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- PSYCH
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- 2026-2027
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- catalog.umb.edu
66 courses with the subject PSYCH, each shown exactly as we captured it from the college's catalog, with every element we hold. Where the wording looks broken, that is our reading of the catalog, not the college's text.
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or SOCIOL 101 - Introduction to Sociology
Credit(s): 4 Component(s): Lecture Grading Basis: Graded (includes P/F option) Repeatable for credit: Not repeatable Description: This course introduces a biopsychosocial and social ecological understanding of health and health-related interventions, which arose in large part due to research in the field of Health Psychology. This course emphasizes consideration of equity and disparities in health, building your understanding of how and why health disparities occur across the U.S. population, how to think about ethics related to both action and inaction in the face of health inequities, and 1283
Intermediate Courses
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Credit(s): 3 Component(s): Lecture Grading Basis: Graded (includes P/F option) Repeatable for credit: Not repeatable Description: This course examines the range of common psychological disorders, their characteristic symptoms, possible causes, and treatment. It takes a critical scientific and structural approach to the criteria used to define psychological distress, dysfunction, and diagnosis, the theories used to explain these phenomena, and the therapies used to treat them. The course explores a continuum of mental health, as well as contextual influences on psychological functioning and dysfunction. This course covers some of the material that was historically covered in our "Abnormal Psychology" course, and includes a critical analysis of the APA's Diagnostic and Statistical Manual (DSM). While diagnoses are covered in the course, the course does not teach students how to diagnose others - to do so requires graduate level work. Enrollment Requirements: Prerequisite: PSYCH 100 or PSYCH 101 Course Catalog ID: 026652 Course Offer Number: 1
Credit(s): 3 Component(s): Lecture Grading Basis: Graded (included P/F option) Repeatable for credit: Not repeatable 1285
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Credit(s): 3 Component(s): Lecture Grading Basis: Graded (includes P/F option) Repeatable for credit: Not repeatable Description: This course provides an introduction to social justice perspectives and issues and explores the connections between social justice and psychology. The course examines how issues of power, privilege, and oppression shape individual and group identities as well as interpersonal interactions. Through interdisciplinary readings and resources as well as experiential activities, this course will explore the individual, interpersonal, institutional, and societal processes and dynamics that shape our individual and collective experiences. We will examine the psychological dimensions associated with the causes, consequences, and strategies needed to address intersecting social injustices, and students will gain a deeper understanding of their individual connections to our global society. 1287
SOCIOL 211G - Race and Power in the US Capstone
Credit(s): 3 Component(s): Lecture Grading Basis: Graded (includes P/F option) Repeatable for credit: Not repeatable Description: This course is an introduction to the psychological experience of Blacks in the United States, including the historical, sociopolitical, and cultural influences that shape personality and mental health in community, family, and individual contexts. Connections between Africa, the Caribbean, and black America will be examined with respect to culture, belief systems, and values. At the same time, we also explore the many differences in history, culture, and experience within the many groups and individuals of African-descent in the U.S. Diversity Area: United States 1288
Credit(s): 3 Component(s): Lecture Grading Basis: Graded (includes P/F option) Repeatable for credit: Not repeatable Description: Psychological theories about women from Freud to the present are examined with emphasis placed on biological and sociocultural perspectives as they have influenced the development of a psychology of women. Special attention is paid to the developmental process and the unique issues and concerns of the female infant, child, adolescent, young adult, and older woman. Diversity Area: United States Enrollment Requirements: Prerequisite: PSYCH 100 or PSYCH 101 Course Catalog ID: 026657 Course Offer Number: 1
