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80200 3CR - Independent Research 89800 0CR - Research Supervision
80400 1, 2, and 3 CRs - Independent Readings 90000 1CR - Dissertation Supervision
Concentration in Health Psychology :
80103 (90797) -3CR Health Psychology Revenson Thursday, 9:30-11:30 Room
Urban Health and Society
SOC. 81900 (90712) -3CR Causal Inference: Design & Statistics Lennon Wednesdays 4:15-6:15 p.m., Rm. TBA
Psychology and Law Concentration
80103 (90653) - 3CR Psychology, Law and Policy Fondacaro Wednesday 3:00-5:00pm John Jay RM 2437N
80900 (90702) - 3CR Experimental Psychology and Law Groscup Wednesday, 12:30-2:30 p.m., John Jay RM TBA
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70000 (90951) - 3CR History of Psychology Greenwood Tuesday, 2:00-4:00 RM TBA
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Course Descriptions
Psychology Courses At The Graduate Center
Course Descriptions
FALL 2007
70500 Statistical Methods in Psychology I
(90621) Prof. Winkel 3 Credits
Thursday 9:30-11:30 Room 6418
Lab, Thurs. 2:00-4:00 Room 6418
This course introduces students to data analysis techniques that are suitable for field research projects. Heavy emphasis is given to regression models as well as univariate and multivariate analysis of variance techniques. Students are given experience using computer programs from SAS and SPSS. New students who have completed a graduate statistics course may be able to use that in lieu of this requirement. U705 Statistics I and U706 Statistics II are required by the Ph.D. Program in Psychology.
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70500 Statistical Methods in Psychology I
(90112) Prof. Rindskopf 3 Credits
Wednesday 4:15 - 6:15 Room C415A
LAB. 6:30 - 8:30 Room C415A
The purpose of this course is to introduce the student to the basic principles underlying statistical inference, to provide an understanding of basic statistical analyses (t-tests, simple analysis of variance and regression models, non-parametric methods) and to provide an introduction to the use of statistical computer packages.
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72000 Developmental Psychology I
(90626) Prof. Bearison 3 Credits
Tuesday 9:30 - 11:30
Various theoretical approaches and methods to studying cognitive, social, perceptual, and affective development will be considered. Philosophical positions regarding scientific explanations and experimental paradigms, along with value presuppositions regarding the nature of development and developmental theories also will be considered.
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80101 Developmental Proseminar I
(90638) Prof. Bearison 1 Credit
Wednesday 9:30-11:30
This is a required course for all students in the first semester of matriculation in the Developmental subprogram. The contents of this course are not covered by any course in another program. The purpose of the course is to introduce new students to the research interests of the faculty. At each session, a different faculty member will discuss his or her research interests in the form of a professional autobiography. In addition to presenting research interests and activities, faculty will discuss their academic background and how they developed their interests. Because this course requires no preparation on the part of students, it carries zero credits and will be graded as pass/fail. No prerequisite.
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77100 Ethical Issues for Research Psychologists
(90629) Prof. Revenson 3 Credits
Monday 9:30-11:30
This course is designed to provide a forum for discussion about the ethical issues that arise in psychological research with "human subjects" and within the academy. The course will examine the underlying philosophy and history of the federal regulations for the protection of human subjects, the different ethical issues that arise with different research methods and populations, and the dialectic between ethics and science. The course will also cover a number of areas of professional ethics, including mentoring and publication. Ethical issues will be discussed through the use of case studies, debates, role-playing and discussion of diverse experiences. Students will also become familiar with the federal guidelines themselves through review of IRB applications as we convene mock IRB meetings.
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74000 Social-Personality Psychology I
(90628) Prof. Ouellette 3 Credits
Tuesday. 9:30-11:30
This is a required course for all first year Social-Personality students. We will read and discuss materials that well exemplify the (a) link between the intellectual concerns of personality psychologists and social psychologists, (b) the need to approach human behavior through a variety of levels of analysis, moving from the individual through the cultural level, and (c) the critical importance of an historical approach in research. Students will be introduced to some classic texts in behavioral and social science as well as contemporary examples of broad-based psychological research.
