Analyzes alienation and delusional states psychodynamically as presented in contemporary film. First studies acute hysteria and multiple personalities (Petrie's Sybil). Then approaches the elaboration of a persecution complex (Polanski's Rosemary's Baby), amnesia and dissociation (Parker's Angel Heart), and psychotic breakdown Bergman's Through a Glass Darkly or The Hour of the Wolf).
Code
PY2007
Name
MADNESS, MANIA, & THE CINEMA
Credits
4
Pre-requisites
College Level=Sophomore
Co-requisites
None
Can be taken twice for credit?
No
Discipline
PY (Psychology)
Level
Undergraduate
Type
Regular
CAMS ID
2993
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The goal of this course is to develop the students’ observational skills, to improve their ability to describe, both orally and in writing, what they have observed, and to apply standard diagnostic criteria whenever possible.
There will also be an emphasis on underlying motivation (whenever relevant) and the evolution of the severe pathologies under study.
Deals with the pathologization of the human sexual potential by social pressures and compulsory demand for normalization. Examines deviance and stigmatization by way of Goffman's essay Stigma; studies gender identity in Crisp-Gold's film The Naked Civil Servant; analyzes the problems of alternative sexual preference as presented in the Merchant-Ivory production of Maurice and in Metzger's herese et Isabelle. PY2051 is recommended as a prerequisite.
This course provides knowledge - but also provokes the student's knowledge on the mind-brain relationship. Phenomena in brain-damaged patients teach us how the brain creates our mind. We will talk about how memory, language, visual perception, but also social processes or the body image are represented in the brain. This course is not a standard neuropsychology course and is accessible for non-psychology students.
Code
PY2009
Name
SHATTERED BRAINS, FRACTURED MINDS
Credits
4
Pre-requisites
PY1000CCI
Co-requisites
None
Can be taken twice for credit?
No
Discipline
PY (Psychology)
Level
Undergraduate
Type
Regular
CAMS ID
2996
Last update with CAMS
Describe the main ideas about mind-brain relationship and give critiques to these ideas
Describe how brain damage in different parts of the brains leads to abnormalities in behavior.
Understand neurological disorders, such as Alzheimer’s Dementia, Epilepsy, and Autism
Discuss the progression and evolution of the understanding of neurological disorders – from the first case to current cases and how they are treated
Describe what brain plasticity is and how the field has evolved to accept that rehabilitation is possible
Understand the effects of the environment, stress and drugs on the brain-mind relationship.
Develop critical thinking skills, discussion and self-expression skills, presentation skills, and writing skills.
Surveys major issues concerning gender and the science of psychology in an attempt to answer the question: why is there such a gender gap when women and men share more psychological similarities than differences? Topics include: developmental processes and gender; gender roles and stereotypes, biology and gender; cross-cultural perspectives of gender; social-cultural theories of gender; language and gender, emotions and gender, health and gender.
Students will be able to understand distinctions between “sex” and “gender” concepts.
Students will be able to compare arguments concerning difference and dominance in explaining the positions of men and women in society.
Students will be sensitized to new developments in the psychology of “masculinity”
Students will be able to assess the advantages as well as the limits of the notion of “power” from within the context of psychology and social psychology.
Students will understand relationships between division of labor and gender inequality in a given society.
Students will have an understanding of cultural constructions of gender.
Students will acquire effective debating as well as listening skills when it comes to discussion of intimately challenging and often controversial subject matter.
Students will understand the importance and relevance of historical research and history of psychology in the understanding of gender.
They will be able to assess different research methods used in the study of sex, gender, sexual behavior and relationships. Students will gain experience conceptualizing and conducting qualitative research.
Students will develop skills as critical readers and thinkers in a subject laden with common sense, prejudice, and stereotypes. They should be able to use research to challenge these stereotypes, all the time being aware that these stereotypes may be modulating the way research questions are asked and results are interpreted and diffused.
Exploring and Engaging Difference: Students will think critically about cultural and social difference; they will identify and understand power structures that determine hierarchies and inequalities that can relate to race, ethnicity, gender, nationhood, religion, or class. (CCI LO3)
Civic and Ethical Engagement: Students will demonstrate awareness of ethical considerations relating to specific societal problems, values, or practices (historical or contemporary; global or local) and learn to articulate possible solutions to prominent challenges facing societies and institutions today so as to become engaged actors at various levels in our interconnected world. (CCI LO4)
The course is an introduction to developmental psychology. From various points of view it explores the key question What is, and how can we understand, human development? It engages with central issues of developmental psychology (among others, through the work of influential psychologists such as Jean Piaget, Lev Vygotsky, E. Erikson, Jerome Bruner, Katherine Nelson, Peggy J. Miller, and Michael Tomasello) and puts them into cross- and interdisciplinary contexts. These contexts include evolutionary theory; cultural and sociocultural, narrative, and critical psychology; history; anthropology; and philosophy. Beyond the scientific and conceptual domain, the course also investigates phenomena of human development in literature, arts, and film.
PY1000 is strongly recommended as a prerequisite.
