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Course Descriptions

Courses are listed alpha-numerically. The 1000, 2000, 3000 and 4000 series are undergraduate courses. The 5000 series are graduate courses that can also be taken by undergraduates with cumulative grade point averages of 2.75 or higher, who have satisfied all listed prerequisites and whose registration is approved by the department head or program chair responsible for the course. The 6000 series courses are restricted to graduate students only. Courses below 1000 are developmental in nature, are not counted in GPA calculations and do not count toward any Florida Tech degree.

Courses that may be taken in fulfillment of Undergraduate Core Requirements are designated as follows: CL: computer literacy requirement, COM: communication elective, HU: humanities elective, LA: liberal arts elective, Q: scholarly inquiry requirement, SS: social science elective, CC: cross-cultural. These designations follow the course descriptions. Other courses that satisfy Undergraduate Core Requirements are identified by the course prefix: any MTH course can be used toward meeting the mathematics requirement; and any AVS, BIO, CHM or PHY course, or EDS 1031  or EDS 1032 , toward meeting the physical/life sciences requirement.
 

Physics
  

  • PHY 4033 Introduction to Solid State Physics

    Credit Hours: 3
    Includes crystal structure, crystal diffraction and the reciprocal lattice, crystal binding; lattice vibrations, phonons, thermal properties of insulators; free electron Fermi gas, energy bands in metals; and Fermi surfaces.
    Prerequisite: PHY 3035  and PHY 3060  
  

  • PHY 4050 Advanced Research Techniques and Data Analysis

    Credit Hours: 3
    Covers the skills and tools necessary to perform active research in physics, particularly in data-oriented astrophysics. Describes manipulation of data to extract physically meaningful quantities and their associated uncertainties. Includes the use of statistical inference, numerical calculations and visualization of quantitative information.
    Prerequisite: (CSE 1502  or CSE 1503 ), and MTH 3210  and PHY 2003  
  

  • PHY 4071 Senior Laboratory

    Credit Hours: 2
    Experiments in optics, and atomic nuclear and solid state physics.
    Majors in Physics or Space Sciences (7101, 7139, 7191, 7192, 7193). Minimum student level - senior
  

  • PHY 4200 Senior Seminar 1

    Credit Hours: 1
    Reports and discussions on selected topics in contemporary experimental and theoretical physics and space sciences.
    (Q)
    Requirement(s): Student must be within three semesters of graduation
  

  • PHY 4201 Special Topics in Physics

    Credit Hours: 3
    Topics announced before each course offering.
    Requirement(s): Department head approval
  

  • PHY 4210 Senior Seminar 2

    Credit Hours: 1
    Reports and discussions on selected topics in contemporary experimental and theoretical physics and space sciences.
    (Q)
    Requirement(s): Student must be within three semesters of graduation
    Prerequisite: PHY 4200 
  

  • PHY 4301 Independent Studies

    Credit Hours: 1 - 3
    Individual study of specific problems in physics.
    Requirement(s): Department head approval
  

  • PHY 4901 Undergraduate Research

    Credit Hours: 3
    Individual research directed by a faculty member.
    Requirement(s): Department head approval
  

  • PHY 4902 Undergraduate Research

    Credit Hours: 3
    Individual research directed by a faculty member.
    Requirement(s): Department head approval
  

  • PHY 5015 Analytical Mechanics 1

    Credit Hours: 3
    A general treatment of dynamics of particles and rigid bodies, rotational dynamics, potential theory; Hamilton’s principle and principle of least action, Lagrange’s equations; and applications.
    Recommended: Background knowledge equivalent PHY 3011 Physical Mechanics   
  

  • PHY 5017 Electromagnetic Theory 1

    Credit Hours: 3
    Introduces electrostatics, boundary-value problems in electrostatics, multipoles, electrostatics and macroscopic media, dielectrics, magnetostatics, Faraday’s law, Maxwell equations, plane electromagnetic waves and wave propagation.
    Recommended: Background knowledge equivalent to PHY 3440 Electromagnetic Theory  
  

