PSY 501 Trends in Psychological Science |
3 Credits |
This course aims to survey cutting-edge research in
psychological sciences. Faculty members take turns in
discussing with students research articles in their area of
expertise that reflect current trends, novel research
directions, and hot debates in psychological sciences
—including social,developmental, and cognitive psychology
as well as neuroscience
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Last Offered Terms |
Course Name |
SU Credit |
Fall 2023-2024 |
Trends in Psychological Science |
3 |
Fall 2022-2023 |
Trends in Psychological Science |
3 |
Fall 2021-2022 |
Trends in Psychological Science |
3 |
Fall 2020-2021 |
Trends in Psychological Science |
3 |
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Prerequisite: __ |
Corequisite: __ |
ECTS Credit: 10 ECTS (10 ECTS for students admitted before 2013-14 Academic Year) |
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PSY 502 Data Analysis for Psychological Science I |
3 Credits |
In this course, students master the analysis of OLS
general and generalised linear models using SPSS.
Starting with a comparison of ANOVA and regression
approaches, and how their respective SPSS dialogues
can be used flexibly to produce similar results. Students
are familiarised with analyses of between groups,
repeated measures, and mixed datasets; higher-order
interactions and moderation; crossing fixed factors with
covariates; traditional and bootstrapping approaches to
mediation; handling non-normal outcomes; and the
basics of Bayesian inference. Along the way, students
discuss and consider the details of experimental design,
measurement, power,and ethics.
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Last Offered Terms |
Course Name |
SU Credit |
Fall 2023-2024 |
Data Analysis for Psychological Science I |
3 |
Fall 2022-2023 |
Data Analysis for Psychological Science I |
3 |
Fall 2021-2022 |
Data Analysis for Psychological Science I |
3 |
Fall 2020-2021 |
Data Analysis for Psychological Science I |
3 |
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Prerequisite: __ |
Corequisite: __ |
ECTS Credit: 10 ECTS (10 ECTS for students admitted before 2013-14 Academic Year) |
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PSY 503 Data Analysis for Psychological Science II |
3 Credits |
In this course, students master multivariate analyses
involving latent and random factors. They begin by
learning principle components analysis and exploratory
factor analysis, before proceeding to study structural
equation modelling for both hypothesis testing and
confirmatory factor analysis. Finally, they start to use
mixed models, and their applications to repeated
measures and hierarchical data. Throughout, students
focus on acquiring practical skills, by analysing real-world
datasets with a variety of software.
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Last Offered Terms |
Course Name |
SU Credit |
Spring 2023-2024 |
Data Analysis for Psychological Science II |
3 |
Spring 2022-2023 |
Data Analysis for Psychological Science II |
3 |
Spring 2021-2022 |
Data Analysis for Psychological Science II |
3 |
Spring 2020-2021 |
Data Analysis for Psychological Science II |
3 |
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Prerequisite: PSY 502 - Doctorate - Min Grade D |
or PSY 502 - Masters - Min Grade D |
Corequisite: __ |
ECTS Credit: 10 ECTS (10 ECTS for students admitted before 2013-14 Academic Year) |
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PSY 507 EEG Methods and Analyses |
3 Credits |
This course is a project-based course in which the student
designs the experiment, collects data and performs EEG
analyses. The first part of the course focuses on EEG
experimental design and data collection. This section
teaches students how to shape the choices EEG
researchers make when designing their experiments
according to their research questions. The second part
focuses on data analysis and interpretation of results.
Students learn preprocessing, event-related and steady-
state potentials, time-frequency power analyses in both
univariate and multivariate domains. They acquire not only
theoretical knowledge but also practical skills.
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Last Offered Terms |
Course Name |
SU Credit |
Spring 2023-2024 |
EEG Methods and Analyses |
3 |
Spring 2022-2023 |
EEG Methods and Analyses (PSY510) |
3 |
Spring 2021-2022 |
EEG Methods and Analyses (PSY510) |
3 |
Spring 2020-2021 |
EEG Methods and Analyses (PSY510) |
3 |
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Prerequisite: __ |
Corequisite: __ |
ECTS Credit: 10 ECTS (10 ECTS for students admitted before 2013-14 Academic Year) |
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PSY 511 Cognition, Emotion and Psychopathology |
3 Credits |
In this seminar course, students read about and discuss
topics in the booming fields of affective cognition and
experimental psychopathology. Students present and
analyse key readings on visual search for threat,
attentional and memory narrowing, cognitive biases in
anxiety and depression, cognitive bias modification, and
cognitive approaches to understanding and remediating
PTSD. Students gain confidence in presenting complex
work, independently critiquing and debating concepts and
evidence.
