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Prerequisites/Corequisites: Credit Hours: Min: 1; Max: 30 Description: Open only to juniors and seniors with a grade point average of 3.0 or higher in their major courses. A maximum of three semester hours may be earned. All individual research projects are reviewed by three faculty members from two different disciplines. May be taken for credit […]

Prerequisites/Corequisites: Take PSYC-302. (Required, Previous). Credit Hours: Min: 3; Max: Description: Directed psychological research under the supervision of faculty member. Research content will vary depending upon faculty and student’s research interests. All individual research is reviewed by a faculty committee.

Prerequisites/Corequisites: Take PSYC-206. (Required, Previous). Credit Hours: Min: 3; Max: Description: This course provides an introduction to forensic psychology. Students will understand how the fields of psychology and law intersect in individual and public policy domains. Topics covered include roles of forensic psychologists, criminal responsibility and competence to stand trial, malingering, and trial consulting.

Prerequisites/Corequisites: Take PSYC-302. (Required, Previous). Credit Hours: Min: 2; Max: Description: Directed research in psychology guides students in detailed laboratory work such as behavioral coding of department research projects. Regular weekly lab meetings will include discussions of special topics and allow students to develop their own research questions. Students may earn a maximum of three […]

Prerequisites/Corequisites: Take PSYC-206. (Required, Previous). Credit Hours: Min: 3; Max: Description: A review of psychometric principles and a survey of tests dealing with intelligence, special aptitudes, personality, and attitudes.

Prerequisites/Corequisites: Take PSYC-317. (Required, Previous). Credit Hours: Min: 3; Max: Description: Continuation of Psychology 317 covering advanced methods and applications of operant, respondent, and observational learning principles and procedures used to develop and implement therapeutic behavior modification strategies in a variety of clinical, educational, family, and community settings with various populations (child and adult) to […]

Prerequisites/Corequisites: Take PSYC-206. (Required, Previous). Credit Hours: Min: 3; Max: Description: Study of human sensory and perceptual processes, including mechanisms by which the various sensory systems (vision, hearing, taste, touch, and smell) receive information from the environment. The student will gain an understanding of how humans interpret sensory information, and how that information subsequently impacts […]

Prerequisites/Corequisites: Take PSYC-206. (Required, Previous). Credit Hours: Min: 3; Max: Description: Survey of current perspectives on theory and research in the areas of emotion and motivation. The basic nature of emotion and its functions are covered, and both primary and secondary motivational systems are discussed. Neurobiological, physiological, developmental, cultural, and social influences are explored, and […]

Prerequisites/Corequisites: Take PSYC-206. (Required, Previous). Credit Hours: Min: 3; Max: Description: Overview of psychological, physiological, and computational methodologies used to understand the neural basis of cognitive processes such as vision and attention, learning and memory, reading and language, meaning and semantics, and the organization and control of action. The emphasis will be on how the […]

Prerequisites/Corequisites: Take PSYC-206. (Required, Previous). Credit Hours: Min: 3; Max: Description: Survey of biological, intrapersonal, and social theories of personality. Research methodology and assessment techniques as they relate to theories are reviewed.