Psychology

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

This course provides an introduction to the interdisciplinary field of cognitive neuroscience and major theoretical and methodological issues relevant to the field. Topics include neuroanatomy, development, perception, attention, language, memory, emotion, and social cognition.

This course focuses on the complete employee lifecycle, with a particular emphasis on personnel selection and development. The competencies of work and organizational psychologists are relevant at all stages of the employee lifecycle in the field of Human Resources. The course covers  attracting, selecting, and developing the right individuals, as well as exemplary recent developments and current issues in HR such as hybrid work and work-life policies, knowledge sharing, and artificial intelligence in HR. The course is graded on a P/NP basis only.