72 courses with the subject PSYC, 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.
Offered Both Fall and Spring; Lecture hours:3,Other:2A survey of concepts, principles, and theories of an empirical science of cognition, affect, and behavior and its application.
Offered Summer Session Only; Lecture hours:6An investigation of the concepts and the reasoning underlying the interpretation of statistical information. Emphasis is on the basic methods for gathering trustworthy data and the elementary graphical and numerical techniques for analyzing it. Open to students enrolled in the BCCSP program only.
Offered Occasionally; Lecture hours:4Black self-concept, the black family and self-awareness, "black English", skin color and physical attractiveness standards, black self-esteem, black views on prejudice and discrimination. Open to BCCSP students only.
Offered Summer Session Only; Lecture hours:6Examination of how biology influences: what our mate preferences are and where they come from, the correlates of beauty, relationship initiation and maintenance, love, jealousy and mate expulsion. Prerequisite: permission of the instructor. Open to BCCSP students only.
Offered Both Fall and Spring; Lecture hours:3The study of basic mechanisms of associative learning in motivated behavior, especially Pavlovian and operant conditioning in the behaviors of various species. Prerequisite: PSYC 100 or ANBE 266 or BIOL 266 or PSYC 266 or permission of the instructor.
Offered Both Fall and Spring; Lecture hours:3A survey of the theories and methods employed in studying human mental abilities. Issues include attention, memory, language, problem solving, and decision making. Prerequisite: PSYC 100 or permission of the instructor.
Offered Both Fall and Spring; Lecture hours:3Study of stages, sequences and processes in normal child development, prenatal through childhood. Emphasis on interaction of nature and nurture in cognitive, social emotional development. Volunteer work component to course. Prerequisite: PSYC 100. EDUC 102 or EDUC 201 accepted as an alternate prerequisite for EDUC BS majors or instructor permission.
Offered Both Fall and Spring; Lecture hours:3Theories of social influence and social interaction, their empirical foundations and implications for the individual and society. Prerequisite: PSYC 100 or permission of the instructor.
Offered Either Fall or Spring; Lecture hours:3,Other:1Covers theories and research on psychological disorders. Emphasis is on empirically based approaches to psychopathology including (but not limited to) developmental, cognitive and neuroscientific approaches. Prerequisite: PSYC 100 or permission of the instructor.
Offered Both Fall and Spring; Lecture hours:3,Other:1An introduction to basic statistical analyses in psychology.
Offered Either Fall or Spring; Lecture hours:3An introduction to the methods used and issues faced by psychological researchers. Topics include ethics, study design (true-experimental, correlational, and quasi-experimental), data collection and analysis, and communication of empirical findings. A foundation for other research-based courses in Psychology. Prerequisites: PSYC 100 and PSYC 215 or (MATH 216 or STAT 216).
Offered Either Fall or Spring; Lecture hours:4Psychopharmacology, the study of drugs that affect behavior, begins with an appreciation for neurochemical, pharmacological and behavioral principles in order to understand actions and effects of therapeutic compounds and addictive substances, the two major categories of psychopharmacological drugs. Prerequisite: PSYC 100 or permission of the instructor. Crosslisted as NEUR 217.
Topics course,Offered Fall, Spring or Summer; Lecture hours:3Occasional courses on selected topics of current interest in psychology. Prerequisite: permission of the instructor.
Offered Either Fall or Spring; Lecture hours:3Culture and societal contexts help to shape mental health, including the development of psychological distress and the treatment of psychological disorders. This course examines historical perspectives that have shaped ideas of mental health including power, privilege and oppression. Other course topics include biases, cultural humility, culturally-responsive interventions and psychological assessments. Prerequisite: PSYC 100 or permission of the instructor.
Offered Both Fall and Spring; Lecture hours:3Evaluation of theory and research on personality, including consideration of classic theories and their applications in current research. Prerequisite: PSYC 100 or permission of the instructor.
Offered Either Fall or Spring,Topics course; Lecture hours:Varies,Other:3; RepeatableAn entry into psychological research or other independent study directed by a faculty member. Experiences might include library work, collecting data, entering and analyzing data, and other activities associated with engagement in research and in faculty-directed inquiry. Prerequisite: PSYC 100 and instructor permission.
