Monday, April 02, 2007

New PSY Course Descriptions

Beginning fall semester 2007, IU is offering new courses for psychology and neuroscience students. You will not fnd these courses in the current 2006-2008 College of Arts and Sciences Bulletin, but rather in the forthcoming bulletin supplement.

P304 Social Psychology and Individual Differences (3 cr.) S&H P: P101 or P106 or P151 or P155 or equivalent. A foundations course illustrating how psychological questions and problems can be addressed from the social, group, and individual differences level of analysis. Credit only given for one of P304 or P320.

P337 Clinical Neuroscience (3 cr.) P: P346 or P326. Psychological disorders such as depression and autism exact a huge toll in human suffering and social costs. This course surveys the role of disturbed neural mechanisms on the development of psychological disorders. Methods for investigating the relationship between a disorder and proposed