Courses for Fall 2017

	Title	Instructor	Location	Time	Description	Fulfills	Registration Notes
PSYC 001-001	INTRO TO EXP PSYCH	CONNOLLY, CAROLINE	MEYERSON HALL B1	TR 0130PM-0300PM	This course provides an introduction to the basic topics of psychology including our three major areas of distribution: the biological basis of behavior, the cognitive basis of behavior, and individual and group bases of behavior. Topics include, but are not limited to, neuropsychology, learning, cognition, development, disorder, personality, and social psychology.	Living World Sector (all classes)	SECTION ACTIVITY CO-REQUISITE REQUIRED; LIVING WORLD SECTOR
PSYC 045-301	THE EMBODIED MIND	BERMANT, GORDON		CANCELED			BENJAMIN FRANKLIN SEMINARS; BENJAMIN FRANKLIN SEMINAR; NURSING MINOR REQUIRED COURSE
PSYC 097-000	PSYCH ABROAD
PSYC 109-401	INTRO TO BRAIN & BEHAV	MCLEAN, JUDITH	STEPHEN A. LEVIN BUILDING AUD	MWF 1000AM-1100AM	Introduction to the structure and function of the vertebrate nervous system, including the physiological bases of sensory activity, perception, drive, motor control and higher mental processes. The course is intended for students interested in the neurobiology of behavior. Familiarity with elementary physics and chemistry will be helpful.	Living World Sector (all classes)	SECTION ACTIVITY CO-REQUISITE REQUIRED; LIVING WORLD SECTOR
PSYC 109-402	LABORATORY	KRAMER, TALYA	PSYCHOLOGY LAB A3	T 0900AM-1030AM	Introduction to the structure and function of the vertebrate nervous system, including the physiological bases of sensory activity, perception, drive, motor control and higher mental processes. The course is intended for students interested in the neurobiology of behavior. Familiarity with elementary physics and chemistry will be helpful.	Living World Sector (all classes)	SECTION ACTIVITY CO-REQUISITE REQUIRED
PSYC 111-401	PERCEPTION	BURGE, JOHANNES	STEPHEN A. LEVIN BUILDING AUD	TR 0900AM-1030AM	How the individual acquires and is guided by knowledge about objects and events in their environment.		SECTION ACTIVITY CO-REQUISITE REQUIRED
PSYC 127-401	PHYSIOLOGY MOTIVATED BEH	GRILL, HARVEY	STEPHEN A. LEVIN BUILDING AUD	TR 0130PM-0300PM	This course focuses on evaluating the experiments that have sought to establish links between brain structure (the activity of specific brain circuits) and behavioral function (the control of particular motivated and emotional behaviors). Students are exposed to concepts from regulatory physiology, systems neuroscience, pharmacology, and endocrinology and read textbook as well as original source materials. The course focuses on the following behaviors: feeding, sex, fear, anxiety, the appetite for salt, and food aversion. The course also considers the neurochemical control of responses with an eye towards evaluating the development of drug treatments for: obesity, anorexia/cachexia, vomiting, sexual dysfunction, anxiety disorders, and depression.
PSYC 149-401	COGNITIVE NEUROSCIENCE	MACKEY, ALLYSON	STEPHEN A. LEVIN BUILDING AUD	TR 1200PM-0130PM	The study of the neural systems that underlie human perception, memory and language; and of the pathological syndromes that result from damage to these systems.
PSYC 170-001	SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY	WARD, ANDREW	LEIDY LAB 10	MW 0330PM-0500PM	An overview of theories and research across the range of social behavior from intra-individual to the group level including the effects of culture, social environment, and groups on social interaction.	Society sector (all classes)	SOCIETY SECTOR
PSYC 181-001	INTRO DEVELOPMENTAL PSYC	BRANNON, ELIZABETH	LEIDY LAB 10	MW 0200PM-0330PM	The goal of this course is to introduce both Psychology majors and non-majors majors to the field of Developmental Psychology. Developmental Psychology is a diverse field that studies the changes that occur with age and experience and how we can explain these changes. The field encompasses changes in physicalgrowth, perceptual systems, cognitive systems, social interactions and and much more. We will study the development of perception, cognition, language,academic achievement, emotion regulation, personality, moral reasoning,and attachment. We will review theories of development and ask how these theories explain experimental findings. While the focus is on human development, when relevant, research with animals will be used as a basis for comparison.
