Graduate

Graduate Course Descriptions

PSY600 Sensory Processes

Offered By Announcement Only3 credits
Mechanisms of vertebrate sensation, with emphasis on the structure and function of the peripheral organs. Lecture, 2 hours; laboratory, 2 hours.
PREREQUISITE: GRADUATE STANDING.

PSY601 Issues in Professional Development and Research.

Fall Semester1 credits
Seminar addressing issues such as structure of academic systems and progress through them, time management, library search systems, professional journals, how to structure curriculum vitae, procedures and rules in human subject research, professional meetings and presentations, extramural funding opportunities, professional writing style, ethical issues.
PREREQUISITE: GRADUATE STANDING IN PSYCHOLOGY.

PSY602 Scientific writing and grantsmanship

Offered By Announcement Only3 credits
Writing and organizational skills for professional development in social and behavioral sciences. Mechanism of extramural funding and grant review, including gransmanship.
PREREQUISITE: GRADUATE STANDING.

PSY603 NEUROANATOMY

Fall Semester3 credits
Functional neuroanatomy for individuals engaged in basic neuroscience and psychological research. Gross anatomy, identification of pathways and circuits, and physiological funcitons of neuroanatomical systems. Clinical examples and case histories off neuroanatomical disorders. laboratory exercises including brain dissections, examiniation of brain dodels and atlases, and internet neuroanatomy websites.
PREREQUISITE: GRADUATE STANDING

PSY604 Cognition and Emotion

Spring Semester3 credits
Study of basic cognitive processes of attention and memory, the function of emotions, and the role of cognitive mechanisms in the processing of affective information.

PSY605 Cognitive Neuroscience

Fall Semester3 credits
Brain mechanisms in cognition and behavior, including sensory encoding and perception, attention, motivation, emotion, learning/memory, language, executive functions, and mental disorders.
PREREQUISITE: GRADUATE STANDING.

PSY606 Foundations in Behavioral Medicine

Fall Semester3 credits
Psychological and behavioral processes on health, well-being, and disease. Basic mechanisms of physiological regulation and dysregulation of cardiovascular, endocrine, and immune systems with specific reference to issues in cardiovascular behavioral medicine and psychoneuroimmunology.
PREREQUISITE: GRADUATE STANDING.

PSY607 Neurosciences I: Neuronal Mechanisms

Offered By Announcement Only3 credits
Biophysical, biochemical and morphological approaches at the cellular level to nervous integration as a basis for behavior. Lecture, 3 hours.
PREREQUISITE: PERMISSION OF INSTRUCTOR.

PSY608 Neurosciences II: Nervous System Integration

Offered By Announcement Only3 credits
Survey of neural control mechanisms underlying behavior. Organization and synaptic connections of specific invertebrate, brain and spinal cord control systems using neurohistological, neurophysiological and neuro-pharmacological procedures.
PREREQUISITE: BIL 660 OR PSY 607 OR PERMISSION OF INSTRUCTOR.

PSY609 Psychopharmacology

Offered By Announcement Only3 credits
Basic methods and current issues in psychopharmacology.
PREREQUISITE: PSY 605 OR PERMISSION OF INSTRUCTOR.

PSY610 Behavioral Medicine

Spring Semester3 credits
Psychological factors in the etiology, pathogenesis, diagnosis, prevention and treatment of physical disorders.
PREREQUISITE: PSY 605 OR PERMISSION OF INSTRUCTOR.

PSY611 Social Psychology of Health and Illness

Offered By Announcement Only3 credits
Topics in behavioral medicine, including social and personality factors affecting disease susceptibility, health related beliefs and behaviors; the doctor-patient relationship; evaluation of health care systems and patient compliance.
PREREQUISITE: PERMISSION OF INSTRUCTOR.

PSY612 Stress, Emotions, and Motivation

Spring Semester3 credits
PREREQUISITE: PSY 605 OR EQUIVALENT.

PSY613 Psychoneuroimmunology

Spring Semester3 credits
Structural and functional aspects of the immune system that are sensitive to neural and psychological processes. Interactions between the nervous and immune systems are examined in relation to empirical associations between psychological factors (i.e., stress) and immune-mediated processes in diseases such as cancer and AIDS.
PREREQUISITE: PSY 605 OR PERMISSION OF INSTRUCTOR.

