FS 101 Sharing Stories: Sunday Morning on CBS
An exploration of the process of finding, appreciating, and sharing stories. Using Sunday Morning as our primary source, we will examine a broad range of topics including the fine and performing arts, history, human interest, science & technology, and current events. In the past, the program has presented segments on E.O. Wilson's Encyclopedia of Life, the use of positive psychology by Southwest Airlines, and Homer Hickam's movie Rocket Boys. The seminar emphasizes discussion based on close reading of supplementary texts and includes written assignments and oral presentations. The seminar also utilizes several communication mediums including blogs, podcasts, and on-line videos.

Psych 164: Cognitive Psychology
The study of human mental processes, including attention, perception, memory, language and problem solving. Course content includes cognitive strengths, such as creativity and expertise, and weaknesses, such as biases and mindlessness. Differences related to gender, age and culture are also considered. While the majority of the course will be spent introducing students to classic models from the filed, students will also be asked to read relevant, recent articles from the literature. In addition, students will complete and critically consider a number of cognitive psych experiments using CogLab.

Psych 206: Research Design & Statistics
Part I of a two-semester sequence, which presents the complementary topics of research analysis and statistics. Topics include the nature of research and theory, research methods, measurement theory and procedures, ways of controlling and manipulating variables, univariate and bivariate descriptive statistics, graphical methods, correlation, and regression methods. The basics of probability, sampling distributions and estimation are also presented. Emphasis in this section is placed on research methods as they inform our use of statistics. In addition, the course focuses on an examination of psychology as a science, utilizing Stanovich's text, How to Think Straight about Psychology.

Psych 600: Senior Project 1
Part I of a two-semester sequence, which supports the independent research projects of senior psychology students. In addition to meeting weekly as a comp group, students will be expected to maintain regular writing hours to focus on developing the introduction of their comp, and to meet periodically with their research partners. Through this process, students will generate specific, testable hypotheses and operationally define their independent and dependent variables. In addition, students will complete a research proposal, hold a pre-comp oral, and submit an ethics propsoal for their projects. Students should also plan to complete pilot testing of their procedures.