  • PHY 5018 Electromagnetic Theory 2

    Credit Hours: 3
    Continues PHY 5017 . Includes radiating systems, multipole fields and radiation, scattering and diffraction, special theory of relativity, dynamics of relativistic particles and electromagnetic fields, scattering of charged particles, Cherenkov radiation, radiation by moving charges, Bremsstrahlung and radiation damping.
    Prerequisite: PHY 5017 
  

  • PHY 5020 Optics

    Credit Hours: 3
    Applications to physics, space sciences and engineering. Includes geometrical optics (briefly), physical optics, including Fraunhofer and Fresnel diffraction; interactions with dielectric materials; Fresnel equations; and applications including lasers, holography, polarization and nonlinear optics materials. Additional graduate-level projects will be assigned including computer ray tracing and computer lens design.
  

  • PHY 5030 Quantum Mechanics 1

    Credit Hours: 3
    Schrodinger equation, discrete and continuous eigenfunctions and eigenvalues, collision theory, matrix mechanics, angular momentum perturbation and other approximation methods, identical particles and spin, semiclassical theory of radiation, atomic structure.
    Recommended: Background knowledge equivalent to PHY 3035 Quantum Mechanics  
    Corequisite: MTH 5201  
  

  • PHY 5031 Quantum Mechanics 2

    Credit Hours: 3
    Schrodinger equation, discrete and continuous eigenfunctions and eigenvalues, collision theory, matrix mechanics, angular momentum perturbation and other approximation methods, identical particles and spin, semiclassical theory of radiation, atomic structure.
    Prerequisite: PHY 5030  
  

  • PHY 5045 Introduction to Elementary Particle Physics

    Credit Hours: 3
    The fundamental laws and principles that govern the behavior and structure of matter on the subatomic scale. Definition and classification of elementary particles and fundamental forces; properties of elementary particles and their experimentally observable behavior; symmetries and invariance principles; Feynman diagrams; interaction of particles with bulk matter.
    Recommended: Background knowledge equivalent to PHY 3035 Quantum Mechanics  and PHY 4030 Introduction to Subatomic Physics  
  

  • PHY 5070 Special Topics in Physics

    Credit Hours: 3
    Topics announced before each course offering.
    Requirement(s): Department head approval
  

  • PHY 5082 Thermodynamics and Statistical Physics

    Credit Hours: 3
    Covers the principles and applications of statistical thermodynamics, thermal and general interactions of macroscopic systems and parameter measurement. Also includes basic methods and applications of statistical mechanics, equilibrium conditions, quantum statistics of ideal gases, and the kinetic theory of transport and irreversible processes.
    Recommended: Background knowledge equivalent to PHY 3060 Thermodynamics, Kinetic Theory and Statistical Mechanics  
  

  • PHY 5088 Graduate Laboratory

    Credit Hours: 3
    Experimental work under individual faculty supervision.
    Requirement(s): Department head approval
  

  • PHY 5089 Graduate Laboratory

    Credit Hours: 3
    Experimental work under individual faculty supervision.
    Requirement(s): Department head approval
  

  • PHY 5095 Advanced Laboratory

    Credit Hours: 3
    Experimental work at the research level in faculty research labs.
    Requirement(s): Department head approval
  

  • PHY 5899 Final Semester Thesis

    Credit Hours: 0 - 2
    Variable registration for thesis completion after satisfaction of minimum registration requirements.
    Requirement(s): Approval by Office of Graduate Programs and accepted petition to graduate
  

  • PHY 5999 Thesis

    Credit Hours: 3 - 6
    Individual work under the direction of a member of the graduate faculty on a selected topic in physics.
    Requirement(s): Department head approval
  

  • PHY 6001 Individual Studies

    Credit Hours: 1 - 3
    Individual studies under faculty supervision.
    Requirement(s): Department head approval
  

  • PHY 6090 Research

    Credit Hours: 1 - 6
    Research leading to the doctoral dissertation.
    Requirement(s): Department head approval
  