PSY614 Diversity issues in psychology

Spring Semester3 credits
Overview of diversity issues including race, religion, gender, age, sexual orientation, physical disability and socioeconomic status as they relate to psychological research and clinical practice.
PREREQUISITE: GRADUATE STANDING.

PSY615 Foundations of neuropsychology

Spring Semester3 credits
Mechanisms of neurological and psychiatric disorders, including developmental disorders, dementia, aphasia, amnesia, stroke, traumatic brain injury, and loss of general intelligence. Clinincal tools for neuropsychological assessment, forensics, and genetic screening.
PREREQUISITE: GRADUATE STANDING

PSY620 Developmental Psychology

Offered By Announcement Only3 credits
Emphasis on applied research and interventions.

PSY621 Theories of Development

Fall Semester3 credits
Theoretical aspects of psychological development throughout the life span.
PREREQUISITE: PSY 620.

PSY622 Deviant Intellectual Development

Offered By Announcement Only3 credits
Disorders of intellectual development: Mental retardation, learning problems, and language delays (etiology, epidemiology, and prognosis). Does not include clinical applications.

PSY623 Deviant Communicative Development

Offered By Announcement Only3 credits
The nature of deviant acquisition of communication systems. Specific language and speech problems of developmentally disabled, sensorily impaired and physically handicapped children. Intervention methods utilizing traditional and nonverbal approaches.
PREREQUISITE: GRADUATE STANDING OR PERMISSION OF THE INSTRUCTOR.

PSY624 Atypical Social Development

Spring Semester3 credits
The theoretical and empirical literature on social development in children with psychopathology, mental retardation, and/or those who have experienced trauma.
PREREQUISITE: PSY 620.

PSY625 Social Psychology

Fall Semester3 credits
Overview of the major substantive areas and theories of social psychology. Emphasis on applications to health-related concerns.

PSY626 Social Influence Processes

Offered By Announcement Only3 credits
The major elements reviewed are source, message and target. The various processes include persuasion threats, promises and activation of normative commitments. Sub-areas of social psychology included are conformity, leadership, propaganda, social conflicts, decision theory, and social power.
PREREQUISITE: PSY 625.

PSY627 Interpersonal Attraction

Offered By Announcement Only3 credits
A review of theories, methods and empirical findings related to the study of interpersonal affiliation and affect.
PREREQUISITE: PSY 625.

PSY628 Theories of Personality

Offered By Announcement Only3 credits
A thorough comparative study of the major theoretical positions in the field of personality in terms of units of analysis, the structure of personality, the development of personality, the relation of personality to other fields of Psychology, the relation of personality to fields of knowledge outside psychology, (biology, sociology, anthropology) and the heuristic value of the theory.
PREREQUISITE: PSY 640.

PSY630 Research Methods in Psychology.

Fall Semester1- 3 credits
Fundamentals of behavioral research including experimental, and non-experimental design, clinical trial methodology, measurement theory, and statistical methods. Computer applications of univariate statistical techniques.
PREREQUISITE: PSY 631

PSY631 Psychological Statistics, Research Methods and Design

Fall Semester3 credits
Statistics for experimental design with uncorrelated independent variables. Review of t-tests; designs and applications of analysis of variance; including one-way, factorial, repeated-measures, and mixed designs; post hoc comparisons among means.
PREREQUISITE: PSY 630 OR PERMISSION OF INSTRUCTOR.

PSY632 Multiple Regression and Multivariate Statistics

Spring Semester3 credits
Techniques for the analysis of multiple quantitative measurements including multiple regression, multivariate analysis of variance, discriminant analysis and canonical correlation. Computer application of these techniques to the behavioral sciences.
PREREQUISITE: PSY 630 OR EPS 568 AND 653 OR PERMISSION OF INSTRUCTOR.

PSY633 structural equation modeling

Fall Semester3 credits
Structural ewuation modeling. Specific and testing explicit theory based models of covariances among variables. Structural models, path analysis, measurement models, and confirmatory factor analysis, particularly related to hypotheses about causal relations, change over time, and comparisons across diverse populations.
PREREQUISITE: PSY 632.

