Psychology

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PSYCH 1 General Psychology 3 Units [+]Expand course description

Terms offered: Fall 2019, Spring 2019, Fall 2018
Introduction to the principal areas, problems, and concepts of psychology. This course is required for the major; students not considering a psychology major are directed to 2.
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Rules & Requirements

Prerequisites: Students who have passed Psych N1, Psych W1, or Psych 2 may not enroll in Psych 1

Credit Restrictions: Student receives a failing grade in PSYCH 1 and is eligible to take PSYCH W1 or PSYCH N1 in order to remove the deficient grade in lieu of repeating PSYCH 1. Students will not receive credit for Psych 1, Psych W1, or Psych N1 after completing Psych 2.

Repeat rules: Course may be repeated for credit under special circumstances: When receiving a failing grade in this course or a course equivalent (i.e. Psych W1 or N1).

Hours & Format

Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 2 hours of lecture and 1 hour of discussion per week

Summer:
6 weeks - 5 hours of lecture and 2.5 hours of discussion per week
8 weeks - 4 hours of lecture and 2 hours of discussion per week

Additional Details

Subject/Course Level: Psychology/Undergraduate

Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam required.

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PSYCH N1 General Psychology 3 Units [+]Expand course description

Terms offered: Summer 2019 Second 6 Week Session, Summer 2018 Second 6 Week Session, Summer 2017 Second 6 Week Session
Introduction to the principal areas, problems, and concepts of psychology. This course is required for the major; students not considering a psychology major are directed to 2.
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Rules & Requirements

Prerequisites: Students who have passed Psych 1, Psych W1, or Psych 2 may not enroll in Psych N1

Credit Restrictions: Student receives a failing grade in PSYCH N1 and is eligible to take PSYCH 1 or PSYCH W1 in order to remove the deficient grade in lieu of repeating PSYCH N1. Students will not receive credit for Psych 1, Psych W1, or Psych N1 after completing Psych 2.

Repeat rules: Course may be repeated for credit under special circumstances: When students receive a failing grade, they MAY repeat this or a course equivalent (Psych 1 or W1).

Hours & Format

Summer: 6 weeks - 7.5 hours of lecture per week

Additional Details

Subject/Course Level: Psychology/Undergraduate

Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam required.

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PSYCH W1 General Psychology 3 Units [+]Expand course description

Terms offered: Fall 2019, Summer 2019 8 Week Session, Spring 2019
Introduction to the principal areas, problems, and concepts of psychology.
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Rules & Requirements

Prerequisites: Students who have passed Psych 1, Psych N1, or Psych 2 may not enroll in Psych W1

Credit Restrictions: Student receives a failing grade in PSYCH W1 and is eligible to take PSYCH 1 or PSYCH N1 in order to remove the deficient grade in lieu of repeating PSYCH W1. Students will not receive credit for Psych 1, Psych W1, or Psych N1 after completing Psych 2.

Repeat rules: Course may be repeated for credit under special circumstances: When receiving a failing grade in this course or a course equivalent (i.e. Psych 1 or N1).

Hours & Format

Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of web-based lecture per week

Summer: 8 weeks - 6 hours of web-based lecture per week

Online: This is an online course.

Additional Details

Subject/Course Level: Psychology/Undergraduate

Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam required.

Instructor: Kihlstrom

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PSYCH 2 Principles of Psychology 3 Units [+]Expand course description

Terms offered: Fall 2019, Spring 2019, Fall 2018
An overview of psychology for students who will not major in the field. This course satisfies the prerequisite for upper division decade courses.
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Rules & Requirements

Prerequisites: Students who have passed Psych 1, Psych N1, or Psych W1 may not enroll in Psych 2

Credit Restrictions: Students will not receive credit for Psych 2 after completing Psych 1, Psych W1, or Psych N1.

Hours & Format

Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week

Additional Details

Subject/Course Level: Psychology/Undergraduate

Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam required.

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PSYCH 3 Introduction to How the Brain Works 1 Unit [+]Expand course description

Terms offered: Summer 2019 Second 6 Week Session, Summer 2018 Second 6 Week Session, Summer 2017 Second 6 Week Session
This course will give a rigorous yet accessible overview of our current understanding of how the brain works and how it is altered by experience. Specifically, the class provides: an introduction to the structure and function of the sensory and motor systems; discussions of disorders and phenomena such as blindsight, synaesthesia, color blindness, and phantom limbs; and a lecture with presentation of classical experiments on the capacity of the young and adult brain for plasticity and learning.
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Rules & Requirements

Prerequisites: A year of college-level general biology for majors

Hours & Format

Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 1 hour of lecture per week

Summer: 6 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week

Additional Details

Subject/Course Level: Psychology/Undergraduate

Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam required.

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PSYCH 4 Emotional Intelligence 2 Units [+]Expand course description

Terms offered: Summer 2019 Second 6 Week Session, Summer 2018 Second 6 Week Session
This course will examine research on emotional intelligence and techniques for developing emotional intelligence. We will discuss various components of emotional intelligence, including the ability to identity and manage one’s emotions, successfully motivate oneself to achieve one’s goals, read other people’s emotions accurately, and use emotions to navigate social relationships effectively. Material will be taken from social psychology, clinical psychology, and cognitive neuroscience.
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Hours & Format

Summer: 6 weeks - 5 hours of lecture per week

Additional Details

Subject/Course Level: Psychology/Undergraduate

Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam required.