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Last Offered Terms |
Course Name |
SU Credit |
Fall 2022-2023 |
Cognition, Emotion and Psychopathology |
3 |
Fall 2020-2021 |
Cognition, Emotion and Psychopathology |
3 |
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Prerequisite: __ |
Corequisite: __ |
ECTS Credit: 10 ECTS (10 ECTS for students admitted before 2013-14 Academic Year) |
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PSY 512 Visual Cognition |
3 Credits |
This course aims to survey research and theoretical
discussions on Visual Cognition. Vision is central to our
daily interactions with the world. It is the most salient
sense modality, dominating our perception. Visual
thinking plays a crucial role in a number of tasks such
as object recognition, reading emotions from facial
expressions, spatial orientation and wayfinding, creative
problem solving, planning for the future, understanding
scientific visualizations or visual art. Topics to be
discussed include theoretical research on cognitive and
neural processes underlying visual cognition as well as
applied research on visual thinking and individual
differences in visual processing styles.
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Last Offered Terms |
Course Name |
SU Credit |
Spring 2023-2024 |
Visual Cognition |
3 |
Fall 2022-2023 |
Visual Cognition |
3 |
Spring 2020-2021 |
Visual Cognition |
3 |
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Prerequisite: __ |
Corequisite: __ |
ECTS Credit: 10 ECTS (10 ECTS for students admitted before 2013-14 Academic Year) |
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PSY 514 Selected Topics in Language and Communication |
3 Credits |
This course presents specialized topics in research on
language and communication. The selected topics will
vary from year to year, but topics are drawn from one or
more areas of psychology and related fields including
cognitive psychology, developmental psychology,
neuroscience, psycholinguistics, speech pathology, and
education. The main focus of this course is to closely
examine recent literature in the field. By the end of the
course, students are expected to have developed basic
abilities to critically evaluate research articles
concerning the psychology of language.
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Last Offered Terms |
Course Name |
SU Credit |
Fall 2023-2024 |
Selected Topics in Language and Communication |
3 |
Fall 2020-2021 |
Selected Topics in Language and Communication |
3 |
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Prerequisite: __ |
Corequisite: __ |
ECTS Credit: 10 ECTS (10 ECTS for students admitted before 2013-14 Academic Year) |
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PSY 515 Seminar in Memory and Attention |
3 Credits |
This course explores the most recent
advances in interactions between attention
and memory. Topics include the role of
memories for guiding attention, and the role
of attention for encoding, manipulation,
storage, retrieval of memories. The goal of
the course is to provide an advanced, state-
of-art understanding of the interactions
between memory and attention, and to
deliver the skills for critically evaluating the
relevant research.
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Last Offered Terms |
Course Name |
SU Credit |
Spring 2023-2024 |
Seminar in Memory and Attention |
3 |
Spring 2022-2023 |
Seminar in Memory and Attention |
3 |
Spring 2021-2022 |
Seminar in Memory and Attention |
3 |
Spring 2020-2021 |
Selected Topics in Memory and Attention |
3 |
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Prerequisite: __ |
Corequisite: __ |
ECTS Credit: 10 ECTS (10 ECTS for students admitted before 2013-14 Academic Year) |
General Requirements: |
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PSY 516 Culture and Cognition |
3 Credits |
This course provides students interested in cognition
with the opportunity to study the social
and cultural aspects of thinking.