  • PHY 6899 Final Semester Dissertation

    Credit Hours: 0 - 2
    Variable registration for dissertation completion after satisfaction of minimum registration requirements.
    Requirement(s): Approval by Office of Graduate Programs and accepted candidacy
  

  • PHY 6999 Dissertation

    Credit Hours: 3 - 12
    Preparation of doctoral dissertation.
    Requirement(s): Department head approval and admission to doctoral candidacy

Forensic Psychology
  

  • PSF 2551 Survey of Forensic Psychology

    Credit Hours: 3
    Surveys the psychological theories and methods pertinent to the legal and criminal justice systems. Includes victimization, reliability of eyewitness testimony, jury selection, treatment vs. incarceration, insanity, family and drug court issues, and trial testimony. Also explores research and training roles in relation to the justice system.
    (SS)
    Prerequisite: PSY 1411  and SOC 1551  
  

  • PSF 3511 Introduction to Crime Analysis

    Credit Hours: 3
    Presents the techniques, materials and methods of analysis of crime and criminal activity. Concentration areas include analyzing crime, forecasting criminal occurrences, mapping techniques, crime patterns, suspect identification and monitoring crime trends.
    (SS)
    Prerequisite: PSF 2551  and PSY 2512  
  

  • PSF 3512 Forensic Behavior Investigation and Identification

    Credit Hours: 3
    Explores the behavior of victims, suspects and witnesses of crime with respect to the psychological principles used in investigation; in particular kinesics, interview techniques, reliability of recall and legal implications of interview techniques.
    Prerequisite: PSF 2551 
  

  • PSF 3515 Special Topics in Forensic Psychology

    Credit Hours: 1
    Offers topics of particular general interest in forensic psychology, criminal justice or criminology when student interest and staffing permit.
    Prerequisite: PSF 2551 
    May be repeated for a maximum of four credits
  

  • PSF 3551 Integrated Theories of Crime

    Credit Hours: 3
    Explores the basic questions concerning human nature, human behavior, crime and criminality from the perspectives of sociological, psychological and criminological theories.
    (SS)
    Prerequisite: PSF 2551  or PSY 3100 
  

  • PSF 4106 Crisis and Conflict Resolution

    Credit Hours: 3
    Examines crisis and conflict resolution in interpersonal and organizational contexts. Uses theory from behavioral and social sciences to assess, manage and resolve crisis and conflict situations in a criminal justice environment. Includes nature of and responses to crisis and conflict, and strategies for resolving them.
    Minimum student level - third year
    Requirement(s): Must be enrolled in Florida Tech Online
    Prerequisite: CRM 3012  or PSY 3012  
  

  • PSF 4491 Legal Psychology

    Credit Hours: 3
    Examines the intersection of law and psychology as an area of research and study. Covers topics such as Supreme Court decisions, arrest and trial, juror decision-making, and relevant problems or concerns that arise during investigation, trial and sentencing.
    Minimum student level - junior
    Prerequisite: PSF 2551  
  

  • PSF 4515 Advanced Special Topics in Forensic Psychology

    Credit Hours: 1
    Offers topics of particular general interest in forensic psychology, criminal justice or criminology when student interest and staffing permit.
    Minimum student level - junior
    Prerequisite: PSF 2551  
    May be repeated for a maximum of three credits
  

  • PSF 4551 Victim Studies and Advocacy

    Credit Hours: 3
    Explores the response to crime by law enforcement, the court system, social services and victim advocates. Primarily focuses on advocacy for individuals and the community. Examines domestic violence, crime prevention, delinquency, hate crimes and substance abuse in terms of best practices from the field.
    Minimum student level - junior
    Prerequisite: PSY 1411  
  

  • PSF 4562 Forensic Clinical Psychology

    Credit Hours: 3
    Overviews forensic clinical psychology, including forensic interviewing and assessment of children and adults, treatment of offenders and victims, legal procedures involving the interaction of clinical psychologists with the justice system, and expert testimony by mental health professionals.
    Prerequisite: PSY 1411 
  