Offered Fall, Spring or Summer; Lecture hours:3Critical community psychology is about understanding and changing social factors to promote health and empowerment. This W2 service-learning course is focused on a critical approach to the field. Prerequisite: PSYC 100.
Offered Occasionally; Lecture hours:3Considers the individual difference factors influencing athletic performance (e.g., cognitive, behavioral, and emotion). Also considers psychological processes operating in groups (e.g., cohesion, leadership, aggression and audience effects).
Offered Either Fall or Spring; Lecture hours:3Survey of the mechanisms involved in language development. Topics include the stages in language development, theoretical approaches to language development, the biological bases of language, and atypical language development. Prerequisite: PSYC 100, or LING 105, or LING 110, or LING 230. Crosslisted as LING 237.
Offered Either Fall or Spring; Lecture hours:3This course explores the connections between environments (natural and built) and human psychological, emotional, cognitive, and behavioral experiences.
Offered Either Fall or Spring; Lecture hours:3A survey of multiculturalism as a major paradigm in psychology. Analysis of multicultural principles, concepts, and sociocultural factors and their impact on assessment, practice, and research. Course topics include an exploration of diverse worldviews, communication styles, identity development, acculturation, stereotyping, prejudice, discrimination, structural oppression, and the development of cultural competence.
Offered Spring Semester Only; Lecture hours:3Addresses development in humans from conception through adolescence with some comparative analysis with non-humans. Emphasis on both normal and atypical cognitive, neuropsychological and neurobiological development. Prerequisite: PSYC 100 Crosslisted as NEUR 248.
Offered Both Fall and Spring; Lecture hours:3Biological bases of behavior and their relationship to motivation, learning and perception. Prerequisite: PSYC 100 or BIOL 203 or BIOL 204 or ANBE/BIOL/PSYC 266 or permission of the instructor.
Offered Both Fall and Spring; Lecture hours:3Anatomy and functions of the sensory systems: vision, audition, kinesthesis, vestibular sensation, taste and smell, with emphasis on theory and abnormalities of the human sensory systems. Prerequisite: PSYC 100 or permission of the instructor.
Offered Both Fall and Spring; Lecture hours:3A survey of important theories, issues, and empirical techniques in the interdisciplinary field of animal behavior, emphasizing both proximate and ultimate explanations for behavior. Crosslisted as ANBE 266 and BIOL 266.
Offered Either Fall or Spring; Lecture hours:3Laboratory and/or field research on community psychology and social justice. Prerequisites: PSYC 100, PSYC 215 or MATH 216 or STAT 216, and PSYC 216.
Offered Either Fall or Spring; Lecture hours:Varies,Other:3This course introduces students to various research methods and approaches relevant to the study of developmental psychopathology, including children with neurodevelopmental and neuropsychiatric disorders. Prerequisites: PSYC 100 and PSYC 216 and (PSYC 215 or MATH 216 or STAT 216) and (PSYC 210 or concurrent enrollment or PSYC 248 or concurrent enrollment).
Offered Either Fall or Spring; Lecture hours:Varies,Other:3An introduction to research methods in critical multicultural psychology designed to understand the influence of culture and context on the physical and mental health of historically marginalized diverse populations. Students will use qualitative, quantitative and mixed methods to examine health disparities involving unfair social, economic and/or environmental disadvantages. Prerequisites: (PSYC 215 or MATH/STAT 216), and PSYC 216 and PSYC 240.
Offered Either Fall or Spring; Lecture hours:3Research methods in language; especially development and acquisition in infants and toddlers. Prerequisites: PSYC 215 or MATH 216 or STAT 216 and PSYC 216 or PSYC 100.
Offered Either Fall or Spring; Lecture hours:Varies,Other:3Laboratory research to in principles of Biopsychology. Prerequisites: PSYC 215 or MATH 216 or STAT 216 and PSYC 216 or ANBE 296, and prerequisite or corequisite PSYC 250 or NEUR 254, or permission of the instructor.
Offered Either Fall or Spring; Lecture hours:Varies,Other:3Laboratory research methods course in abnormal and clinical psychology or psychopathology. Prerequisites: PSYC 100 and PSYC 216 and (MATH 216 or STAT 216 or PSYC 215) and (PSYC 210 or PSYC 213 or PSYC 248).
Offered Either Fall or Spring; Lecture hours:Varies,Other:3Laboratory and/or field research to accompany PSYC 252 Sensation and Perception. Prerequisites: PSYC 216 and (PSYC 215 or MATH 216 or STAT 216).