PSYC 207-401	INTRO COGNITIVE SCIENCE	YANG, CHARLES MIRACCHI, LISA	TOWNE BUILDING 100	TR 0130PM-0300PM	Cognitive Science is founded on the realization that many problems in the analysis of human and artificial intelligence require an interdisciplinary approach. The course is intended to introduce undergraduates from many areas to the problems and characteristic concepts of Cognitive Science, drawing on formal and empirical approaches from the parent disciplines of computer science, linguistics, neuroscience, philosophy and psychology. The topics covered include Perception, Action, Learning, Language, Knowledge Representation, and Inference, and the relations and interactions between such modules. The course shows how the different views from the parent disciplines interact, and identifies some common themes among the theories that have been proposed. The course pays particular attention to the distinctive role of computation in such theories, and provides an introduction to some of the main directions of current research in the field. It is a requirement for the BA in Cognitive Science, the BAS in Computer and Cognitive Science, and the minor in Cognitive Science, and it is recommended for students taking the dual degree in Computer and Cognitive Science.		SECTION ACTIVITY CO-REQUISITE REQUIRED; FORMAL REASONING COURSE; FORMAL REASONING
PSYC 225-401	DRUGS, BRAIN, AND MIND	KANE, MICHAEL	ANNENBERG SCHOOL 110	TR 0130PM-0300PM	The course will begin with a review of basic concepts in pharmacology: routes of drug administration, drug metabolism, the dose response curve, tolerance, and sensitization. Following a brief overview of cellular foundations of neuropharmacology (cell biology,synaptic and receptor function), the course will focus on various classes of drugs used to treat neuropsychiatric disorders including, among others, depression, schizophrenia,and anxiety. We will additionally consider mechanisms mediating the mind-altering, addictive and neurotoxic effects of abused drugs.
PSYC 247-001	NEUROSCIENCE AND SOCIETY	GERSTEIN, HILARY	GODDARD LAB 101	MW 0330PM-0500PM	Cognitive, social,and affective neuroscience have made tremendous progress in in the last two decades. As this progress continues, neuroscience is becoming increasingly relevant to all of the real-world endeavors that require understanding, predicting and changing human behavior. In this course we will examine the ways in which neuroscience is being applied in law, criminal justice, national defense, education, economics, business,and other sectors of society. For each application area we will briefly review those aspects of neuroscience that are most relevant, and then study the application in more detail.
PSYC 253-401	JUDGMENT AND DECISIONS	ROYZMAN, EDWARD	STEPHEN A. LEVIN BUILDING 111	R 0530PM-0830PM	Thinking, judgment, and personal and societal decision making, with emphasis on fallacies and biases.		COLLEGE QUANTITATIVE DATA ANALYSIS REQ.; QUANTITATIVE DATA ANALYSIS COURSE
PSYC 265-401	BEHAVIORAL ECON & PSYCH	BHATIA, SUDEEP	STITELER HALL B6	TR 1200PM-0130PM	This course will introduce you to the study of choice, and will examine in detail what we know about how people make choices, and how we can influence these choices. It will utilize insights from psychology and economics, and will apply these insights to domains including consumer choice, risky decision making, and prosocial decision making.