  • PSF 4591 Critical Issues in Forensic Psychology

    Credit Hours: 3
    Examines contemporary and critical issues in forensic psychology that are central to theoretical and applied areas of the field, such as racial profiling, sex crimes, jury consulting, correctional psychology, kinesics and advanced interviewing, international crime and terrorism.
    Minimum student level - junior
    Prerequisite: PSF 2551  
  

  • PSF 4791 Critical Issues in Child Advocacy

    Credit Hours: 3
    Covers the history, comparative perspectives and legal framework as apply to the responses to child maltreatment. Addresses the necessary skills needed to work as a child advocate. Also includes other issues pertaining to child maltreatment.
    Minimum student level - junior
    Prerequisite: PSY 3551  

Psychology
  

  • PSY 0002 Final Examination

    Credit Hours: 0
    Requires registration in order to sit for the final program examination.
  

  • PSY 0003 Final Program Examination 2

    Credit Hours: 0
    Requires registration in order to sit for the final program examination.
    Prerequisite: PSY 0002   Corequisite: PSY 0002  
  

  • PSY 0004 Final Program Examination 3

    Credit Hours: 0
    Requires registration in order to sit for the final program examination.
    Prerequisite: PSY 0003   Corequisite: PSY 0003  
  

  • PSY 1400 Psychology Seminar

    Credit Hours: 1
    Offers discussions by members of the faculty about various areas of research in and practice of psychology to give freshmen an overview of the nature of the field and the people in it.
    (LA)
    Requirement(s): Must be enrolled in the School of Psychology  
  

  • PSY 1411 Introduction to Psychology

    Credit Hours: 3
    Overviews psychological processes, including both areas in which psychology is a natural science (physiological psychology, sensation and perception, basic learning and cognition) and a social science (motivation, human development, personality, social interaction, psychopathology and psychotherapy).
    (LA) (SS)
  

  • PSY 1461 Psychology of Adjustment and Personal Growth

    Credit Hours: 3
    Examines the relevance of psychological understanding in personal and interpersonal situations, including definitions and discussions of human adjustment factors, such as anxiety, stress, coping mechanisms and psychological adaptation.
    (LA) (SS)
  

  • PSY 1462 Substance Abuse

    Credit Hours: 3
    Examines experimental evidence on the physical, physiological and psychological effects of drug use and conclusions relating to the real vs. alleged effects of drugs.
    (LA) (SS)
  

  • PSY 1463 Human Sexuality

    Credit Hours: 3
    Integrates and presents biological, psychosocial and cultural aspects of human sexuality within the context of the most recent research findings.
    (LA) (SS)
  

  • PSY 2000 Life Span Development and Psychology

    Credit Hours: 3
    Surveys the various psychological, biological and other interdisciplinary areas of human development. Also covers changes over the entire human life span.
    (LA)
    Requirement(s): Must be enrolled in Florida Tech Online
    Prerequisite: PSY 1411  
  

  • PSY 2413 Research Experience

    Credit Hours: 1
    Offers research experience under the direction of a member of the psychology faculty, generally in the context of programmatic research teams.
    (LA)
    Prerequisite: PSY 1411  
    May be repeated for a maximum of three credits
  

  • PSY 2442 Adult Development and Aging

    Credit Hours: 3
    Introduces current information and psychological research on aspects of adult development, old age and aging. Examines the intellectual, motivational, psychobiological, social, performance and personality changes that occur in adulthood and old age.
    (LA) (SS)
    Prerequisite: PSY 1411  
  

  • PSY 2444 Cross-Cultural and Ethnic Psychology

    Credit Hours: 3
    Examines the relationship between cultural variables and psychological processes from both a psychological and an anthropological perspective. Addresses cultural, international and ethnic issues.
    (CC) (LA) (SS)
    Prerequisite: PSY 1411  
  