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PSYCH 5 Technology vs. Psychology: The Internet Revolution and the Rise of the Virtual Self 2 Units [+]Expand course description

Terms offered: Summer 2019 Second 6 Week Session, Summer 2018 Second 6 Week Session, Summer 2017 Second 6 Week Session
Most people have an online alter ego that is stronger and sexier but also angrier, more impulsive, and less ethical. These traits can become incorporated into offline personality, turning us into our avatar. Other psychological damage comes from the lack of online privacy and our new relationship with information. But the “Net” effect is not all bad; technology can also contribute to psychological wellbeing and make possible new treatments, including computerized therapy and virtual reality exposure therapy.
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Hours & Format

Summer: 6 weeks - 5 hours of lecture per week

Additional Details

Subject/Course Level: Psychology/Undergraduate

Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam required.

Instructor: Aboujaoude

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PSYCH 6 Stress and Coping 2 Units [+]Expand course description

Terms offered: Summer 2019 Second 6 Week Session, Summer 2018 Second 6 Week Session, Summer 2017 Second 6 Week Session
This course is designed to provide students with an in-depth analysis of the various areas within the field of psychology that address topics related to stress and coping. In particular, we will cover the biological, social, personality, cognitive, and clinical factors that play a role in the development of stress and subsequent coping techniques that can be used to deal with stress. The class will have a strong focus on the empirical findings relating to the subject.
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Rules & Requirements

Prerequisites: Psychology 1, N1, W1, 2, or equivalent

Hours & Format

Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 2 hours of lecture per week

Summer: 6 weeks - 5 hours of lecture per week

Additional Details

Subject/Course Level: Psychology/Undergraduate

Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam required.

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PSYCH 7 The Person in Big Data 2 Units [+]Expand course description

Terms offered: Summer 2019 Second 6 Week Session, Summer 2018 Second 6 Week Session, Summer 2017 Second 6 Week Session
This course will introduce students to the basic principles and methods of personality and social psychology as applied to a rapidly growing topic of modern society--the collection and analysis of online social “big data.” Students will learn about the ways in which big data has historically been defined, collected, and utilized, as well as fundamental concepts in person perception and social behavior that are relevant to topics of big data collection, analysis, and interpretation.
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Hours & Format

Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 2 hours of lecture per week

Summer: 6 weeks - 5 hours of lecture per week

Additional Details

Subject/Course Level: Psychology/Undergraduate

Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam required.

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PSYCH 8 Music and the Brain 2 Units [+]Expand course description

Terms offered: Summer 2015 10 Week Session, Summer 2015 Second 6 Week Session
This course will explore mental processes that allow listeners to perceive music and performers to produce it. We will compare music from various traditions to examine shared cognitive principles and emotional responses; comparisons to language will highlight neural specializations for music. Developmental psychology will inform discussion of learned vs. innate components of musical behavior. Students will design experiments to test hypotheses relating to music cognition.
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Rules & Requirements

Prerequisites: Psychology 1, N1, W1, 2, or equivalent

Hours & Format

Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 2 hours of lecture per week

Summer: 6 weeks - 5 hours of lecture per week

Additional Details

Subject/Course Level: Psychology/Undergraduate

Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam required.

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PSYCH 9 Changing Behavior: Lessons from a Dog Trainer 1 Unit [+]Expand course description

Terms offered: Summer 2017 Second 6 Week Session
In this course, we will examine behavior change – in you, and in those others you wish you could change -- by looking at basic principles that apply across species: operant conditioning, classical conditioning, motivation, stress and development. Animal trainers rely on very specific principles when modifying behavior, and those principles apply to every animal, human and non-human animals alike. Come learn what training animals can tell you about your own life, learning, motivation and habits!
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Rules & Requirements

Credit Restrictions: Students will receive no credit for Psychology 9 after passing Psychology 126.

Hours & Format

Summer: 6 weeks - 2.5 hours of lecture per week

Additional Details

Subject/Course Level: Psychology/Undergraduate

Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam required.

Instructor: Cook

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PSYCH 14 Psychology of Gender 3 Units [+]Expand course description

Terms offered: Summer 2014 10 Week Session, Summer 2014 First 6 Week Session, Summer 2013 First 6 Week Session
Examination of various factors in the development of feminine and masculine roles, including personality, social processes, biology, and culture.
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Hours & Format

Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week

Summer: 6 weeks - 7.5 hours of lecture per week

Additional Details

Subject/Course Level: Psychology/Undergraduate

Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam required.

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PSYCH 24 Freshman Seminars 1 Unit [+]Expand course description

Terms offered: Spring 2019, Fall 2018, Spring 2018
The Berkeley Seminar Program has been designed to provide new students with the opportunity to explore an intellectual topic with a faculty member in a small-seminar setting. Berkeley Seminars are offered in all campus departments, and topics vary from department to department and semester to semester.
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Rules & Requirements

Repeat rules: Course may be repeated for credit when topic changes.

Hours & Format

Fall and/or spring:
7 weeks - 2 hours of seminar per week
15 weeks - 1 hour of seminar per week

Summer: 6 weeks - 2.5 hours of seminar per week

Additional Details

Subject/Course Level: Psychology/Undergraduate

Grading/Final exam status: The grading option will be decided by the instructor when the class is offered. Final exam required.

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PSYCH 39E Freshman/Sophomore Seminar 2 - 4 Units [+]Expand course description

Terms offered: Spring 2013, Fall 2011, Fall 2010
Freshman and sophomore seminars offer lower division students the opportunity to explore an intellectual topic with a faculty member and a group of peers in a small-seminar setting. These seminars are offered in all campus departments; topics vary from department to department and from semester to semester.
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ongRules & Requirements

Prerequisites: Completion...