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Course Type Prefix
Continuing Education CE
Education EDU
Educational Leadership for Change ELC
Human and Organizational Development HOD
Infant and Early Childhood Development IECD
Media Psychology MSC
Neuropsychology NEPSY
Organizational Development and Leadership ODL
Psychology PSY
Research RES
School of Leadership Studies SLS

 
 

Psychology
  

  • PSY-773 Media Innovation and Online Education

    4 semester credits
    Higher education is seeking those who both create innovative media psychology, emerging media and related content and are familiar with on-line delivery platforms. This seminar is designed to address emerging technology and the creation of virtual courseware for those seeking to deliver educational experiences within degree programs, private executive development and international development programs. Both advanced doctoral students and recent graduates are finding tremendous value in preparing for online course delivery. This seminar includes:

    • Comparative delivery platforms and forum management
    • Fully annotated syllabus development
    • Keys to innovative course content
    • Topic specific literature review
    • Managing your professional online identity

    Pre-requisites: PSY-525 , PSY-533  
    Delivery Method: Distance/Electronically Mediated
    Grading Default: Letter
  

  • PSY-774 Neuropsychological Care in Traumatic Brain Injury: Assessment, Rehabilitation, and Advocacy

    4 semester credits
    This course addresses both the evaluation and treatment of traumatic brain injury from a rehabilitation neuropsychology perspective. Emphasis is placed on how TBI is expressed on neuropsychological evaluations, and how rehabilitation neuropsychologists can use neuropsychological evaluations for treatment planning. First-person accounts of TBI from survivors and family members are considered. The need for rehabilitation neuropsychologists to be familiar with multi-disciplinary teams in medical settings is emphasized, and the roles of these other health professions are covered.
    Pre-requisites: PSY-707 , PSY-728  
    Delivery Method: Distance/Electronically Mediated
    Grading Default: Letter
    Note: Elective
    Learning Outcome(s):  

    1. Understand how Traumatic Brain Injury results in disruption of physical, cognitive, and emotional processes, and how this disruption is relevant to psychological assessment and treatment.
    2. Understand the complexities of assessment and treatment of Traumatic Brain Injury, particularly the importance of coordinating neuropsychological assessment with neuropsychological and multi-disciplinary team-based care.
    3. Understand the emotional distress, the clinical implications for addressing it, among patients who have suffered Traumatic Brain Injury and their partners, caregivers, and families.
    4. Understand how Evidence-based approaches to Traumatic Brain Injury assessment and treatment have evolved.
    5. Understand personal and ethical issues related to brain injury assessment and treatment.
  

  • PSY-775 Asmt- Advanced Forensics

    0.5 semester credits
    This course provides training on the standards and practices for providing psychological evaluations and effective testimony on specific psychological issues.
    Delivery Method: In person
    Grading Default: Credit/No Credit Only
  

  • PSY-776 Psychology of Social Media

    4 semester credits
    Social media are becoming relatively stable psychological forms even as our cultural experimentation and appropriation of this novel media landscape continues. This seminar will explore selected topics in social media and the possibility of theorizing social media within psychology and social psychology. Topics covered include: social media movements; our social media selves; rethinking the idea of the audience on social media; fake news; social media and public culture. The seminar encourages a critical positioning towards theory, social media and broader social, cultural and political values.
    Delivery Method: Online
    Grading Default: Letter
    Learning Outcome(s):  

    1. Demonstrate understanding of current issues in social media
    2. Demonstrate understanding of theory and research as applied to social media  through graduate level writing and communication
    3. Demonstrate understanding of the role of social media as instruments of expression and social change
    4. Demonstrate ability to critically assess underlying ideological, racial, economic and cultural assumptions guiding social media as instruments of public culture.
    5. Demonstrate exposure to social media data collection platforms
    6. Be able to propose research questions, frame a research approach and data collection.
  

  • PSY-777 Positive Psychology in Media

    4 semester credits
    This course examines the major tenets of positive psychology and how they are can be applied to media and beyond. Among the topics to be covered are: The deconstruction of happiness and how distinguishing between hedonic and eudaimonic happiness impacts the conceptualization of media use and enjoyment; the role of empathy and altruism in Internet behaviors; how the role of attachment and affiliation manifest in social media; the neuroscience of positive emotions; the role of social and mobile technologies in individual and collective agency; the positive power of storytelling in making social change and designing games and transmedia narratives for flow.
    Pre-requisites: PSY-525 , PSY-533  
    Delivery Method: Distance/Electronically Mediated
    Grading Default: Letter
    Learning Outcome(s):  

    1. Demonstrate an understanding of the history and major concepts of positive psychology in the context of media and technology. Explanation: Ability to demonstrate an understanding of the history and impact of positive psychology in the field of psychology and to identifying the primary theories and areas of inquiry in the context of media and technology use and development.
    2.  Ability to link behavioral goals with positive psychology theory in media. Explanation: Demonstrate an understanding and ability to apply positive psychology as a framework for behavioral and emotional impact within the context of media and technology use, development and analysis.
    3. Extend positive psychology scholarship to identification of real world problems where media technologies have impact or offer viable solutions. Explanation: Ability to apply positive psychology in the field, to identify problems and develop appropriate interventions and solutions that take advantage of media and technology affordances and leverage.
  

  • PSY-778 Psychology of Big Data

    4 semester credits
    What can media psychology contribute to our understanding of big data? This seminar explores the psychological and social psychological processes that mediate big data as a both a method and form of knowledge. Topics covered include: Characteristics of big data as research method; behaviorism and big data; reification and trait psychology; psychology of the algorithm; perceiving the other through data; big data pictures and social psychology of perception; the psychology of dataveillance; big data, consciousness and agency.
    Delivery Method: Distance/Electronically Mediated
    Grading Default: Letter
    Learning Outcome(s):  

    1. Identify areas where media psychology can contribute to understanding of big data culture and method.
    2. Consider the ethical implications of a society structured around dataveillance and quantification.
    3. Understand the role of psychological and social psychological factors that mediate big data as chain of knowledge production.
    4. Identify potential for inequality and reification of biases through big data.
  

  • PSY-779 RCP Comprehensive Exam

    4 semester credits
    This course comprises the clinical comprehensive evaluation that includes written essays on the student’s theoretical orientation, ethics, and theoretically framed case conceptualization and treatment plan as well as an annotated transcript from a therapy session.
    Pre-requisites: PSY-500A , PSY-711B , PSY-712 , the first two terms of Practicum Case Seminar (PCS) including 10 case presentations (PSY-620 ), 6 units (500 hours) of PSY-695 Clinical Practicum , PSY-710G  (may be taken concurrently).
    Delivery Method: In person/Blended
    Grading Default: Credit/No Credit Only
  

  • PSY-801 Advanced Research: Respecialization Concentration

    6 semester credits
    This course is designed for students who are completing a Clinical Psychology Concentration in forensic, health psychology or violence prevention. In lieu of a dissertation, the research component for the concentration will be fulfilled by a scholarly article or publishable paper in the area of concentration to be evaluated by a concentration faculty.
    Delivery Method: Distance/Electronically Mediated
    Grading Default: Letter
 

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