  • PSY 2445 Psychology of Women

    Credit Hours: 3
    Examines the way gender differences affect the lives of women. Studies biological, cultural and social factors in terms of their direct effects on women, and in terms of the psychological and cultural bases of prejudice and discrimination.
    (LA) (SS)
    Prerequisite: PSY 1411  
  

  • PSY 2446 Sport Psychology

    Credit Hours: 3
    Surveys the theory, research and applications of psychology pertaining to exercise and sports. Presents current topics and issues relevant to sport psychology.
    (LA) (SS)
    Prerequisite: PSY 1411  
  

  • PSY 2510 Research and Computer Literacy

    Credit Hours: 3
    Addresses the research and computer literacy needs of psychology, behavioral and social science students. Includes reading, evaluating and summarizing scientific literature; scientific writing (APA format); research terminology; and proper document and presentation format.
    (CL) (LA)
    Prerequisite: COM 1001 or COM 1101  or WRI 1001  
  
  

  • PSY 2541 Group Behavior

    Credit Hours: 3
    Considers issues of group development, socialization, productivity, decision making and leadership. Emphasizes the application of scientific theory and research to the study of group dynamics in real-world group situations. Includes cult and crowd phenomena, social loafing, group therapy, work groups and sports teams.
    (LA) (SS)
    Prerequisite: PSY 1411  
  

  • PSY 2600 Psychology of Gender

    Credit Hours: 3
    Explores gender as a central organizing feature of human behavior. Examines biological, cultural, psychological and social factors in terms of their direct effects on female and male development and resulting sex differences. 
    Requirement(s): Must be enrolled in Florida Tech Online
    Prerequisite: PSY 2510  
  

  • PSY 2800 Introduction to Behavior Analysis

    Credit Hours: 3
    Introduces and overviews the field of behavior analysis and its areas of application. Requires a student project involving the application of behavioral principles to change a socially significant behavior.
    (LA)
    Prerequisite: PSY 1411  
  

  • PSY 3012 Research Methods in Applied Psychology

    Credit Hours: 3
    Introduces basic research methods in applied psychology. Includes experimental research design, qualitative and quantitative approaches to data analysis, and interpretation and critiquing.
    (LA)
    Requirement(s): Must be enrolled in Florida Tech Online
    Prerequisite: EST 2703  and PSY 1411  and PSY 2510  
  

  • PSY 3013 Applied Psychology

    Credit Hours: 3
    Examines the various major concepts of applied psychology. Includes theoretical perspectives, empirical findings, historical trends, principles and practices as they apply to personal, social and organizational issues.
    (LA)
    Minimum student level - third year or junior
    Requirement(s): Must be enrolled in Florida Tech Online
    Prerequisite: PSY 1411  and PSY 2510   Corequisite: PSY 2510  
  

  • PSY 3100 Law and Psychology

    Credit Hours: 3
    Introduces the major concepts, theoretical perspectives, empirical findings, historical trends, principles and practices of various areas of psychology and explores their intersection with the law.
    (LA)
    Requirement(s): Must be enrolled in Florida Tech Online
    Prerequisite: CRM 3012  and PSY 3012  
  

  • PSY 3101 Psychology of Disasters

    Credit Hours: 3
    Examines the psychological human response to disasters and other traumatic events. Compares and contrasts reactions to natural disasters versus deliberate acts of criminality and terrorism. Discusses prevention and treatment alternatives for post-traumatic stress and critical incident management.
    (LA)
    Prerequisite: PSY 1411  and PSY 3012  
  

  • PSY 3344 Multicultural Issues

    Credit Hours: 3
    Covers how to recognize, understand and respect the complexity, key concepts, theoretical perspectives and empirical findings of sociocultural and international diversity.
    (LA)
    Requirement(s): Must be enrolled in Florida Tech Online
    Prerequisite: CRM 3012  or PSY 3012  
  