It uses a psychological, and at times
cognitive scientific, lens to explore
issues such as the relation of language and thought,
narrative development, memory (individual and
collective), emotion, morality, transmission of knowledge,
concepts, implicit cognition. It will survey
research and theory within social psychology, cognitive
psychology, linguistics, and cross-cultural psychology
and provide implications from and for
philosophy, anthropology, literature, artificial
intelligence, and politics. This course is also
concerned with methodological and theoretical
challenges in the integration of cultural
perspectives in psychology
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Last Offered Terms |
Course Name |
SU Credit |
Fall 2023-2024 |
Culture and Cognition |
3 |
Spring 2021-2022 |
Culture and Cognition |
3 |
Fall 2020-2021 |
Culture and Cognition |
3 |
Spring 2016-2017 |
Culture and Cognition (PSY505) |
3 |
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Prerequisite: __ |
Corequisite: __ |
ECTS Credit: 10 ECTS (10 ECTS for students admitted before 2013-14 Academic Year) |
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PSY 518 Topics in Episodic Memory and Future Thinking |
3 Credits |
This advanced graduate seminar provides a thorough
examination of episodic memory and episodic
future thinking, encompassing both current research
in the field and practical applications. The
course integrates theoretical frameworks with
empirical evidence, employing a multidisciplinary
approach to understanding the complexities of memory
and imagination processes. Key focal points include
the development of episodic memory, the impact of aging
on remembering, memory and imagination in social contexts,
the connection between emotion and memory, the accuracy of
memory, neurological perspectives on memory, the
various functions of memory, and the practical implications
derived from memory research.
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Last Offered Terms |
Course Name |
SU Credit |
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Prerequisite: __ |
Corequisite: __ |
ECTS Credit: 10 ECTS (10 ECTS for students admitted before 2013-14 Academic Year) |
General Requirements: |
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PSY 522 Social Development |
3 Credits |
This course provides a broad overview of how children
behave in and think about the social world. The topics
include: innate and early-emerging social knowledge, moral
development, social cognition, theory of mind, aggression,
bias, and the influence of peers & parents, and culture on
development
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Last Offered Terms |
Course Name |
SU Credit |
Fall 2023-2024 |
Social Development |
3 |
Fall 2022-2023 |
Social Development |
3 |
Fall 2021-2022 |
Social Development |
3 |
Fall 2020-2021 |
Social Development |
3 |
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Prerequisite: __ |
Corequisite: __ |
ECTS Credit: 10 ECTS (10 ECTS for students admitted before 2013-14 Academic Year) |
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PSY 524 Language Development in Infancy and Childhood |
3 Credits |
This course provides an overview of language
development in infancy and childhood, from birth
through the preschool years. We will go over
milestones and content of what children acquire
including phonological, semantic, and syntactic
skills. The main focus will be on typical
monolingual development, we will also explore
language development in children growing up
with bilingual and multilingual backgrounds as well as
with speech and other communicative issues. We
will cover methodological as well as theoretical
issues around language development in early
years. The implications of research findings in
education will also be discussed.
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Last Offered Terms |
Course Name |
SU Credit |
Fall 2022-2023 |
Language Development in Infancy and Childhood |
3 |
Fall 2021-2022 |
Language Development in Infancy and Childhood |
3 |
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Prerequisite: __ |
Corequisite: __ |
ECTS Credit: 10 ECTS (10 ECTS for students admitted before 2013-14 Academic Year) |
General Requirements: |
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PSY 540 Personal Relationships |
3 Credits |
The purpose of this class is to provide a broad
overview of emotional, cognitive and motivational
processes in close relationships (simply relationships
science) from a social psychological perspective with
a specific emphasis on the attachment,
interdependence, attributions and evolutionary
approaches. From family relations, friendships to
romantic relationships, dynamics of diverse
relationships are covered. Processes of initiating,
maintaining, and terminating relationships are
elaborated within the contemporary theoretical
framework and empirical findings.
