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PSCI 3340 - Rights, Opportunities and Social Justice
Credit hours: 3
Description: An examination of movement and protest politics through the African American civil rights movements and the emergence of modern social justice movements in Dallas and national political settings.
Prerequisite(s): PSCI 1040 and PSCI 1050.
Course typically offered: Spring
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PSCI 3350 - Minority Politics and Political Behavior
Credit hours: 3
Description: An examination of how political behavior in the United States is changing as the transformation to a majority-minority polity creates debates about citizenship, political participation and representation.
Prerequisite(s): PSCI 1040 and PSCI 1050, or their equivalents.
Course Typically Offered: Fall
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PSCI 3360 - Comparative Courts
Credit hours: 3
Description: An introduction to the various democratic, democratizing, authoritarian and religious judicial systems used by nations around the world. The course examines the impact of judicial systems on human and constitutional rights.
Course typically offered: Spring
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PSCI 4020 - Urban Politics
Credit hours: 3
Description: The city in social order; political machinery of central city and suburbs; types of conflicts, policies, leadership and groups; metropolitan government.
Course typically offered: Fall
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PSCI 4100 - Political Parties
Credit hours: 3.
Description: Development, nature, problems, organization, operation and functions.
Course typically offered: Spring
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PSCI 4120 - Public Opinion and Participation
Credit hours: 3
Description: Shaping factors, communication techniques, public opinion, governmental action and democracy.
Course typically offered: Fall
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PSCI 4140 - The Presidency
Credit hours: 3
Description: Development of power, influence and limitations of the chief executive; selection, office, changing role and problems of control.
Course typically offered: Spring
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PSCI 4200 - Constitutional Law: Discrimination and the Powers of the Government
Credit hours: 3
Description: Constitution of the United States; work of the Supreme Court, and effects of decisions on national and state government. Decisions of the United States Supreme Court; scope of legislative, executive and judicial power; presidential power in war and foreign affairs; clash of national and state power; economic liberties and property rights; racial and gender discrimination.
Course typically offered: Spring
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PSCI 4210 - Constitutional Law: Rights and Liberties
Credit hours: 3
Description: Constitution of the United States; work of the Supreme Court, and effects of decisions on national and state government. Decisions of the United States Supreme Court; freedom of religion, speech and press; rights of criminal defendants; right to privacy.
Course typically offered: Fall
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PSCI 4220 - Jurisprudence
Credit hours: 3
Description: Law in the modern state, meaning and objects, sources and growth, and conceptions of rights and justice.
Prerequisite(s): 3 hours in public law.
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PSCI 4310 - Social Policy and Inequity
Credit hours: 3
Description: This course examines problems of social and economic inequity (race, gender, class, etc.). The course then covers the many areas of social policy, the problems such policies aim to address, and how to identify and design possible policy solutions.
Course typically offered: Fall
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PSCI 4320 - US Foreign Policy: Challenges and History 1750-1941
Credit hours: 3
Description: An overview of American foreign policy processes, formulation, inputs and policies as manifested in US expansion and conflict through the entry into World War II.
Prerequisite(s): PSCI 2304 and PSCI 3300.
Course typically offered: Fall
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PSCI 4321 - US Foreign Policy: Challenges and Formulation 1941-2021
Credit hours: 3
Description: An overview of American foreign policy processes, formulation, inputs and policies as manifested in conflict and cooperation from the US entry into World War II to the present.
Prerequisite(s): PSCI 2304 and PSCI 3300.
Course typically offered: Spring
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PSCI 4340 - Political Psychology
Credit hours: 3
Description: Survey of the psychological underpinnings of human political behavior, how and why individuals relate to and participate in political systems as members of political state and community.
Course typically offered: Fall
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PSCI 4350 - Quantitative Political Research Design and Analysis
Credit hours: 3
Description: Development of conceptual and quantitative research design and analysis to prepare students for both conducting research political research and analyzing existing research in the discipline. The course includes an introduction to statistical analysis and systematic critical thinking.
Prerequisite(s): Students must complete the Political Science core.
Course typically offered: Fall
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PSCI 4351 - Advanced Seminar in Political Science
Credit hours: 3
Description: Research design, literature reviews and writing styles leading to a research paper prepared by students under the supervision of a faculty member. The capstone experience may be based on a particular topic of interest or involve group research and projects.
Prerequisite(s): Completion of the political science core and completion of or concurrent enrollment in PSCI 3320, PSCI 3330, and PSCI 4350.
