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PS 1361 - COMPARATIVE POLITICAL PARTY SYSTEMS
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This course compares the political party systems, electoral processes, and other institutions of governance in four or more countries, which vary by instructor and term.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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PS 1363 - GLOBALIZATION AND LAW
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This course considers the efforts underway to globalize ideas of rule of law. In the movement to promote rule of law governments, human rights, and market economics, conflicts over culture, identity and local politics arise. The course examines how legal institutions emerge and diffuse within diverse social and political settings (Europe, the Americas, East Asia, the Middle East and Africa), the relationship between the rule of law and democracy.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: Letter Grade
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PS 1371 - ISLAM, LAW, AND POLITICS
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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PS 1373 - WELFARE STATE IN COMPARATIVE PERSPECTIVE
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
Starting from the mid-nineteenth century the course is an historical and political critique of the main theories of divided equally between the diverse origins of the British, French, Swedish and German welfare states in the nineteenth century; the impact of new social theories and social thought on the design of welfare states early in the century and between the wars; and how the organization and structure of welfare states following the war was influenced by this experience.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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PS 1375 - RELIGION AND POLITICS
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This course discusses religion and politics, especially in its contemporary dimensions. Taking a comparative focus that will change from term to term.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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PS 1378 - BUILDING DEMOCRACY AROUND THE WORLD
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
Developing a new democracy is a process, with at least two main parts. First the country must move away from authoritarian rule. The first part of the course, therefore, will examine why (or why not) countries make that transition and how they do so. The second part of the course will then examine why some countries are more successful in their transition, based on an examination of civil society and the types of political institutions (such as political parties, the executive system, and the judiciary) that countries develop. What influences these choices and how do these choices affect success and stability of the new democracy? Has international aid been successful in helping countries develop democratic practices?
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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PS 1381 - CAPSTONE SEMINAR IN COMPARATIVE POLITICS
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
Capstones are writing intensive courses for senior, PS majors. Subject matter will vary from term to term depending on the interests, area of expertise, and inclinations of the particular instructor.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Seminar
Grade Component: Letter Grade
Course Requirements: PREQ: PS 0300; PLAN: Political Science (BA or BS or BPH); LVL: Sr
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PS 1383 - POLITICS OF CONTEMPORARY MIDDLE EAST
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
The main emphasis of the course will be on conflict and conflict resolution in the Middle East. Conflict has been a constant feature of the region since 1945. This course will be primarily concerned with how and why these conflicts are generated, escalate, become protracted, and are resolved.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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PS 1384 - TOPICS IN COMPARATIVE POLITICS
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
In this new course, students will explore the ways in which the social, political and cultural construction of sexual difference influences the nature and practice of political life in the Middle East. The course will examine both theoretically and empirically the ways in which power is gendered and how gender has served as a basis for political organization, the distribution of power, and the boundaries of public life. Many themes will be examined in the course to understand the political and economic context of struggles around gender issues; mobilization of women’s movements; the interaction of religion, law, and their interpretation; the gendered nature of the state; the path dependence and institutional nature of women’s movements and struggles; the gendered aspects of revolution, westernization, secularism, globalization, and socialism in the middle east. Although the focus of the course will be on the ‘political’ in the context of political science, it will also draw heavily from the disciplines of sociology, anthropology, women’s studies, and political economy. The focus of the course is on the geographic area of North Africa and the middle east. Intentionally, the course includes a balance between empirical knowledge of particular cases and theoretical debates on gender and politics. Students will be expected to master both theoretical and empirical dimensions of the course. This will culminate in a two-day simulation and debate.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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PS 1388 - FULBRIGHT SEMINAR IN ITALIAN STUDIES
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
The Fulbright seminar in Italian studies is a spring-term undergraduate-level course offered by the visiting Fulbright distinguished scholar from Italy. This course is typically offered in the fields of art history, cultural studies, film, history, literature, museum studies, political science, or urban studies. The description will vary each term depending on the field in which it will be offered.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Seminar
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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PS 1501 - THEORY OF INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This course explores central concepts and theories employed by political scientists to explain how world politics functions. You will be introduced to theoretical orientations such as realism, institutionalism, and constructivism, and we will discuss how constructs such as power, interests, identity, legitimacy, and order provide insight into political behavior. Much of the material examined in the course is abstract and you will need to think carefully about how the various concepts and arguments can be integrated. By the end of the course, you should have developed a relatively sophisticated conceptual framework with which to analyze events in world politics.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
Course Requirements: PREQ: PS 0500
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PS 1503 - INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATION
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
The course will focus on nongovernmental as well as intergovernmental organization, and will be concerned with the economic as well as the political aspects of such organization. Throughout the course, international organization will be approached as an arena for both conflict and cooperation.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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PS 1504 - NATIONALISM