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Last Offered Terms |
Course Name |
SU Credit |
Spring 2022-2023 |
Personal Relationships |
3 |
Spring 2021-2022 |
Personal Relationships |
3 |
Spring 2020-2021 |
Personal Relationships |
3 |
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Prerequisite: __ |
Corequisite: __ |
ECTS Credit: 10 ECTS (10 ECTS for students admitted before 2013-14 Academic Year) |
General Requirements: |
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PSY 542 Social Cognition |
3 Credits |
This course surveys leading research on how we process
social information and make day-to-day judgments. The
course aims to provide students with a deep understanding of
how we make sense of complex social information, including
topics such as person perception, judgment and decision
making, and stereotyping
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Last Offered Terms |
Course Name |
SU Credit |
Spring 2020-2021 |
Social Cognition |
3 |
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Prerequisite: __ |
Corequisite: __ |
ECTS Credit: 10 ECTS (10 ECTS for students admitted before 2013-14 Academic Year) |
General Requirements: |
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PSY 543 Psychology of the Self |
3 Credits |
The course aims to provide a detailed review of the
recent literature on the self and attachment from
the social psychological, personality, and
developmental perspectives. With a specific
emphasis on the cultural aspects, the issues such
as self-knowledge, self-esteem, self-regulation,
and formation and development of attachment
bonds will extensively be covered.
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Last Offered Terms |
Course Name |
SU Credit |
Spring 2023-2024 |
Psychology of the Self |
3 |
Spring 2022-2023 |
Psychology of the Self |
3 |
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Prerequisite: __ |
Corequisite: __ |
ECTS Credit: 10 ECTS (10 ECTS for students admitted before 2013-14 Academic Year) |
General Requirements: |
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PSY 544 Intergroup Relationships |
3 Credits |
This course provides students with an
advanced understanding of intergroup
processes and relationships focusing on
special topics such as social identities,
majority-minority group relationships,
prejudice reduction techniques, collective
action, and acculturation. Departing from
both theoretical and empirical research in
social psychology, political psychology, and
intergroup processes literatures, the course
equips students with extensive knowledge in
intergroup relationships and aims to provide
students skills and competencies that
enable them to critically discuss and
generate research ideas in the field of
intergroup relationships..
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Last Offered Terms |
Course Name |
SU Credit |
Spring 2023-2024 |
Intergroup Relationships |
3 |
Spring 2022-2023 |
Intergroup Relationships |
3 |
Spring 2021-2022 |
Intergroup Relationships |
3 |
Spring 2020-2021 |
Intergroup Relationships |
3 |
Spring 2019-2020 |
Intergroup Relationships |
3 |
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Prerequisite: __ |
Corequisite: __ |
ECTS Credit: 10 ECTS (10 ECTS for students admitted before 2013-14 Academic Year) |
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PSY 545 Selected Topics in Social Psychology |
3 Credits |
This course provides students interested in social
psychology with the opportunity to explore a variety of
popular research areas in depth. It will also include
discussions about the methodological and technological
challenges the field is faced with.
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Last Offered Terms |
Course Name |
SU Credit |
Fall 2021-2022 |
Selected Topics in Social Psychology |
3 |
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Prerequisite: __ |
Corequisite: __ |
ECTS Credit: 10 ECTS (10 ECTS for students admitted before 2013-14 Academic Year) |
General Requirements: |
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PSY 552 Cognitive Neuroscience |
3 Credits |
Cognitive neuroscience is a branch of neuroscience which
studies processes of nervous system underpinning
cognitive functions (acquisition, storage, transformation
and use of knowledge). The course explores the neural
mechanisms underlying cognitive processes such as
perception, attention, memory, and decision- making. In
light of behavioral and neuroimaging research, the course
aims to deliver the skills to interpret cognitive
neuroscience research and understand human cognition.
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Last Offered Terms |
Course Name |
SU Credit |
Fall 2023-2024 |
Cognitive Neuroscience |
3 |
Fall 2022-2023 |
Cognitive Neuroscience |
3 |
Fall 2021-2022 |
Cognitive Neuroscience |
3 |
Fall 2020-2021 |
Cognitive Neuroscience |
3 |
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Prerequisite: __ |
Corequisite: __ |
ECTS Credit: 10 ECTS (10 ECTS for students admitted before 2013-14 Academic Year) |
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PSY 567 Clinical Insights from Basic Psychological Science |
3 Credits |
This course aims to teach the topics that require the
integration of theories, findings, and methodology in
clinical psychology with those in social, developmental,
health, personality, and cognitive psychology. Sample
topics of the course are short- and long-term effects of
traumatic events (e.g., natural disasters, death of loved
ones) on psychological well-being, personality, and
interpersonal and intergroup relationships, the
interdependence between family members' well-being
and coping styles during challenging times, the benefits
and costs of positive experiences (e.g., positive
emotions, positive interpersonal processes, gratitude)
during stressful times, the association between
traumatic events' centrality and psychological reactions
(e.g., depression, post-traumatic growth), grief after
non-death losses (e.g., divorce, homesickness), and
ecological grief and anxiety due to the climate change.