Course typically offered: Spring
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PSCI 4399 - Directed Study in Political Science
Credit hours: 3
Description: Research or another form of topical study directed by faculty, including internship related projects where the student seeks academic credit. The course may be taken twice for degree credit, as long as the topics vary.
Prerequisite(s): PSCI 1040 and PSCI 1050.
Course typically offered: Fall, Spring
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Psychology - Undergraduate |
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PSYC 1100 - Introduction to Psychology
TCCNS: PSYC 2301
Credit hours: 3
Description: This course offers a general understanding and application of the basic principles of psychology. Topics will include the history of psychology, scientific methods, physiological foundation of behavior, development, principles of learning, personality theory, abnormal behavior, and social psychology.
Course typically offered: Fall, Spring, Summer
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PSYC 2310 - Careers and Writing in Psychology
Credit hours: 3
Description: Develops students’ core competencies in fundamental areas crucial to the discipline of psychology, including academic writing (e.g., APA style, writing literature reviews, writing research proposals) and increasing career awareness in a variety of psychology-related domains.
Prerequisite(s): Students must complete PSYC 1100 with with a grade of C or better.
Course typically offered: Fall, Spring, Summer
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PSYC 2480 - Psychosocial Adjustment
TCCNS: PSYC 2315
Credit hours: 3
Description: Processes involved in adjustment of individuals to their personal and social environments; role of conflict, frustration and healthy and pathological strategies of adjustment.
Course typically offered: On demand
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PSYC 2580 - Health Psychology
Credit hours: 3
Description: Examines psychological, physiological, social and behavioral factors as they influence and are influenced by physical health. Health psychology is concerned with the acquisition and maintenance of health through behavior change strategies, the prevention and/or treatment of illnesses, the role of psychosocial and stress factors in the development of physical illness, and the formulation of health care policy.
Course typically offered: Fall, Spring
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PSYC 2600 - Interpersonal Behavior
Credit hours: 3
Description: Relevant variables underlying interpersonal relationships, and current research methods and findings. Skills in developing effective interpersonal relationships in such contexts as friendships, dating, marriage, family, business and industry. Includes the use of recording devices, role playing and self-observation procedures.
Course typically offered: On demand
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PSYC 2950 - Experimental Methods
Credit hours: 4
Description: Basic experimental procedures and designs, laboratory apparatus, and treatment of experimental data. Experiments and experimental reports required of each student.
Prerequisite(s): PSYC 2317 or consent of department.
Course typically offered: On demand
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PSYC 3000 - Positive Psychology
Credit hours: 3
Description: Nature of psychology with emphases on the development of strengths and virtues, positive emotion, positive cognition, prosocial behavior, positive interventions, and positive environments.
Prerequisite(s): PSYC 1100 or equivalent.
Course typically offered: Fall, Spring, Summer
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PSYC 3100 - Social Psychology
Credit hours: 3
Description: A survey of psychological research and theory on social behavior with attention to person perception, interpersonal attraction, group processes, attitudes, helping behavior, aggression, and applied social psychology.
Prerequisite(s): Students must complete PSYC 1100 and PSYC 2310 with a grade C or better.
Course typically offered: Fall, Spring, Summer
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PSYC 3200 - Research Methods
Credit hours: 3
Description: This course introduces students to psychology research methods and addresses general issues in research methodology, such as experimental designs, survey research, mixed methods, and sampling procedures. This course highlights the way data is collected, analyzed, as well as the strengths and weaknesses of each methodological approach.
Prerequisite(s): Students must complete PSYC 1100 and PSYC 2310 with a grade of C or better.
Course typically offered: Fall, Spring, Summer
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PSYC 3210 - Statistics in Psychology
Credit hours: 3
Description: This course covers the principles and concepts for the use of statistics in the social and behavioral sciences. It will cover descriptive statistics, inferential statistics, and sampling, such as measures of central tendency, t-tests, linear regression, simple random sampling, and stratified sampling.
Prerequisite(s): Students must complete PSYC 1100, PSYC 2310, and PSYC 3200 with a grade of C or better.
Course typically offered: Fall, Spring, Summer
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PSYC 3300 - Psychology of Leadership
Credit hours: 3
Description: Theories, styles, models, topics, and best practices of leadership, including positive characteristics such as service, charisma and integrity. Psychopathological conceptions of dominance, aggression, and narcissism in relation to leaders in different cultural contexts are also explored.