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
Theories of nationalism, ethnicity, and race are examined and are contrasted with theories of modernization and socialism. Particular emphasis is placed on ethnonationalism in developed Western countries, such as Britain, France, Spain, Belgium, and Canada, and on ethnic politics in the U.S. Comparisons are drawn with nationalism in other types of political systems, particularly the USSR, Yugoslavia, and selected Middle East and African countries.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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PS 1509 - CONFLICT AND WAR THEORY
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
The primary objective of this course is to introduce the student to theoretical arguments and empirical evidence concerning the sources of conflict and war in human society, particularly within the international arena. Reading material will be drawn from a number of disciplines, including psychology, sociology, history and political science.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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PS 1510 - COLDWAR:SOVIET UNION AND WEST 1917-91
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This course is designed to help students understand the central question in world politics during much of the 20th century-the relationship between the West and the Soviet Union from 1917 to 1991. The course surveys the Western response to the formation of the USSR as the first “socialist” state and to the international communist movement which developed under its leadership from 1917 to 1991.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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PS 1511 - AMERICAN FOREIGN POLICY
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
Provides a historical survey of American foreign policy from the end of World War II until the present, an analysis of the decision making process led by the president of the United States, and a discussion of the impact of both the international political system and American domestic politics on this process.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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PS 1512 - EUROPE AFTER COLD WAR:COOPERATION AND CONFLICT
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This course attempts to provide a coherent interpretation of the USSR’s foreign policy in the period from 1918 to 1987. Major topics include Soviet foreign policy toward (1) Western Europe and the USE; (2) former “colonial” countries in Asia, the MFA Middle East and Africa; (3) the “socialist” states including the Chinese people’s republic. Particular stress is given to the international political context of the USSR’s actions and to the soviet leader ship’s interpretation of the international environment.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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PS 1513 - FOREIGN POLICIES—CHANGING WORLD
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
The aim of this course is to introduce students to the analysis of foreign policy as a form of political behavior and to the specific factors influencing the foreign policies of several of the world’s most powerful states. The lectures and readings follow several intertwining themes, covering: 1) the conceptual and analytical tools utilized to investigate and compare the foreign policies of states; 2) the nature of certain phenomena which present countries with complex and dangerous international problems, e.g. security, interdependence; 3) the particular sources, processes and outcomes involved in the foreign policies of several states including the United States, Russia and others. The approach is analytical and though some of the readings and lectures are historical, the emphasis is on the contemporary context. It is also comparative, offering students a look at how these states’ domestic culture, processes and institutions affect their foreign policies. (International relations field)
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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PS 1514 - POLITICAL STRATEGY INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This course is designed to examine how governments attempt to achieve important foreign policy objectives. The focus will be on describing and evaluating such general strategies as containment, roll back and detente in the Soviet-American conflict.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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PS 1516 - TRANSATLANTIC POLICY ANALYSIS
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This new skills based course aims to provide students with crucial analytical and professional skills pertinent to the transatlantic policy world. Among them are: to read analytically and critically and to speak knowledgeably about a range of transatlantic issues that concern political scientists and policy makers, including immigration, environmental protection, social policies, and trade and economic development; and to communicate such policy analysis in a clear and persuasive manner accessible to a wide range of policy focused audiences at the international and national levels.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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PS 1518 - GERMANY AND EUROPE: A FOREIGN POLICY TRANSFORMED
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This course explores continuity and change in the foreign policy of Germany ’ the largest, wealthiest, and arguably most influential European union member state ’ from state unification through the present era. (International relations field)
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: Letter Grade
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PS 1521 - EASTERN EUROPE IN WORLD POLITICS
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
Eastern Europe has now seen more than twenty years of dramatic changes encompassing a movement away from one-party dictatorship and state-run economies to democratic politics and market economies. These changes have affected and been affected by developments in Europe, including Russia, Euro-Atlantic relations and international relations more broadly. The aim of this course is to explore the background and dynamics of the remarkable changes in “the other Europe.” The course will move quickly over the history of the region generally referred to as “East Europe” and will focus primarily on contemporary developments. A particular focus of the course is the impact on the region of developments elsewhere, especially in the politics and policies of outside powers, and the ripple effect of changes in the region on European and world politics.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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PS 1531 - NATIONAL SECURITY POLICY
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
National security is becoming a crucial issue with an impact both in the international system and in the domestic environment. This course will discuss the different approaches to national security and the policies through which they have been implemented, such as military buildup, political and military alliances, military and economic consequences, and nuclear policies.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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PS 1534 - CIVIL WARS