Credit(s): 3 Component(s): Lecture Grading Basis: Graded (includes P/F option) Repeatable for credit: Not repeatable Description: This course is an introduction to the psychological experience of Asian Americans, including the historical, sociopolitical, and cultural influences that shape personality and mental health in community, family, and individual contexts. The course also explores prevention and intervention possibilities through specific examples, such as trauma and intergenerational conflict, that are relevant for Asian American populations. Course Note: ASAMST 238L and PSYCH 238L are the same course. 1289
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Credit(s): 3 Component(s): Lecture Grading Basis: Graded (includes P/F option) Repeatable for credit: Not repeatable Description: This course is designed to acquaint students with psychological characteristics of adolescent development, theoretical approaches to adolescence, and experimental studies of the causes of a variety of behaviors during adolescence. The course also focuses upon major problems and characteristics of adolescents in modern society. 1290
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Credit(s): 3 Component(s): Lecture Grading Basis: Graded (includes P/F option) Repeatable for credit: Not repeatable Description: We will discuss how humans perceive, and interact with, their environment by using their senses (eyes, ears, nose, tongue, skin) to convert external stimuli (electromagnetic radiation, air pressure vibrations, volatile and soluble chemicals, and mechanical forces) into neural signals and psychological experiences (sights, sounds, smells, tastes, and textures). Enrollment Requirements: Prerequisite: PSYCH 100 or PSYCH 101 Course Catalog ID: 026880 Course Offer Number: 1
Social Justice and Equity (pick one from the list below)
Credit(s): 3 Component(s): Lecture Grading Basis: Graded (includes P/F option) Repeatable for credit: Not repeatable Description: Cognitive science is an interdisciplinary field fundamentally concerned with furthering our understanding of the development, underlying processes, and implementation of language, perception, problem-solving, learning, memory, and other intelligent capacities. This course offers an introduction to this science for all levels of undergraduate majors in psychology, computer science, biology, and other related fields. Course Note: CS 271L and PSYCH 271L are the same course. This course is cross-listed as: CS 271L Distribution Area: Social and Behavioral Sciences Course Catalog ID: 031681 1292
Credit(s): 3 Component(s): Lecture Grading Basis: Graded (includes P/F option) Repeatable for credit: Repeatable - total credits: 6 / total completions: 2 Description: The proposed course, a 200-level Research Apprenticeship (PSYCH 286) is designed for students who are interested in being involved in hands-on research, but who are still at the beginning of their studies in the major. Students who are enrolled in this course work with faculty members on topics related to the faculty member's research interests. Enrollment Requirements: Prerequisite: PSYCH 100 or PSYCH 101 or PSYCH 102 Course Catalog ID: 034675 Course Offer Number: 1
Credit(s): 1 Component(s): Seminar Grading Basis: Pass/Fail Only Repeatable for credit: Not repeatable Description: This course will cover the history, effectiveness, and best practices in youth mentoring and the competencies related to therapeutic mentoring. Semester(s) typically offered: Spring Course Catalog ID: 042096 Course Offer Number: 1
Credit(s): 3 1293
Credit(s): 3 Component(s): Lecture Grading Basis: Graded (includes P/F option) Repeatable for credit: Not repeatable Description: An examination of major issues in the area of human motives and emotions. Theoretical analyses from the early theories of James, Dewey, Freud and Watson to contemporary studies employing the evolutionary behaviorist and cognitive perspectives. Topics include the relationship among motives, emotions and personality, and the rationality of the emotions. Course Catalog ID: 026671 Course Offer Number: 1
Credit(s): 3 Component(s): Lecture Grading Basis: Graded (includes P/F option) Repeatable for credit: Not repeatable Description: An examination of small group behavior from a theoretical and empirical perspective. 1294
Credit(s): 3 Component(s): Lecture Grading Basis: Graded (includes P/F option) Repeatable for credit: Not repeatable Description: This course examines the nature of attitudes, beliefs, and values, and the influences which individuals' attitudes have upon their behavior. Various theories of attitude organization and attitude change are discussed, and the development of social attitudes is explored by examining the differential impact of the family, the educational system, the mass media, and the general social environment. The changing content of public opinion over time and its relationship to the political system are also discussed. Enrollment Requirements: Prerequisites: PSYCH 201 and PSYCH 230 Course Catalog ID: 026942 Course Offer Number: 1
SOCIOL 300 - Sociology of Media and Communication SOCIOL 331 - Activism, Protests, and Social Movements SOCIOL 364 - Internet, Society, and Cyber Crime SOCIOL 375L - Indian Cinema
