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5.00 Credits
Practical Curricular Training/Professional Internship Fall 2008, Spring 2009. One-half credit. This course provides the opportunity to receive credit for professional training related to the degree. Students are expected to engage in such training for at least five hours per week. Training should take the form of teaching, research, or other work relevant to the student's program of study. It may take place at institutions of higher learning, with government agencies, or at other sites as appropriate. Students meet regularly with an advisor and submit a written report at the end of the internship. Grading is pass/fail.
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3.00 Credits
PhD Seminar Fall 2008, Spring 2009. One and one-half credits per semester. Victoria Hattam The dissertation is simultaneously the capstone of graduate education and the prelude to an academic career. With this in mind, the seminar is designed to assist advanced students in formulating a research project that may also carve out a distinctive niche in political science. It combines the reading of exemplary literature with writing practice. It considers how to select appropriate methods and helps students form the critical support networks that are indispensable to success. The seminar extends over the entire year; each semester students will write one critical paper on an exemplary work in their own field as well as prepare a draft of their proposal for discussion by the group as a whole. Admission to this seminar normally requires that the student has passed at least one field exam and that the student provide a statement from a dissertation advisor saying that he or she is working seriously on a dissertation proposal. Students must register for both fall 2008 and spring 2009 semesters.
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3.00 Credits
Directed Dissertation Study Fall 2008, Spring 2009. One and one-half to three credits per semester. All students in the PhD program are required to take three credits of directed dissertation study, to prepare the prospectus for the dissertation. This course, which is taken with the prospective dissertation chair, should occur after all other coursework is complete or during a student's last semester of coursework. It should be taken after at least one qualifying examination has been completed. Students in the PhD program may take up to six additional credits of Directed Dissertation Study, consisting of research and writing supervised by the dissertation chair.
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3.00 Credits
Visual Perception and Cognition Spring 2009. Three credits. Arien Mack This course provides an introduction to the area of visual perception and makes clear why perception is an important problem for psychologists. Various aspects of perception are considered, among which are questions concerning the nature of focal perception, motion perception, and the perception of space, and the development of perceptual processes. No prior knowledge of the field is assumed.
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3.00 Credits
History and Systems of Psychology Spring 2009. Three credits. Arthur Blumenthal Great moments in modern psychological research and discovery stand upon a mountain of historical roots. This course describes and interprets those roots and their cultural contexts. It traces the development of differing systems of thought and the clashes between those systems. It reviews the tangled rise of modern psychology and gives samples of the detective work that expose some of this field's origin myths. The course is in three parts: the classical roots, the 19th-century boom, and the 20th-century bust.
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3.00 Credits
Introduction to Cognitive Psychology Fall 2008. Three credits. William Hirst This course surveys the progress made in understanding the human mind from the perspective of cognitive science. The areas of memory, attention, and thinking are examined.
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3.00 Credits
Social Psychology [S] Fall 2008. Three credits. Emanuele Castano This course provides students with a broad overview of social psychological research. Central to the course is the idea that human beings are not isolated entities who process information like computers, but social animals engaged in a complicated network of social relations, both real and imagined. Constrained by our cognitive capacities and guided by many different motives and fundamental needs, we attempt to make sense of the social world in which we live and of ourselves in relation to it. We see how this influences perceptions of the self, perceptions of other individuals and groups, beliefs and attitudes, group processes, and intergroup relations. Readings emphasize how various theories of human behavior are translated into focused research questions and rigorously tested via laboratory experiments and field studies.
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3.00 Credits
Statistics I Fall 2008. Three credits. Wentao Yuan Students are introduced to statistical description and inference. Topics include frequency distributions, measures of central tendency and variability, hypothesis testing, correlation, and an introduction to the analysis of variance. Credit in this course does not count toward fulfillment of the credit requirements for a degree in psychology.
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3.00 Credits
Psychology of Personality [P] Spring 2009. Three credits. Megan Warner This course discusses theory and research in the area of individual differences and personality functioning, with particular emphasis on trait, social, cognitive, and biological approaches.
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3.00 Credits
Psychopathology I [A] Three credits. Summer 2008: McWelling Todman Fall 2008: Xiaochun Jin Fundamental diagnostic categories are discussed in depth. Relevant theoretical issues and clinical approaches to particular problems are explored.
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