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This course explores why peace sometimes lasts a long time and sometimes falls apart quickly after Civil Wars. We will examine how the international community deals with civil conflicts and what can be done to ensure a long-lasting peace in war-torn countries. Emphasis will be placed on the factors that increase the durability of peace and aid the establishment of long-term prospects for reconciliation to rebuild societies after wars. Students will gain knowledge of theories that explain whether and how peacekeeping forces, agreement design, power-sharing institutions, mediation, foreign aid, and post-war elections help domestic belligerents reach and keep peace.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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PS 1536 - HUMAN SECURITY
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This is a topics course in international relations focusing on the politics of human security. The politics of human security is an area of evolving interest within the field of international relations. Currently, few political science departments offer courses on the topic and there is little agreement on what should be included in such a course. The general consensus is that ‘human security’ differs from ‘national security’ in that the latter is concerned with the well-being of the state, while the former is concerned with the well-being of individuals. In this course, we will focus on how violence, political oppression, poverty, and ecological destruction threaten individual welfare and what the international community is (and is not) doing to address these concerns.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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PS 1537 - PEACEMAKING & PEACEKEEPING
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This course explores the conditions that lead to initiation, escalation, and termination of Civil Wars as well as the circumstances that promote or restore peace within states. Why do Civil Wars break out in some countries but not others? Why do Civil Wars last as long as they do? How does the international community help resolve Civil Wars? The ultimate goal of this course is not to examine a particular Civil War in detail but rather to provide a broad theoretical treatment of Civil Wars, and a better understanding of international relations. Upon completion of this course, you should be familiar with the factors that mitigate or exacerbate conflict within states and develop informed insights about the mechanisms of conflict management and resolution.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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PS 1538 - THE POLITICS OF OIL AND NATURAL RESOURCES
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
Oil has played an incredible role in shaping the domestic and international politics of both producer and consumer countries around the globe. Since commercial production first began in the late 19th century, rising world demand for oil coupled with a geographically concentrated and exhaustible supply has defined the nature of global economic competition, economic and political development within countries and geo-political power struggles between countries. This course aims to shed light on why oil (and related natural resources) has had such a powerful effect on world politics to date and what our dependence on oil might mean for the future.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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PS 1541 - POLITICS GLOBAL ECONOMIC RELATIONS
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This course examines the connections between power and wealth, states and markets, and economics and politics in order to gain a better understanding of the political underpinnings of the global economy as well as the influences that international economics has on national and international politics. It is an introduction to what political scientists call international political economy (or simply IPE).
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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PS 1542 - GLOBAL ENVIRONMENTAL POLITICS
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
In this course we will explore the “politics” of international environmental issues in a way that complements a more scientific-technical treatment of the issues. We will draw upon international relations theories and concepts (e.g. power, dependency, complex interdependence, epistemic communities, regimes, and the logic of collective action) to help us explain environmental politics in the global arena.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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PS 1543 - GLOBALIZATION AND INTERNATIONAL POLITICS
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This course examines globalization’s political and economic effects on societal welfare around the world. We start by looking at economic globalization historically, comparing the degree and forms of international economic integration during the late 19th century with today. We then consider, in more detail, the domestic consequences of current changes in the international political economy, particularly expanding trade and increased international capital mobility, for both the developed democracies and developing countries.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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PS 1570 - GERMAN LANGUAGE TRAILER FOR PS 1518
Minimum Credits: 1
Maximum Credits: 1
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: Satisfactory/No Credit
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PS 1581 - CAPSTONE SEMINAR IN INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
Capstones are writing intensive courses for senior, PS majors. Subject matter will vary from term to term depending on the interests, area of expertise, and inclinations of the particular instructor.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Seminar
Grade Component: Letter Grade
Course Requirements: PREQ: PS 0500; PLAN: Political Science (BA or BS or BPH); LVL: Sr
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PS 1583 - TOPCS IN INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
Current topics of interest in international relations. Topics covered vary with instructor and term.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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PS 1584 - GREECE IN ITS NEIGHBORHOOD: EUROPE & EASTERN MEDITERRANEAN
Minimum Credits: 1
Maximum Credits: 1
This course is designed to provide knowledge on contemporary political and economic issues on Greece’s agenda with regard to wider Europe including the eastern Mediterranean and the black sea. Greece’s politico-economic evolution is profoundly formed by its participation in the European integration process (i.e. The EU) and by dynamics in the Mediterranean and especially in Europe’s southeastern front where it is itself located. The course offers an opportunity for students interested in politics, economics, history or sociology to learn about the main issues facing present day Greece in tandem with the EU and its other immediate neighbors. In the last century or more as mark Mazowe has put it recently ‘Greece’s has been at the forefront of Europe’s evolution’.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Seminar
Grade Component: Letter Grade
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PS 1587 - U.S. FOREIGN POLICY IN AFRICA