Prerequisite(s): PSYC 1100 or equivalent.
Course typically offered: Fall, Spring
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PSYC 3310 - Introduction to Neuroscience
Credit hours: 3
Description: This course provides an introduction to neuroscience with the relationship between the brain, mind, and behavior in varying contexts. For a better understanding of neuroscientific findings, neuroscientific research methods will be discussed with related studies. Topics include neuron and nervous system, drug addiction, motivation and regulation, perception, emotion, memory, consciousness, along with mental disorders.
Prerequisite(s): PSYC 1100
Course typically offered: Fall, Spring, Summer
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PSYC 3320 - Drug and Behavior
Credit hours: 3
Description: Explores the impact of drugs on human behavior and the neurobiological mechanisms underlying the impact of drugs on behavior. Specifically, this course will highlight genetic and pharmacological impacts on human neurobiology, neurochemistry, and behavior.
Prerequisite(s): PSYC 1100
Course typically offered: Fall, Spring, Summer
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PSYC 3330 - Behavioral Neuroscience
Credit hours: 3
Description: This course provides an overview of the relationship between brain processes and both normal and abnormal behavior. This includes a focus on the structure and function of the brain, from the level of cells and neurotransmitters to neural circuits and systems.
Prerequisite(s): PSYC 1100, PSYC 3310, and PSYC 4640.
Course typically offered: Fall
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PSYC 3340 - Literature and Mental Illness
Credit hours: 3
Description: Study of literary representations of mental illness. A multidisciplinary approach to critical intersections between literature and psychology, mental illness, and treatment.
Prerequisite(s): ENGL 1323 and PSYC 1100.
Course typically offered: Spring
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PSYC 3350 - Neuroscience Methods Laboratory
Credit hours: 3
Description: This course provides demonstrations and training of neuroscience research methods with human participants. Students will gain an overview of neuroscience methods with laboratory-based exposure to the research methods. The laboratory excursions will involve demonstrations and hands-on experience. The specific format may vary with the focus of the neuroscience research modality.
Prerequisite(s): PSYC 1100, PSYC 3310 or PSYC 4610.
Course typically offered: Fall, Spring, Summer
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PSYC 3360 - Psychology of Adolescence
Credit hours: 3
Description: A topical study of adolescent behavioral and psychological development with emphasis on theory, methods of inquiry, and practical implications.
Prerequisite(s): PSYC 1100 or equivalent.
Course typically offered: Fall
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PSYC 3370 - Social Psychological Theory in Close Relationships
Credit hours: 3
Description: Social psychology theory and research on topics in close relationship literature, including attitudes toward love and sexuality, friendship, intimacy, power, conflict, and divorce.
Prerequisite(s): PSYC 1100 or equivalent.
Course Typically Offered: Fall, Spring, Summer
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PSYC 3380 - Mentored Collaborative Research
Credit hours: 3
Description: Students join with peer student researchers to explore an empirical question of interest. Under mentorship of instructor, each student is directly involved in empirical research, including literature review, hypothesis generation, research design, data collection, data analysis, and interpretation. May be repeated for credit.
Prerequisite(s): PSYC 1100 or equivalent.
Course typically offered: Fall, Spring
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PSYC 3390 - Social Psychology of Cults
Credit hours: 3
Description: The methods by which cults recruit, convert, retain, and behaviorally influence members will be analyzed in terms of social psychology principles; e.g., conformity, commitment, isolation, deindividuation, disaffiliation, obedience, thought reform, brainwashing, attachment theory, and network theory. Aspects such as cult leadership qualities and organizational systems/group processes will also be examined. The goal of the course is to understand psychological effects of cult membership, not to classify or qualify any specific cult as “good” or “bad.”
Prerequisite(s): Students must complete PSYC 1100 with a grade of C or better.
Course typically offered: Fall
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PSYC 3480 - Adult Development and Aging
Credit hours: 3
Description: Personality, cognitive, social and sensory-perceptual aspects of development from early adulthood through death. Emphasis on the development of a comprehensive understanding of the adult portion of the life span.
Prerequisite(s): PSYC 1100 or equivalent.
Course typically offered: Fall, Spring
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PSYC 3490 - Psychology of Women
Credit hours: 3
Description: Comparison of personality and cultural factors associated with gender.
Prerequisite(s): PSYC 1100 or equivalent.
Course typically offered: Fall, Spring, Summer
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PSYC 3520 - Introduction to Industrial Organizational Psychology
Credit hours: 3
Description: Personnel and organizational psychology; selection and testing procedures, test validation, and theories of organization, leadership and job performance.
