Department: Psychology

Code Name Description
CGSC 299 Cognitive Science with Lab Examines the nature, function, and mechanism of mental structures that process and represent information, in humans as well as other intelligent agents. Cognitive science integrates methods drawn from psychology, neuroscience, philosophy, computer sc...
PSYC 100 Introduction to Psychological Science Overview of the study of human behavior and mental processes, with emphasis on scientific reasoning and skills involved in the process of conducting psychological research and understanding human behavior. Two and a half lecture hours per week.
PSYC 200 Methods and Analyses Introduction to research methods and statistical procedures in psychological science. Emphasis on mastering fundamental scientific, reasoning, and technological skills associated with literature review, research design, experimental manipulation, dat...
PSYC 299 Integrated Topics Courses that provide an integrative perspective of psychological theories, issues, and research across two or more disciplinary (or subdisciplinary) contexts. This course may not be repeated for credit.
PSYC 300 Methods and Analyses Core Project Puts the principles learned in PSYC 200: Methods and Analyses into practice in the pursuit of new scientific knowledge. Collaborative, project-based learning approach, students formulate new research questions based on critical evaluation of existing...
PSYC 311 Child Development Critical examination of research and theory on developmental changes and processes from prenatal through preadolescent periods. Emphasis on theoretical and empirical work on social, emotional, and cognitive development and on various developmental co...
PSYC 313 Social Psychology Critical overview of current theory and research in social psychology, with emphasis on conceptual and empirical work on social inference, stereotyping, self processes, social influence, affective processes, attraction, interpersonal processes, altru...
PSYC 315 Adult Development Critical examination of changes and stability in behavior from late adolescence through advanced old age, including perception, intelligence, memory, personality, emotion, social networks, death/dying, creativity, and wisdom. Emphasis on theory, rese...
PSYC 319 Psychopathology Critical examination of research and theory in psychopathology and behavior disorders including the phenomenology, etiology, assessment, and treatment of major forms of psychological disorders. Emphasis on an integrative approach incorporating clinic...
PSYC 321 Principles of Behavior Critical examination of research and theory in fundamental principles of behavior including operant and respondent learning and rule-governed behavior in humans and non-human animals. Intensive co-requisite laboratory experience focused on applied be...
PSYC 323 Health Psychology The interaction between biological, psychological and social aspects of health. Emphasis on theory, research, and applications in lecture with intensive laboratory component on research design, data analysis and application of health psychology. Two...
PSYC 325 Science of Emotion Critical overview of current theory and research in affective (emotion) science. Some questions that the course will address include: What is an emotion? Where do emotions come from? What purposes do emotions serve? Emphasis on an integrative approac...
PSYC 329 Special Topics Critical examination of concepts in one of the following areas of psychology, including but not limited to life span development, clinical and abnormal, social cognition, health, learning and memory, cross-cultural, personality, human diversity, and...
PSYC 331 Behavioral Neuroscience Focus on the neural regulation of behavior, from animal to human. Intensive lab component with techniques and approaches used in design, execution, and analysis of research in behavioral neuroscience. Two and a half lecture and one and a quarter labo...
PSYC 333 Cognitive Science Examines the nature, function, and mechanism of mental structures that process and represent information, in humans as well as other intelligent agents. Cognitive science integrates methods drawn from psychology, neuroscience, philosophy, computer sc...
PSYC 337 Human Cognition Examines the experimental study of cognition, including perception, attention, memory, decision making, and problem solving. An intensive lab component emphasizes experimental design, data analysis, and applications in each subtopic of Cognitive Psyc...
PSYC 341 Cognitive Neuroscience Critically examines what brain injury and cognitive deficits can tell us about the relationship between brain and behavior. Covers the functional anatomy of the major cognitive systems, including action, object recognition, attention, memory, languag...
PSYC 343 Psycholinguistics with Lab Critical examination of the cognitive processes that underlie language production, comprehension, and acquisition. Covers the mental representations involved in a range of linguistic abilities including speech perception, word recognition, sentence p...
PSYC 349 Special Topics Critical examination of concepts in one of the following areas of psychology, including but not limited to psycholinguistics, stress, sensation and perception, animal behavior, and other specialized topics in the cognitive and brain sciences. Emphasi...
PSYC 353 Clinical Neuroscience A critical examination of the neurobiological mechanisms of mental illness. Current biobehavioral perspectives of potential causes and treatments of psychiatric illnesses such as depression, obsessive-compulsive disorder and schizophrenia are conside...
PSYC 359 Special Topics Special course offerings to explore specific direction within subdisciplinary area of psychology. May be repeated for credit when topics vary.
PSYC 361 Independent Research Individual research conducted in collaboration with faculty. Note: No more than 2 units may count toward a psychology major. Available as pass/fail only.
PSYC 388 Internship Supervised independent work in field setting designed to give student applied experience after completion of appropriate coursework in psychology. Requires consultation with and approval by department chair. No more than 1.5 unit of internship in any...
PSYC 406 Summer Undergraduate Research Documentation of the work of students who receive summer fellowships to conduct research [or produce a creative arts project] in the summer. The work must take place over a minimum of 6 weeks, the student must engage in the project full-time (at leas...
PSYC 444 Clinical Case Studies Intensive seminar that examines select clinical case studies and their contributions to our understanding of brain-behavior relationships. Special emphasis will be placed on the power and limits of the double dissociation methodology: contrasting pat...
PSYC 449 Advanced Seminar Intensive seminar intended for seniors and advanced juniors, based on faculty expertise and research specializations, and offered regularly in fall and spring semesters for capstone requirement.
PSYC 461 Senior Research Intensive year-long research project for seniors, requiring conception, completion, and presentation of a research thesis under faculty mentorship.
PSYC 462 Senior Research Intensive year-long research project for seniors, requiring conception, completion, and presentation of a research thesis under faculty mentorship.
PSYC 491 Honors Intensive year-long research project for seniors who meet requirements for University and department honors programs, requiring conception, completion, and presentation of senior honors thesis under faculty mentorship.
PSYC 492 Honors Intensive year-long research project for seniors who meet requirements for University and department honors programs, requiring conception, completion, and presentation of senior honors thesis under faculty mentorship.