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This course will focus on the increasing engagement of the United States in Africa from the late 19th century until the present. Using a case study approach, students will analyze American foreign policy in Africa and explore the varied effects of those policies. These case studies will include the political realities of decolonization, the cold war, and economic aid and the social and cultural ties of black Americans to Africa. The course will identify specific crises in American and African history as focal points for study, but will also provide a larger narrative about American involvement in both the colonial and post-colonial development of Africa.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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PS 1601 - ANCIENT AND MEDIEVAL POLITICAL THOUGHT
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This course surveys the work of major thinkers in the Western political tradition from ancient Greece through the middle ages, such as Plato, Aristotle, Augustine, Aquinas, and others.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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PS 1602 - EARLY MODERN AND ENLIGHTENMENT POLITICAL THOUGHT
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This course surveys the work of major thinkers in the Western political tradition from the early modern period through the enlightenment, such as Machiavelli, Hobbes, Locke, Rousseau, and burke.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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PS 1603 - MODERN AND CONTEMPORARY POLITICAL THOUGHT
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This course addresses the progress of democratic theory and relevant “challengers” in the course of the 19th and 20th centuries. Starting with post-revolutionary expressions of democracy, the class turns to the various challenges democracy faces in that time period: Marxism, communism, anarchism, fascism, and totalitarianism. It then looks at where democratic theory was left following these challenges in the 1960’s and 1970’s, and what that meant for the idea of democracy itself. Students in the class will gain exposure to Paine, Detoqueville, Marx, Lenin, Arendt, Goldman, Dahl, and Schumpeter. Grading will be primarily focused on short reaction papers, in-class writing and recall exercises, and a final argumentative research paper.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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PS 1604 - MYTH, PROPAGANDA, AND THE STATE
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
An analysis of the relationship between the development of social thought and social theory since the nineteenth century through the early twentieth century. The major European social and political philosophers will be discussed in terms of the setting within the emerging democracies and their relationships with political leaders and emerging democratic institutions. The method is essentially critical analysis of what the social thinkers had to say about society and politics as it relates to governments and the obstacles to democratic governance.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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PS 1605 - MODERN POLITICAL IDEOLOGIES
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This course is designed to familiarize students with a number of belief systems that have or have had significant followings in the 20th century. The course is designed to be a comparative assessment of a number of organized ways of thinking about politics and society.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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PS 1607 - AMERICAN POLITICAL THOUGHT
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This course provides a survey of American political thinking from the founding to the present.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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PS 1610 - POLITICAL THEORY OF THE AMERICAN FOUNDING
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This course will examine the political theory of the American founding period through reading and discussion of the political thought of some of the leading figures. The main emphasis will be on the thought of Jefferson, Adams, Madison, and Hamilton, along with selections from others such as Franklin, Paine, and the anti-federalists. Major political and constitutional documents from the period, and their background, will also be examined. The materials will largely be from 1760-1800, including pre-revolutionary developments, the revolution, the confederation, transition and how they do so. The second part of the course will then examine why some countries are more successful in their transition, based on an examination of civil society and the types of political institutions (such as political parties, the executive system, and the judiciary) that countries develop. What influences these choices and how do these choices affect success and stability of the new democracy? Has international aid been successful in helping countries develop democratic practices?
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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PS 1612 - MARXISM
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This course is concerned with Marxist political theory, with some attention to related philosophical and historical issues as well. Approximately two thirds of the course will be devoted to analysis of the original sources of Marxism-the writings of Marx and Engels; the remainder will consider various developments in the theory of Marxism.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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PS 1614 - THEORIES OF JUSTICE
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This course addresses the key intersection between two important topics in contemporary political theory: justice and globalization. The first half of the course will cover the highly influential works of John Rails as well as reactions from Robert Nozick, Onora O’Neill, and Susan Moller Okin. The second half of the course will weave in the issue of globalization to questions of justice ‘again using rails’ work and various respondents as a vehicle for doing so. The course ends with a significant applied project on the intersection of globalization and justice that will challenge students to consider the current state of justice in a particular global case of their choosing.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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PS 1619 - DEMOCRATIC THEORY
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
Democracy is a centrally important concept in political science. Those who wish to study almost any aspect of politics ’ from election campaigns to domestic policy processes to international relations ’ will, at some point, be expected to articulate a theory of democracy. Even those who study authoritarian regimes often use democratic regimes as counterpoint examples. In short, a well-rounded political scientist must know something about both democratic institutions and democratic theory. This course aims to provide students with an appreciation of the varieties of democratic thought, a knowledge of the great debates in the field, and a sense of how democratic ideals have been approximated in institutional forms.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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PS 1622 - FEMINIST POLITICAL THOUGHT
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This course considers the essential three waves of feminist political thought in Western tradition. The course moves from early feminist theorists to modern concerns and questions over whether the third wave of political feminism is still going strong or it is more helpful to discuss a “fourth wave” of feminism. The course concludes with a project for students to explore how to tackle real political gender norms in an applied fashion, generating theoretically-grounded policy and behavioral changes for the world around them.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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PS 1629 - TOPICS IN POLITICAL THEORY