Prerequisite(s): Students must complete PSYC 1100 and PSYC 2310 with a grade of C or better.
Course typically offered: Spring
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PSYC 3530 - Psychology of the Offender
Credit hours: 3
Description: Psychological processes related to the legal offender; dynamics involved in such activities as sexual deviancy, drug abuse, personal assault, including murder, and non-assaultive crimes; meaning of classification from courtroom to prisons and in release.
Prerequisite(s): PSYC 1100 or equivalent.
Course typically offered: Fall, Spring, Summer
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PSYC 3620 - Developmental Psychology
Credit hours: 3
Description: Basic theories and research in life-span developmental psychology; parent-child relations, identification, peer relations, self-concept, language learning, perceptual and cognitive development.
Prerequisite(s): Students must complete PSYC 1100 and PSYC 2310 with a grade of C or better.
Course typically offered: Fall, Spring, Summer
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PSYC 3630 - Introduction to Psychological Measurement
Credit hours: 3
Description: Fundamental approaches, theories of psychological tests and testing; correlation, reliability, validity and methods of test construction.
Prerequisite(s): PSYC 1100 and PSYC 3210.
Course typically offered: On demand
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PSYC 3640 - Marital Adjustment
Credit hours: 3
Description: Physiological, psychological and social economic factors involved in marital adjustment; practical education for marriage and parenthood.
Prerequisite(s): PSYC 1100 or equivalent.
Course typically offered: Fall, Spring, Summer
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PSYC 3700 - Ecological Psychology
Credit hours: 3
Description: Effects of changing ecological conditions, such as the increased use of chemicals, the processing of foods, and the contamination of water and air on human behavior.
Prerequisite(s): PSYC 1100 or equivalent.
Course typically offered: On demand
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PSYC 3996 - Honors College Mentored Research Experience
Credit hours: 3
Description: Research experience conducted by an Honors student with at least junior standing under the supervision of a faculty member. May only be taken once for Honors College credit.
Prerequisite(s): Admission to the Honors College; at least junior class status; permission of Honors College dean.
Course typically offered: On demand
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PSYC 4000 - Abuse in Adult Relationships
Credit hours: 3
Description: A general survey of current research on psychological, interpersonal and situational factors involved in physical and emotional abuse in dating, cohabiting and marital relationships. The interdisciplinary body of research is covered from a psychological perspective.
Prerequisite(s): PSYC 1100 or equivalent.
Course typically offered: On demand
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PSYC 4020 - Psychology of Death and Dying
Credit hours: 3
Description: Concepts and attitudes concerning death and dying from a psychological perspective; current research on death and dying; development of insights and understanding to prepare the student to interact effectively with people who are terminally ill and their family members. This course is equivalent to AGER 4020. One of the courses will count towards the degree program and the other will be excluded.
Prerequisite(s): PSYC 1100 or equivalent.
Course typically offered: Fall, Spring, Summer
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PSYC 4040 - Advanced Seminar in Psychology (Capstone)
Credit hours: 3
Description: This course is designed for Senior Psychology majors to develop a senior thesis that integrates and applies psychological ideas, theory, and methods in order to complete primary or secondary analysis.
Prerequisite(s): PSYC 1100, 2310, 3100, 3200, 3210, and one of 3520/3620/4640/4800. All with a grade of C or better.
Course typically offered: Fall, Spring, Summer
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PSYC 4110 - Interviewing for Paraprofessionals in Psychology
Credit hours: 3
Description: Introduction to the interviewing process in mental health service settings. Includes purposes, objectives, goals, types and skills of interviewing via lectures, plus taped and live demonstrations.
Prerequisite(s): PSYC 1100 and PSYC 4610.
Course typically offered: On demand
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PSYC 4300 - Psychosocial Issues in HIV/AIDS
Credit hours: 3
Description: Examines the psychosocial factors that are related to health-related behaviors in both healthy people and people living with HIV/AIDS. Prepares students who expect to pursue careers in health service fields (e.g. psychologists, physicians, biologists, dentist, etc.) to be conscious of issues that HiV + people face daily. Students interested in HIV/AIDS as a social phenomenon are encourqaged to enroll.
Prerequisite(s): PSYC 1100 or equivalent.
