Psychology

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.

Brain, Cognition, and Daily Life (BC&DL), formerly known as Culture and Cognition, provides students with an opportunity to learn human cognition and information processes operated in our daily life. The course covers a wide range of cognition such as perception, attention, memory, problem solving, and language and its applications to our daily life in the context of human neuroscience. In other words, students learn important concepts and issues regarding human cognition and brain and how they are operated in our living. The course focuses on how our cognition and brain are influenced by, changes in, or interacts with our living contexts.