Courses

• GRS PS 751: Personality Theory
  Examines the major contemporary approaches to personality and clinical psychology. Through a mixture of classic and current research and theory, addresses psychodynamic, cognitive-social, trait, biological, humanistic/existential and cultural approaches.
• GRS PS 754: Forensic Psychology
  Examines scope, empirical foundations, and ethicl issues of forensic psychology. Topics include eyewitness testimony; use of hypnosis, polygraphs, and criminal profiling; scientific jury selection; risk assessment; child abuse evaluations; and determinations of insanity, competency, and child custody.
• GRS PS 761: Major Issues in Social Psychology
  Empirical and theoretical approaches to selected areas of social psychology. Includes interpersonal behavior, attitude formation and change, social comparison processes, and group behavior.
• GRS PS 770: Ethics in Psychology
  Designed for graduate students in psychology and related fields who plan to be engaged in some form of the practice of psychology. Topics include ethics of clinical and consulting practice, of teaching, and of psychological research.
• GRS PS 772: Clinical Psychological Assessment of Adults
  Theoretical and empirical bases for diagnostic and structured interviews, standardized cognitive tests, psychopathology rating scales, projective methods, and tools for evaluating community systems and epidemiology. Administration, scoring, and general principles of clinical interpretation of representative measures (WAIS, MMPI, Social Networks Inventory, Rorschach).
• GRS PS 773: Clinical Psychological Assessment of Children and Families
  Clinical applications of and theoretical and empirical bases for structured diagnostic and play interviews, standardized cognitive and personality tests, and projective methods. Administration and clinical interpretation of representative measures (e.g.WISC-R, Rorschach and Family genograms).
• GRS PS 774: Clinical Psychological Assessment of Adults Practicum
  Note: Must co-register for GRS PS 772. This course is the applied practicum course for Clinical Psychological Assessment of Adults (PS 772). It is designed to provide a comprehensive, applied experience in psychological assessment report writing and the administration, scoring, cognitive/intellectual and personality functioning.
• GRS PS 790: Family Theory and Research
  Basic and applied issues in family studies. Psychological theory and research are reviewed; problems in studying the family historically and cross-culturally are considered. Applied psychological issues include gender roles, identity and intimacy, and family interaction.
• GRS PS 791: Psychology of Social Oppression
  Primary focus on academic research and theoretical models as applied to people of color. The psychologist in minority settings, program development, cross-cultural research issues; alternative models of traditional psychological theories.
• GRS PS 822: Visual Perception
  Theory and data relating to contemporary problems in visual perception.
• GRS PS 824: Cognitive Psychology
  This class provides an in-depth introduction to major contemporary issues related to cognitive psychology and human information processing, including acquisition of information from stimuli, feature integration, and top-down effects on perception and recognition.
• GRS PS 828: Seminar in Psycholinguistics
  Psycholinguistics use techniques of experimental psychology to construct and test theories of the mental processes mediating adult language comprehension and production. Seminar includes reading current papers on biological bases, crosslinguistic research, and processing the word, sentence, and discourse levels of language.
• GRS PS 829: Principles of Neuropsychology
  Central nervous system processes underlying memory, language, cognition, emotion, sensory functioning, and motor function in normal and pathological conditions. Theory, experimental findings, and reference to clinical cases.
• GRS PS 832: Physiological Psychology
  Anatomical and functional units of nervous system: neuron gross anatomy of nervous system, functioning of brain as a whole, autonomous rhythmic activity, peripheral stimulation, and central activity.
• GRS PS 835: Attention
  The goal of this course is to familiarize students with psycholoical and physiological aspects of attention. Participants are expected to present a chapter of the textbook and/or a selected paper.
• GRS PS 836: Molecules and Behavior
  New methodologies in molecular genetics applying animial models to the study of behavior. Topics include the biological bases of behavior; molecular, genetic analysis of neurological disorders; and issues in gene therapy.
• GRS PS 840: Developmental Behavioral Genetics
  This course provides an overview of human behavioral genetic theory, methods, and research as they relate to behavioral development and other psychological issues. Current research examining genetic and environmental contributions to individual differences in behavior will be discussed and critically evaluated.
• GRS PS 847: Atypical Development
  Focus on the nature of developmental disabilities (e.g. mental retardation, autism, sensory, motor, and communication disorders, learning disabilities), on how studying atypicality can broaden our understanding of normal development, and on how developmental theory can guide study of disorders.
• GRS PS 860: Child Therapy
  Child therapy cases and processes are explored from a multitheoretical perspective including systems, analytic, and cognitive-behavioral theories. Empirical research on therapies for specific disorders (e.g., conduct disorders, eating disorders, etc.) are also discussed.
• GRS PS 874: Seminar: Psychotherapy
  Basic clinical concepts of psychotherapy and their application in the treatment of personality and behavior disorders. Case materials from the students' and instructor's therapeutic work used to illustrate special problems.

Back to full list of Graduate School of Arts & Sciences