Credit(s): 3 Component(s): Lecture Grading Basis: Graded (includes P/F option) Repeatable for credit: Not repeatable Description: Contributions of psychology to the understanding of human communities. Community mental health, ecological, and social structural approaches to community psychology are examined. Enrollment Requirements: Prerequisite: PSYCH 230 Course Catalog ID: 026680 Course Offer Number: 1
Credit(s): 3 Component(s): Lecture Grading Basis: Graded (includes P/F option) Repeatable for credit: Not repeatable Description: This course provides a basic understanding of the interaction between law and psychology, including developmental, social and clinical psychology. Topics include rules of evidence, statistics in the court, child witnesses, eyewitness testimony recovered memory, criminal investigatory practices, competence to stand trial, and constitutional rights of search and seizure. Enrollment Requirements: Prerequisite: PSYCH 215 Course Catalog ID: 026949 Course Offer Number: 1
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Credit(s): 3 Component(s): Lecture Grading Basis: Graded (includes P/F option) Repeatable for credit: Not repeatable Description: How does our brain allow for higher level mental processes, such as our ability to perceive, act, and think? This course will provide a basic overview of theories, methods, and empirical evidence in cognitive neuroscience, where we explore how cognitive abilities arise from neural activity. Topics covered will include mechanisms of sensory perception, attention, learning and memory, executive function, decision making, language, and emotional processing. We will also talk about brain plasticity, and how abnormal brain function contributes to disease. Enrollment Requirements: Prerequisites: • PSYCH 100 or PSYCH 101 and • PSYCH 260 or PSYCH 360 or BIOL 316 or BIOL 318 Semester(s) typically offered: Fall and Spring Course Catalog ID: 042097 Course Offer Number: 1
Psychology Statistics Course
SOCIOL 350 - Social Statistics SOCIOL 202 - Methods of Sociological Research Economics Course
Field Experience Course List
Advanced Courses (9 Credits) Elective Course
Credit(s): 3 Component(s): Lecture Grading Basis: Graded (includes P/F option) Repeatable for credit: Not repeatable Description: This course explores the theory, research, and phenomenology of response to such traumatic events as combat, rape, and concentration camp survival. It examines normative psychological processes, common symptom picture, and the developmental, sociocultural, and personality factors that influence response. Discussions also focus on present and past controversies within the research, and on the personal, social, and professional implications of the material. 1299
Credit(s): 3 Component(s): Lecture Grading Basis: Graded (includes P/F option) Repeatable for credit: Not repeatable Description: Psychotherapy is defined and a number of existing systems of psychotherapy are studied and compared through close reading of cases reported in the literature by the originators of each system. Enrollment Requirements: Prerequisites: • PSYCH 100 or PSYCH 101 and • PSYCH 201 and • PSYCH 210 or PSYCH 215 Course Catalog ID: 027023 Course Offer Number: 1
Credit(s): 6 Component(s): Lecture Grading Basis: Graded (includes P/F option) Repeatable for credit: Not repeatable Description: An internship course to give students the opportunity of combining human service or research in an area of psychology with a weekly seminar where they can reflect on their field experiences. As part of the seminar, students are expected to attend its weekly meetings and to complete readings and a written term project relevant to their field experience as worked out in consultation with the faculty coordinator. Enrollment Requirements: Instructor consent 1300
Credit(s): 3 Component(s): Lecture Grading Basis: Graded (includes P/F option) Repeatable for credit: Not repeatable Description: In this course, students will explore the concept of decolonial love and its refusals. In this course, we explore how intimacies and relational attachments -- nationalist, familial, romantic, and community can sometimes serve to perpetuate colonial structures. Conversely, we will consider how alternative imaginaries and forms of love bonds and intimacies with groundedness in intergenerational anti-colonial struggles and communities of co-resistance, work for the undoing of colonial violence and genocide, expanding beyond the realm of human relationships to include land and complex ecologies of life. Students will have opportunities to grow their understandings of human victimization, relationships, and resistance, most relevant to current moments in history. Enrollment Requirements: Prerequisite: PSYCH 100 and PSYCH 201 and PSYCH 210 or PSYCH 215 or PSYCH 230 Course Catalog ID: 042850 Course Offer Number: 1
SOCIOL 268 - Religion in Contemporary Society
SOCIOL 242 - Sociology of Family Environmental Studies and Sustainability Major (BA) Environmental Sciences | School for the Environment
