Introduction to Developmental Psychology

The developmental psychology course guides you in learning about youself and interacting with the society. Its five major themes, human communication, growth dynamics, feelings and emotions, human relationships, and leading a quality life-provide a thought-provoking look at how psychology influences personal development.

6 Credits

Fundamentals of Biological and Cognitive Psychology

Course provides a comprehensive, approachable treatment of current cognitive psychology. Neuro-cognitive evidence is integrated throughout, and course balances empirical evidence, theory, and explanations of important points with sufficient detail so that you learn not only cognitive psychology, but also how experiments are designed and interpreted and how theories are tested. 

6 Credits

Introduction to Social Psychology

This course offers a broad introduction to social psychology, the scientific study of human social influence and interaction. You will explore various ways people think about, affect, and relate to one another. Goals of this course are to improve understanding of social psychological explanations for social influence and interaction.

6 Credits

Introduction to Quantitative Psychology

The course uses well-established approach emphasizing the intuitive, deemphasizing mathematical, and explaining everything in direct, simple language but also going beyond these principles to further your understanding. By using definitional formulas to emphasize concepts of statistics, you will work problems in a way that keeps them constantly aware of primary logic. 

6 Credits

Introduction to Abnormal Psychology

This course is an introduction to research, history, and theories of abnormal psychology. A major emphasis in the course is to examine selected categories of psychological disorders such as: anxiety, depression, schizophrenia, personality disorders, eating disorders, and substance abuse disorders.

6 Credits

Foundations of Psychology

This course presents a scientific, accurate, and thorough overview of essential concepts of psychology in engaging language that you would be able to easily comprehend. Topics covered are: science of psychology, biological basis of behavior, sensation and perception, learning, memory and cognition, motivation and emotion, life-span development, therapies, and social psychology. 

6 Credits

Introduction to Personality Psychology

This course is designed to prepare you to apply theories of personality to understanding particular individuals who you may encounter in professional work and in you personal life; this engaging course provides an overview of major classic and current theories of personality, together with clear explanation of the latest research.

6 Credits

Fundamentals of Physiological Psychology

Thoughtfully organized, this course offers scholarly, yet accessible coverage and effectively emphasizes dynamic interaction between biology and behavior. Course incorporates basic properties of nervous system and endocrine system since they provide fundamental building blocks of behavior. It discusses sensory systems, motor systems and information processing that occurs between the two.

6 Credits

Counseling Psychology and Children

Counseling, Psychology and Children course takes a multidimensional approach to counseling children. This approach: 1) capitalizes on the relationships children build with parents, teachers, and other adults; 2) looks at children's developmental processes; 3) examines multicultural influences upon them; and 4) takes into consideration the variety of intervention models available.

6 Credits

Introduction to Counseling Psychology

Course present practical examples and discussions of all of the major facets of counseling in a wide variety of counselors' work settings. The course includes a thorough treatment of techniques of assessment, including an overview of standardized testing and discussion of subjective approaches to appraisal, observation, self-reporting, and others.

6 Credits

Introduction to Group Counseling

This course examines all of the essential skills required to be an effective leader of variety of groups in variety of settings. It explores history of group therapy work and development of groups–how they grow, change, and differ. It addresses specifics of working with children, adolescents, adults, and elderly.

6 Credits

Introduction to Counseling Theory

This course provides clear, succinct coverage of the core concepts of all of the major contemporary theories of counseling and psychotherapy, including separate chapters on solution-focused and on feminist theory. Each theory topic begins by discussing the major theorist or theorists responsible for the theory.

6 Credits

Family Therapy

This course covers all aspects of working with families. It begins by explaining differences between functional and dysfunctional families. It covers history of family therapy, multicultural aspects of family therapy, ways of working with various types of families, ethical and legal issues involved family therapy, and ways of assessing families.

6 Credits

School Counseling

This course reflects all the crucial subject matter of what it takes to be a school counselor. This course is designed as a means for you to lend your voice to the issues confronting school counselors and, most importantly, to chart the course for invention in school counseling.

6 Credits