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PSYC 101 INTRODUCTION TO PSYCHOLOGY Credits 3.00 Fall 99
* RESTRICTED DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP II
Overview of current research and theory in a variety of subareas of
psychology.
A FOUNDATION COURSE.
001 TTH 09:25AM-10:40AM HE*124 Schneider, David *CURRENT ENR: 32
002 MWF 10:00AM-10:50AM SS*106 Burnett, Sarah *CURRENT ENR: 35
PSYC 102 READINGS IN INTRO PSYCHOLOGY Credits 1.00 Fall 99
* DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP II
An optional discussion section accompanying Psyc 101 for the discussion
of theoretical and research papers in general psychology.
Concurrent registration in Psyc 101 required.
001 M 07:00PM-08:30PM SH*462 TBA *CURRENT ENR: 1
PSYC 202 INTRO TO SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY Credits 3.00 Fall 99
* DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP II
An introduction to the major theories and supporting research in social
psychology.
Prereq- Psyc 101.
001 TTH 10:50AM-12:05PM SH*301 Hebl, Mikki *CURRENT ENR: 85
PSYC 221 DEVELOPMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY Credits 3.00 Fall 99
* RESTRICTED DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP II
Focus on behavioral changes with age and general laws of development in
both human and nonhuman species.
Prereq- Psyc 101.
A FOUNDATION COURSE.
001 MW 12:30PM-01:50PM PL*AMP Schweingruber, Heidi *CURRENT ENR: 16
PSYC 308 MEMORY Credits 3.00 Fall 99
* DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP II
Critical review of traditional and contemporary approaches to the study
of remembering and forgetting.
Prereq- Psyc 101, 203 or permission of instructor.
Enrollment limited to 50.
001 TTH 09:25AM-10:40AM SH*303 Watkins, Michael *CURRENT ENR: 20
PSYC 330 PERSONALITY THEORY & RESEARCH Credits 3.00 Fall 99
* DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP II
Consideration of those aspects of personality emphasized by the major
theorists past and present.
Prereq- Psyc 101, 202.
Enrollment limited to 50.
001 TTH 02:30PM-03:50PM SH*305 Dipboye, Robert *CURRENT ENR: 20
PSYC 339 STATISTICAL METHODS-PSYCHOLOGY Credits 4.00 Fall 99
Introduction to quantitative and computer methods applicable to the
analysis of experimental data.
Prereq- 101 or permission of instructor.
Enrollment limited to 50.
Also offered as Stat 339.
001 TTH 01:00PM-02:20PM SH*301 Quinones, Miguel *CURRENT ENR: 48
PSYC 342 COMPUTER APPLICATIONS Credits 3.00 Fall 99
Introduction to the use of computers to collect data in psychological
research. The focus will be on the world web for collecting survey data
and data from online experiments using Dynamic HTML, JavaScript, and
Java. No pre-requisities and no prior programming experience is
required.
001 TTH 09:25AM-10:40AM SH*460 Lane, David *CURRENT ENR: 3
PSYC 350 PSYCHOLOGY OF LEARNING Credits 3.00 Fall 99
* DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP II
A consideration of historically important and modern perspectives on
learning. Both human and animal research will be discussed.
Prereq- Psyc 101, 203, or permission of instructor.
Enrollment limited to 20.
001 MWF 10:00AM-10:50AM SH*303 Brelsford, John *CURRENT ENR: 15
PSYC 352 FORMAL FOUNDATIONS OF COGNITIVE PSYCHOL Credits 3.00 Fall 99
Survey of mathematical concepts underlying Cognitive Science. Covers
basic topics in set-theory, fuzzy sets, computability, computational
complexity, automata, formal languages, logic, Bayesian probability, and
neural nets.
001 TTH 10:50AM-12:05PM SH*462 Osherson, Daniel *CURRENT ENR: 7
PSYC 360 THINKING Credits 3.00 Fall 99
* DISTRIBUTION COURSE: GROUP II
The study of higher mental processes such as forming concepts, solving
problems, making decisions, and reasoning.
Prereq- Psyc 101, 203, 339, 340 or permission of instructor.
001 MWF 09:00AM-09:50AM SH*303 Osherson, Daniel *CURRENT ENR: 5
PSYC 362 BIOPSYCHOLOGY Credits 3.00 Fall 99
An overview of the neurophysiological correlates of behavior.
