This weekly seminar will be focused on increasing students' knowledge base about current psychological topics related to diversity in research and applied settings and fostering students' professional development (e.g., providing education about different career paths and graduate school) to prepare students for future careers in psychology with a strong foundation in diversity-related topics.

This course offers an introduction to the field of child and adolescent psychopathology. We will review contemporary approaches to understanding the clinical features, diagnosis, causes, developmental course, and prevention of major psychological disorders in childhood and adolescence. Core emphases include: l) Conceptual understanding. This fascinating field has been densely researched and the pace of knowledge growth is very rapid.

This seminar course explores selected topics in the area of brain and behavior, especially as related to the molecular, cellular, physiological and psychological properties of pharmacological agents acting within the central nervous system, with a focus on the pathophysiology and treatment of neuropsychiatric disorders.

Practice in application of psychological techniques to clinical settings and counseling. Taught with staffs of cooperating institutions and agencies. Credit, variable; may be repeated for additional credit.

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What are we? What defines us? How did human culture arise? We communicate with spoken and written language, we make tools to build even more complicated tools, we learn calculus to solve differential equations, we use inductive reasoning to seek generalizable knowledge, we understand other people?s mind and emotion, we understand humor, we lie, cheat, and deceive others. Are these what makes us human? This course examines psychological and neuroscientific bases of human mind and behavior that are uniquely related to human culture and experience (that is, humanity).

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This course will explore the many psychological mechanisms that play a part in close personal relationships. Using psychological research as our foundation, students will be led in discussions and about attraction, love, lust, and other topics pertinent to close relationships. Students will be asked to think deeply about the social constructs that influence human preferences, and the bio-psychosocial processes at play. The course will begin by dissecting the concepts of attraction and love.

Course covers classic and current research findings and theories within the field of human speech perception. Topics included are among others: lexical processing and models of spoken-word recognition; segmentation of continuous speech; second language listening; effects of aging on speech perception; learning; audiovisual speech perception and seeing language.