Course description: The purpose of this course is to introduce you to the basic principles of research design and scientific methodology as applied to psychological sciences.
Course description: Along with research methodology in psychology, the course will cover general content areas of psychology, including learning and memory, cognition, social and personality psychology, abnormal behavior, and the physiology of behavior.
Course description: The goal of this course is to examine the complex interplay of psychological, sociocultural, and biological factors in the development and expression of sexual attitudes and behaviors.
Course description: Survey of psychological principles and facts in areas such as perception, cognition, neuropsychology, social psychology, personality, and decision making, as they apply to forensic psychology.
Course description: Covers the academic field of judgment and decision making, its major methods, results, and controversies. Examines the generality of experimental results across various domains including gambling, clinical prediction, perception of randomness, and legal and medical decision making. Focus on practical analytical skills for decision making that are useful in everyday life and work.
Psychology of Gender,
Spring 2024-Present
Course Description: We will discover the similarities and differences between men and women and males and females (based on scientific research) along with why, when, where, how, and for whom the differences exist. Areas we will cover include achievement, communication, relationships, physical and mental health, and work. Discussion is a core feature of this course as life examples clarify the material and deepen learning while assignments are utilized to explore your own identity as well as test previously found differences.
Fall 2024-Present
Course description: In this course, we will learn about and apply psychology to advertising and media to identify the reasons behind consumer decisions and brand preferences. Students will work with a company/brand of their choice throughout the semester to gain knowledge of how different topics work in the real world. Students will also try their hand at designing advertisements for products at the beginning and end of the semester to demonstrate their own ability to create the perfect advertisement.
Experimental Methods in Psychology, Fall 2018
Controversial Issues in Psychology, Spring 2019
Psychological Research Design and Analysis I & II (graduate level), Fall 2020-Spring 2021