PSYC 266-001	INTRO POSITIVE PSYCH	KAUFMAN, SCOTT	ANNENBERG SCHOOL 110	M 0200PM-0500PM	An introduction to the study of positive emotions, positive character traits, and positive institutions. The positive emotions consist of emotions about the past (e.g., serenity, satisfaction, pride), about the future (e.g., hope, optimism, faith), and emotions about the present (pleasure and gratification). The distinction among the pleasant life, the good life, and the meaningful life is drawn. The positive traits include wisdom, courage, humanity, justice, temperance, and spirituality, and the classification of these virtues is explored. The positive institutions are exemplified by extended families, free press, humane leadership, and representative government.		SECTION ACTIVITY CO-REQUISITE REQUIRED
PSYC 272-001	EVOLUTIONARY PSYCHOLOGY	KURZBAN, ROBERT	STEPHEN A. LEVIN BUILDING AUD	TR 1030AM-1200PM	This course introduces the field of evolutionary psychology, which is an approach to the study of human behavior. We will consider the threoretical underpinnings of the field, including evolutionary threory, development, kinship, and adaptations for social life, and will sample some of the recent empirical contributions to this growing area.
PSYC 362-301	RESEARCH EXP ABNORMAL: PSYCHOPATHOLOGY	HUNT, MELISSA	DAVID RITTENHOUSE LAB 3W2	R 0130PM-0430PM	PSYC 362-301 is a two-semester course starting in the Fall. Class size limited to 8 students.		COLLEGE QUANTITATIVE DATA ANALYSIS REQ.; PERMISSION NEEDED FROM DEPARTMENT; PERMISSION NEEDED FROM INSTRUCTOR; QUANTITATIVE DATA ANALYSIS COURSE
PSYC 400-301	SENIOR HONORS SEM PSYCH	KURZBAN, ROBERT JAFFEE, SARA	GODDARD LAB 102	M 0200PM-0500PM	Open to senior honors candidates in psychology. A two-semester sequence supporting the preparation of an honors thesis in psychology. Students will present their work in progress and develop skills in written and oral communication of scientific ideas.		COMMUNICATION WITHIN THE CURRICULUM; PERMISSION NEEDED FROM DEPARTMENT
PSYC 417-401	VISUAL PROCESSING	RUST, NICOLE	GODDARD LAB 427	TR 0300PM-0430PM	This seminar will focus on how visual information is processed by the eye and the brain to produce visual perception. These issues will be explored through lectures and student presentations of journal articles, combined with Matlab- based tutorials and exercises. The course requires no prior knowledge of visual processing, math, or computer programming.
PSYC 421-401	Neurobiology of Learning and Memory	GERSTEIN, HILARY	PSYCHOLOGY LAB A30	TR 1030AM-1200PM	This advanced course focuses on the current state of our knowledge about neurobiological basis of learning and memory. Students will explore the molecular and cellular basis of learninginvertebrates and vertebrates from a behavioral and neural perspective.
PSYC 429-401	SEMINAR HUMAN MEMORY: Big Data, Memory, and the Human Brain	KAHANA, MICHAEL	GODDARD LAB 207	TR 1200PM-0130PM	Advances in brain recording methods over the last decade have generated vastly more brain data than had been collected by neuroscientists during the previous century. To understand the human brain, scientists must now use computational methods that exploit the power of these huge data sets.This course will introduce you to the use of big data analytics in the study of human memory and its neural basis. Through hands-on programming projects, we will analyze multi-terabyte data sets both to replicate existing phenomena and to make new discoveries. Although the course has no formal neuroscience or psychology prerequisites it does require CIS121 and Python experience. Because of the heavy computing resources required to perform the assignments enrollment is limited to 15 students and there is a required course application. http://psychology.sas.upenn.edu/undergraduate/forms		PERMISSION NEEDED FROM DEPARTMENT; PERMISSION NEEDED FROM INSTRUCTOR
PSYC 449-301	SEMINAR IN COG NEUROSCI: CONSCIOUSNESS	EPSTEIN, RUSSELL	GODDARD LAB 525	TR 0300PM-0430PM	Topics vary each semester. PSYC 449-301 (Gerstein) Neuroscience for Policymakers: This seminar will provide an overview of the neuroscience behind some of the most relevant issues in public health policy today.Why are clinical trials for Alzheimer's disease treatments so difficult to run and why do so many fail? How does the teenage brain make decisions and who should be considered an adult in court? What is implicit bias and why do we make snap decisions based on mental associations? If you could 'improve' your brain with devices or drugs, should you? We will examine the primary scientific literature as well as delve into lay articles about the science and policy surrounding each issue. A basic understanding of neuroscience and some comfort working with primary literature is assumed.//PSYC 449-302 (Epstein) Consciousness: Consciousness is our subjective experience of the world, including both perceptions and felt internal states. In this seminar, we will explore the the burgeoning scientific literature on the neural basis of consciousness. We will focus in particular on three topics: What are the neuralsystems underlying visual awareness? What are the mechanisms that control the progression of conscious contents to create our stream of thought? What is the relationship between consciousness and behavior?
