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Students will evaluate research on the psychology of happiness with an emphasis on how to promote happiness through work/life balance. Topics will include concepts and measurements of happiness, evaluating workplace satisfaction, understanding the impact of stress, and resiliency.

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.

This course will explore how the body mounts a physiological stress response and examine the impact of meditation on this response. Throughout the semester, students will have the opportunity to engage in regular mindfulness meditation in class, as well as a comprehensive exploration of the scientific research on its effects. Previous experience with meditation not required!

This course will explore the development of young children from prenatal through toddlerhood. The theories that have shaped our understanding of child development will be examined from a lens of equity and racial justice; the cognitive, linguistic, physical, adaptive, and social-emotional areas of development will be analyzed, and a special focus will be placed on disabilities that can impact infant and toddler development.

Despite many advances in the diagnoses and treatment of mental illness, those afflicted with mental illness remain one of the most highly stigmatized groups in society. In this seminar, we will investigate stigma associated with mental illness from diverse perspectives, including social psychology, clinical psychology, evolutionary psychology, sociology, public policy, history, and biology.

The subject of this course is the neuroscience of reward, motivation, and addiction. The course will cover a number of topics including neural systems controlling motivation and reward-seeking, how natural reinforcers and drugs of abuse influence brain function, and the neural and behavioral plasticity underlying addiction. Course structure will consist partly of lectures and partly of student presentations and interactive discussion in a guided journal-club style format.

This course offers an introduction to the field of clinical child psychology. We will review contemporary approaches to understanding the clinical features, diagnosis, causes, developmental course, prevention, and treatment of major psychological disorders in childhood and adolescence.

The focus of this course will be on the "Neuroscience of Communication," with a special emphasis on the neural circuits involved in sensory and motor aspects of acoustic communication. Using primary peer-reviewed literature, we will explore the wide variety of communication strategies that have evolved in the vertebrate lineage, including teleosts, amphibians, songbirds, and mammals, and explore the dysregulation of neural mechanisms in human speech and language disorders.