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This course focuses intensely on a specific topic or problem in political theory; topics vary by instructor and term.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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PS 1661 - GAME OF THRONES AND POLITICAL THEORY
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This course considers George R.R. Martin’s popular “song of fire and ice”/”game of thrones” series in a political context. The class will consider the way that the series speaks to and shapes political attitudes and beliefs, as well as the way that martin’s creative vision was formed by reference to history and politics. The course will begin with reading martin’s own writing: the book game of thrones. Then it will explore the historical inspiration of the series, the wars of the roses, and some of the political theory that was created in reaction to that period. Following that, it will cover a few critical political theorists whose works focus on narratives about power, deception, and authority (the core themes of the series). Students in the class will gain exposure to Machiavelli, Locke, de Montesquieu, and Arendt in the course of this consideration, while also getting a chance to understand and discuss the popular books and television show in academic and sustained fashion. As a note, prior reading or viewing of the series is not required, nor necessary, though it will be helpful (and a spoiler policy will be given before the start of the term to minimize concern for those at various points of encountering the series). Grading will be primarily focused on short reaction papers, in-class writing and recall exercises, and a final argumentative research paper.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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PS 1674 - POLITICS OF GLOBAL INEQUALITY
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This survey course introduces students to three kinds of inequality that cause concern among scholars, activists, and policy-makers and to the politics that surrounds these types of inequality. That is to say, we’ll be studying inequality as a set of related phenomena, and we’ll also be studying the politics that contribute to and arise from these phenomena. The course combines empirical analysis of inequality with normative analysis of its causes and repercussions.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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PS 1675 - POLITICS OF HUMAN RIGHTS
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
Human rights have become the dominant normative discourse in global politics today. They are invoked by world leaders justifying military or ‘humanitarian’ interventions and by local and indigenous social movements challenging their domination with existing systems of social relations. They are lauded as essential to human dignity and decried as tools of imperialism and neo-colonialism. They are tools of the oppressor and tools for the oppressed. How can we make sense of these seemingly contradictory uses and understandings of human rights? This course seeks to explain human rights as fundamentally contested political claims. It develops this perspective through attention to the real politics of human rights, surveying existing human rights law and institutions, examining several important contemporary human rights issues, and reflecting on the different tools that political and social science offer for making sense of these controversies. The emphasis is on helping students to acquire a critical understanding of human rights that they can use to assess contemporary events; all students will focus on a particular country and issue of their choosing throughout the course as a way of grounding, focusing, and applying their learning.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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PS 1681 - CAPSTONE SEMINAR IN POLITICAL THEORY
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
Capstones are writing intensive courses for senior, PS majors. Subject matter will vary from term to term depending on the interests, area of expertise, and inclinations of the particular instructor.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Seminar
Grade Component: Letter Grade
Course Requirements: PREQ: PS 0600; PLAN: Political Science (BA or BS or BPH); LVL:Sr
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PS 1702 - ANALYSIS OF POLITICAL VARIABLES
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This course introduces students to the methods and techniques of scientific inquiry in political science. It is designed to help students read and understand empirical social science research on both academic and policy issues. During the course, students will learn how to collect and analyze data and will receive instruction on the University of Pittsburgh computer system using batch and interactive statistical programs.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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PS 1710 - STRATEGY AND GAMES OF POLITICS
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
How can we better understand politics by viewing it as a game of strategy? Campaigns, elections, persuasion, lobbying, conflict, and war involve elements of competition, cooperation, and chance. Learn how to model and analyze strategic interaction by playing classroom games and applying tools from game theory.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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PS 1836 - POLITICS THROUGH FILM
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This course uses cinema from a variety of countries to explore, in comparative perspective, central concepts and themes of politics, such as power, authority, conflict, leadership, ideology, propaganda, revolution, justice, and participation.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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PS 1900 - INTERNSHIP
Minimum Credits: 1
Maximum Credits: 12
Credit for internships per se is normally limited to the Washington center for learning alternatives or other special centers with which the University of Pittsburgh has formal arrangements.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Internship
Grade Component: Satisfactory/No Credit
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PS 1901 - INDEPENDENT STUDY
Minimum Credits: 1
Maximum Credits: 6
Independent study is normally associated with internships or special programs like the Washington center on learning alternatives.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Independent Study
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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PS 1902 - DIRECTED READING
Minimum Credits: 1
Maximum Credits: 3
Readings on special topics for which courses are not currently offered.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Directed Studies
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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PS 1903 - DIRECTED RESEARCH
Minimum Credits: 1
Maximum Credits: 6
Research on special topics for which courses are not currently offered.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Directed Studies
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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PS 1905 - DIRECTED STUDY:FIELD TRIP ABROAD