PSY634 Hierarchical Linear Evaluation

Spring Semester3 credits
Hierarchical linear modeling. Multi-level modeling of nested and non-independent data. Application of multi-level modeling to social science and behavioral data, including computer laboratory exercises.
PREREQUISITE: PSY 632

PSY635 Data-Base Management Systems in the Psychological Sciences

Offered By Announcement Only3 credits
Management of large data sets in the psychological sciences, including evaluation research, clinical client data, epidemiological studies, demographic studies and laboratory research.
PREREQUISITE: GRADUATE STANDING IN PSYCHOLOGY OR PERMISSION OF THE INSTRUCTOR.

PSY636 Developmental Methodology

Fall Semester3 credits
Concepts and research design problems for the analysis of developmental data from infancy through adolescence.
PREREQUISITE: PSY 620 OR EQUIVALENT.

PSY637 Methods in Social Psychology

Offered By Announcement Only3 credits
Methodology of experimental research in social psychology, including problems of research setting, sampling, experimenter-subject relationships, and methods of collecting social psychological data. Lecture, seminar, and laboratory.
PREREQUISITE: PSY 625.

PSY638 Psychology of Infant Development

Offered By Announcement Only3 credits
Theory, research, and methodology pertaining to psychological development in the first two years of life. Applied research on infancy as it pertains to individual differences in cognitive, social, and emotional development.
PREREQUISITE: GRADUATE STANDING OR PERMISSION OF INSTRUCTOR.

PSY639 Psychology of Mental Retardation and Developmental Disabilities

Offered By Announcement Only3 credits
Learning disabilities, autism and other developmental disabilities with an emphasis on mental retardation. Definitions, causal factors, societal attitudes and services from an historical perspective.

PSY640 Adult Psychopathology

Fall Semester3 credits
Theories, models, history, and research relevant to various patterns of problematic behavior, with a focus on adults. The influences of family systems as well as cultural and other diversity factors (e.g., ethnicity, sexual orientation) are included.

PSY641 Child and Adolescent Psychopathology

Fall Semester3 credits
Theories, models, and research relevant to the development and the course of behavioral disorders and other problems (e.g., maltreatment, exposure to violence and poverty) that emerge in childhood and adolescence. The influences of family and peer systems as well as cultural and other diversity factors (e.g., ethnicity, sexual orientation) are included.

PSY642 Advanced Adult Psychopathology

Fall Semester3 credits
Theory and research on risk factors and etiological models of mental disorders. Socioenvironmental (cultural, social support, life events), psychological (temperament, cognitive biases), and biological (genes, neurotransmitters) models of risk, research methodology, and design are discussed.
PREREQUISITE: GRADUATE STANDING IN PSYCHOLOGY OR PERMISSION OF INSTRUCTOR.

PSY643 Behavioral Medicine and Developmental Disabilities

Fall & Spring Semester3 credits
Processes influencing diagnosis and management of developmental disabilities: genetics, embryology/fetology, physical growth and development, nutrition, hearing and speech pathology, family dynamics, cognition and psycho-educational assessment.

PSY645 Introduction to Psychological Evaluation

Fall Semester3 credits
Measurement theory; introduction to the administration and interpretation of widely-used intelligence and personality tests, with attention to issues of ethics and diversity.
PREREQUISITE: PERMISSION OF DIRECTOR OF CLINICAL PSYCHOLOGY TRAINING PROGRAM.

PSY646 Psychological Evaluation of Adults

Spring Semester3 credits
Issues of diversity, ethics, and personality theory as they pertain to psychological evaluation of adults. Emphases on the use of projective and objective personality assessment methods.
PREREQUISITE: PSY 645 AND PERMISSION OF DIRECTOR OF CLINICAL PSYCHOLOGY TRAINING PROGRAM.

PSY647 Psychological Evaluation of Children and Families

Spring Semester3 credits
Clinical and developmental theory and methods pertaining to the evaluation of children, adolescents, and families including intelligence tests, structured diagnostic instruments, personality and behavioral check lists, observational formats, interviewing, and projective assessment. Attention to issues of ethics and diversity.
PREREQUISITE: PSY 645 AND PERMISSION OF DIRECTOR OF CLINICAL PSYCHOLOGY TRAINING PROGRAM.