Prereq- Psyc 101.
001 TTH 02:30PM-03:50PM SH*307 Potts, Geoff *CURRENT ENR: 29
PSYC 411 HISTORY OF PSYCHOLOGY Credits 3.00 Fall 99
The evolution of psychological theory from the ancient Greeks to the
present and the development of scientific approaches to the study of
human thought and behavior.
Prereq- Psyc 101, 202, 203.
001 TTH 01:00PM-02:20PM SH*462 Schneider, David *CURRENT ENR: 3
PSYC 432 BRAIN AND BEHAVIOR Credits 3.00 Fall 99
Cross-listed as CSCI 420.
001 T 03:00PM-05:20PM SH*462 Ro, Tony *CURRENT ENR: 1
PSYC 480 ADVANCED TOPICS Credits 3.00 Fall 99
Section 1: Language Production
Section 2: Advanced Topics
Section 3: Behavioral Medicine
001 T 02:30PM-05:00PM SH*462 Martin, Randi *CURRENT ENR: 6
002 TBA TBA TBA TBA *CURRENT ENR: 0
003 M 03:00PM-05:15PM SH*462 Diddel, Roberta *CURRENT ENR: 0
PSYC 485 SUPERVISED RESEARCH Credits 1.00 Fall 99
Supervised empirical research.
Limited to psychology majors.
Prereq- permission of instructor.
001 M 07:00PM-08:00PM SH*560 Brelsford, John *CURRENT ENR: 14
PSYC 488 SUPERVISED READING Credits 1.00 Fall 99
Supervised reading and discussion of published work in psychology.
Limited to psychology majors.
Prereq- permission of instructor.
001 M 07:00PM-08:00PM SH*560 Brelsford, John *CURRENT ENR: 4
PSYC 499 SENIOR THESIS Credits 3.00 Fall 99
Prereq- 101, 339, 340 and permission of instructor.
001 TBA TBA Brelsford, John *CURRENT ENR: 2
PSYC 502 ADV PSYCHOLOGICAL STATISTICS I Credits 3.00 Fall 99
Introduction to inferential statistics with emphasis on analysis of
variance and multiple regression.
Also offered as Stat 509.
001 TTH 01:00PM-02:20PM SH*462 Byrne, Michael *CURRENT ENR: 3
PSYC 504 COMPUTER APPLICATIONS Credits 1.00 Fall 99
Introduction to the use of computers to collect data in psychological
research. The focus will be on using the world wide web for collecting
survey data and data from online experiments using Dynamic HTML,
JavaScript, and Java. No pre-requisites and no prior programming
experience is required.
001 TTH 02:30PM-05:00PM SH*462 Lane, David *CURRENT ENR: 1
PSYC 510 TOPICS IN GENERAL PSYCHOLOGY Credits 3.00 Fall 99
Lectures or seminar discussions on topics of broad interest. An example
would be discussions of Great Books in Psychology.
001 TBA TBA TBA Dipboye, Robert *CURRENT ENR: 0
PSYC 511 HISTORY AND SYSTEMS OF PSYCHOLOGY Credits 3.00 Fall 99
The philosophical foundations of psychology, the development of
scientific models in the 19th century, 20th century schools of
psychology, the growth of fields of modern psychology.
001 TTH 01:00PM-02:20PM SH*462 Schneider, David *CURRENT ENR: 5
PSYC 521 PSYCHOLOGY OF PERCEPTION Credits 3.00 Fall 99
An overview of the sensory and cognitive processes involved in human
vision and audition.
001 TH 02:30PM-05:00PM SH*462 Potts, Geoff *CURRENT ENR: 5
PSYC 527 THINKING Credits 3.00 Fall 99
The study of such higher mental processes such as forming concepts,
solving problems, making decisions and reasoning.
001 MWF 09:00AM-09:50AM SH*303 Osherson, Daniel *CURRENT ENR: 1
PSYC 529 COGNITIVE RESEARCH SEMINAR Credits 1.00 Fall 99
A weekly student-staff seminar on current and recent research about
mental phenomena.