Minimum Credits: 1
Maximum Credits: 6
Readings on special topics for which courses are not currently offered.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Directed Studies
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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PS 1910 - INSTITUTE OF POLITICS INTERNSHIP/SEMINAR
Minimum Credits: 4
Maximum Credits: 4
Students selected for the institute of politics internship will register for this course for the experiential component of their internships. The purpose of the internship experience is to provide the student with direct exposure to the process of public decision-making. Each student will spend nine hours a week working with an individual or office directly involved in the policy making process. Students will be given specific responsibilities and will be expected to be an active and integral part of the office in which they are placed. The details and terms of each placement will be carefully worked out and agreed upon by the student, the placement supervisor and the placement sponsor. Utmost care will be taken to insure that the student is placed in a situation that will maximize his/her exposure to all office activities and that the student is not left unsupervised and uninvolved. Students from all disciplines may apply, but preference will be given to students in their junior and senior years. Students must report to their placement for at least nine hours a week and fulfill any agreed upon responsibilities. Students will also be required to keep a written journal which describes and analyzes their internship experience
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Seminar
Grade Component: Letter Grade
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PSY 0005 - INTRODUCTION COGNITIVE SCIENCE
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
A survey course that utilizes a cross disciplinary approach to cognition, and an introduction to the various disciplines within a single coherent framework. The course covers basic cognitive processes of perception, language and thought, examining how each of these areas is examined within the disciplines of psychology, neuroscience, linguistics, philosophy and artificial intelligence.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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PSY 0010 - INTRODUCTION TO PSYCHOLOGY
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
Summary of our present knowledge in fundamental areas of learning, sensation and perception, biological basis of behavior, developmental patterns, motivation, emotion, personality and adjustment, and measurement of behavior. Information and concepts are applied to problems in understanding human behavior. Additional out-of-class experiments or an equivalent research paper are a part of the course.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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PSY 0035 - RESEARCH METHODS
Minimum Credits: 4
Maximum Credits: 4
The course introduces students to the fundamentals of psychological research, including the nature of psychology as a science, the selection of a research problem, research designs, writing research proposals and papers using APA style and ethical considerations.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
Course Requirements: PREQ: (PSY 0010 or 0012 or 0015 or 0101 or 0200) and (STAT 0200 or 1000 or 1100 or PSY 0020 or 0201 or 0270 or MATH 0133)
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PSY 0105 - INTRODUCTION TO SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
An overview of social psychology. The scientific study of how one person’s behavior and/or characteristics can influence the thoughts, feelings and behaviors of others. Topics covered include social perception, attitude formation and change; prejudice and discrimination; altruism and aggression; cooperation, competition, and bargaining; group decision making, leadership; and environmental effects on behavior.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
Course Requirements: PREQ: PSY 0010 or 0012 or 0015 or 0101 or 0200
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PSY 0160 - PSYCHOLOGY OF PERSONALITY
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
Survey of major approaches to the study of personality, focusing on their relative abilities to provide coherent explanations for individual behavior. Issues involved in the assessment of personality will also be discussed and several assessment procedures evaluated. Recent research in personality psychology is reviewed and analyzed.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
Course Requirements: PREQ: PSY 0010 or 0012 or 0015 or 0101 or 0200
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PSY 0182 - LAW AND SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This course focuses on the social psychological aspects of the criminal justice system. Topics covered include victim reporting, police discretion, pretrial processes, interaction in the courtroom, juror selection and decision making, the sentencing decision, the prison experience, parole decision making and return to society.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
Course Requirements: PREQ: PSY 0010 or 0012 or 0015 or 0101 or 0200
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PSY 0184 - PSYCHOLOGY OF GENDER
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This course is intended to be an introduction to the theories and current research on the psychological nature of women and the psychology of gender roles. The male perspective on gender roles will also be included. The effects of cultural factors that determine both female and male roles in our society will be examined as well as how these roles affect different interpersonal relationships between women and men. The potential for change at both the societal and individual level will be discussed.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
Course Requirements: PREQ: PSY 0010 or 0012 or 0105 or 0101 or 0200 or 0203 or 0210
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PSY 0186 - CROSS CULTURAL PSYCHOLOGY
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
The systematic, scientific study of human behavior takes into account the diverse ecological and cultural settings in which we live. The course covers traditional topics in human psychology-perception, cognition, personality development, intergroup relations and impact of social change. Research data are emphasized. Approach is interdisciplinary, integrating material from anthropology as well as psychology.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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PSY 0310 - DEVELOPMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
The course focuses on development of the child from birth to adolescence, the current theory and research concerning social, emotional, intellectual, perceptual and language development. The organization of the course is topical. Coverage is confined to normal development; what develops, how and why in the average child. Little attention to abnormal development.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
Course Requirements: PREQ: PSY 0010 or 0012 or 0015 or 0101 or 0200
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PSY 0380 - PSYCHOLOGY OF AGING
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This course is designed to examine the basic psychological changes occurring through adulthood into old age. Particular emphasis will be given to the biological, social, and cultural influences. Discussions with some outside speakers, movies and demonstrations augment the course.