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Last Offered Terms |
Course Name |
SU Credit |
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Prerequisite: __ |
Corequisite: __ |
ECTS Credit: 10 ECTS (10 ECTS for students admitted before 2013-14 Academic Year) |
General Requirements: |
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PSY 569 Foundations of Infant Mental Heath |
3 Credits |
This course provides an introduction to
interdisciplinary research and practice in infant
mental health. Its purpose is to promote an
understanding about early life stress with
implications on biopsychosocial development
and discuss approaches for promoting
resilience in young children within the context of
family, community, and culture. Topics to be
covered include adverse childhood
experiences, parental mental health, and
various prevention as well as intervention
programs as applied examples in the field.
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Last Offered Terms |
Course Name |
SU Credit |
Spring 2023-2024 |
Foundations of Infant Mental Heath |
3 |
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Prerequisite: __ |
Corequisite: __ |
ECTS Credit: 10 ECTS (10 ECTS for students admitted before 2013-14 Academic Year) |
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PSY 580 Psychology in the Public Interest |
3 Credits |
This course will discuss how psychological
sciences can advance public interest in diverse
areas—such as health, technology, sports, law,
education, and organizations. To gain an
appreciation of how psychological findings can
be used to resolve day-to-day problems students
will read, critically reflect on, and discuss
psychological research with applied implications
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Last Offered Terms |
Course Name |
SU Credit |
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Prerequisite: __ |
Corequisite: __ |
ECTS Credit: 10 ECTS (10 ECTS for students admitted before 2013-14 Academic Year) |
General Requirements: |
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PSY 590 Pro- Thesis Seminar |
0 Credit |
Pro-Thesis Seminar is a non-credit course aiming to
guide MS students in choosing a research topic
towards their thesis, conducting a focused literature
review, and presenting their thesis proposal in a
collegial discussion under the supervision of a
supervisor.
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Last Offered Terms |
Course Name |
SU Credit |
Spring 2023-2024 |
Pro- Thesis Seminar |
0 |
Fall 2023-2024 |
Pro- Thesis Seminar |
0 |
Spring 2022-2023 |
Pro- Thesis Seminar |
0 |
Spring 2021-2022 |
Pro- Thesis Seminar |
0 |
Spring 2020-2021 |
Pro- Thesis Seminar |
0 |
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Prerequisite: __ |
Corequisite: __ |
ECTS Credit: 5 ECTS (5 ECTS for students admitted before 2013-14 Academic Year) |
General Requirements: |
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PSY 595 Term Project |
0 Credit |
The institutional framework for guided research under the
supervision of a faculty member towards the completion of
non-thesis program students’ required research projects
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Last Offered Terms |
Course Name |
SU Credit |
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Prerequisite: __ |
Corequisite: __ |
ECTS Credit: 15 ECTS (15 ECTS for students admitted before 2013-14 Academic Year) |
General Requirements: |
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PSY 599 Master Thesis |
0 Credit |
Provides a non-credit framework for the continuous
monitoring and collegial discussion of MA students' thesis
research and writing, which they are expected to
accomplish under the supervision of a faculty member.
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Last Offered Terms |
Course Name |
SU Credit |
Spring 2023-2024 |
Master Thesis |
0 |
Fall 2023-2024 |
Master Thesis |
0 |
Spring 2022-2023 |
Master Thesis |
0 |
Fall 2022-2023 |
Master Thesis |
0 |
Spring 2021-2022 |
Master Thesis |
0 |
Fall 2021-2022 |
Master Thesis |
0 |
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Prerequisite: __ |
Corequisite: __ |
ECTS Credit: 35 ECTS (35 ECTS for students admitted before 2013-14 Academic Year) |
General Requirements: |
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PSY 620 Directed Research in Psychological Science |
3 Credits |
Directed research course aims to provide hands-on
empirical research experience to graduate students
in psychological sciences. This course involves
conducting a research project under the supervision
of a faculty member. Students may carry out the
research in the course as part of laboratory rotation,
a funded research project of a faculty member, an
independent research project, a systematic literature
review, or other appropriate research activities.
