Psychology

This course covers approaches to meeting the needs of people with neurological disorders and progressive neurological diseases. As the production of purposeful goal directed movement pervades all aspects of behavior, there is a specific focus upon the physical, psychological, and social consequences of movement dysfunction. The course deals with the scientific principles underlying neurological rehabilitation, including motor control and learning. Students are also introduced to intervention strategies that are designed to maintain or re-establish functional capability, such as brain-computer interfaces, robot assisted therapy, deep brain stimulation, and cortical stimulation.

This course focuses on psychological aspects of the criminal justice system and combines theoretical and practical approaches to activities central to the processes within, such as interviewing witnesses and suspects, person identification, detecting deception, and jury decision-making. It further focuses on the intersection of neuroscience and psychology and the "science" and associations between cognitive development, disorders, and offending.
Consideration is given to psychological theories of predisposing and precipitating factors that influence criminal behavior. Students learn about the approach of the criminal justice system to those with mental disorders as well as treatment options. They are also introduced to assessing risk and decision-making within the wider system.

This course studies applied cognitive, social, and cultural psychology within the sub concepts of motivation, conflict, diversity, and career. Topics include examining theories about motivation, change and communication within an organization, leadership styles, and social and cultural relations within an organization.

This course introduces the main theoretical models and the empirical methods employed to explain and measure consciousness. It covers the neurobiological mechanisms possibly underlying the emergence of consciousness and why science needs to embrace conceptual and philosophical levels of analysis. The course outlines the multi-faceted nature of consciousness by discussing various aspects of the phenomenon in normal as well as in abnormal conditions. It encourages active discussions and critical thinking regarding the current state of knowledge about how the brain relates to the mind. Assessment is based on an individual or group paper of 12-18 pages. 

This course examines how emotions interact with our thoughts, temperament, and contexts; the mechanisms involved in emotion-related psychopathology; and the ways to promote emotional well-being. The course draws on key advances from an integrative psychological and neurobiological perspective.

This course provides a contemporary view of issues associated with human mental disorders and psychopathology; it introduces and discusses the notion of abnormality in behavior, diagnostic practice, stigma, prognosis, and treatment in human mental disorders. There is discussion of what is known of the nature and aetiology of major mental disorders such as schizophrenia, anxiety, and depression; psychological and biological theories that attempt to account for these disorders; and their prevalence, treatment, and prognosis. This course is taught online.