DEPARTMENT OF PSYCHOLOGY

~~ TENTATIVE ~~
GRADUATE  COURSES

Department Permit Required for ALL Graduate Courses (For non-psychology graduate students, first get permission of instructor, then contact Claire Ingulli, Graduate Program Coordinator, to obtain department permit, cingulli@psych.upenn.edu)



Spring, 2007

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


COURSES
 TITLE
 INSTRUCTOR
 TIME
 ROOM
Psyc 600-302 *
 Cognitive Development
 Swingley
 TR 10-12
Rm326, 3401 Walnut
Psyc 600-303
 Perception
 Backus/Richards
 TR 1-3

Rm314,3401 Walnut
Psyc 602-401
 
Neuroendocrinology
 Flanagan-Cato
 TR 3:00-4:30
 MRGN 140
Psyc 609-401 Systems & Integrative Neuroscience Gold
 MWF 10-12
MRGN 140

*.50 c.u.
Psyc 600-302 meets 2/26/07 through 4/20/07
SEMINARS
COURSES
 TITLE
 INSTRUCTOR
 TIME
 ROOM
Psyc 612-401
 Statistics
 Rosenbaum
 TR 12-1:30
 JMHH G65

Psyc 701-301

Topics in Animal Behavior Seyfarth T 3pm First class meets in Rm D7, Solomon
Psyc 704-301
 Research Methods and Statistical Procedures for Social & Clinical Sciences Chambless

F 1-3:30

Solomon B35
Psyc 709-301 Clinical Seminar in Community Psychology & Mental Health Services Research Blank T 3:30-6 Solomon C21
Psyc 711-301
 Probabilistic Approaches to Perception Backus
 W 6:30-9

Rm326-C,

3401 Walnut

Psyc 727-401

 Electronics for Scientists Andrews-Labenski T 3:30-5

Solomon A16
Psyc 751-301
 S/T Cognitive Psychology
 Gleitman/Gleitman
 Arranged
 Arranged
Psyc 757-301
 Language & Communication Sciences Research Seminar Trueswell
 W 12-2
Arranged
Psyc 811-301
 Psychodiagnostic Interviewing
 Hunt
 Arranged
 Arranged
Psyc 815-301
 Introductory Practicum
 Hunt
 Arranged
 Arranged
Psyc 820-301
 Advanced Practicum
 DeRubeis
 Arranged
 Arranged
Psyc 820-302
 Advanced Practicum
 Goldstein
 Arranged
 Arranged
Psyc 820-303
 Advanced Practicum
 Hunt
 Arranged
 Arranged
   
                    
~~ TENTATIVE ~~ GRADUATE  COURSE DESCRIPTIONS

A Department Permit is required for ALL graduate courses (For non-psychology graduate students, first get permission of instructor, then contact Claire Ingulli, Graduate Program Coordinator, to obtain department permit, cingulli@psych.upenn.edu)

Spring, 2007

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


Psyc 600-302*
 Cognitive Development
 Daniel Swingley


*.50 c.u.  Psyc 600-302 meets 2/26/07 through 4/20/07
This course will review major theoretical and empirical approaches to understanding human cognition in infancy and childhood.  Topics include perception, language, conception of the physical world, theory of mind, and others.  Readings will include classics, reviews, and current empirical papers.  This is a "Mind"sector course.



Psyc 600-303
 Perception
 Benjamin Backus/Virginia Richards

In this course we review fundamental properties of the visual and other sensory systems, and consider classic problems in perception such as visual and auditory space perception, color vision, and object recognition. The discussion will draw on approaches from neuroscience, computer science, and psychology, with special emphasis on psychophysical methods--how to measure human performance.  This is a "Mind"sector course.



Psyc 602-401
Neuroendocrinology Flanagan-Cato 
The course will begin with an overview of neuroendocrine systems followed   by a discussion of the neuroanatomical 
basis of neuroendocrine systems.    There will be a series of lectures on the unique functions of various   
hormone receptors, including steroid, thyroid and prolactin hormone   receptors, all of which are expressed 
in brain.  We also will consider   the evidence for local synthesis of steroid hormones in the brain.    
Hormone secretion will then be considered, comparing the release   mechanisms for endocrine- 
and neural-derived hormones.  Finally, we will   consider a variety of behavioral issues, including the 
roles of hormones on sexual behaviors, ingestive behaviors, mood, cognition, and health.