Offered Either Fall or Spring; Lecture hours:Varies,Other:3; May require dissection or live animal experimentationLaboratory and/or field research to accompany PSYC 203 Learning. Prerequisites: (PSYC 215 or MATH 216 or STAT 216) and (PSYC 216 or PSYC 296 or ANBE 296) and PSYC 203.
Offered Either Fall or Spring; Lecture hours:Varies,Other:3Laboratory to accompany PSYC 204 Human Cognition. Prerequisites: PSYC 216 and (PSYC 215 or MATH 216 or STAT 216) and (PSYC 204 or concurrent enrollment or PSYC 252 or concurrent enrollment) or permission of the instructor.
Offered Either Fall or Spring; Lecture hours:Varies,Other:3Laboratory and/or field research to accompany ANBE 266, BIOL 266, or PSYC 266. Prerequisites: (PSYC 215 or MATH 216 or STAT 216) and (BIOL 201 or BIOL 202 or BIOL 203 or BIOL 204 or PSYC 216) and (ANBE 266 or BIOL 266 or PSYC 266 or concurrent enrollment). Crosslisted as ANBE 296.
Offered Either Fall or Spring; Lecture hours:Varies,Other:3Students conduct observational research of children's behavior. Prerequisites: PSYC 100 and (PSYC 215 or MATH 216 or STAT 216) and PSYC 216.
Offered Occasionally,Topics course; Lecture hours:Varies,Other:3Laboratory, field, or applied research to accompany PSYC 228 Personality Psychology. Prerequisites: (PSYC 215 or MATH 216 or STAT 216) and PSYC 100 and PSYC 216.
Offered Both Fall and Spring; Lecture hours:Varies,Other:3Laboratory-based research on topics in social psychology. Prerequisites: PSYC 100 and PSYC 209 and (PSYC 215 or MATH 216 or STAT 216) and PSYC 216.
Offered Spring Semester Only; Lecture hours:3Advanced seminar on human infancy as viewed from cognitive, developmental, and evolutionary psychology. Includes implications for infant survival and early education. Prerequisites: PSYC 204 or PSYC 207 or PSYC 248 or PSYC 252 or PSYC 266 and permission of the instructor. Crosslisted as PSYC 600.
Offered Spring Semester Only; Lecture hours:3Advanced seminar on how our cognitive system changes from the prenatal period to adolescence. Focuses on selected topics in the development of attention, memory, language, and concepts. Includes implications for education in formal and informal settings. Prerequisite: PSYC 204 or PSYC 207.
Offered Alternating Spring Semester; Lecture hours:3Critical psychologies (e.g., critical liberation, radical) are progressive alternatives to mainstream psychology, emphasizing untoward consequences of the mainstream focus on the individual. Prerequisite: PSYC 100 or permission of the instructor. A community-engaged practicum is part of the course. Crosslisted as PSYC 603.
Offered Either Fall or Spring; Lecture hours:3Examines genomic, neural and environmental bases that underlie the development of children with developmental disabilities, including autism spectrum disorders, intellectual disabilities and specific genetic/genomic syndromes. Takes a developmental psychopathology perspective, highlighting the reciprocal nature of the study of typical and atypical development. Prerequisites: PSYC 100 and (PSYC 210 or PSYC 213) or (PSYC 248 or NEUR 248) and instructor permission. Crosslisted as NEUR 305 and PSYC 605.
Offered Either Fall or Spring; Lecture hours:3This course is a community-engaged seminar on psychological trauma, posttraumatic stress and the contexts in which people become traumatized. Prerequisite: PSYC 100 or permission of the instructor. Crosslisted as PSYC 606.
Offered Either Fall or Spring; Lecture hours:3Study of culture-specific and universal processes in child development in diverse societies. Focus on cultural influences on social, emotional, and cognitive development, and on parenting, family, and education contexts and practices. Prerequisite: PSYC 207 or permission of the instructor. Crosslisted as PSYC 607.
Offered Occasionally; Lecture hours:3Advanced seminar considering psychological factors involved in appetite, food preferences, and food intake. Prerequisite: PSYC 203. Crosslisted as PSYC 609.
