Course Descriptions

PSY-B 456 - Capstone Service Learning in Psychology

Credits:

3

Description:

The primary goal of the course is to provide an opportunity for students to integrate and apply the content and discipline-specific ways of thinking from their program of study within the context of service learning. This course is designed to connect service experiences, psychology content knowledge, and critical reflection. As such, community engagement is enhanced, academic concepts are more deeply understood, and personal growth is facilitated.

Prerequisite:

PSY-B 305/B306 and PSY-B 311/B312; and at least two of the following: PSY-B 310, PSY-B 320, PSY-B 340, or PSY-B 370; and Senior Standing.

PSY-B 482 - Capstone Practicum in Clinical Psychology

Credits:

3

Description:

Students are placed in a clinical/community setting and gain applied practicum experience working with individuals who have psychological, medical, and/or physical health problems. Relevant multicultural issues will be addressed.

Prerequisite:

PSY-B 305/B306, PSY-B 311/B312, PSY-B 386, at least two 300-level PSY foundation courses, senior standing and consent of instructor. Application is required.

PSY-B 492 - Readings and Research in Psychology

Credits:

1-3

Description:

Gain hands-on research experience in a research lab or with an independent research project mentored by an instructor in the psychology department. For highly motivated students who are planning to attend graduate school or work in a field that requires a solid foundation in research. Projects need to be pre-arranged with faculty and registration is by permission only.

Prerequisite:

Consent of instructor. Equivalent to IU PSY-P 495 and PU PSY 39000 and PSY 39100.

PSY-B 499 - Capstone Honors Research

Credits:

ARR.

Description:

Independent readings and research resulting in a research paper.

Prerequisite:

PSY-B 305/B306, PSY-B 311/B312, at least two 300-level PSY foundation courses, senior standing and consent of instructor. Application is required. Equivalent to IU PSY-P 499.

PSY-I 501 - Multicultural Counseling

Credits:

3

Description:

I501 Multicultural Counseling (3 cr.) P: graduate standing. This course explores the role of increasing diversity in the U.S. population and how it will affect the delivery of mental health services. The focus of the course is on different ethnic and minority groups, their customs and values, and the impact that these cultural factors have on the utilization of psychological services.

PSY 51800 - Memory and Cognition

Credits:

3

Description:

A graduate-level survey of theories and research concerned with the acquisition, retention, and retrieval of information. Topics include amnesia, eyewitness memory, forgetting, developmental trends in memory, related issues in attention, language processing, and problem solving.

PSY-I 535 - Clinical Neuroscience

Credits:

3

Description:

P: consent of instructor. A primary goal of the course is to examine how psychology, neuroscience, pharmacology, and medicine come together to manage mental illness. Mental illness will be examined systematically and the nature of how biological alterations lead to aberrant behaviors that define psychopathology will be examined. The course will heavily discuss the ethics involved in the field of Clinical Neuroscience.

PSY 54000 - History of Psychology

Credits:

3

Description:

A review of the philosophical, theoretical, and methodological issues that entered into the development of modern psychology. Emphasis on historical themes that continue to be active in the science and profession of psychology.

Prerequisite:

Nine (9) credit hours of psychology.

PSY-I 544 - Psychobiology of Learning and Motivation

Credits:

3

Description:

P: B320 or equivalent. The course examines past and present biologically based theories of learned and motivated behavior. Neural processes of feeding, drinking, aggression, fear, anxiety, and sexual behavior will be emphasized. Selected coverage of behavioral research principles used to investigate these processes also will be discussed.

PSY-I 545 - Psychopharmacology

Credits:

3

Description:

P: 615 or consent of instructor. A survey of the effects of drugs on behavior, cognitive functioning, and emotions. Emphasis will be placed on the practical advantages of understanding how psychotropic drugs work, and on how the brain functions in health and disease. Students will be exposed to the most current theories and research in the field.

PSY-I 549 - Introduction to Vocational Rehabilitation

Credits:

3

Description:

P: Nine (9) credit hours of psychology. Philosophy, procedures, and practices underlying the vocational rehabilitation movement, including the historical, social, cultural, and economic factors and legislation that have contributed to its rapid development.

PSY-I 555 - Medical and Psychosocial Aspects of Chronic Illness

Credits:

3

Description:

I555 Medical and Psychosocial Aspects of Chronic Illness (3 cr.) P: Nine (9) credit hours of psychology including I549. Provides medical information for rehabilitation counselors and introduces students to medical terminology. Includes knowledge of the etiology, prognosis, methods of treatment, and effects of disabling conditions, and implications for the rehabilitation counselor. Counselor relationships with other health-related personnel are emphasized.

PSY-I 565 - Seminar in Cognitive, Affective, and Developmental Aspects of Behavior

Credits:

3

Description:

Students examine key ideas in cognitive, affective, and developmental aspects of behavior. Provides: a solid foundation to graduate students in psychology, substantive breadth of cognitive, affective, and development psychology for graduate students in psychology and allied disciplines, advanced undergrauates a firm grasp of important discoveries in the field.

Prerequisite:

Graduate student in Psychology or permission of instructor.

PSY 56500 - Interpersonal Relations

Credits:

3

Description:

Review of major current theoretical formulations of the interpersonal relationship, including a discussion of some of the more prominent research. Focus is primarily on two-person interpersonal relations.

Prerequisite:

Nine (9) credit hours of psychology.

PSY-I 570 - Drugs of Abuse

Credits:

3

Description:

P: Graduate: None Undergraduate: Permission of instructor pending review of prior undergraduate course work. This course will cover the basic principles of the study of drugs of abuse, as well as focusing on particular drugs and drug classes. For each drug or drug class, we will discuss issues ranging from basic pharmacology to the social impact of the abuse of the particular substance. We will utilize a text book as well as current literature in the field, and critical examination of all course material will be encouraged.

PSY 57000 - Staffing

Credits:

3

Description:

Spring. 

PSY 57200 - Organizational Psychology

Credits:

3

Description:

A survey of basic behavioral science research and thinking as these contribute to the understanding of individual, dyadic, group, intergroup, and other large organization behavioral phenomena. The topics covered include motivation, perception, attitudes and morale, communication, leadership, conflict, problem solving, behavior change, and organizational effectiveness.

PSY-I 573 - Occupational Health Psychology

Credits:

3

Description:

P: Regular graduate standing in Psychology or permission of instructor. Fall, every other year. Occupational health psychology (OHP) is one of the most heavily researched areas within the work domain, although it is not well publicized in the traditional IO psychology domain. For instance, traditional topics in IO, such as job design (job characteristic model), person- environment fit, shift work, job stress, coping and adjustment, type A/B, safety climate, workplace violence, and so on, are covered in the OHP. This course provides an in depth treatment of this literature with the foci on occupational stress, violence, and safety.

PSY 57400 - Psychology of Industrial Training

Credits:

3

Description:

Use of psychological measurement techniques in assessing training needs and evaluating training effectiveness and the application of learning research and theory to industrial training.

Prerequisite:

Three (3) credit hours of psychology.

PSY-I 575 - Psychology and Law Seminar

Credits:

3

Description:

P: Permission of instructor. Fall, every other year. This seminar examines the relevance of social psychological and industrial/organizational (I/O) theory and research to various forensic contexts, including criminal and tortious behavior, police and other investigatory processes, evaluation of scientific and behavioral evidence, employment law issues, and the role of psychological consultants and expert witnesses.