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80101 Lab in Social Personality Psychology I
(90649) Prof. Ouellette 1 Credit
Wednesday 2:00-4:00
This is a required course for first year Social-Personality students. The aim of this course is to enable up close views of specific periods in the history of psychology. Students observe both what was actually happening within the discipline and around the discipline – in other scholarly endeavors and in the broader social context. The basic work of the lab is each student’s preparation of an historical log, After choosing a particular 10 year period, students record (a) the key studies, events, and persons from psychology for that period, (b) the important happenings from some other discipline, and (c) events and trends reflective of some form of the social, political, or cultural dimensions of that period.
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79100 Environmental Social Science I: Interdisciplinary Perspectives
(90642) Prof. Katz 3 Credits
Wednesday 11:45-1:45
This course is designed to provide a survey of the range of disciplines that comprise the field of Environmental Social Science. Readings are designed to broaden the students' familiarity with literature concerning peoples engagements with the physical environment from the fields of anthropology, sociology, geography, urban planning, architecture, environmental design and management, and psychology.
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79103 Environmental Social Science III: Social and Cultural Theories
(90644) Prof. Tonnelat 3 Credits
Thursday 11:45 - 1:45
This seminar is part of a three course sequence that introduces first and second year graduate students to the multidisciplinary theoretical bases of the environmental social science field. The readings are divided into four parts: 1) From culture to interpretation includes cognitive, ecological and interpretive theories of culture and environment drawn from anthropology. 2) From structure to practice covers the transformation of structural theories of social behavior to theories that include human agency and link actors to the social and physical environment through practice. 3) From history to political economy traces Marxism in its many forms, and focuses on Marxist geographical theory as it redefines space and spatial practices in such a way as to understand the production of space and the social reproduction of the class structure that supports uneven development. The final part reviews 4) critical theories: race, class, and gender including recent work in feminism, critical race theory, post colonial theory, and critical literary theory.
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79200 Research Methods and Ethics in Environmental Psychology I
(90623) Prof. Winkel 3 Credits
Tuesday 9:30-11:30
“Tutorial” 11:45-1:45
We will work both on the development of individual research project proposals as well as a group project. The class will cover issues, problems and ethics of various field research issues including problem definition, research design, review of literature, and data analysis. Specific techniques covered include observation, interviews, questionnaires, participatory methods, graphics, community studies and social impact assessment. A specific focus of the “Tutorial” section of the seminar will be other environmental psychology faculty members critiquing and discussing a particular study. Lunch will be served.
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80260 Second Year Research Seminar I - DEV
(90634) Prof. Stetsenko 3 Credits
Wednesday 9:30-11:30
An informal group of students preparing second year research projects which discusses problems of research problem formation and research design.
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80260 Second Year Research Seminar I - S/P
(90636) Prof. Daiute 3 Credits
Wednesday 2:00-4:00
This course serves as a component of the second-year independent research project requirement. During the first semester students develop and prepare a research proposal. Course content is organized according to the issues and written genres essential to develop a research proposal: theory and problem formulation, critical literature review, hypothesis development, methods (sample, procedures, design, data analysis plan), and IRB approval. By the end of the first semester, students are expected to have a study ready for pilot testing and are required to submit a research proposal. Students are expected to carry out the project during the second semester and course content will again follow from the issues faced by researchers implementing a study. These issues include subject recruitment, data collection, analysis and reporting results. The final products include a journal-length article reporting the study and an oral presentation.
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80260 Second Year Research Seminar I - ENV
(90635) Prof. Katz 3 Credits
Wednesday 9:30 - 11:30
This is the Second Year Research Paper Seminar. The goal of this seminar is to develop individual research projects including problem formulation, literature review, research design, definition of methods, implementation and analysis. Ethical concerns are addressed throughout the year.
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72300 Current Issues in Psychology -Developmental
(90639) Prof. Stetsenko 0 Credits
Tuesday 11:45 - 1:45
This seminar covers current research in developmental psychology through presentations by guest speakers, discussions around topics in formation, and issues related to students’ research. Research activities of scholars both within and outside the Program are presented and discussed.