001 W 12:00PM-01:00PM SH*462 TBA *CURRENT ENR: 5
PSYC 530 FOUNDATIONS OF I/O PSYCHOLOGY Credits 3.00 Fall 99
Graduate level introduction to the study of human behavior in the work
setting.
Prereq- permission of instructor.
001 T 07:00PM-10:00PM SH*462 Dipboye, Robert *CURRENT ENR: 0
PSYC 533 I/O PSYCHOLOGY RESEARCH SEM Credits 3.00 Fall 99
A weekly meeting of student-staff to discuss current and recent research
in I/O Psychology.
001 F 01:00PM-04:00PM SH*462 Dipboye, Robert *CURRENT ENR: 7
PSYC 561 TEACHING IN PSYCHOLOGY Credits 3.00 Fall 99
Assistance in the teaching of undergraduate and occasionally graduate
courses in psychology.
001 TBA TBA TBA TBA *CURRENT ENR: 0
PSYC 571 FIRST YEAR PROJECT Credits 3.00 Fall 99
An individual research project undertaken in the Spring of the first
year of the graduate program.
001 TBA TBA Osherson, Daniel *CURRENT ENR: 0
PSYC 572 SECOND YEAR PROJECT Credits 3.00 Fall 99
An individual project undertaken during each semester of the second year
of the graduate program.
001 TBA TBA Osherson, Daniel *CURRENT ENR: 4
PSYC 573 NON-THESIS GRADUATE RESEARCH Credits 1.00 Fall 99
Individual research not for first or second year project or for thesis.
001 TBA TBA Dipboye, Robert *CURRENT ENR: 2
PSYC 602 PSYCHOMETRICS Credits 3.00 Fall 99
Test theory including reliability, validity, norms, sampling, and factor
analysis. Offered in alternate years.
001 W 01:00PM-04:00PM SH*462 Quinones, Miguel *CURRENT ENR: 7
PSYC 610 ADVANCED RESEARCH SEMINAR Credits 1.00 Fall 99
Weekly lunch-time talk by department graduate students and faculty.
001 TBA TBA TBA *CURRENT ENR: 0
PSYC 620 TOPICS IN COGN PSYC:LANG PROD Credits 3.00 Fall 99
Section 1 - LANGUAGE PRODUCTION
Section 2 - LOGIC
001 M 01:00PM-04:00PM SH*462 Martin, Randi *CURRENT ENR: 4
002 MW 10:00AM-10:50AM TBA Osherson, Daniel *CURRENT ENR: 0
002 F 10:00AM-11:50AM TBA Osherson, Daniel *CURRENT ENR: 0
PSYC 628 MEMORY RESEARCH SEMINAR Credits 1.00 Fall 99
A weekly seminar to discuss recent research in human memory.
001 F 04:00PM-05:30PM SH*462 Watkins, Michael *CURRENT ENR: 1
PSYC 629 PSYCHOLINGUISTICS RESEARCH SEM Credits 1.00 Fall 99
A weekly seminar to discuss recent research in psycholinguistics.
001 MTWTHF 12:00PM-12:50PM SH*462 Martin, Randi *CURRENT ENR: 4
PSYC 632 LEADERSHIP THEORY & RESEARCH Credits 3.00 Fall 99
Examination of the major psychological approaches to the study of
leadership. Emphasis is on theory and practice in formal
organizations. Offered every three years.
001 MW 04:00PM-06:00PM SH*462 Hebl, Michelle *CURRENT ENR: 7
PSYC 639 I/O PSYCHOLOGY INTERNSHIP Credits 1.00 Fall 99
Supervised experience in organizational and/or personnel psychology.
001 TBA TBA Dipboye, Robert *CURRENT ENR: 1
PSYC 640 TOPICS IN ENGINEERING PSYC: Credits 3.00 Fall 99
001 TTH 05:00PM-06:30PM SH*462 TBA *CURRENT ENR: 0
002 TBA TBA Lane, David *CURRENT ENR: 0
PSYC 700 THESIS RESEARCH Credits 1.00 Fall 99
Research for the masters thesis.
001 TBA TBA Osherson, Daniel *CURRENT ENR: 6
PSYC 800 DISSERTATION RESEARCH Credits 1.00 Fall 99
Research for the doctoral dissertation.
001 TBA TBA Osherson, Daniel *CURRENT ENR: 11
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