COURSE DESCRIPTIONS
Psychology
P501 Measurement (3) A survey of basic concepts and principles of psychological measurement including factors influencing validity and reliability. Prerequisite: Undergraduate statistics P502 Statistics (3) Concepts and techniques involved in the analysis and interpretation of clinical and research data. Lecture and laboratory covering descriptive and inferential statistics. Major topics will include correlation and regression, tests of significance and introduction to analysis of variance. Both parametric
and non-parametric approaches will be covered. Prerequisite: Undergraduate statistics and P501 P521 Psychopathology and Diagnosis I (3), II (3)
The classification, dynamics, diagnosis and etiology of mental disorders. Attention is also given to the concepts of normality and mental illness and other theoretical issues involved in the classification of personality abnormal ities. P522 Assessment I (3) The first of a two-course sequence directed toward competence in adminis tration, scoring and interpretation of psychological tests. This course places emphasis on the Stanford Binet and Wechsler Scales with an introduction to case history methods and personality assessment tools. P530 Proseminar: History and Systems of Psychology (2) This course places particular emphasis on major theoretical systems includ ing Structuralism, Behaviorism, Gestalt Psychology, Functionalism, and Psy choanalysis and current developments from these systems. P531 Proseminar: Psychology of Learning (3) Includes a comparison of major learning theories and an investigation of experimental contributions to the study of basic processes including condi tioning, motivation, inhibition, generalization and discrimination. Prerequisite: Undergraduate course in learning
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