Code
PY2013
Name
UNDERSTANDING HUMAN DEVELOPMENT
Credits
4
Pre-requisites
None
Co-requisites
None
Can be taken twice for credit?
No
Discipline
PY (Psychology)
Level
Undergraduate
Type
Regular
CAMS ID
2999
Last update with CAMS
Students are encouraged to critically think through different notions and models of human development and its investigation in psychology and other disciplines.
Develop an understanding of the complexities of humans’ life-long development in time, culture, and history.
Students will learn the basics of doing experimental research in psychology, including the ethics of working with human subjects, researching ideas in the scholarly literature, and designing and interpreting research findings. The principles learned here apply in many domains where research is employed to describe and understand persons and social reality. MA1020 is recommended as a prerequisite.
Code
PY2020
Name
RESEARCH METHODS IN PSYCHOLOGY
Credits
4
Pre-requisites
PY1000CCI
Co-requisites
PY2020LLAB
Can be taken twice for credit?
No
Discipline
PY (Psychology)
Level
Undergraduate
Type
Regular
CAMS ID
3000
Last update with CAMS
Assess the strengths and weaknesses of different research methodologies.
Compare and contrast quantitative and qualitative research methodologies.
Articulate ethical guidelines for human participant research.
Centers on the development of Freud's metapsychology. Critically examines the different formulations of the following concepts: the unconscious, the structural approach (i.e., Ego, Id, Super Ego), representation, anxiety, drive, cathexis, and the mother-infant relationship. Jung's revisions of basic analytic concepts will be examined.
Code
PY2021
Name
PSYCHOANALYTIC THEORIES OF PERSONALITY
Credits
4
Pre-requisites
None
Co-requisites
None
Can be taken twice for credit?
No
Discipline
PY (Psychology)
Level
Undergraduate
Type
GE110
CAMS ID
3001
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To introduce students to the conceptualization of individual human behavior (both overt and covert), emotion, affects and relationships, and to the theorization about possible causes of these phenomena.
Likewise to familiarize students with the historic debates by major psycho-dynamic thinkers about normality, pathology, motivation, development, and to provide students with insights (both critical and analytical) into themselves, their families and other members of their society.
Ultimately, students should develop a critical analytic open-minded understanding of human nature in a disciplined way.
Uses Horney's differentiation of the situation and the character neuroses to introduce the theory of a basic neurotic character structure, consisting of insecurity, anxiety, hostility, craving for affection, and the defenses.
Code
PY2042
Name
THE PSYCHONEUROSES
Credits
4
Pre-requisites
None
Co-requisites
None
Can be taken twice for credit?
No
Discipline
PY (Psychology)
Level
Undergraduate
Type
Regular
CAMS ID
3003
Last update with CAMS
To enable the students to think and write methodically and critically about the course contents,
to sensitize them about and to provide an adequate vocabulary for expressing the human and humanistic aspects of emotional distress and conflict
and to help them decide whether or not they are suited to and wish to pursue a career in clinical psychology and/or psychotherapy.
Examines the classification systems for abnormal behavior, using the DSM IV Multiaxial diagnostic system as the base for studying currently recognized major diagnostic categories. Uses an integrative biopsychosocial model to study the etiology of various psychological disorders as well as empirically supported treatment methods.
Code
PY2043
Name
ABNORMAL & CLINICAL PSYCHOLOGY
Credits
4
Pre-requisites
PY1000CCI
Co-requisites
None
Can be taken twice for credit?
No
Discipline
PY (Psychology)
Level
Undergraduate
Type
Regular
CAMS ID
3004
Last update with CAMS
To develop an overview of the field of clinical and abnormal psychology and the major psychological disorders
To understand the use of categorical systems of psychopathology, as well as the benefits and limitations of such systems.
To become familiar with the historical, cultural and social trends in the field of psychopathology.
To promote an understanding of the relationship between psychological theories and their interpretation of psychological disorders.
To promote a greater awareness and understanding of mental disorders and their impact on the individual in society.
To develop empirical, analytical and inferential skills to help to evaluate data.
This course will provide an introduction to theories of personality and counseling, including psychodynamic, humanistic, cognitive, behavioral, and family systems approaches. Theories will be examined in relation to their key concepts, view of human nature, therapeutic processes, techniques and procedures. Theories will be critiqued and compared, with special emphasis on the application of cultural and ethical issues
Code
PY2044
Name
CLINICAL THEORIES
Credits
4
Pre-requisites
PY1000CCI
Co-requisites
None
Can be taken twice for credit?
No
Discipline
PY (Psychology)
Level
Undergraduate
Type
Regular
CAMS ID
4256
Last update with CAMS
Grasp historical continuities and discontinuities in the understanding and treatment of psychological problems.
Understand the theories and social movements underlying institutionalization and deinstitutionalization.
Identity common processes or “factors” across therapies that are deemed psychotherapeutic.
Appreciate how cultural worldviews inform ideas about how to understand and help individuals dealing psychological challenges.
Learn basic terminology and concepts for the major psychotherapeutic approaches we cover (cognitive, behavioural, etc.).
