Course Description: This class will provide students with a working knowledge of the various fields of psychology including their theories, research, and application. Each area will be studied from three perspectives: 1) the historical foundation, 2) current trends, and 3) future directions.
Course Description: This course will provide a broad overview of the field of Health Psychology. Health psychology is an exciting field of study that examines the bi-directional relationship between psychology and health: How can psychology be used to understand and improve health, and how does our health influence how we think, feel, and behave? The main goals of the course are: 1) to provide an overview of basic theory and research in health psychology, 2) to examine specific contributions of health psychology to understanding acute and chronic diseases, 3) to analyze the role of psychology in preventing illness and promoting wellness, and 4) to illustrate how principles of health psychology may be applied to everyday life.
Course Description: The purpose of this course is to set the foundation for how statistics and experimental design is used in psychology. This foundation will prepare you for the more advanced topics you will learn in the second semester of the course. We will cover the statistical topics of central tendency, variability, distribution, hypothesis testing, and correlation. We will also cover the methodological topics of the philosophy of science, ethics of experimentation, and controlling variables. You will learn how to analyze data using SPSS and to write research papers in APA format.
Course Description: A course designed to investigate the manner in which the behavior, feelings, and thoughts of one individual are influenced and determined by the behavior and/or characteristics of others. Selected topics include attraction, social influence, attitudes, altruism, prosocial behavior, group influences, and person perception.
Course Description: In this course, students will learn about how people engage with information in the present “information age” marked by immediate access to personalized, tailored, and polarizing information. Students will learn about information seeking and avoidance theories and apply them to global message dissemination (e.g., via social media). Throughout the semester, students will consider additional factors in message dissemination such as misinformation, targeted advertising, and information overload.
Course Description: These days, there is so much information at our fingertips, it is difficult to know what to believe. One goal of this class is to provide you with the skills to be a good consumer of research. Overall, this course should introduce you to the scientific research methods used in psychological research, with an emphasis on measurement issues, causal inference, and research design.
Course Description: In this course, we will learn about some of the incredible statistical methods that allow us to make inferences about everything in life (from health to marketing to culture). We will cover material from Quant I including the difference between descriptive and inferential statistics, null hypothesis significance testing, power, and t-tests. Then we will move into ANOVA and regression—two of the main ways of evaluating research questions. Finally, we will touch on more advanced methods including multiple regression, mediation, and moderation.
Course Description: Social Psychologists study how people think about, influence, and relate to one another. In this course, we will examine social psychological principles, theories, methods, and findings. We will explore the impact that the social environment has on an individual’s thoughts, feelings, and behaviors as we gain an awareness and understanding of the role that the social environment plays in our everyday lives.
Course Description: This course will provide a broad overview of the field of health psychology. Health psychology is an exciting field of study that examines the bi-directional relationship between psychology and health: How can psychology be used to understand and improve health, and how does our health influence how we think, feel, and behave?