Course typically offered: On demand
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PSYC 4310 - Evolutionary Psychology
Credit hours: 3
Description: Application of evolutionary theory (first proposed by Charles Darwin) to the study of human behavior and our thoughts, feelings, and actions. Topics will cover the evolutionary basis of a wide range of human behaviors, such as sex, emotion, stress, morality, culture, religion, and consciousness.
Prerequisite(s): PSYC 1100 or equivalent.
Course typically offered: Spring
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PSYC 4320 - Forensic Psychology
Credit hours: 3
Description: The interface of psychology and law with a focus on forensic psychology (e.g., forensic psychological assessment, expert testimony, offender treatment, and correctional psychology).
Prerequisite(s): PSYC 1100 or equivalent (required); CJUS 2100 or equivalent (required); CJUS 3201 (recommended); CJUS 4200 (recommended).
Course typically offered: On demand
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PSYC 4330 - Psychology of Social and Personality Development
Credit hours: 3
Description: A review of psychological theory and research on age trends and individuals differences in personality and social development. Topics include emotional development, aggression, identity and achievement, attachment, gender role development, and familial and extra-familial influences on development.
Prerequisite(s): PSYC 1100 or equivalent.
Course Typically Offered: Spring
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PSYC 4350 - Cognitive Neuroscience
Credit hours: 3
Description: A survey of neuroscientific investigations of cognitive processes with neuroimaging data, electrophysiological data, as well as lesion studies in both healthy and clinical populations. It examines the neural underpinnings of the mind and subsequent behavioral outcomes. Topics include an introduction to the brain and research methods of cognitive neuroscience, visual recognition, attention, memory, emotion, language, cognitive control, and consciousness.
Prerequisite(s): PSYC 1100, PSYC 3310 or PSYC 4640.
Course typically offered: Fall
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PSYC 4355 - Affective Neuroscience
Credit hours: 3
Description: This course is a general survey of current theories, research, and methods in affective neuroscience. This course will introduce students to the ‘multi-level’ approach to understanding social and emotional behavior, which includes analysis of social and cognitive mechanisms, as well as the neural systems that underlie these processes
Prerequisite(s): PSYC 1100, PSYC 3310 or PSYC 4640.
Course typically offered: Fall
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PSYC 4360 - Clinical Neuroscience
Credit hours: 3
Description: Explores the underlying neurobiological mechanisms of mental disorders. In particular, neurobiological, genetic, and neurochemical bases of mental diseases, and types of pharmacological and non-pharmacological treatments are highlighted in the course.
Prerequisite(s): PSYC 1100, PSYC 3310 or PSYC 4640.
Course typically offered: Spring
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PSYC 4390 - Internship in Psychology
Credit hours: 3
Description: Supervised professional research, and/or service work in the community. May be repeated one time for credit toward overall degree requirements.
Prerequisite(s): PSYC Major Required; Consent of Department.
Course typically offered: Fall, Spring, Summer
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PSYC 4395 - Advanced Seminar in Neuroscience
Credit hours: 3
Description: This seminar course focuses on the end-to-end process of neuroscientific investigations using neuroscience tools and research methods. It involves experiential learning on how to perform empirical studies on focused topics of human neuroscience such as clinical neuroscience cognitive neuroscience, developmental neuroscience, social neuroscience with converging research methods. In addition, students will gain culminating experience of neuroscience study where students apply neuroscience knowledge and communication skills. The specific format may vary.
Prerequisite(s): PSYC 1100, PSYC 3200, PSYC 3210, PSYC 3320, PSYC 3350; and PSYC 3310 or PSYC 4640.
Course typically offered: Fall, Spring, Summer
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PSYC 4470 - Sexual Behavior
Credit hours: 3
Description: Impact of psychosocial factors on development and expression of human sexuality.
Prerequisite(s): PSYC 1100 or equivalent.
Course typically offered: Fall, Spring, Summer
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PSYC 4480 - New Directions in Psychology
Credit hours: 3
Description: In-depth study of traditional roles and interests versus current roles and interests of psychologists designed to keep students abreast of the rapidly expanding and changing field of psychology. Topics include changes of duties in schools, legal systems, law enforcement, business and industry, government, biology and medicine, as well as other areas.
Prerequisite(s): PSYC 1100 or equivalent.
Course typically offered: On demand
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PSYC 4510 - Practicum
Credit hours: 1-3
Description: In-depth study of areas of specific interest. Practical experience in supervised settings.
Prerequisite(s): Senior standing and consent of department. May be repeated for credit.
