Aimed at applying learnings from the Executive MBA program to a managerial problem in business practice and integrating knowledge across disciplines to develop a solution. Challenges: identifying relevant problems, linking academic insight with business practice, creatively developing solutions, and taking leadership in decision-making and implementation. Key deliverable: individually written report that includes an analysis of the problem, a well-motivated solution, and an action plan for implementation.

Foundations of psychology; perception; learning; motivation; intelligence; personality and social relations.

Foundations of psychology; perception; learning; motivation; intelligence; personality and social relations.

Research process and basic research concepts; critical framework to examine social science problems and evaluate research; constructing social explanations; concept of causality; measurement, sampling, questionnaire construction; experimental methodology, ethnomethodology, document study; philosophy of social science.

The individual as a member of social groups and social psychological perspectives on issues such as aggression and violence, bystander intervention, obedience, conformity, attitudes, prejudice, and attribution.

Theories and research, including behavioral and cognitive perspectives, and such topics as classical conditioning, operant conditioning, social learning, insight learning, and information processing.

Theories and research, including behavioral and cognitive perspectives, and such topics as classical conditioning, operant conditioning, social learning, insight learning, and information processing.

Human development from birth to old age. Different spheres of development are studied, such as cognitive, socio-emotional and moral, both from an individual and interactional perspective.

An understanding of the family as a social institution and as a context in which individuals develop, make choices, and influence each other. The theories that social scientists use for describing and understanding the family, and explaining and predicting family behaviors. Today's most pertinent family issues such as dating, sex, virtual relationships, cross-gender and same-gender relationships, marriage, divorce, parenting, family violence, and family law.

Review theories and research related to fundamental topics and major issues in both theoretical and applied pscyhology; evaluate issues that have led to controversy and discussion among the experts.

Review theories and research related to fundamental topics and major issues in both theoretical and applied pscyhology; evaluate issues that have led to controversy and discussion among the experts.

Theoretical and practical introduction to planning, conducting, reporting, and evaluating experimental research in psychology; hypothesis generation and testing; experimental artifacts; analysis of published research; laboratory, field, and web-based experimentation.

Theoretical and practical introduction to planning, conducting, reporting, and evaluating experimental research in psychology; hypothesis generation and testing; experimental artifacts; analysis of published research; laboratory, field, and web-based experimentation.

Data collection techniques, data analysis, and interpretation; making inferences from data using statistical tools such as t-test, ANOVA, ANCOVA, and MANOVA and individual or group research projects with an emphasis on experimental methodology.

Etiology and symptoms of psychopathological behavior from different theoretical perspectives including psychodynamic, physiological, behaviorist, cognitive, and humanistic.

Psychology in the workplace includes issues related to psychological testing and measurement in the following processes: employee selection and placement, talent management, performance management, program evaluation in organizational interventions, return on investment in training and development activities; psychological processes in employee health and well-being (stress, burnout, work-family conflict); employee attitudes, including job satisfaction, commitment, organizational citizenship behavior; and psychological processes in interpersonal phenomena including leadership, motivation, teamwork, and communication.

The interdisciplinary study of mind, is at the intersection of psychology, philosophy, computer science, linguistics, and neuroscience. An introductory course focus in how the mind Works (i.e.various cognitive processes such as attention, learning, perception, memory, language) Describes different theories and methodologies from these disciplines.

Overview of theories and science of practice in clinical psychology, with particular focus on the process and specific interventions in psychotherapy as informed by different perspectives.

Measure psychological constructs and interpret test results; test construction, standardization, reliability and validity; factor analysis; multi-dimensional scaling; and various standardized tests of intelligence and personality.

The etiological role of developmental processes in the formation of adaptive and maladaptive behavioral patterns in children and youth. Cognitive, emotional, and motivational difficulties that characterize disorders and theory and empirical research into their developmental roots in childhood. Adoption of an individual difference perspective to examine the risk and protective factors that contribute to the emergence of adaptive and maladaptive behaviors.

Cognitive, social and cultural aspects of language, including processes and theories of language processing and acquisition by children, adults, and bilinguals, biological foundations and language disorders.

Overview of theories of family systems therapy and their applications with couples and families. Discussion and critique of different theoretical orientations such as Strategic/MRI, Behavioral, Structural, Intergenerational, Experiential, Solution-focused, and Narrative perspectives.

Building on the content of PSYC 501, further advanced research methods are presented. These include problems in multivariate regression analysis, multivariate analysis of nominal and ordinal data, structural equation models, and methods for analyzing longitudinal data. In addition, students learn how to choose appropriate methodology for a variety of research problems.