PSY648 Psychological Evaluation in Physical Disorders

Spring Semester3 credits
Administration, interpretation, and psychometric evaluation of psychological tools and procedures used in the evaluation of physical disorders. Attention to issues of ethics and diversity.
PREREQUISITE: PSY 610 OR 645 OR PERMISSION OF INSTRUCTOR.

PSY649 Evaluation of the Mentally Retarded and Brain-Damaged Child

Offered By Announcement Only3 credits
Special diagnostic and evaluative procedures and techniques used with the intellectually inefficient child. Laboratory required.
PREREQUISITE: PSY 441, 645 OR EQUIVALENT.

PSY650 Laboratory in Clinical Psychology

Fall & Spring Semester0 credit
Practical training in clinical skills such as assessment, interviewing, and case conceptualization. Laboratory to be used in conjunction with courses such as PSY 640 and PSY 645
PREREQUISITE: PERMISSION OF THE DIRECTOR OF THE CLINICAL TRAINING PROGRAM

PSY651 Infant Assessment

Offered By Announcement Only3 credits
Background, history, purpose, and utility of infant assessments. Evaluation of various methods of assessing cognitive, social, language, and emotional development on conceptual, psychometric, empirical and practical grounds.

PSY655 Counseling and Psychotherapy

Offered By Announcement Only3 credits
Theory and research on traditional and modern therapeutic methods.
PREREQUISITE: PSY 604 OR PERMISSION OF INSTRUCTOR.

PSY656 Introduction to Evidence-Based Psychological Treatments

Fall Semester1- 3 credits
Theories, history, and techniques of psychological and behavioral therapies, with emphasis on evidence-based approaches.
PREREQUISITE: PSY 640.

PSY657 Introduction to Psychotherapy, Ethics, and Professional Issues

Spring Semester3 credits
Introductory experience in clinical interviewing, therapeutic communication, ethics, and case conceptualization. Consideration of client-and-therapist culture, gender, and diversity are also emphasized.
PREREQUISITE: PERMISSION OF DIRECTOR OF CLINICAL PSYCHOLOGY TRAINING PROGRAM.

PSY658 Introduction to Clinical Methods II

Offered By Announcement Only3 credits
Continuation of PSY 657.
PREREQUISITE: PSY 657 AND PERMISSION OF DIRECTOR OF CLINICAL PSYCHOLOGY TRAINING PROGRAM.

PSY659 Evidence-Based Psychological Treatments for Adults

Offered By Announcement Only3 credits
Continuation of PSY 656 with emphasis on a broad range of research pertaining to the efficacy and effectiveness of psychological treatments for adults.
PREREQUISITE: PSY 656 AND PERMISSION OF DIRECTOR OF CLINICAL PSYCHOLOGY TRAINING PROGRAM.

PSY660 Evidence-Based Psychological Intervention with Children and Families

Fall Semester3 credits
Theories, history, and techniques of psychological and behavioral therapies, with emphasis on evidence-based approaches with children, adolescents, and families. Understanding normative and deviant development, with attention to issues of diversity, ethics, and domestic violence.
PREREQUISITE: PSY 656 OR PERMISSION OF INSTRUCTOR.

PSY661 Interventions in Pediatric Psychology

Spring Semester3 credits
Pediatric psychology and basic learning theory. Medical and behavioral aspects of child and adolescent health disorders, psychological assessment, and evidence-based treatment approaches.
PREREQUISITE: PSY 656 AND PERMISSION OF DIRECTOR OF CLINICAL PSYCHOLOGY TRAINING PROGRAM.

PSY662 Health Psychology Interventions

Fall Semester3 credits
Clinical interventions and research relevant to health problems and lifestyle, with emphasis on critical evaluations of past research and the design and implementation of intervention protocols. The origins of health psychology and the role of the health psychologist in medical systems.
PREREQUISITE: PSY 610 OR 656 OR PERMISSION OF INSTRUCTOR.

