PSYC 295 - Current Advances in Psychological Science

Credits: 1, 2, or 3
Planned Offering: Offered when student interest is expressed and departmental resources permit.

Prerequisites vary; determined at time of offering.Seminar topics and specific prerequisites vary with instructor and term. These seminars are designed to introduce students to an area of current interest in the field of psychology. Students receive an overview of the experimental research and/or applied practices that have advanced an area of psychological science. May be repeated for degree credit with permission and if the topics are different.

Topics for Fall 2010:

PSYC 295: Current Topics: Cognition and Emotion (3). This course challenges the notion that cognition and emotion are fundamentally opposing psychological systems and explores how they function together to influence attention, memory, thinking, and behavior in our social world. Coverage includes contemporary theory, research, experimental design and application on topics regarding both healthy individuals and those with psychological disorders. No previous exposure to psychology is assumed. Johnson.

PSYC 295A: Current Topics: Health Psychology (3). No previous coursework in psychology is necessary. This course examines behaviors and cognitive processes related to health states and the mind/body connection. Topics include health behaviors, disease prevention, stress and coping, pain, cardiovascular disease, psychoneuroimmunology, and recent advances in the field of health psychology. Mechlin.