Advanced Topics in Psychology

A capstone course for psychology majors. Provides an advanced, integrative review of a significant theme or topic in psychology that supplements regularly offered electives. A selected area within the discipline will be given intensive study through lectures, readings, reports, papers, and discussion. Topics may vary from semester to semester and could include aging, social cognition, psychology of religion and spirituality, family systems, psychology of stereotypes and prejudice, animal behavior, and developmental psychopathology. May be taken more than once with different topics.