Courses

• GRS PO 796: Ethics and the Use of Force
  Acquaints students with the great debates in the ethics and law of war, and examines how the resort to and conduct of war is, or is not, circumscribed by normative concerns.
• GRS PO 840: Political Analysis
  An introduction to methodological issues faced in empirical work across the social sciences, with primary reference to political science. Addresses issues using different empirical approaches -- qualitative or quantitative, experimental or observational -- to any sort of theory.
• GRS PO 841: Quantitative Research Methods
  An introduction to probability, descriptive statistics, hypothesis testing, and ordinary least squares regression analysis as used in the social sciences. Emphasizes both theory and applications.
• GRS PO 843: Techniques in Political Analysis: Maximum Likelihood Estimation
  An applied course in quantitative empirical analysis on maximum likelihood models of inference. Topics may include hypothesis testing, linear regression, binary response models, ordered response models, and event count models.
• GRS PS 699: Teaching of Psychology I
  Goals, contents, and methods of instruction in psychology. General teaching-learning issues. Required of all new teaching fellows. Yearlong course.
• GRS PS 704: Contemporary Trends in Psychology
  MA and PhD proseminar. Topics vary. Descriptions available in the main office of the Psychology Department.
• GRS PS 711: Statistics in Psychology I
  General linear models including multiple regression and logistic regression; multilevel models; survival analysis; interaction effects.
• GRS PS 712: Statistics in Psychology II
  Statistical analysis with latent variables including exploratory factor analysis, confirmatory factor analysis, structural equation models, latent growth models, psychometrics.
• GRS PS 716: Psychological Research Methods
  The methodological foundations of psychological research, including issues in general scientific practice, research design, measurement, methods of data collection, and practical and ethical problems arising in the conduct of psychological research.
• GRS PS 721: General Experimental, I
  Experimental and theoretical issues in operant and classical conditioning and in verbal learning. Schedules of reinforcement, discrimination, avoidance, punishment, emotional reflexes, memory, and motivation. Selected lab demonstrations.
• GRS PS 730: Major Perspectives in Psychology: History and Systems
  Provides exposure to the history of major perspectives in psychology, increases understanding of contemporary literature on fundamental issues in psychology, and promotes an integrated understanding of the link between psychological theories and applied psychological principles.
• GRS PS 734: Psychopharmacology for the Behavioral Scientist
  Basic principles of pharmacology, drugs used in treatment of mental illness, drugs having abuse potential. Current issues in psychopharmacology.
• GRS PS 735: Concepts of Motivation
  Major theories of human motivation (including biological, psychoanalytic, and cognitive) are compared and related to empirical research on important human goals and activities such as achievement, power, and intimacy. Students identify a research focus and design an empirical study.
• GRS PS 737: Memory Systems of the Brain
  Survey of investigations into the brain systems and neurobiological mechanisms of memory. Includes experimental studies of amnesia associated with brain damage in humans, experimental models of amnesia in animals, and neurophysiological studies of brain activity that encodes memories in animals and humans. Focus on evidence for multiple forms of memory and distinct brain systems that mediate them.
• GRS PS 747: Infant Development
  The origins of human cognition, specifically, how infants come to perceive a unified, stable, and meaningful world despite the ever-changing and fragmentary nature of sensory input. A number of topics bearing on social and nonsocial cognition are examined in the light of major theories of cognitive development
• 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).

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