Course typically offered: On demand
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PSYC 4520 - Personality
Credit hours: 3
Description: Major approaches to conceptualization of personality; psychodynamic, phenomenological and trait-type learning models.
Prerequisite(s): PSYC 1100 or equivalent.
Course typically offered: Fall, Spring, Summer
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PSYC 4600 - History and Systems
Credit hours: 3
Description: Principal historical antecedents of modern psychology, relevance to major contemporary systematic positions; philosophy of science, associationism, structuralism, behaviorism, functionalism, Gestalt and psychoanalysis; recent psychological theories.
Prerequisite(s): PSYC 1100 or equivalent.
Course typically offered: Fall, Spring
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PSYC 4610 - Abnormal Psychology
Credit hours: 3
Description: Major psychoses, neuroses and other types of maladaptive behavior patterns that are common problems in society; descriptions of symptomatology, theoretical approaches and epidemiological variables.
Prerequisite(s): PSYC 1100 or equivalent.
Course typically offered: Fall, Spring
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PSYC 4620 - Abnormal Child Psychology
Credit hours: 3
Description: A survey of the symptomatology, theoretical perspectives and treatment approaches of psychological disorders seen in infants, children and adolescents.
Prerequisite(s): PSYC 3620 or PSYC 4610; PSYC 1100 or equivalent.
Course typically offered: Fall, Spring
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PSYC 4640 - Psychophysiology
Credit hours: 3
Description: Physiological processes of the body and relationships to behavior. Sensory and motor processes, learning and memory, and physiological problems of motivation and emotion.
Prerequisite(s): Students must complete PSYC 1100 and PSYC 2310 with a grade of C or better.
Course typically offered: Fall, Spring
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PSYC 4670 - Behavioral & Biopsychosocial Challenges within LGBT Communities
Credit hours: 3
Description: Understanding the health-related behaviors and psychosocial factors associated with sexual minorities (LGBT; lesbian, gay bisexual & transgendered), primarily in the U.S. Designed for healthcare workers, educators, service providers and individuals who work with or are interested in LGBT communities.
Course typically offered: Fall
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PSYC 4690 - Introduction to Learning and Memory
Credit hours: 3
Description: Explores the processes of acquiring and using knowledge. In particular, basic principles in conditioning, concept learning, and human memory are taught as a foundation to the understanding of learning.
Prerequisite(s): PSYC 1100 or equivalent.
Course typically offered: Fall, Spring, Summer
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PSYC 4700 - Psychobiology of Stress : The Mind-Body Connection
Credit hours: 3
Description: The biology of the stress response is detailed. The effects of this response on a number of topics including but not limited to aging, memory, and depression are discussed. The effects of the stress response on immunity and illness are highlighted.
Prerequisite(s): PSYC 1100 or equivalent.
Course typically offered: On demand
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PSYC 4800 - Introduction to Perception and Cognition
Credit hours: 3
Description: A general survey of current data in perception and cognition. Perception topics covered are psychophysics, sensory psychology, perceptual constancies and the development of perception. Cognition topics include short- and long-term memory, problem solving, concept formation and the acquisition of knowledge. The information processing approach is emphasized as a means of interpreting perception and cognition.
Prerequisite(s): Students must complete PSYC 1100 and PSYC 2310 with grade of C or better.
Course typically offered: Fall, Spring
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HSML 4360 - Mediation
Credit hours: 3
Description: Develops mediator competence. Defines and examines the process of mediation. Covers the history and development of mediation and introduces theories of conflict management. Reviews diverse settings of mediation, such as domestic, commercial, non-profit, employment and institutional environments. Significant legal, ethical, professional cultural and gender considerations are explored. Students participate in mediation exercises and simulations. Required for academic certificate in alternative dispute resolution.
Course typically offered: Fall, Spring
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HSML 4361 - Family Mediation
Credit hours: 3
Description: Provides mediators with advanced practical skills and clear theoretical understanding of family mediation, with particular emphasis on divorce and child custody issues. Meets statutory requirements of Texas and many other states for mediators of disputes relating to the parent-child relationship.
Corequisite(s): HSML 4360
Course typically offered: Spring
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HSML 4362 - Dispute Resolution in the Workplace
Credit hours: 3
Description: Review of alternative dispute resolution (ADR) to address sources of conflict in the workplace. Examines procedures and benefits of arbitration, mediation, ombudspersons, minitrials, neutral fact-finding and other alternatives to litigation-based conflict resolution. Trends in use and ethical/professional considerations are considered.
