DEPARTMENT OF PSYCHOLOGY

GRADUATE COURSES

Department Permit Required for ALL Graduate Courses

Fall  2006

PROSEMINARS
(Proseminars are 1 c.u. unless otherwise indicated)

COURSES

TITLE

INSTRUCTOR

TIME

ROOM
Psyc 600-301*
 Learning
 Rescorla
  TR 10-12
Solomon D3/4
Psyc 600-302* Evolution, Culture and Behavior
 Kurzban
  WF 12 -2
Solomon C16

Psyc 600-xxx * (will not be on transcript until Spring '07)

Social Development Jaffee TTh 3-5 
SHDH 215
Psyc 600-303 Judgments & Decisions Baron/Dana  MW 10-12
 .Solomon B35
Psyc 603-401 Behavioral Neuroscience
 Grill
 TR 1-2:30pm

Barchi Library

*.50 c.u.         

Psyc 600-301 meets September 11 through October 27, 2006
Psyc 600-302 meets October 30 through December 8, 2006

Psyc 600-xxx meets October 30 through December 8, 2006

SEMINARS

COURSES

TITLE

INSTRUCTOR

TIME

ROOM





Psyc 407-401

Behavioral Genetics

(This will count as a 709)

Price M 2-5
 WILL 28
Psyc 451-001 Animal Communication
 Seyfarth/Cheney
 MWF 11-12
SolomonC21
Psyc 502-401** Math. Found. for Lang. & Comm. Sciences II Liberman/Kahana W 9-12 .
Psyc 611-401 Statistics Rosenbaum TR 12-1:30
 .JMHH G50
         
Psyc 757-301 Language & Communication Sciences Research Seminar Trueswell Arranged
 Arranged

Psyc 810-301

Psychodianostic Testing

Hunt

Arranged

Arranged

Psyc 811-301

Psychodiagnostic Interviewing

Hunt

Arranged

Arranged
 Psyc 815-301
  Introductory Practicum
  Hunt
  Arranged
  Arranged

Psyc 820-301

Advanced Practicum

Goldstein

Arranged

Arranged

Psyc 820-302

Advanced Practicum

DeRubeis

Arranged

Arranged

Psyc 820-303

Advanced Practicum

Hunt

Arranged

Arranged

 
ROOMS ARE SUBJECT TO CHANGE

GRADUATE COURSES

Department Permit Required for ALL Graduate Courses

Fall  2006

PROSEMINARS
(Proseminars are 1 c.u. unless otherwise indicated)

Psyc 600-301*
Learning
Robert Rescorla

*.50 c.u.  Meets September 11 through October 27, 2006

 A discussion of basic learning processes, particularly as illustrated in nonhuman organisms.  Topics include how organisms learn about events themselves  (e.g., habituation), how they learn relations among events (e.g., Pavlovian conditioning), and how they learn relations between their own behavior and events (e.g., instrumental learning).  Emphasis is placed upon current data and theories.  This is a "Mind"sector course.
 
Psyc 600-302*
 Evolution, Culture and Behavior
 Rob Kurzban


*.50 c.u.  -  Meets October 30 through December 8, 2006

This course considers the evolution of social behavior in animals, and introduces the application of evolutionary theory to human mating systems and behavior. Topics covered include Darwin 's theory of natural selection as applied to behavior, sexual selection, the evolution of parental care and mating systems in birds and mammals, kin selection, reciprocal altruism, and the evolution of cooperation. This is a "Individual and Group "sector course.

Psyc 600-xxx*
 Social Development
Sara Jaffee

*.50 c.u. Meets October 30 through December 8, 2006
This course will cover theory and research on social and emotional development throughout the life course.  Topics will include social interactions in infancy, attachment theory, temperament and personality development, emotion regulation, peer relationships, the development of prosocial and antisocial behavior, and adult development.  This is an "Individual and Group"sector course.



Psyc 600-303
         Judgments and Decisions
 Jon Baron, Jason Dana

Thinking, judgment, decision making, beliefs, and probabilility, with emphasis on fallacies and errors. This is a "Mind"sector course.

Psyc 603-401

Behavioral Neuroscience

Harvey Grill

 

Cross-listed with INSC 595

Current research on the neural basis of behavior is organized in six  subsections: animal communication, sex behavior, circadian rhythms, energy and water balance, synaptic plasticity and learning, and addiction. Topics are selected based on excitement surrounding recent research developments. Each topic is analyzed initially at the behavioral level, followed by the systems and the cell and molecular levels. Throughout the course, attention is paid to the analysis interesting stereotyped behaviors, e.g., bird song, lordosis, licking, whose description and neurology has provided insights into the neural systems that contribute to overall neural control of behavior. Attention is also paid to the development of understanding of the neuroanatomy of selected neural systems.  This is a "Brain"sector course.