Academic Career: UGRD
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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PSY 0405 - LEARNING AND MOTIVATION
Minimum Credits: 4
Maximum Credits: 4
This course elucidates fundamental principles of learning and motivation as derived predominantly from animal research. Focus is given to the empirical and conceptual processes underlying the facilitation and suppression of behavior, e.g. primary and conditioned reinforcement, non-reinforcement, punishment and avoidance as well as the generalization and discrimination of these processes.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
Course Requirements: PREQ: PSY 0010 or 0012 or 0015 or 0101 or 0200
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PSY 0422 - COGNITIVE PSYCHOLOGY
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This course introduces students to core issues, theories, and experimental finding in cognitive psychology. Topics to be covered include sensory perception, attention, memory, imager, language, reasoning, problem solving and decision making.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
Course Requirements: PREQ: PSY 0010 or 0012 or 0015 or 0101 or 0200
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PSY 0423 - COGNITIVE PSYCHOLOGY LAB
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This course exposes students to the details of experimental methods in cognitive psychology, with a particular focus on experimental laboratory studies. Students will also improve their understanding of research report writing, computer skills, and quantitative data analysis skills. The course is organized according to the research process, which is implemented twice across two projects. For each project, students read background literature, develop research hypotheses, design experiments to test them, conduct the experiments, analyze the results, and write-up the experiments.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SU3 Elective Basis
Course Requirements: PREQ: (PSY 0010 or 0012 or 0101 or 0200) and (PSY 0032 or 0035 or 1031) and PSY 0422; PLAN: Psychology (BS)
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PSY 0505 - INTRODUCTION TO BIOPSYCHOLOGY
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This is a survey course in which the biological bases of certain classes of behavior are explored. The behaviors studied are limb movement, sleep and wakefulness, feeding, sexual behavior and learning and memory. Each of these behaviors is considered from the point of view of which brain structures and which neurotransmitters are involved in the production of that behavior. Emphasis is also placed on experimental techniques used to obtain relevant data and on the type of inferences which can be made from these experiments.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
Course Requirements: PREQ: PSY 0010 or 0012 or 0015 or 0101 or 0200
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PSY 0510 - SENSATION AND PERCEPTION
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This course examines the nature of the mechanisms that transform sensory input into our perceptual experience of the world. Topics include structure and function of sensory system, perception of color, object, motion, etc. Both information-processing and ecological approaches to the study of perception are considered.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
Course Requirements: PREQ: PSY 0010 or 0012 or 0015 or 0101 or 0200
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PSY 0515 - REHABILITATION PSYCHOLOGY
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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PSY 0680 - INTRODUCTION INDUSTRIAL/ORGANIZATIONAL
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
A survey course of contemporary practice in the field of industrial psychology. Principal topics include employee selection, testing, performance appraisal, training and development, leadership, work motivation, organizational psychology, conditions at work, engineering psychology, employee safety and health, consumer and marketing psychology.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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PSY 1025 - TESTS AND MEASUREMENT
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This course reviews representative examples of current psychological tests and covers, in some detail, the nature of psychological measurement and the elements of test theory and test construction. Topics covered include item analysis, item selection techniques, reliability, validity and validation procedures, standardization and norming, and the conceptual problems in test interpretation.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
Course Requirements: PREQ: (PSY 0010 or 0012 or 0015 or 0101 or 0200) and (STAT 0200 or 1000 or 1100 or PSY 0020 or 0201 or 0270)
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PSY 1050 - TOPICS IN PSYCHOLOGY
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
A topics course. Content will vary from term to term depending on instructor.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
Course Requirements: PREQ: PSY 0010 or 0012 or 0015 or 0200
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PSY 1051 - TOPICS IN SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
Topics in social psychology will vary from term to term, depending on instructor.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
Course Requirements: PREQ: PSY 0105 or 0203 or 0210
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PSY 1052 - TOPICS IN CLINICAL PSYCHOLOGY
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
Topics in clinical psychology will vary from term to term, depending on instructor.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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PSY 1053 - TOPICS IN DEVELOPMENTAL PSYCHCHOLOGY
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
Topics in developmental psychology will vary from term to term depending on instructor.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
Course Requirements: PREQ: (PSY 0010 or 0012 or 0015 or 0101 or 0200) and (0202 or 0230 or 0310) and (STAT 0200 or 1000 or 1100)
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PSY 1054 - TOPICS IN COGNITIVE PSYCHOLOGY
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
Topics in cognitive psychology will vary from term to term, depending on instructor.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
Course Requirements: PREQ: (PSY 0010 or 0012 or 0015 or 0101 or 0200) and (PSY 0032 or 0035 or 1031)
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PSY 1057 - TOPCS IN BIOLOGICAL AND HEALTH PSYCHOLOGY
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
Topics in biological and health psychology will vary from term to term, depending on instructor.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
Course Requirements: PREQ: (PSY 0010 or 0012 or 0015 or 0200) and (PSY 0032 or 0035 or 1031)
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PSY 1059 - TOPICS IN ADVANCED RESEARCH METHODS
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
Course Requirements: PREQ: PSY 0035 and (STAT 0200 or 1000 or 1100); PROG: School of Arts & Sciences
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PSY 1075 - HISTORY & SYSTEMS OF PSYCHOLOGY
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This course is designed to provide the student with an integrated view of the development of the field of psychology with emphasis on the philosophical and biological background of the nineteenth century and the systems period of the twentieth century.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
Course Requirements: PREQ: PSY 0010 or 0012 or 0015 or 0101 or 0200; LVL: Jr or Sr