PSY663 Cognitive Behavior Therapy

Offered By Announcement Only3 credits
Theory, history, research, and practice in cognitively oriented forms of therapy, including cognitive restructuring, rational emotive therapy, and cognitive behavior modification.
PREREQUISITE: PSY 656 AND PERMISSION OF DIRECTOR OF CLINICAL PSYCHOLOGY TRAINING PROGRAM.

PSY664 Group Psychotherapy

Offered By Announcement Only3 credits
Procedures, techniques, and theoretical perspectives.
PREREQUISITE: PSY 656 OR PERMISSION OF DIRECTOR OF CLINICAL TRAINING.

PSY665 Family Therapy

Offered By Announcement Only3 credits
History of family therapy, including theoretical perspectives, methods, and techniques associated with each. Includes behavioral, cognitive, dynamic, interpersonal, and systems family therapeutic approaches, in addition to a focus on family developmental process. Attention to ethics and diversity.
PREREQUISITE: PSY 656 OR PERMISSION OF DIRECTOR OF CLINICAL TRAINING.

PSY666 Research and Theory of Early Intervention

Fall Semester3 credits
Theories, models, methods, purposes, and utility of intervention in young children. Includes illustrative examples from contemporary intervention research literature.
PREREQUISITE: PERMISSION OF INSTRUCTOR.

PSY670 Practicum in Clinical Psychology

Fall & Spring Semester & First & Second Summer Session1- 3 credits
Supervised experience in evaluating and treating psychological problems of children, adolescents, families, and/or adults behavior. For students placed at the U.M. Psychological Services Clinic there is a weekly case conference that focuses on ethics case conceptualization. Course may be repeated for credit.
PREREQUISITE: PERMISSION OF DIRECTOR OF CLINICAL PSYCHOLOGY TRAINING PROGRAM.

PSY671 Practicum in Clinical Psychology II

Fall & Spring Semester & First & Second Summer Session1- 3 credits
Continuation of PSY 670.
PREREQUISITE: PERMISSION OF DIRECTOR OF CLINICAL PSYCHOLOGY TRAINING PROGRAM.

PSY672 Advanced Practicum in Clinical Psychology

Fall & Spring Semester1- 3 credits
Advanced experience in special clinical techniques and clinical supervision. Primarily for post-internship clinical students. The advisor may direct that PSY 672 be repeated, but no more than six credits may be applied toward a degree.
PREREQUISITE: PSY 671 AND PERMISSION OF DIRECTOR OF CLINICAL PSYCHOLOGY TRAINING PROGRAM.

PSY673 Advanced Practicum in Professional Psychology I

Fall & Spring Semester1- 3 credits
Advanced experience in special clinical techniques, supervision and/or teaching. No more than a total of six credits in PSY 673 and 674 may be counted toward the required 90 credits for the Ph.D. degree.
PREREQUISITE: PERMISSION OF DEPARTMENT CHAIRMAN.

PSY674 Advanced Practicum in Professional Psychology II

Fall & Spring Semester1- 3 credits
A continuation of PSY 673. No more than a total of six credits in PSY 673 and 674 may be counted toward the required 90 credits for the Ph.D. degree.
PREREQUISITE: PERMISSION OF DEPARTMENT CHAIRMAN.

PSY675 Field Experience in Behavioral Medicine

Offered By Announcement Only3 credits
Observation, assessment, and/or health psychology intervention opportunities in physical health care settings.
PREREQUISITE: PSY 605, 640. COREQUISITE: PSY 612 OR 623.

PSY676 Practicum on Mental Retardation

Offered By Announcement Only3 credits
Specialized practicum especially in the evaluation or counseling, both individual and group with retardates.
PREREQUISITE: PSY 670.

PSY680 Research

Fall & Spring Semester & First & Second Summer Session1- 4 credits
Investigation of an original problem.
PREREQUISITE: PERMISSION OF DEPARTMENT CHAIRMAN.

PSY681 Research

Fall & Spring Semester & First & Second Summer Session1- 4 credits
Investigation of an original problem.
PREREQUISITE: PERMISSION OF DEPARTMENT CHAIRMAN.

PSY682 Special Projects

Fall & Spring Semester2- 4 credits
Designed to allow students to earn credit in special projects of educational nature which do not fit readily into existing course offerings. Not to be used as a substitute for other courses.
PREREQUISITE: GRADUATE STANDING AND PERMISSION OF CHAIRMAN.