Credit(s): 3 Component(s): Lecture Grading Basis: Graded (includes P/F option) Repeatable for credit: Not repeatable Description: The goal of this course is to examine the individual, socio-demographic and policy factors that have given rise to this new developmental stage of "emerging adulthood." Students will examine theories and research related to the stage of emerging adulthood with a focus on the ways in which context shapes development. Context includes both micro and macro-level influences on emerging adulthood (e.g., sociohistorical context, race/ethnicity, gender, and economic conditions). The topics include: historical comparisons of emerging adulthood; cultural, ethnic, and gender identity; family and romantic relationships; friendships; and education and career choices. 1302
Credit(s): 3 Component(s): Lecture Grading Basis: Graded (includes P/F option) Repeatable for credit: Not repeatable Description: This course explores the general question of how thinking develops. Particular emphasis is placed on understanding the development of thinking in childhood and on identifying those aspects of children's approaches to conceptualizing, theorizing, and remembering which are changing during this time. Some attention is also given to understanding possible mechanisms of cognitive change. Enrollment Requirements: Prerequisites: • PSYCH 241 or • PSYCH 250 or • PSYCH 201 and PSYCH 242 Course Catalog ID: 026968 Course Offer Number: 1
Credit(s): 3 Component(s): Lecture Grading Basis: Graded (includes P/F option) Repeatable for credit: Not repeatable Description: The neural basis of higher cognitive functions, such as perception, language, and memory, including a consideration of human brain damage and psychological tests used to assess 1303
Credit(s): 3 Component(s): Lecture Grading Basis: Graded (includes P/F option) Repeatable for credit: Not repeatable Description: A survey of the background and history of psychoactive drugs, their current uses as research and therapeutic tools, and the difficulties in appraising their effects. Particular attention is given to the effects of drugs on the development of new fields of inquiry such as neuropsychopharmacology and influences on older fields such as biological psychiatry, etc. Enrollment Requirements: Prerequisites: PSYCH 201 and PSYCH 360 or equivalent Course Catalog ID: 026986 Course Offer Number: 1
Credit(s): 3 Component(s): Lecture Grading Basis: Graded (includes P/F option) Repeatable for credit: Not repeatable Description: This course will be an introduction to the field of biological rhythms. In this course, students will examine biological clocks at multiple levels including theoretical aspects, organismal and system level studies, and cellular and molecular analyses. The course will cover numerous examples that illustrate the important impact of rhythms on both psychological and biological functioning. 1304
Credit(s): 3 Component(s): Lecture Grading Basis: Graded (includes P/F option) Repeatable for credit: Not repeatable Description: This course studies relationships between behavior and the neuroendocrine system studied in diverse behavioral systems of animals, including humans. Participants acquire an understanding of the complex interactions between hormones and behavior; study endocrine bases of sex differences, reproduction, affiliation, aggression, homeostasis, biorhythms, and other behavioral systems; explore clinical implications; and learn to read, evaluate, and discuss original research findings. Enrollment Requirements: Prerequisites: PSYCH 201 and PSYCH 360 Course Catalog ID: 026992 Course Offer Number: 1
Capstone Courses
Credit(s): 3 Component(s): Lecture Grading Basis: Graded (includes P/F option) Repeatable for credit: Not repeatable Description: This course explores the theoretical and methodological problems of contemporary psychology-especially clinical psychology-in historical perspective. It provides a broad overview of the development of psychology as an independent discipline and of the various sub-specialties in the field; and it evaluates the significance of new movements and methods by examining intellectual antecedents and underlying assumptions. Enrollment Requirements: Prerequisites: PSYCH 201 and a minimum of 60 credits Course Catalog ID: 026998 Course Offer Number: 1
Credit(s): 3 Component(s): Lecture Grading Basis: Graded (includes P/F option) Repeatable for credit: Not repeatable Description: This elective advanced course is designed to introduce students to approaches to inquiry that commonly are referred to as 'qualitative research.' While psychology historically has focused on experimental and quasiexperimental approaches to learning, increasingly psychologists are viewing these as only one approach to learning and embracing a wider variety approaches to building knowledge about people's lives and the societies within which they live. The course is designed to introduce students to some of these alternate ways of conducting research that are based on analyzing interviews and text. These methods are especially helpful in 1306
