Courses

The listing of a course description here does not guarantee a course’s being offered in a particular term. Please refer to the published schedule of classes on the MyBU Student Portal for confirmation a class is actually being taught and for specific course meeting dates and times.

• CAS PS 902: Directed Study in Psychology
  Doctoral candidates are encouraged to undertake special projects.
• CAS PS 909: Professional Issues in Psychological Science 1
  Graduate Prerequisites: advanced doctoral student in psychology. - Prepares advanced doctoral students in psychology for the next stages of their career. Issues covered include conducting research; writing papers; reviewing for journals; ethical issues in conducting research; time management; teaching; mentoring; grant writing; presenting research at conferences; and career planning.
• CAS PS 910: Professional Issues in Psychological Science 2
  Graduate Prerequisites: advanced doctoral student in psychology. - Prepares advanced doctoral students in psychology for the next stages of their career. Issues covered include conducting research; writing papers; reviewing for journals; ethical issues in conducting research; time management; teaching; mentoring; grant writing; presenting research at conferences; and career planning.
• CAS PS 951: Special Topics in Clinical Psychology
  Graduate Prerequisites: PS Clinical PhD students only. - Clinical or laboratory research of clinical faculty and invited speakers, ethical isues in research and clinical practice, professional responsibilities and concerns.
• CAS PS 973: Clinical Practicum
  Graduate Prerequisites: PS Clinical PhD students only. - Students participate in psychological programs of approved practicum centers, reporting and evaluating their experiences in seminar conferences. Work is directed toward increasing competence in the duties expected in clinical behavioral medicine.
• CAS PS 974: Clinical Practicum
  Graduate Prerequisites: PS Clinical PhD students only. - Students participate in psychological programs of approved practicum centers, reporting and evaluating their experiences in seminar conferences. Work is directed toward increasing competence in the duties expected in clinical behavioral medicine.
• CAS PS 978: Laboratory and Research Practicum
  Open to advanced doctoral candidates in psychology. A review of contemporary research in selected areas. Issues of experimental design, execution, and data analysis are examined in the context of pursuing dissertation research.
• CAS PS 979: Clinical Internship
  Undergraduate Prerequisites: dissertation proposal defended; completion of all course requirements; approval of clinical faculty. - For clinical doctoral students only. Students complete a one-year clinical internship as part of the requirements for the Ph.D. degree in clinical psychology.
• CAS PS 980: Clinical Internship
  Undergraduate Prerequisites: dissertation proposal defended; completion of all course requirements; approval of clinical faculty. - For clinical doctoral students only. Students complete a one-year clinical internship as part of the requirements for the Ph.D. degree in clinical psychology.
• CAS PS 993: Clinical Supervision Psychotherapy
  Graduate Prerequisites: fourth- or fifth-year graduate student in Clinical Psychology and comp letion of both 8-hr and 16-hr year-long practica, or consent of instru ctor. - For senior graduate level students. Training in the research, theory, and practice of supervision. Students present case material and, under the supervision of a licensed clinician, supervise a novice clinician.
• CAS PS 994: Clinical Supervision of - Practicum
  Graduate Prerequisites: (CASPS 993) and 4th/5th-year graduate standing in Clinical Psychology, completion of both 8-hr. and 16-hr. year-long practica, and consent of instructor. - Provides clinical training in supervision of psychotherapy skills. Students present actual case material, and, under the supervision of a licensed clinician, supervise a novice clinician.
• CAS PY 501: Mathematical Physics
  Undergraduate Prerequisites: (CASMA226 & CASPY355) or equivalent. - Graduate Prerequisites: (CASMA226 & CASPY355) or equivalent. - Introduction to complex variables and residue calculus, asymptotic methods, and conformal mapping; integral transforms; ordinary and partial differential equations; non-linear equations; integral equations.
• CAS PY 502: Computational Physics
  Undergraduate Prerequisites: consent of instructor. - Graduate Prerequisites: consent of instructor. - Fundamental methods of computational physics and applications; numerical algorithms; linear algebra, differential equations; computer simulation; vectorization, parallelism, and optimization. Examples and projects on scientific applications.
• CAS PY 511: Quantum Mechanics I
  Undergraduate Prerequisites: (CASPY451 & CASPY452) - Graduate Prerequisites: (CASPY451 & CASPY452) - General theory of quantum mechanics, including the Schrodinger, Heisenberg, and interaction pictures. The path integral formulation. Angular momentum: orbital and spin angular momentum, addition of angular momenta, Wigner-Eckart theorem. Scattering theory: time-independent, partial waves and phase shift, identical particles, time dependent, and propagators.
• CAS PY 512: Quantum Mechanics II
  Undergraduate Prerequisites: (CASPY511) - Graduate Prerequisites: (CASPY511) - Continuation of CAS PY 511. Degenerate and nondegenerate perturbation theory. Second quantization of nonrelativistic systems with applications to scattering, lifetime of excited atomic states, many-body problems. Relativistic quantum mechanics: Klein-Gordon equation, Dirac equation.
• CAS PY 521: Electromagnetic Theory I
  Undergraduate Prerequisites: (CASPY405) - Graduate Prerequisites: (CASPY405) - Vector and tensor analysis. Electrostatics, uniqueness, electrostatic energy, capacitance. Boundary value problems, conformal mapping, variable separation, Green's functions. Multipole expansion, electric polarization, atomic models, anisotropic media. Contour integration and application to frequency-dependent dielectric constant. Dielectrics, electrostatic energy, boundary value problems.
• CAS PY 536: Quantum Computing
  Undergraduate Prerequisites: (CASCS330 OR CASPY354) or equivalent. - Quantum physics as a powerful computational paradigm. Quantum bits (qubits), qubit operations and quantum gates, computation, and algorithms. Computational complexity classes, and efficiency of classical vs. quantum computers. Quantum Fourier transform and Shor's factorization algorithm. Physical implementation of quantum computation. Also offered as CAS CS 536.
• CAS PY 537: Quantum Platforms
  Self-contained introduction to physical qubits, control by external fields, pulse sequences, qubit-qubit coupling, qubit-photon coupling, noise and decoherence and mitigation techniques. A survey of experimental quantum device physics: superconducting qubits, neutral atom arrays, solid state and spin qubits, ion traps, entangled photons, single molecule circuitry, etc. Brief survey of available quantum architectures and software stacks
• CAS PY 538: Interdisciplinary Methods for Quantitative Finance
  Undergraduate Prerequisites: (CASPY355 OR METAD685) or equivalent; or consent of instructor. - Expands upon the foundations of finance theory with interdisciplinary approaches from statistical physics and machine learning. Equips the students with the Python tools to tackle a broad range of problems in quantitative financial analysis and combines the study of relevant financial concepts with computational implementations. Students learn to use packages like Numpy, Pandas, Statsmodels and Scikit, which are commonly used in research and in the industry.
• CAS PY 541: Statistical Mechanics I
  Undergraduate Prerequisites: (CASPY410) - Graduate Prerequisites: (CASPY410) - Probability theory. Ensembles. Steepest descent methods. Paramagnetism, ideal gas, Einstein model, adsorption isotherms. Thermodynamics, Maxwell relations, heat capacity. Bose and Fermi gases. Electrons in metals, white dwarf stars, black-body radiation, phonons, Bose-Einstein condensation. Interacting systems, virial expansion, Van der Waals gas. Phase transitions: mean-field theories, spin systems.