Offered Either Fall or Spring; Lecture hours:3Reading and discussion of scholarly research on the neural, physiological, and endocrine signals that influence the psychology of appetite, food reward, eating behavior, and obesity in humans and animal models. Prerequisite: PSYC 250 or NEUR 254. Crosslisted as NEUR 312 and PSYC 612.
Offered Both Fall and Spring; Lecture hours:3Following a general orientation to behavioral genetics and pharmacology using mice, we will conduct group experiments. Each student will then develop and conduct an independent research project. Prerequisites: PSYC 215 or MATH 216 or STAT 216 and PSYC 250 or NEUR 254 or an applied research methods course and permission of instructor. Crosslisted as NEUR 313 and NEUR 613 and PSYC 613.
Offered Occasionally; Lecture hours:3Advanced seminar examining how very young children understand words. Students conduct collaborative research projects culminating in oral and written reports. Prerequisites: PSYC 204 or PSYC 207 or PSYC 288 or LING 230 and permission of the instructor.
Offered Either Fall or Spring; Lecture hours:3Seminar discussing the development and changes in cognition in senior citizens. Topics include memory, language, attention, and decision-making. Prerequisite: PSYC 252 or PSYC 204 and permission of the instructor. Crosslisted as PSYC 618.
Offered Either Fall or Spring,Topics course; Lecture hours:3; RepeatableOccasional seminars on selected topics of current interest in psychology. Prerequisite: permission of the instructor. Crosslisted as PSYC 619.
Offered Fall Semester Only; Lecture hours:3,Other:VariesCritical examination of childhood from multiple disciplinary lenses. Topics include child labor, child soldiers, children's spirituality, children in diverse cultures, children & the arts, and social class and race as influences in children's lives. In this service-learning course students work with children/youth in field placements. Open to Seniors by permission. Crosslisted as PSYC 620.
Offered Either Fall or Spring; Lecture hours:3Students will consider ethical, moral, legal and social implications that come from a growing ability to understand, predict and change human behavior. In a seminar format we'll consider right and wrong use of neuroscientific knowledge in clinical settings, law and criminal justice, national defense, economics, business and education. Crosslisted as NEUR 321 and PSYC 621.
Offered Either Fall or Spring; Lecture hours:3A survey of advanced statistical techniques with emphasis on analysis and interpretation of experimental and correlational data. Prerequisites: PSYC 215 or MATH 216 or STAT 216 or equivalent and permission of the instructor. Crosslisted as PSYC 624.
Offered Either Fall or Spring; Lecture hours:3Considers personality disorders with a focus on psychopathy and serial murders. Biological and environmental causes of psychopathy are considered as well as the developmental course of the condition and ethics of treatment. Prerequisite: PSYC 228 or PSYC 209 or PSYC 210 or permission of the instructor. Crosslisted as PSYC 625.
Topics course,Offered Fall, Spring or Summer; Lecture hours:Varies,Other:3; RepeatableResearch or other independent study with a faculty member outside of the psychology department. Research topics may be posed by students or faculty. Cannot be counted toward the psychology major. Prerequisites: permission of the supervisor, Psychology Chair approval and permission of the instructor.
Topics course,Offered Fall, Spring or Summer; Lecture hours:Varies,Other:3; RepeatableResearch or other independent study on any aspect of psychology. Research topics may be posed by students or faculty. Prerequisite: permission of the instructor.
Offered Either Fall or Spring; Lecture hours:3Advanced seminar exploring biological, psychological and social changes in older adulthood. Topics include mental health and aging, psychopathology across the lifespan, coping with and managing chronic and acute illnesses, grief and loss, family caregiving, dementia and Alzheimer's Disease, and end-of-life experiences. Crosslisted as PSYC 631.
Offered Summer Session Only; Lecture hours:3In this 1-credit, 5-week study abroad experience you will learn about childhood in Italy with an emphasis on the family and education systems in Italy. Not open to seniors. Crosslisted as EDUC 338, PSYC 638 and UNIV 238.
Offered Either Fall or Spring; Lecture hours:3Seminar examining how musicians and non-musicians comprehend, remember, perform, and respond to music, including developmental aspects. Some background in music required. Prerequisites: PSYC 204 or PSYC 252 and permission of the instructor. Crosslisted as PSYC 639.