SEMINARS

Psyc 407-401

Behavior Genetics

Arlen Price
Cross-listed with BIBB451
This course will cover basic principles of human and animal behavior genetics, including the genetics of normal variation as well as extreme phenotypes represented by behavioral, psychiatric and neurologic disorders.  The course will focus on methods necessary to critically evaluate research findings on normal and abnormal human behavior.  Animal models will also be reviewed.  (This course will count as a 709)

Psyc 451-001

 Animal Communication Robert Seyfarth

This course will review recent research on communication in animals, with particular emphasis on the vocalizations of birds, dolphins, whales, monkeys, and apes. We will consider the neural mechanisms that underlie signals, the information they provide to listeners, and we will examine how communication functions in social interactions. We will also discuss the possible parallels that may exist between the communication and human language. 

Psyc 502-401
Mathematical Foundations of Language & Communication II
Mark Liberman/Mike Kahana

Cross-listed with COGS 502 and LING 546

**This is Part 2 of a two-semester course.  May be use to count toward one Prosem - permission of DGS required

The backgrounds and mathematical sophistication of the students entering the LCS-IGERT graduate program will vary widely. A two-semester Mathematical Foundations sequence will provide all students with basic mathematical modeling and algorithmic tools, while still providing sufficient challenges for the most advanced. These two courses (course numbers to be announced soon), will be taught in a computer/media lab setting and will cover relevant aspects of a wide range of mathematical topics that are directly relevant to animal, human or machine communication, or that provide prerequisites for these topics. Examples of topics directly relevant to communication include information theory, game theory, and formal language theory. Examples of important topics include signal processing, machine learning, and probabilistic models. These two semesters obviously cannot substitute entirely for the dozen or more semesters that normally would be required to cover a similar range of topics. However, they can give students the ability to understand and implement algorithms from published descriptions, especially given appropriate libraries of basic functions, and to discuss alternative approaches with experts in a well-informed manner. It is clearly not the case that every LCS-IGERT students will use every mathematical or algorithmic topic from this course in his or her research. However, applications are often unexpected, and fortune favors the prepared. In addition, this background will enable students to make sense of a wide range of courses and readings that might otherwise be inaccessible. Finally, the shared experience of this course will help IGERT students to establish a personal as well as conceptual basis for future collaborations. Each semester of this two-semester sequence will be co-taught by two faculty members (Liberman and Kahana will teach the first semester, in Spring of 2006). Because of the diversity of topics and of the students' backgrounds, the two-semester course sequence will be organized into a series of "modules", each designed to explicate a core mathematical and algorithmic topic. Each module will deal with specific problems of the type that IGERT students need to solve and will be as self-contained as possible, although of course one module will often require understanding of concepts and techniques taught in another.  This is a "Mind"sector course.

Psyc 611-401
Statistics
Paul Rosenbaum

Cross-listed with Stat 500

An applied graduate level course in multiple regression and analysis of variance for students who have completed an undergraduate level course in basic statistical methods.  Emphasis is on practical methods of data analysis and th eir interpretation.  Covers model building, general linear hypothesis, residual analysis, leverage and influence, one-way anova, two-way anova, factorial anova.  Primarily for doctoral students in the managerial, behavioral, social and health sciences.


Psyc 757-301
 Language and Communication Sciences Research Seminar.
 John Trueswell

This weekly research seminar is designed to provide an intellectualgathering for those students interested in the interdisciplinary study of language and communication. It is our hope that this seminar will increase intellectual interaction among students from different disciplines who are all nevertheless engaged in the study of language and communication. Sessions will alternate between what we call  From-Within and From-Without meetings.    During a From-Within meeting, a student participant will be asked to present his/her ongoing research to the group, thereby providing an opportunity for the student to explain his/her work to non-experts in related disciplines.  During From-Within weeks, students will present and discuss selected readings by experts from outside Penn, in particular, that week's colloquium speaker at the Institute for Research in Cognitive Science, or the Brain and Lanuage series.  This "journal club" will expose students to research going on outside Penn, and prepare all of us for the colloquium in a way that is not normally possible.  Please contact Professor Trueswell by e-mail (trueswel@psych.upenn.edu) if you are interesdted in attending.  Lunch will be provided.
Psyc 810-301
Psychodiagnostic Testing
Melissa Hunt

All Clinical students will register for this course in the Fall of their second year.

Psyc 811-301
Psychodiagnostic Interviewing
Melissa Hunt

All Clinical students will register for this course in the Spring of their second year.
Psyc 815-301 Introductory Practicum
 Melissa Hunt

All Clinical students will register for this course in the Summer at the end of their second year.

Psyc 820-301
Advanced Practicum
Alan Goldstein
Psyc 820-302
Advanced Practicum
Robert DeRubeis
Psyc 820-303
Advanced Practicum
Melissa Hunt