Psychology as the science of human behavior and mental processes; related areas of human functioning; focus on human research; theory and research methods, biological bases of behavior, sensation and perception, states of consciousness, learning and memory, intelligence, thought, language, human development, motivation and emotion, social psychology and personality psychological disorders and therapies, stress, health, and coping.
- Faculty: VICTOR KARANDASHEV
This course introduces descriptive and inferential statistics and probability theory and the application of statistics in social scientific research. Methods of hypothesis testing and the presentation and management of data are covered. Emphasis is on training students in the use of SPSS in statistical analyses. Students will analyze large quantitative data sets to answer social scientific research questions. Students will learn how to select and utilize appropriate statistical tests to analyze datasets, test hypotheses, and answer specific research questions.
- Faculty: DANIEL CRUIKSHANKS
Social psychology is the scientific study of the way people think, feel, and behave in social situations. The course examines the relationship between individuals and their social environment helping to understand how we influence, and are influenced by, other people and the social contexts around us. A primary goal of this course is to introduce you to the perspectives, research methods, and seminal findings of social psychology. Equally important is allowing you to cultivate your skills for analyzing the social situations you encounter in everyday life.
These issues are addressed with social psychological theories from both Psychology and Sociology.
- Faculty: VICTOR KARANDASHEV
In this course students explore the nature of psychological abnormality, main models of mental and emotional disorders, their diagnosis and treatment. Etiology, assessment, diagnosis, and treatment of disorders. Emphasis is given on anxiety, obsessive compulsive disorder, and related disorders, disorders of trauma and stress, disorders of mood, suicide, disorders featuring somatic symptoms, eating and substance-related disorders, sexual deviation and gender identity disorders, personality disorders, and disorders of childhood and adolescence, of aging and cognition. The societal and law issues of mental health profession.
- Faculty: VICTOR KARANDASHEV