Offered Occasionally; Lecture hours:3,Recitation:1We will investigate the neurophysiological systems involved in wellbeing and stress including the autonomic nervous system, the gut-brain axis, and the endocrine system. For this investigation, we will read, analyze, and discuss primary and secondary literature on these topics. Crosslisted as NEUR 310 and PSYC 641.
Offered Spring Semester Only; Lecture hours:3; RepeatableStudents learn a variety of assessment techniques in developmental neuropsychology and neuroscience (including EEG) and conduct quantitative research culminating in written and oral reports. Crosslisted as PSYC 644 and NEUR 344 and NEUR 644. Prerequisite: permission of the instructor.
Offered Either Fall or Spring; Lecture hours:3Brain mechanisms of language, memory, perception, emotion, and other higher-order processes, as revealed by studies of task-related human brain activity or neural pathology. Prerequisites: PSYC 204 or PSYC 250 or PSYC 252 or NEUR 254 and permission of the instructor. Crosslisted as PSYC 649.
Offered Fall Semester Only,Topics course; Lecture hours:3This seminar, worth 1 credit, turns a research project into a Culminating Experience. Covers research, ethics, proposal writing, public speaking, data presentation, and other professional issues. Course meets only 1 hour a week most weeks. Students should not register for PSYC 329 or PSYC 360. Prerequisite: permission of the instructor.
Offered Either Fall or Spring; Lecture hours:3Advanced seminar in face perception, including issues of holism, uniqueness, language, emotion, and race. Prerequisites: (LING 237 or NEUR 254 or PSYC 204 or PSYC 237 or PSYC 252) and permission of the instructor. Crosslisted as PSYC 652.
Offered Either Fall or Spring; Lecture hours:3This course compares the law’s informal theories of human behavior with what social, cognitive, developmental and personality psychologists know based on empirical studies. Topics include policing, interrogations, false confessions and guilty pleas, forensic evidence, deception detection, eyewitness identifications, alibi generation and corroboration, repressed memories and jury selection and decision-making. Crosslisted as PSYC 659.
Offered Both Fall and Spring,Topics course; Lecture hours:Varies; RepeatablePrerequisites: permission of the department and permission of the instructor.
Offered Either Fall or Spring; Lecture hours:3,Other:1Study of the brain basis of social behaviors such as bonding and attachment, parental behavior, play, social cognition, and the benefits of social support. We will investigate what is known about social function in the brains of species that have evolved to be social species, including humans. Crosslisted as NEUR 368 and PSYC 668.
Offered Either Fall or Spring; Lecture hours:3Examination of research on beauty and attraction from an evolutionary perspective. Prerequisites: PSYC 209 and PSYC 216 or PSYC 299, and permission of the instructor. Crosslisted as PSYC 669.
Offered Either Fall or Spring; Lecture hours:3; May require dissection or live animal experimentationIntroduction to research on prosimians, monkeys and apes with emphasis on the evolutionary origin of diversity, habitat use, social structure, social behavior, cognitive abilities and management. Prerequisites: (ANBE 266 or BIOL 266 or PSYC 266) or (BIOL 203 and BIOL 204) and permission of the instructor. Crosslisted as ANBE 370 and ANBE 670 and BIOL 370 and BIOL 670 and PSYC 670.
Offered Alternate Fall or Spring; Lecture hours:3An investigation into the cognitive abilities and capacities of nonhuman primates emphasizing a comparative perspective. Prerequisites: PSYC 216 or (ANBE 296 or PSYC 296) or permission of the instructor. Crosslisted as ANBE 371, ANBE 671 and PSYC 671.
Offered Both Fall and Spring; Lecture hours:3,Other:3Advanced seminar exploring cognition and behavior from evolutionary and comparative perspectives. Topics will include social behavior, memory, communication, spatial cognition, learning, and meta-cognition. Prerequisite: (ANBE 266 or BIOL 266 or PSYC 266) or (PSYC 203 or PSYC 204). Crosslisted as PSYC 672 and ANBE 372 and ANBE 672.
Offered Either Fall or Spring; Lecture hours:3A seminar that examines the psychological research literature related to Latinxs in the U.S. It considers the influences of Latinx cultural values, practices, contexts and experiences on physical and mental health outcomes. Open to juniors & seniors only or by permission of the instructor. Crosslisted as LAMS 374 and PSYC 674.
Source: Bucknell University's catalog, linked per course · table learning_unit · CourseShelf publish 59