PSYC 470-301	SEMINAR IN SOCIAL PSYCH: PSYCHOLOGY AND RELIGION	BERMANT, GORDON	MEYERSON HALL B13	W 0200PM-0500PM	Topics vary each semester.
PSYC 478-401	OBEDIENCE: OBEDIENCE	ROYZMAN, EDWARD	PSYCHOLOGY LAB A30	F 0200PM-0500PM	Though almost half a century old, Milgram's 1961-1962 studies of "destructive obedience" continue to puzzle, fascinate, and alarm. In this seminar, we will take an in-depth look at these famous studies (along with the more recent replications) and explore their various psychological, historical, and philosophical ramifications. This course has a number of intellectual goals that go beyond simply rarifying one's understanding of a particular content area (important and generative as it may be). One such a goal is to enable you to think critically (though not disparagingly) about other people's researh and theoretical claims that ensue from it, all with the hope that you can then apply the self-same critical acumen to your own future work. Second, this course will offer a hospitable environment for developing (and exchanging) creative ideas of your own. Your work on your individual reaction papers and on the term paper in particular will be a key element in achieving this goal.		PERMISSION NEEDED FROM DEPARTMENT
PSYC 480-301	SEMINAR DEVELOP PSYCH: PSYCH OF IMAGINATION	WEISBERG, DEENA	WILLIAMS HALL 217	MW 0200PM-0330PM	PSYC 480-301 will examine how the imagination works and how it develops. Students in this course will read and discuss the latest research in this area,learn to analyze empirical articles in cognitive and developmental psychology, and explore the links between imaginative processes and other important cognitive skills.
PSYC 547-001	FNDTIONS SOC COG NEUROSC	FARAH, MARTHA	GODDARD LAB 207	MW 0200PM-0330PM			PERMISSION NEEDED FROM INSTRUCTOR
PSYC 579-301	EXP METHODS PERCEPTION	BRAINARD, DAVID	GODDARD LAB 103	TR 0330PM-0500PM			UNDERGRADUATES NEED PERMISSION
PSYC 600-301	PROSEMINAR IN PSYCH: PSYCHOPATHOLOGY	RUSCIO, AYELET	GODDARD LAB 102	M 1100AM-0200PM	Choice of half or full course units each sem. covering a range of subjects and approaches in academic psychology.
PSYC 600-302	PROSEMINAR IN PSYCH: SOCIAL EMOTIONAL DEVELOP	JAFFEE, SARA	GODDARD LAB 102	TR 1030AM-1230PM	Choice of half or full course units each sem. covering a range of subjects and approaches in academic psychology.
PSYC 600-303	PROSEMINAR IN PSYCH: BIOL BASIS OF BEHAVIOR	FLANAGAN-CATO, LORETTA	PSYCHOLOGY LAB C41	TR 0130PM-0330PM	Choice of half or full course units each sem. covering a range of subjects and approaches in academic psychology.
