2024-2025 Academic Year

Fall 2024

PSYC 370 Rsch Meth Counseling Psych
Many individuals complete brief magazine or online surveys about their personality, relationships, or psychological symptoms to better understand themselves or others. Comprehensive psychological testing, however, is much more in-depth and occurs only after significant research and development have taken place. Counseling psychologists take an empirical approach to understand many aspects of people’s functioning; one of the ways is through assessment. This course will address research methods in counseling psychology, with a specific focus on test development. This course will examine how psychological assessment tools, including structured and unstructured clinical interviews, objective and projective personality tests, measures of intellectual functioning and learning aptitudes, and vocational instruments, are developed and tested. Students will critically evaluate issues such as test validation, norming and standardization, reliability and validity, and test bias. This intensive lab course will include an original research project in test development. Students will also gain practical experience in the administration of assessment tools commonly employed in counseling psychology. Three hours classroom plus three hours laboratory a week. Prerequisite: 165 (can be taken concurrently), 210 & 211.

PSYC 500 Independent Study

PSYC 500 Investigating Substance Use Is

Spring 2025

PSYC 145 Psychology of Human Sexuality
This course is a study of human sexuality emphasizing psychological aspects. We will cover sexual development from childhood to adulthood, sexual orientations, biological influences, sexual attitudes and behavior, gender, sex therapy, sexual coercion and abuse, sexually transmitted diseases and sexual health, and the development of sexual relationships. The study of human sexuality is inherently interdisciplinary in nature (drawing from such varied disciplines as sociology, women's studies, biology, anthropology, history, and others). Although we will cover some material from these disciplines, we will take an explicitly social psychological perspective, focusing on individual, personal, and social aspects of sexual behaviors, attitudes and beliefs.

PSYC 465 Disordered Eating
Disordered eating, whether undereating, overeating, or the use of compensatory behavior to prevent weight gain, are influenced by varied biological, psychological and sociocultural factors. This course provides the advanced undergraduate student with exposure to clinical treatment methods and exploration of the scientific research on the individual, familial and cultural factors implicated in the development of the spectrum of disordered eating. Students will learn about the epidemiology, etiology, diagnosis, treatment and prevention of disordered eating. Additionally, ethical and pragmatic (e.g., gender, cultural, media) considerations associated with varied interventions will be addressed. Students will be encouraged to think critically about the major issues related to disordered eating, and their impact on people, families, and systems.

PSYC 500 Independent Study

PSYC 550 Independent Research