Karl Maier

Addresses topics that transcend individual disciplinary boundaries. Taught by professors from a wide variety of disciplines to appeal to Honors students of all majors. May be taken up to three times under different topics. Prerequisites: Sophomore standing, permission of Honors director. Three hours per week with enhancement.

Survey of general principles underlying human behavior including study of the nervous system, perception, learning, emotion and personality. Experimental findings are applied to practical situations. Three hours per week with enhancement. Meets General Education IIIB or IIIC (Prior to Fall 2008: IIB).

Survey of the etiology, diagnosis and prognosis of neuroses, psychoses, psychosomatic disorders, transient situational maladjustments and personality disorders, with discussions of various treatment approaches. Prerequisite: PSYC 101. Three hours per week with enhancement.

Explores issues pertaining to the cause of, mitigation of and adaptation to contemporary changes in the earth’s climate, with consideration of relevant beliefs, attitudes, stress/emotion, behavior and socio-political factors. Discussion-based seminar format. Prerequisite: PSYC 101. Three hours per week with enhancement.

Enables advanced students to pursue, through observation, experimentation or library research, a topic of their choosing. May be repeated for a maximum of eight credits. Prerequisite: Permission of instructor.

Survey of general principles underlying human behavior including study of the nervous system, perception, learning, emotion and personality. Experimental findings are applied to practical situations. Three hours per week with enhancement. Meets General Education IIIB or IIIC (Prior to Fall 2008: IIB).

A scientific, research-based examination of the ways in which psychological factors may relate to physical health and disease, including behavioral and emotional protective and risk factors for disease from a biopsychosocial perspective. Students will explore the psychological consequences of physical disease and disability, as well as common intervention approaches within clinical health psychology and behavioral medicine. Designed for psychology majors and students in the health sciences who have an understanding of basic psychological principles. Prerequisite: PSYC 101, junior or senior status is suggested. Three hours per week with enhancement.