Junior/Senior Seminar

Catalog description

Each seminar is designed to help the student integrate knowledge of psychology through readings, discussions and assigned projects concerned with basic principles and enduring problems. Typically, several different topic sections of PSYC 473 are offered each semester. Examples of previous topics: affective neuroscience, biological rhythms and sleep, brain plasticity and learning, cognitive neuroscience, comparative psychology, intimate relationships, psychological assessment and decision making, and social cognition. May be repeated for credit only under different topic with different instructor. Students must earn a grade of C- or higher for this course to apply to the major. Prerequisites include at least PSYC 111 with a grade of C or higher, PSYC 243 with a grade of C or higher, and PSYC 344 with a grade of C- or higher. Additional prerequisites may exist for specific seminars. Offered every fall and spring semester,