The course deals with the design of psychological experiments. Emphasis is upon issues concerning choice of appropriate designs for psychological research. Both experimental and correlational research designs are studied. Required of all graduate students in psychology.
A survey of the field of health psychology. It will explore the ways in which social and psychological research contribute to an understanding of health and illness behavior.
Theoretical issues, quantitative methods and research findings on the projective methods of assessment of normal and abnormal personality.
A sociological study of issues relevant to communities. Topics may include: conceptual approaches to community; organizatial and institutional linkages within and beyond the community; social inequality and social processes within communities such as social networks, social capital, power and decision-making, and social change.
This course examines the relationship between community organization and change and the media. Special emphasis is given to the place of media organizations in community structure, the effects of media on community processes, and how community members use the media.
This course examines the application of our conceptual understanding of community and organizational dynamics to community development that builds upon assets and encourages local involvements.
topics, or problems in the field of deviant behavior such as delinquency, sociology of law, criminal justice and corrections, radical criminology, or methodological issues in deviance research. May be repeated to a maximum of nine credits.
A review of sociological concepts and methods which have been applied to the study of health and medicine; the contributions of medical sociology to general sociological theory and to concepts and research on health-related problems of society.
Special and intensive study of selected topics in Colonial Latin American literature and culture. May be repeated to a maximum of 9 credits when taught under different subtitles.
Topics selected from stochastic models, decision making under uncertainty, inventory models with random demand, waiting time models and decision problems.