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Last Offered Terms |
Course Name |
SU Credit |
Spring 2022-2023 |
Directed Research in Psychological Science |
3 |
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Prerequisite: __ |
Corequisite: __ |
ECTS Credit: 10 ECTS (10 ECTS for students admitted before 2013-14 Academic Year) |
General Requirements: |
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PSY 621 Directed Research in Psychological Science II |
3 Credits |
The second course in the Directed Research series.
This course aims to provide hands-on empirical
research experience to graduate students in
psychological sciences. It involves conducting a research
project under the supervision of a faculty member.
Students may carry out the research in the course
as part of laboratory rotation, a funded research
project of a faculty member, an independent
research project, a systematic literature review,
or other appropriate research activities.
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Last Offered Terms |
Course Name |
SU Credit |
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Prerequisite: PSY 620 - Doctorate - Min Grade D |
or PSY 620 - Masters - Min Grade D |
Corequisite: __ |
ECTS Credit: 10 ECTS (10 ECTS for students admitted before 2013-14 Academic Year) |
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PSY 680 Critical Perspectives in Psychological Literature |
3 Credits |
Literate review is the fundamental step in
academic work and requires a thorough effort
from the beginning. Researchers working on a
particular topic primarily specialize in the field of
literature review. In this course, students will
learn to systematically search the literature to
better comprehend the area they study and learn
how to carry out a project.
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Last Offered Terms |
Course Name |
SU Credit |
Fall 2021-2022 |
Literature Review |
3 |
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Prerequisite: __ |
Corequisite: __ |
ECTS Credit: 10 ECTS (10 ECTS for students admitted before 2013-14 Academic Year) |
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PSY 690 Ph.D. Pro-thesis Seminar |
0 Credit |
A multi-purpose and non-credit course that can be
used flexibly for a better preparation in research
methods and analysis including deepening mastery
of the relevant research languages through special
readings, whenever necessary. The course also
aims to expose students to ethical standards and
rules in research and publishing.
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Last Offered Terms |
Course Name |
SU Credit |
Spring 2023-2024 |
Ph.D. Pro-thesis Seminar |
0 |
Spring 2022-2023 |
Ph.D. Pro-thesis Seminar |
0 |
Fall 2022-2023 |
Ph.D. Pro-thesis Seminar |
0 |
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Prerequisite: __ |
Corequisite: __ |
ECTS Credit: 5 ECTS (5 ECTS for students admitted before 2013-14 Academic Year) |
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PSY 699 Ph.D. Thesis |
0 Credit |
Ph.D. Thesis provides a non-credit
framework for the continuous monitoring
and collegial discussion of PhD students'
thesis research and writing, which they are
expected to accomplish under the
supervision of a thesis advisor plus two
other examiners from the relevant field over
three or four years following the completion
of their course-work.
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Last Offered Terms |
Course Name |
SU Credit |
Spring 2023-2024 |
Ph.D. Thesis |
0 |
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Prerequisite: __ |
Corequisite: __ |
ECTS Credit: 137 ECTS (137 ECTS for students admitted before 2013-14 Academic Year) |
General Requirements: |
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PSY 799 Ph.D. Thesis |
0 Credit |
Ph.D. Thesis provides a non-credit
framework for the continuous monitoring
and collegial discussion of PhD students'
thesis research and writing, which they are
expected to accomplish under the
supervision of a thesis advisor plus two
other examiners from the relevant field over
three or four years following the completion
of their course-work.
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Last Offered Terms |
Course Name |
SU Credit |
Spring 2023-2024 |
Ph.D. Thesis |
0 |
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Prerequisite: __ |
Corequisite: __ |
ECTS Credit: 137 ECTS (137 ECTS for students admitted before 2013-14 Academic Year) |
General Requirements: |
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