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72300 Current Issues in Psychology -Social/Personality
(90641) Prof. Cross 0 Credits
Wednesday 11:45 - 1:45
There is a main setting in which we bring together all members of our Social/Personality scholarly community. This is the time and place for hearing about the research of visiting scholars, talking together about the studies based in our own program, and discussing other program-wide concerns. With the help of the various research groups on the floor, we have organized a mix of presentations for this semester that reflect the many interests of our program. Also, we have scheduled a set of what we are calling ‘Community Meetings’ in which we will have the opportunity for general discussion of issues that affect our work.
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74800 Qualitative Research Methods
(90625) Profs. Daiute/Fine 3 Credits
Tuesday 2:00-4:00
(Required for 1st Year Developmental and Social Personality Students)
This course focuses on rationale and method in human development and action research. We review, discuss, and practice qualitative research methods including ethnography, free spaces, interviewing, and discourse analysis. We take a critical perspective on research design, considering theory, purpose, and issues such as multiple methods, ethical issues in studying others, and issues of diversity. Students apply the course work to their own research, in particular second year research projects.
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80103 Understanding the Lives of Children and Youth
(90647) Prof. Hart 3 Credits
Wednesday 4:15-6:15
This course provides a critical overview of different approaches to working with children and youth alongside discussion of the proposed or possible research of the participants. The emphasis is upon the different ways that researchers have been able to both document the lives of young people and find ways to successfully communicate it to others. It incorporates traditional ethnographic and participant observation research as well as more contemporary collaborative and participatory approaches. The first half of the course will be devoted to a comparative and critical overview of different research approaches and methods for working with children. The structure of these classes will be designed around a common set of readings and occasional small exercises, designed to apply the readings to the participant’s own research focus. The second half of the course will extend this knowledge by reviewing examples of research on topics that are the foci of interest of the course participants. Students will be expected to prepare a written proposal for a study of their own, with a discussion of their choice of research approach and methods in relation to the larger body of literature reviewed in the course.
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80103 Development in Culturally Structured Environments
(90646) Prof. Glick 3 Credits
Tuesday 2:00-4:00
Classical developmental theories have often been though of in terms of how the child is prepared for living in the world. There is an equally important, ecological analysis that looks at how the world is prepared for the child living in it. This course is intended to explore the interface between these views. The intention of this course is to explore the ways that the child, the social environment, and the physical environment intersect in the production of development.
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80103 Social Stigma and Damage: Myths, Realities and Abuses
(90631) Profs. Cross/Fine 3 Credits
Monday 11:45-1:45
The social sciences in general and psychology in particular have played a vital role in providing “scientific” support linking membership in a stigmatized group with a wide range of negative outcomes such as psychopathology, dysfunctional family history, cultural implosion, low academic achievement, criminality, hypersensitivity to stigma status, learned helplessness, poor performance on high-risk tests, etc. This seminar will conduct critical conversations about the history of theory and methods in psychology dedicated to stigma and damage (black psychology, women's psychology, disability studies, queer/lesbian/gay psychology). We are interested in students who want to interrogate the "damage/stigma" discourse and work toward alternative theoretical and methodological positions.
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80103 Interactive Places
(90648) Prof. Greenbaum 3 Credits
Thursday 4:15-6:15
Environmental Psychology involves the study of built environments like parks and homes and schools. This course takes as its starting point the fact that digital environments--everything from ipods and mobile phones to web sites and interactive 3-D worlds—are also built environments.
Our aim will be to gain a better understanding about how digital environments can be designed and built to suit the people who experience them. As cell phones and ipods and Blackberries become ubiquitous and indeed begin to converge, our need to understand how we inhabit them becomes more important. And of equal importance is our need to design digital places for the way people actually live---in both the physical and social world around us and through our digitally mediated environments.
The seminar will involve readings and empirical group projects. Readings in the seminar will include studies of place from newer works in Human Computer Interaction (HCI) and Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW) as well as studies from the field of Environmental Psychology. Group projects will involve using participatory research methods to study digital environments such as blogs and discussion boards on websites. The course will also begin the process of designing alternative , human-centered digital environments.