 

Psyc 609-401
 Systems and Integrative Neuroscience
 Michael Nusbaum
Cross-listed with INSC 573

This course provides an introduction to what is known about how neuronal circuits solve problems for the organism and to current resarch approaches to this question.  Topics include: vision, audition, olfaction, motor systems, plasticity, and oscillations.  In addition, the course aims to provide an overview of the structure of the central nervous system.  A number of fundamental concepts are also discussed across topics, such as: lateral inhibition, integration, filterting, frames of reference, error signals, adaptation.  The course format consists of lectures, discussions, readings of primary literature, supplemented by textbook chapters and review articles. This is a "Brain"sector course.

SEMINARS


 

  


Psyc 612-401
 Statistics
 Paul Rosenbaum
Cross-listed with Stat 500

Covers two unrelated topics: loglinear and logit models for discrete data and nonparametric methods for nonnormal data. Emphasis is on practical methods of data analysis and their interpretation. Primarily for doctoral students in the managerial, behavioral, social and health sciences. May be taken before Stat 500 with permission of instructor.

Psyc 704-301
 Research Methods and Statistical Procedures for Social & Clinical Sciences Dianne Chambless

The goals of this course are to increase the student’s competence in designing, conducting, and evaluating psychosocial research in clinical psychology. The course will cover psychometric issues such as reliability and validity of assessment, common designs used in clinical psychology research (nonexperimental, quasi-experimental, experimental, single-case design and meta-analysis), and likely factors that confound interpretation of data. Ethics of research and issues in institutional review of research plans and in publication of research will also be discussed. This is not a statistics course. Rather, statistical methods will be discussed as they pertain to research design and interpretation.

 

Psyc 709-301 Clinical Seminar in Community Psychology & Mental Health Services Research Michael Blank

The class will focus on community psychology and mental health services research. Community psychology as a sub-discipline is now more than 40 years old. Impetus for community psychology stemmed from a recognition that mental health services generally and clinical psychology specifically needed to change in response to the challenges arising from passage of the Community Mental Health Centers' Act in the mid-1960s. The Swampscott Conference laid the foundation for a new discipline that focused on the community rather than its residents. More recently, the interdisciplinary field of mental health services research has emerged as a variety of public and private mental health authorities have sought to examine the cost, quality, and outcomes of mental health services and mental health service systems in order to inform health policy. These two areas are complementary, and the class will involve an in-depth examination of the intersection between them.

Psyc 711-301

Special Topics in Perception

Benjamin Backus

Probabilistic Approaches to Perception.  Covers perception as inference, with attention to (a) modern Bayesian approaches to perception (and causal learning), (b) historical approaches such as Brunswik's probabilistic functionalism, and (c) modern machine learning theory. Assumes the ability to understand and learn mathematics at a calculus level or better, but not prior exposure to Bayesian statistics per se.  We will do some exercises requiring computer simulation so programming ability is essential.

Psyc 727-401

Electronics for Scientists

John Andrews-Labenski

 

Cross-listed with INSC 727-401

Electronics for Scientists is an independent study course in Electronics.  
Students determine their individual area/s of interest and proceed under  their own direction.  Instructor assistance and guidance is available.  
This course is most useful to students undertaking electronics-based  projects for their labs while receiving course-based credit.  
Evaulation  is mutually determined between student and instructor.  See course web-site for details.
  http://www.psych.upenn.edu/shop/psyc727    
Course Instructor: John Andrews-Labenski  Tel: 215-898-8092   E-mail: jala@psych.upenn.edu


Psyc 751-301
 Special Topics in Cognitive Psychology Henry Gleitman/Lila Gleitman

This is a research seminar in cognitive psychology offered by Henry and Lila Gleitman.  The seminar meets every Wednesday evening at the Gleitmans.  To assure intellectual continuity, participation has to be on a one-year basis.  Participation (whether by registration or auditing) is by permission of the instructors.  If interested, get in touch with either Henry or Lila Gleitman via e-mail.
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 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
 Rob DeRubeis
Psyc 820-302
 Advanced Practicum
 Alan Goldstein
Psyc 820-303
 Advanced Practicum
 Melissa Hunt