Descriptions of Program-Relevant Courses

* 1010 General Psychology (4): Fulfills Social/Behavioral Science Exploration. The scientific study of human and animal behavior: rationale, methods of inference, selected findings, and some applications.
2125 Everyday Decision Making (3): Multidisciplinary examination of individual decision making. Focuses on the everyday context in which decisions are made, the basic processes underlying choice, the functions of emotion, and the common errors that individuals make. Special emphasis on decision making in consumer and business contexts.
* 3000 Statistical Methods in Psychology (4): Prerequisite: PSYCH 1010 and MATH 1010. Fulfills Quant. Reason (Stat/Logic) & Quant Intensive BS. Applying statistical methods to psychological research, including basic descriptive statistics, hypothesis testing, and correlation. Includes laboratory.
* 3010 Research Methods in Psychology (4): Prerequisite: PSYCH 1010 and 3000 and instructor's consent. Fulfills Quantitative Intensive & Communication/Writing. Naturalistic, case study, correlational, and experimental research methods. Includes laboratory.
3120 Cognitive Psychology (3): Prerequisite: PSYCH 1010 and 3000 and 3010. Introduction to an information-processing analysis of cognition. Perception, attention, and memory.
3150 Sensation and Perception (3): Prerequisite: PSYCH 1010 and 3000 and 3010. Recommended Prerequisite: 3110 and 3120. Sensory systems and perceptual processes with respect to vision, audition, and other sense modalities. How we see, hear, feel pain and temperature, and in general receive information from the environment; how our perceptions are affected by expectancy, knowledge, and higher-level organizational factors.
3160 Human Error (3): Prerequisite: PSYCH 1010 & 3000. We are living in an accelerated information age. Humans today have to deal with more information and respond more quickly, but their errors can be potentially disastrous. Given the increasing saliency of human error in our lives (newspapers, television, personal experiences) this class will address the question of what are the psychological and organizational underpinnings of human error.
* 3171 Human Factors and Ergonomics (3): Recommended Prerequisite: PSYCH 3000 and 3010. An introduction to human factors, ergonomics, and engineering psychology. The course examines the history of ergonomics, human-machine relations, displays and controls, human-computer interaction, industrial and aviation systems, physiology of work and anthropometrics, cognitive ergonomics, human reliability, human as manual controller, and human-machine systems design and prototyping.
* 3172 Human Performance and Engineering Psychology (3): Recommended Prerequisite: PSYCH 3000 and 3010. Human capabilities and limitations in processing information are considered. Models and theories of perception, attention, short- and longterm memory, decision-making, and motor performance are evaluated with respect to experimental data. The course emphasizes theory and implications for design of humanmachine systems.
* 4800 Research Experience: General (3): Prerequisite: PSYCH 1010 and 3000 and instructor's consent. Involves participation in ongoing faculty-directed research based on a contract between the student and instructor for purpose of the certificate the research must be combined with either 3160, 3171 or 3172.