This seminar will be of interest to any students using the internet and new media in their research. In particular it can be inspirational for students in Environmental Psychology, English, Music, Sociology, Urban Education and Women’s Studies as well as students in the Interactive Technology and Pedagogy certificate program.
Students will be expected to read broadly and deeply the psychological, anthropological and sociological literatures on experiences and perceptions of social injustice. Students engage in writing two major pieces for the course: an intellectual autobiography around an idea that compels them through the readings, and a short fictional story written from a situated perspective in the midst of conditions of injustice (perspective of privilege, intersectionality....) Readings bridge across critical theory, feminist theory, queer theory and critical race theory. Conversation with the instructor preferred prior to enrollment.
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80200 Independent Psychological Research
Sponsor 3 Credits
80400 Independent Readings
Sponsor 1 Credit
80400 Independent Readings
Sponsor 2 Credits
80400 Independent Readings
Sponsor 3 Credits
89800 Research Supervision
Advisor 0 Credit
90000 Dissertation Supervision
Advisor 1 Credit
(ALL Level III students register for this)
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CONCENTRATION IN HEALTH PSYCHOLOGY
80103 Health Psychology
(90797) Prof. Revenson 3 Credits
Thursday 9:30-11:30
This seminar presents an overview of current theory and research in the field of health psychology. The course emphasizes the biopsychosocial model of understanding health and illness. The aims of this course are threefold. First, students will become acquainted with current knowledge in substantive areas, such as risk factors in the development of illness, stress and coping, and community-based health interventions. Second, students will develop an understanding of the models, theories, and methods used to explore person and environment factors in health and disease. Third, all issues will be discussed with an awareness of diversity and the importance of understanding the sociocultural context; specifically, each topic area will be examined as it relates to issues of gender, ethnicity, SES, sexual orientation, and age/developmental stage.
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CONCENTRATION IN PSYCHOLOGY AND THE LAW
80103 Psychology, Law and Policy
(90653) Prof. Fondacaro 3 Credits
Wed. 3:00-5:00 Room 2437N John Jay College
Our criminal and civil laws have always been guided by assumptions about human nature and the causes of human behavior. Historically, the law has turned extensively to philosophy, religion, and "common sense" in adopting basic legal assumptions about human behavior. Throughout most of the Twentieth Century, the law, and the United States Supreme Court in particular, has been highly skeptical about the value of behavioral science in informing legal decision making. However, beginning in the early 1990s, the Supreme Court seemingly opened the courthouse gates by announcing in the Daubert case that the legal admissibility of scientific evidence in federal cases would be judged by standards of scientific validity. This has led to an expanded window of opportunity in the law for a wider range of behavioral scientific knowledge, including recent advances in social neuroscience, to inform legal decision making and public policy. This course will focus on the application of psychological research and practice to legal and policy issues. We will examine the relationship between the diverse discipline of psychology and a wide range of legally-relevant domains and topics including expert testimony and scientific evidence, competency, legal responsibility, mitigation, the insanity defense, jurisprudence, and public policy in the interrelated areas of child welfare, juvenile justice, mental health, and criminal justice. We will critically examine the theoretical and empirical support for the practices and policies guiding the work of behavioral scientists, clinicians, lawyers, and judges in these areas of law and policy.
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80900 Experimental Psychology and Law
(90702) Prof. Groscup 3 Credits
Wednesday. 12:30-2:30 John Jay College
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URBAN HEALTH AND SOCIETY
SOC 81900 Causal Inference: Design and Statistics
(90712) Prof. Lennon 3 Credits
Wednesday, 4:15-6:15
This course focuses on the logic of causal inference in observational studies, that is, studies in which individuals select themselves into different situations or treatments (quasi-experiments and non-experiments). Topics covered include concepts of explanation and causality in the social sciences and statistical and design techniques for inferring causal effects from quasi-experimental and non-experimental studies. Familiarity with ordinary least squares regression analysis required.
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