Psychology

This course examines key principles in Educational Psychology. Emphasis will be placed on the psychosocial factors that impact teaching and learning. It explores a range of psychosocial forces that influence classroom dynamics. The content will include learning theories, motivation, theories of human development, personality theories, instructional design, and assessment as well as key concepts related to the sociological influences on education.

The course focuses on individual, social, and societal challenges that social psychology can help to address through interventions. Examples of such challenges are promoting behavior change, improving well-being, managing diversity, and increasing justice and cooperation. The course helps students apply basic principles from social psychology to their field of interest, and to find, understand, interpret, and use more specialized, applied research findings. The course is graded on a P/NP basis only. 

This course examines the theory, practice, and study of human spirituality. Human spirituality will be explored using a transpersonal psychological lens. The course will focus on cross-cultural conceptualizations of the Divine, spiritual enlightenment techniques, exceptional human experiences and how spiritual development can change over one’s lifespan.

This course provides a global and international overview of the history of psychology and recent developments in the field, including a focus on open science and the reproducibility crisis. It instructs on major schools of thought and trends in psychology as well as recent developments in psychological science and research methodology, including open science and reproducibility in psychological research.

The course aims to:

1) Provide an understanding of the history of psychology and major schools of thought from a global and international perspective.

2) Identify and analyze key figures and their contributions to the field from diverse cultural and historical perspectives.

3) Understand the scientific method and its role in psychological research, and the importance of recognizing and addressing issues related to post-colonialism and ontological diversity in psychological research.

4) Analyze current trends and developments in psychology, including open science and the reproducibility crisis.

This course examines the mission and philosophy of psychiatric treatment and rehabilitation, and key implementation issues related to the psychiatric rehabilitation and treatment process.

This course examines the main challenges that cognitive science faces today, focusing on the capacity to learn sensorimotor categories, to name and describe them verbally, and to transmit them to others, concluding with cognition distributed on the Web.

This course examines we human beings use on-line technology to interact with others, as well as how cognitions and behaviors are affected by this technology. It covers topics ranging from on-line relationships and how people construct their digital identities, to gaming and artificial intelligence as well as the psychological applications of virtual and augmented reality to our lives. It also aims to facilitate understanding of the field of cyberpsychology. In particular, the implications that on-line technologies can have for the subjective self and interactions with others; in addition to the wide array of practical applications of Internet-based technologies to our daily lives