYC 619 .)
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • PSYC 515 Clinical Assessment

    Units: 4
    Terms Offered: Fa
    Study of clinical assessment: test construction, measurement and prediction of behavior, major cognitive and personality assessment instruments. (One of three clinical psychology core courses: PSYC 514  , PSYC 515, PSYC 619 .)
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • PSYC 517 Group Dynamics and Leadership

    Units: 4
    Terms Offered: FaSpSm
    Theory and research on effective teams and characteristics of strong leaders. Negotiation, morale-building, managing expectancies, utilization of cultural diversity as a strength.
    Registration Restriction: Open only to M.S., Applied Psychology students.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • PSYC 520 Fundamentals of Psychological Measurement

    Units: 4
    Factor analysis; latent variable; scaling; test construction; classical true score reliability model; generalizability theory; validity; decision theoretic approaches to selection; item analysis; item response theory.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • PSYC 521 Cross Cultural Psychology in Applied Settings

    Units: 4
    Terms Offered: FaSpSm
    Examination of major theoretical frameworks mapping worldwide cultures and values with a focus on applying that knowledge in organizations.
    Registration Restriction: Open only to students in Applied Psychology.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • PSYC 524 Research Design in Developmental Psychology

    Units: 4
    Terms Offered: Irregular
    Review and practice in the analysis and design of experimental and quasiexperimental paradigms for research on ontogenetic age changes and generational differences in behavior.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • PSYC 530 Concepts and Principles of Behavior Analysis

    Units: 3
    Terms Offered: Fa
    Provides intensive training in behavioral principles and laws of learning and motivation. Focuses on broad application of principles, from basic research with nonhumans, to application across human clinical populations.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • PSYC 531 Behavioral Assessment

    Units: 2
    Terms Offered: Fa
    Studies theory and application of behavioral methods for skill assessment, functional assessment of destructive behavior, and learner motivation. Discusses relative strengths and limitations of direct versus indirect methods.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • PSYC 532 Ethics for Behavior Analysts

    Units: 3
    Terms Offered: Fa
    Provides training in legal and ethical issues as they pertain to the professional practice of behavior analysis. Reviews the Guidelines for Responsible Conduct for Behavior Analysts, as well as the American Psychological Association’s Ethical Principles of Psychologists and Code of Conduct.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • PSYC 533 Cognitive Development in Children

    Units: 4
    Terms Offered: Sp
    Review of theories of cognitive development. Analysis of research on brain functioning, perception, memory, language, reasoning and academic skills from birth to adolescence.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • PSYC 534 Social and Emotional Development in Children

    Units: 4
    Terms Offered: Fa
    Theories of social and emotional development, including sociocultural perspectives. Analysis of research on temperament, social relationships, individuation and moral development from birth to adolescence.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • PSYC 535 Research Methods in Behavior Analysis

    Units: 3
    Terms Offered: Sp
    Survey of methods for measuring behavior. Examines theoretical background for single subject research methods, practical application of research methods to treatment evaluation, and analyzes strengths and limitations of single subject research methods.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • PSYC 536 Behavioral Interventions

    Units: 3
    Terms Offered: Sp
    Examines empirically supported behavioral interventions across a range of socially relevant behavioral excesses, skill deficits, disorders, and age ranges. Focuses on least-intrusive, person-centered approaches.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • PSYC 537 Development and Supervision of Intervention Systems

    Units: 2
    Terms Offered: Fa
    Analyzes evidence-based approaches to designing behavior change systems at the individual, family, group, and organizational levels. Examines family and systems variables that affect the likelihood of initial and continued success of interventions.
    Prerequisite: PSYC 530  and PSYC 536 
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • PSYC 538 Origins of Human Nature

    Units: 4
    Exploration of the evolutionary and developmental origins of human nature. Topics include navigation, object and number cognition, culture, sexual behavior, cooperation, language, and morality.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • PSYC 539 Behavioral Approaches to Skill Acquisition

    Units: 2
    Terms Offered: Fa
    Examines contemporary research on behavioral procedures for teaching complex skills to individuals of a variety ages and populations, including language, social, cognitive, vocational, and independent living skills. 
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • PSYC 540 Cognitive Neuroscience

    Units: 4
    Terms Offered: Sp
    An examination of the major components of cognition (e.g., perception, memory, intelligence) in terms of the neural coding characteristic of the relevant brain areas.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

    Crosslisted as NSCI 533
  

  • PSYC 544 Psychophysiology

    Units: 4
    Max Units: 8.0
    Terms Offered: Irregular
    Recent research on relations between basic psychological states (e.g., cognition, learning, emotion) and physiological response processes (e.g., autonomic responses, covert muscle activity).
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • PSYC 545 Neuropsychology

    Units: 4
    Terms Offered: Irregular
    Brain mechanisms underlying perceptual and cognitive functioning: brain damage, loss of function, and clinical assessment.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • PSYC 547 Functional Neuroanatomy

    Units: 4
    Terms Offered: Irregular
    Regional organization and systems of the mammalian nervous system and their functions.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • PSYC 550a Proseminar in Human Behavior

    Units: 4
    Terms Offered: FaSpSm
    The nature of the human mind, social interactions, conflicts, cooperative behavior, mutual influence and effectiveness. Application of psychological principles to the dynamics of commercial entities.
    Registration Restriction: Open only to M.S., Applied Psychology students.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • PSYC 550b Proseminar in Human Behavior

    Units: 4
    Terms Offered: FaSpSm
    The nature of the human mind, social interactions, conflicts, cooperative behavior, mutual influence and effectiveness. Application of psychological principles to the dynamics of commercial entities.
    Registration Restriction: Open only to M.S., Applied Psychology students.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • PSYC 551 Decision Neuroscience

    Units: 4
    Neuroscientific studies attempting to understand the neural basis of judgment and decision-making, social behavior, and market economies.
    Recommended Preparation: PSYC 547 .
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

 

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