PSY683 Special Topics

Fall & Spring Semester3 credits
Topics in selected areas of specialization.
PREREQUISITE: PERMISSION OF INSTRUCTOR.

PSY684 Readings in Psychology

Fall & Spring Semester3 credits
Supervised readings in selected topics.
PREREQUISITE: PERMISSION OF DEPARTMENT CHAIRMAN.

PSY685 Seminar in Clinical Psychology

Fall & Spring Semester3 credits

PSY686 Seminar in Clinical Psychology

Fall & Spring Semester3 credits

PSY687 Seminar in Clinical Psychology

Offered By Announcement Only3 credits

PSY688 Seminar in Developmental Psychology

Offered By Announcement Only3 credits

PSY689 Seminar in Developmental Psychology

Offered By Announcement Only3 credits

PSY690 Seminar in Developmental Psychology

Offered By Announcement Only3 credits

PSY691 Seminar in Social Psychology

Offered By Announcement Only3 credits

PSY692 Seminar in Personality

Offered By Announcement Only3 credits

PSY693 Seminar in Behavioral Medicine

Spring Semester3 credits

PSY694 Seminar in Behavioral Medicine

Fall Semester3 credits

PSY695 Seminar in Learning

Offered By Announcement Only3 credits

PSY696 Seminar in Motivation

Offered By Announcement Only3 credits

PSY697 Seminar in Biological Psychology

Fall Semester3 credits

PSY698 Seminar in Quantitative Psychology

Fall Semester3 credits

PSY704 Internship in Clinical Psychology

Fall & Spring Semester1 credits
Supervised internship in clinical psychology. May not be counted as part of the90 hours required for the Ph.D. degree.
PREREQUISITE: PERMISSION OF DIRECTOR OF PSYCHOLOGY TRAINING PROGRAM.

PSY705 Postdoctoral Practicum

Fall Semester1- 3 credits
Advanced clinical psychology training for individuals who have completed a clinical psychology Ph.D. or PsyD. from an APA-accredited doctoral program. Supervision of clinical activity by licensed faculty members.
PREREQUISITE: PERMISSION OF THE DIRECTOR OF CLINICAL PSYCHOLOGY TRAINING PROGRAM.

PSY706 Summer Research Practicum

Fall Semester1 credits
Faculty-supervised research during the summer for students in the Psychology Ph.D. Program.
PREREQUISITE: PERMISSION OF THE PSYCHOLOGY DEPARTMENT'S DIRECTOR OF GRADUATE STUDIES.

PSY710 Master's Thesis

Fall & Spring Semester1- 6 credits
The student working on his/her master's thesis enrolls for credit, in most departments not to exceed six, as determined by his/her advisor. Credit is not awarded until the thesis has been accepted.

PSY720 Research in Residence

Fall & Spring Semester0 credit
Research in residence for the thesis for the master's degree after the student has enrolled for the permissible cumulative total in PSY 710 (usually six credits). Credit not granted. May be regarded as full time residence.

PSY725 Continuous Registration--Master's Study

Fall & Spring Semester0 credit
To establish residence for non-thesis master's students who are preparing for major examinations. Credit not granted. Regarded as full time residence.

PSY730 Doctoral Dissertation

Fall & Spring Semester1-12 credits
Required of all candidates for the Ph.D. The student will enroll for credit as determined by his/her advisor, but for not less than a total of 12 hours. Up to12 hours may be taken in a regular semester, but not more than six in a summer session.

PSY740 Post-Candidacy Doctoral Dissertation

Fall & Spring Semester1-12 credits
Required of all candidates for the Ph.D. who have advanced to candidacy. The student will enroll for credit as determined by his/her advisor, but not for less than a total of 12. Not more than 12 hours of PSY 740 may be taken in a regular semester, nor more than six in a summer session.
PREREQUISITE: ADMISSION TO PH.D. CANDIDACY

PSY750 Research in Residence

Fall & Spring Semester0 credit
Used to establish research in residence for the Ph.D., after the student has been enrolled for the permissible cumulative total in appropriate doctoral research. Credit not granted. May be regarded as full-time residence as determined by the Dean of the Graduate School.