Credit(s): 3 Component(s): Lecture Grading Basis: Graded (includes P/F option) Repeatable for credit: Not repeatable Description: The course is focused on the use of laboratory methods and research design in the traditional areas of experimental psychology (e.g., perception, learning, problem solving). Students design experiments, collect and analyze data and report their findings. The objectives of the course are to help students develop knowledge of the logic and techniques of experimentation, along with the skills required to use this knowledge. Enrollment Requirements: Prerequisites: • PSYCH 201 and • PSYCH 250 or PSYCH 255 Course Catalog ID: 027053 1307
Credit(s): 3 Component(s): Lecture Grading Basis: Graded (includes P/F option) Repeatable for credit: Not repeatable Description: Lab research on selected topics in physiological psychology, including hormonal influences, brain-behavior relationships, and mechanisms of reward and punishment. Emphasis is on the acquisition of research skills through the use of surgical, histological and statistical techniques in investigations mainly derived from computer-simulated data bases. Enrollment Requirements: Prerequisites: • PSYCH 201 and • PSYCH 360 or BIOL 112 Course Catalog ID: 027050 Course Offer Number: 1
Credit(s): 3 Component(s): Lecture Grading Basis: Graded (includes P/F option) Repeatable for credit: Not repeatable Description: The general purpose of the course is to introduce the students to experimental research methods in social psychology. Class activities include examination of the relevant literature, participation in pre-designed studies, and the formulation, carrying out, and analysis of an original research project. The student has an opportunity to become familiar with the use of laboratory equipment such as audio and video recorders. Enrollment Requirements: Prerequisites: PSYCH 201 and PSYCH 230 and PSYCH 370 Course Catalog ID: 027035 Course Offer Number: 1 1308
Advanced Psychology Courses (6 Credits) Psychology Elective (3 Credits) Calculus Course (3 to 4 Credits) Introductory Biology Courses
Credit(s): 3-6 Component(s): Lecture Grading Basis: Graded (includes P/F option) Repeatable for credit: Not repeatable Description: This is a field placement course with two complementary components: (a) students complete a field placement working with children or adolescents in a naturalistic setting (e.g., youth program, camp, school), and (b) students participate in a seminar focused on theory and research from clinical, community, and developmental psychology that is relevant to their field placement. Content and assignments create opportunities for students to reflect on their fieldwork experiences and to make connections between the theory, research, and skills covered in the seminar and their direct experiences in the field placement. Enrollment Requirements: Prerequisites: • PSYCH 201 and • PSYCH 241 or PSYCH 242
Credit(s): 3 Component(s): Lecture Grading Basis: Graded (includes P/F option) Repeatable for credit: Repeatable - total credits: 6 / total completions: 2 Description: This course is designed to provide undergraduate majors in psychology with opportunities to participate in empirical research under the direction of a full-time faculty member. Students may be involved in all aspects of research including review of the literature, selection of 1309
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Credit(s): 1-4 Component(s): Lecture Grading Basis: Graded (includes P/F option) Repeatable for credit: Repeatable 1310
Credit(s): 3 Component(s): Lecture Grading Basis: Graded (includes P/F option) Repeatable for credit: Repeatable - total credits: 999 / total completions: 99 Description: Conducted by various members of the faculty with special attention in their fields of scholarly interest. Topics vary by semester. Enrollment Requirements: Prerequisites: • PSYCH 100 or PSYCH 101 and • PSYCH 201 and • one 300-level PSYCH course Course Catalog ID: 027080 Course Offer Number: 1
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SOCIOL 101 - Introduction to Sociology SOCIOL 281 - Society and the Individual SOCIOL 310 - Socialization SOCIOL 350 - Social Statistics SOCIOL 479 - Directed Study in Sociology
Credit(s): 3 Component(s): Lecture Grading Basis: Multi-Term (year long) Repeatable for credit: Not repeatable Description: An intensive program of directed research combined with weekly discussion. Enrollment Requirements: Department consent consent required for enrollment: Department Course Catalog ID: 027116 1312
Credit(s): 3 Component(s): Lecture Grading Basis: Graded (includes P/F option) Repeatable for credit: Not repeatable Description: An intensive program of directed research combined with weekly discussion. Enrollment Requirements: Department consent consent required for enrollment: Department Course Catalog ID: 027117 Course Offer Number: 1
Source: University of Massachusetts-Boston's catalog, linked per course · table learning_unit · CourseShelf publish 61