Corequisite(s): HSML 4360
Course typically offered: Fall
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HSML 4363 - Negotiation and Dispute Resolution
Credit hours: 3
Description: Introduces the fundamentals of nonlitigation strategies for a variety of business, professional and personal settings. Learning and skills are developed through lecture, role playing, out-of-class assignments, case studies and negotiation simulations. Required for interdisciplinary minor in alternative dispute resolution.
Corequisite(s): HSML 4360
Course typically offered: Fall, Spring
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HSML 4364 - Practicum in Mediation and Dispute Resolution
Credit hours: 3
Description: Provides opportunity for students to round out their education in dispute resolution through participation in numerous exercises, simulations and actual mediations and/or other forms of alternative dispute resolution. Required for interdisciplinary minor in alternative dispute resolution.
Corequisite(s): HSML 4360
Course typically offered: Fall, Spring
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PACS 3000 - Pathways to Civic Engagement
Credit hours: 3
Description: Promotes an understanding of self in relation to the theory and practice of civic engagement. Topics include the history of civic engagement and civil society, earning and spending social capital, voluntary sector engagement, trends in civic engagement in the U.S., and social issues. This course has a service learning requirement.
Course typically offered: Fall
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PACS 4030 - Dispute Resolution in a Global Workplace
Credit hours: 3
Description: Explores the relationship of trade-based and work-based conflic with special focus on alternative dispute resolution practices. Examines dispute resolution options available in trade agreements and their implications for workplace and trade. Students learn the benefits and limitations of workplace conflict resolution practices in an environment with multiple layers of world trade.
Corequisite(s): HSML 4000
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PACS 4040 - Crisis Intervention
Credit hours: 3
Description: Provides overview of crisis intervention from the perspectives of a host of intervention organizations and professionals. Reviews the tactics, techniques, behaviors, emotions and motivations of those who intervene or negotiate in crisis situations as well as those who intervene or negotiate in crisis situations as well as those of persons who precipitate such actions and their victims. Students will be introduced to professionals who negotiate interventions in suicide, workplace and domestic conflict situations. They will also review existing research and practices about such interventions.
Course typically offered: Spring
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PACS 4200 - Leadership Theory and Practice for Volunteer Managers
Credit hours: 3
Description: Overview of organizational leadership theory and practice for volunteer managers and community leaders. Students examine and develop a range of skills in a number of interpersonal areas: group dynamics, decision-making, managing differences, and leadership and influence as they pertain to primarily non-profit organizations and their ability to lead a volunteer workforce. May not be repeated if credit has been received for it at the graduate level.
Corequisite(s): HSML 4000
Course typically offered: Fall
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PACS 4240 - Volunteer Management Concepts and Applications
Credit hours: 3
Description: Analysis and review of day-to-day applications of management principles to the administrative and operating practices of contemporary volunteer programs in the public, not-for-profit, and for-profit sectors. Focuses on volunteer program management and organization, including targeting, recruiting, training, supervising, motivating, counseling, retaining and recognizing volunteer workforces. May not be repeated if credit has been received for it at the graduate level.
Corequisite(s): HSML 4000
Course typically offered: Spring
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PACS 4310 - Community Service Internship
Credit hours: 3
Description: Supervised work in a community agency that is directly related to the student’s major, professional field or career objective. Duties, learning objectives, reporting and supervisory functions are agreed on beforehand by the agency and the student. May be repeated for credit.
Prerequisite(s): Meet the employer’s requirements and consent of program director.
Corequisite(s): HSML 4000
Course typically offered: Fall
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PACS 4980 - Special Topics in Alternative Dispute Resolution
Credit hours: 1-4
Description: Various topics in alternative dispute resolution. Possible topics may include arbitration basics, problem solving, dispute resolution in local government, and others.
Prerequisite(s): HSML 4000
Course typically offered: Fall, Spring
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PBHL 2300 - Introduction to Public Health
Credit hours: 3
Description: Overview of the field of public health; its history and development, the structure and management of health institutions and organizations, determinants of chronic and acute illnesses, and public health ethics and policies. Topics include maternal and child health, community mental health, and health care delivery in the United States.
Course typically offered: Fall, Spring
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PBHL 2900 - Special Problems
Credit hours: 1-3
Description Individual study designed in consultation with instructor.
Prerequisite(s): Consent of department.