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PSY 1080 - PSYCHOLOGY AND THE MEDIA
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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PSY 1110 - PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECTS OF HUMAN SEXUALITY
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
The course presents a social-psychological and psycho-biological orientation towards the study of human sexuality. Current research is emphasized. Topics such as sexual attitudes, hormones and behavior, changing sexual behavior, sex education, gender-role development, alternative forms of sexual expression, and violence and sex are covered.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
Course Requirements: PREQ: [(PSY 0010 or 0012 or 0015 or 0101 or 0200) and (PSY 0105 or 0203 or 0210)] or (PSY 0160 or 0184 or 0204 or 0240)
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PSY 1112 - PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECTS OF HUMAN SEXUALITY: RESEARCH WRITING PRACTICUM
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
The course presents a social-psychological and psychobiological orientation towards the study of human sexuality. Current research is emphasized. In addition to lectures and exams, students will conduct a class research project on sexual attitudes and write this up in APA style.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
Course Requirements: PREQ: (PSY 0035 or 0032 or 1031) and (STAT 0200 or 1000 or 1100 or PSY 0020 or 0201 or 0270)
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PSY 1130 - SPECIAL TOPICS ON PSYCHCHOLOGY OF GENDER
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
An advanced course which deals with psychological research relating to women and power. Topics covered include physical power, nonverbal perpetuation of power differences, power motivation, social power, power dynamics in the family and political power. Each semester the course has a different focus.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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PSY 1135 - SOCIAL PERCEPTION AND COGNITION
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
Historical problems and current issues are identified. Some general principles of perception and cognition are reviewed. Recent research and theoretical formulations are considered in each of these areas; impression formation, interpersonal attraction, causal and moral attribution, prediction of behavior, perceptions of interpersonal relations, group stereotyping and prejudice.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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PSY 1137 - CLOSE RELATIONSHIPS
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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PSY 1155 - PSYCHOLOGY OF SMALL GROUPS
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This course surveys basic principles and research findings involving small groups. Some of the topics covered include social facilitation, conformity, and cohesiveness, social comparison, roles, status, and norms, leadership and inter- group relations. Social processes within both laboratory and natural groups will be studied, and some emphasis will be placed on the practical relevance of small group research to the everyday experience of group membership.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
Course Requirements: PREQ: PSY 0105 or 0160 or 0203 or 0204 or 0210 or 0240
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PSY 1205 - ABNORMAL PSYCHOLOGY
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This course provides an overview of the major issues in the area of mental illness. This course emphasizes the scientific approach to understanding the major psychological and behavioral disorders. The research and clinical literatures regarding the etiology, course and treatment of these disorders will be presented.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
Course Requirements: PREQ: PSY 0010 or 0012 or 0015 or 0101 or 0200
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PSY 1210 - INTRODUCTION TO CLINICAL PSYCHOLOGY
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This course is directed toward the student seriously interested in the major issues pertaining to clinical psychology. The course provides an overview of the major therapeutic approaches and incorporates other germane issues such as history of the field, assessment issues, interviewing approaches, community psychology, behavioral medicine, and clinical research and methodology. Present therapeutic approaches are placed in the context of an evolving discipline, anchored in an empirical-scientific approach to the subject matter.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
Course Requirements: PREQ: (PSY 0010 or 0012 or 0015 or 0101 or 0200) and (PSY 1205 or 0206 or 1141)
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PSY 1213 - PSYCHOPATHOLOGY ADVANCED LAB
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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PSY 1215 - HEALTH PSYCHOLOGY
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This course provides an introduction to the major questions and methods which have guided the research in health psychology. This field examines the role of psychological and social factors in the development and progression of medical disease. Three main topics are covered: (1) conceptual underpinnings of health psychology, (2) psychosocial factors and specific diseases, and (3) evaluating behavioral medicine interventions.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
Course Requirements: PREQ: (PSY 0010 or 0012 or 0015 or 0101 or 0200) and (PSY 0035 or 0032 or 1031) and (PSY 0105 or 0505 or 1500 or 0203 or 0210)
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PSY 1225 - PSYCHOLOGY OF EMOTION
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This is an advanced course covering contemporary issues in the study of emotion. Topics considered include expressive, cognitive, biological and social aspects of emotion and the role of emotion in psychopathology.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
Course Requirements: PREQ: (PSY 0035 or 0032 or 1031) and (PSY 0105 or 0160 or 0310 or 0202 or 0203 or 0204 or 0210 or 0230 or 0240)
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PSY 1230 - PSYCHOLOGY OF DEATH AND DYING
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
The purpose of this course is to widen the student’s understanding of human death in its biological, socio-cultural, and primarily psychological dimensions. We will examine the concept of death, psychological reactions to death and dying, and the process of bereavement. We will also explore selected issues such as suicide and euthanasia, children’s concepts of death, and the question of life after death. It is hoped that with increased knowledge about death and dying, you will be able to look more critically at materials being published in the popular press.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
Course Requirements: PREQ: PSY 0010 or 0012 or 0015 or 0101 or 0200
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PSY 1235 - ALCOHOL USE AND ABUSE
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This course covers a range of topics related to alcohol, including history, anthropology, sociology, epidemiology and literature. Topics include psychopharmacology, social-cognitive effects of drinking, etiology of alcoholism, as well as the prevention and treatment of alcoholism. This course also addresses abuse of other selected drugs such as nicotine, cocaine and heroin.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
Course Requirements: PREQ: (PSY 0010 or 0012) and PSY 0035 and PSY 1205 and (PSY 0105 or 0420 or 0422)
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