PSYC 600-304	PROSEMINAR IN PSYCH: COGNITIVE DEVELOPMENT	SWINGLEY, DANIEL	GODDARD LAB 102	TR 1030AM-1230PM	Choice of half or full course units each sem. covering a range of subjects and approaches in academic psychology.
PSYC 600-402	PROSEMINAR IN PSYCH: NEUROENDOCRINOLOGY	FLANAGAN-CATO, LORETTA		CANCELED	Choice of half or full course units each sem. covering a range of subjects and approaches in academic psychology.
PSYC 611-401	STAT FOR PSYCH	ROSENBAUM, PAUL	JON M. HUNTSMAN HALL 250	TR 1200PM-0130PM			PERMISSION NEEDED FROM DEPARTMENT
PSYC 698-000	LABORATORY ROTATION				Lab rotation for psychology grad students.		PERMISSION NEEDED FROM DEPARTMENT
PSYC 698-001	LABORATORY ROTATION	STOCKER, ALAN			Lab rotation for psychology grad students.
PSYC 709-301	PSYC ASSESSMENT OF CHILD	DINGFELDER, HILARY		TBA TBA-	In this seminar we will survey substantive, methodological and statistical issues that arise in the planning, conduct, and interpretation of empirical inquiries about the effects of psychotherapies. Challenges presented in efforts to disseminate evidence-based clinical practices will also be addressed.
PSYC 711-301	REGRESSION & ANOVA	BARNHART, BRENDAN	MCNEIL BUILDING 108	T 0630PM-0930PM
PSYC 747-001	CONT RES ISS IN SCAN	FARAH, MARTHA	GODDARD LAB 207	W 0500PM-0800PM			PERMISSION NEEDED FROM INSTRUCTOR
PSYC 750-401	NEUROPSYCHOPHARMACOLOGY	LUCKI, IRWIN		CANCELED	Biological issues relevant to neuropsychiatric illnesses are covered in detail in four sections. The first section covers clinical aspects of major psychiatric disorders and includes some contact with patients. The second section presents the neuroanatomy of the limbic systgem. In the third section, emphasis is on the mechanisms of action of psychotropic drugs, including antidepressants, antipsychotics, anxiolytics, and stimulants. The final section covers information relevant to understanding biological processes that may be abnormal in neuropsychiatric illnesses, such as stress, sleep, and circadian rhythms, as well as quantitative genetics.		PERMISSION NEEDED FROM DEPARTMENT
PSYC 751-301	S/T IN COGNITION	TRUESWELL, JOHN		CANCELED			PERMISSION NEEDED FROM DEPARTMENT
PSYC 810-301	PSYCHODIAGNOSTIC TESTING	HUNT, MELISSA		TBA TBA-			PERMISSION NEEDED FROM DEPARTMENT
PSYC 811-301	PSYCHODIAGNOS INTERVIEW	HUNT, MELISSA		TBA TBA-			PERMISSION NEEDED FROM DEPARTMENT
PSYC 815-301	INTRODUCTORY PRACTICUM	HUNT, MELISSA		CANCELED			PERMISSION NEEDED FROM DEPARTMENT
PSYC 820-301	ADVANCED PRACTICUM	DERUBEIS, ROBERT		TBA TBA-	Intensive studies of single individuals including interviews, tests, and experiments; also clinical experience at appropriate community agencies.		PERMISSION NEEDED FROM DEPARTMENT
PSYC 820-302	ADVANCED PRACTICUM	GOLDSTEIN, ALAN		TBA TBA-	Intensive studies of single individuals including interviews, tests, and experiments; also clinical experience at appropriate community agencies.		PERMISSION NEEDED FROM DEPARTMENT
PSYC 820-303	ADVANCED PRACTICUM	HUNT, MELISSA		TBA TBA-	Intensive studies of single individuals including interviews, tests, and experiments; also clinical experience at appropriate community agencies.