Course Descriptions
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Course Requirements
Each of the program areas has specific course requirements outlining the necessary course path that each student needs to complete in order to graduate. If you have questions regarding the requirements, you should speak with your advisor and/or the Department Administrator.
Human Development 
Learning Sciences
Quantitative Methods
School Psychology
Course Listings
Below is a list of some of our Department's courses. While this list is not comprenhensive as some courses change (such as 711 seminar courses), it provides a general overview of courses taught by each area.
Human Development
- Adolescent Development in Educational Contexts
- Adolescent Peer Relations
- Adult Development & Aging
- Advanced Seminar in Adolescent Development: Postive Youth Development
- Human Abilities & Learning
- Human Development from Childhood through Adolescence
- Human Development in Adolescence
- Human Development in Infancy & Childhood
- Identity & Autonomy in Adolescence
- Infancy & Childhood
- Interdisciplinary Contexts of Forgiveness
- Laboratory in Developmental Research Methods
- Seminar in Research in Educational Psychology
- Teaching Educational Psychology at the Undergraduate Level
- The Development of Inductive Inference
- The Psychology & Education of Forgiveness
- The Psychology of Forgiveness
- Theories & Issues in Human Development
Learning Sciences
- Culture, Cognition, & Development
- Interactive Learning Environments
- Introduction to Learning Sciences I
- Introduction to Learning Sciences II
- Qualitative Research Methods in the Learning Sciences
- Teaching in Science & Engineering: College Classroom Course
- The Psychology of Educational Communications
- Tools for Thought
- Video Research in the Learning Sciences
Quantitative Methods
- Advanced Seminar in Educational Measurement & Statistics
- Factor Analysis, Multidimensional Scaling, & Cluster Analysis
- Hierarchical Linear Modeling
- Introduction to the Design of Educational Experiments
- Multivariate Statistics
- Nonparametrics
- Statistical Analysis & Design in Educational Research
- Statistical Methods Applied to Education I
- Statistical Methods Applied to Education II
- Statistics & Research Design
- Structural Equation Modeling
- Topics in Regression Analysis
School Psychology
- Advanced Assessment & Intervention Techniques
- Applied Behavior Analysis in Classrooms
- Assessment & Intervention for Academic Skill Problems
- Assessment Techniques in the Schools I
- Assessment Techniques in the Schools II
- Child & Adolescent Psychopathology in Schools
- Evidence-Based Child & Adolescent Psychotherapy
- Field Practicum in School Psychology
- Internship Preparation Seminar
- Introduction to Professional School Psychology
- Psychopharmacological Treatments for Children & Adolescents
- Research Techniques
- Seminar in School Psychology: Research Techniques
- School Psychology Clinic Practicum
- Systems of Consultation in School Psychology
- The Biological Basis of Behavior