Course typically offered: On demand
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PBHL 3310 - Principles of Human Nutrition
Credit hours: 3
Description: Principles of human nutrition including digestion and absorption of macronutrients, role of vitamins and minerals, energy metabolism, nutrition assessment, diet planning, food safety and life span nutrition. Emphasis on food choices that promote health and prevent diet-related diseases.
Prerequisite(s): BIOL 1710, or BIOL 1720, or permission of instructor.
Course typically offered: Spring
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PBHL 3320 - Program Planning in Public Health
Credit hours: 3
Description: Processes for developing, planning, implementing and evaluating health promotion programs in various settings.
Prerequisite(s): PBHL 2300 with a grade of C or better.
Course typically offered: Spring
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PBHL 3330 - Health Policy
Credit hours: 3
Description: Provides an introduction to the public institutions and processes that govern health policy in the United States. Uses the concepts and tools of public policy analysis to examine current health policy proposals in terms of access, quality, and cost.
Prerequisite(s): PBHL 2300 with a grade of C or better.
Course typically offered: Fall
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PBHL 3340 - Social and Behavioral Sciences in Public Health
Credit hours: 3
Description: Covers the behavioral social and demographic factors influencing health and well-being as well as race ethnicity, social class, gender immigration status and culture challenges including health equity and health disparities.
Prerequisite(s): PBHL 2300
Course typically offered: Fall
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PBHL 3350 - Environmental Health
Credit hours: 3
Description: The course will introduce students to foundational and technical concepts in environmental health and the scientific and public health principles that govern environmental health outcomes, especially for vulnerable populations.
Prerequisite(s): PBHL 2300
Course typically offered: Spring
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PBHL 4310 - Epidemiology
Credit hours: 3
Description: Principles and methods of epidemiology and their applicability to public health. Topics include history and practical applications of epidemiology, mortality and morbidity, sources of data, epidemiologic study design, measurement of disease frequency and effect, data interpretation, and screening for disease.
Prerequisite(s): PBHL 2300 and MATH 1342 (formerly MATH 1680) with a grade of C or better.
Course typically offered: Fall
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PBHL 4320 - Biostatistics for Public Health
Credit hours: 3
Description: Introduces basic statistical techniques need to critically analyze and interpret public health data. Topics include descriptive statistics, probability, estimation, hypothesis testing, nonparametric methods, categorical data, regression analysis, analysis of variance, and study design. Students will integrate, synthesize, and apply knowledge through a cumulative capstone project and gain exposure to professionals and agencies engaged in public health practice.
Prerequisite(s): MATH 1342 (formerly MATH 1680)
Course typically offered: Spring
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PBHL 4330 - Mentored Research Experience in Public Health
Credit hours: 3
Description: This course will focus on developing fundamental research skills for undergraduates in the public health sciences. Under the direction of a faculty mentor, students will learn how to conduct research and dissemination of results. May be repeated for credit.
Prerequisite(s): Consent of department.
Course typically offered: Spring
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PBHL 4340 - Health Promotion Skills and Competencies
Credit hours: 3
Description: Foundational content and skills development related to roles and responsibilities of the health educator.
Prerequisite(s): PBHL 2300 with a grade of C or better.
Course typically offered: Spring
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PBHL 4390 - Capstone in Public Health
Credit hours: 3
Description: Integrative experience bringing together students’ knowledge and skills in the public health major. Includes an internship in the public health service sector or a research setting, portfolio building, short reflections, a synthesis paper and a presentation.
Prerequisite(s): Must be a senior standing. Must complete PBHL 2300, SOCI 3120, and PBHL 4310 with a grade of C or better. Must meet employer’s requirements and have consent of department.
Course typically offered: Fall, Spring
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PBHL 4395 - Applied Practice Experience in Public Health
Credit hours: 3
Description: Supervised paid or unpaid work experience in public health. Academic supervision and evaluation of performing along with a final presentation are required. Students must secure the internship placements in consultation with the department chair or internship director.
Prerequisite(s): PBHL 4390; 12 additional hours of PBHL courses; must be within two long terms/semesters of graduation at the time of the internship; must have consent of department or internship director. May be taken up to two times for academic credit.
Course typically offered: Fall, Spring
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PBHL 4900 - Special Problems
Credit hours: 1-3
Description: Individual and group research projects on a wide range of public health-related topics. The research projects that satisfy the course are based on a common interest in a topic between the student and the faculty sponsor. Students must contact the faculty sponsors to identify a research topic and project scope to ensure that the goals are reasonable and attainable.
Course typically offered: Fall
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