  • PSY 3421 Psychology of Learning and Motivation

    Credit Hours: 3
    Studies the principles of learning and motivation based primarily on nonhuman studies in classical and instrumental conditioning. Focuses on procedures, theories and applications.
    (LA)
    Prerequisite: PSY 1411 , and (PSY 2512  or PSY 3012 )
  

  • PSY 3423 Physiological Psychology

    Credit Hours: 3
    Studies the biological bases of human behavior, including in-depth treatment of nervous system anatomy and physiology, and the biological concepts underlying emotion, motivation, learning and memory.
    (LA)
    Prerequisite: (BIO 1020  or EDS 1022  or EDS 1032 ), and PSY 1411 , and (MAR 2801  or PSY 3012  or PSY 2512 )
  

  • PSY 3425 Health Psychology

    Credit Hours: 3
    Examines the scientific interrelationships among the biological, cultural, environmental and psychological factors involved in physical health and the prevention of illness.
    (LA)
    Prerequisite: PSY 3012  and PSY 3013  
  

  • PSY 3441 Social Psychology

    Credit Hours: 3
    Surveys the areas of social psychology as it has evolved in American psychology, including its history, methods and theories of intrapersonal, interpersonal and group behavior. Reviews sociological approaches to social psychology and cultural processes that affect social phenomena.
    (LA) (SS)
    Minimum student level - third year
    Requirement(s): Must be enrolled in Florida Tech Online
    Prerequisite: BUS 2703  or EST 2703  or PSY 2512  or PSY 3012  
  

  • PSY 3442 Psychology of Personality

    Credit Hours: 3
    Overviews the major theoretical approaches to personality development and research in the field.
    (LA) (SS)
    Prerequisite: PSY 1411  
  

  • PSY 3520 Memory

    Credit Hours: 3
    Reviews basic memory processes, theories and research, memory development across the lifespan, and application of principles to everyday life. Balances coverage of both strengths and limitations of memory. Engages students in a series of classic memory experiments and strengthens their own memory through training and testing.
    (LA)
    Prerequisite: BIO 2801 or MAR 2801  or BUS 2703  or PSY 2512  or PSY 3012  
  

  • PSY 3522 Human Cognition: Theory and Application

    Credit Hours: 3
    Reviews models, processes and research in information processing; attention, short- and long-term memory, memory codes, visualization and imagery; forgetting, semantic organization, problem solving, decision-making, language, multilingualism, music cognition and cognitive development.
    (LA)
    Prerequisite: PSY 2512  and PSY 3012  
  

  • PSY 3524 Sensation and Perception

    Credit Hours: 3
    Reviews models, processes and empirical research concerning the modalities of vision, audition, taste, smell and touch/feel. Explores how perception gives rise to our subjective experience and the quality of conscious awareness.
    (LA)
    Prerequisite: PSY 2512  
  

  • PSY 3531 Child Psychology

    Credit Hours: 3
    Overviews psychological principles, theories and research pertaining to the developing child from conception through early adolescence. Includes biological and environmental influences on affective, cognitive, moral, social and personality development.
    (LA) (SS)
    Prerequisite: PSY 1411  
  

  • PSY 3541 Psychology of Leadership

    Credit Hours: 3
    Examines the research and application of the essential competencies of effective leadership such as managing conflict, facilitating communication and leading groups and teams.
    (LA) (SS)
    Minimum student level - third year
    Requirement(s): Must be enrolled in Florida Tech Online
    Prerequisite: PSY 1411  
  

  • PSY 3543 Psychology of the Workplace

    Credit Hours: 3
    Covers the many ways psychology is applied in organizations to improve performance and quality of work life. Includes employee selection and personnel law, performance management, training, motivation, job attitudes, stress, teamwork, leadership and organizational development.
    (LA) (SS)
    Prerequisite: BUS 2703  or CRM 3012  or EST 2703  or PSY 2512  or PSY 3012  
  

  • PSY 3551 Introduction to Child Advocacy

    Credit Hours: 3
    Introduces students to the history of child advocacy, comparative perspectives, legal framework and other interdisciplinary issues pertaining to child maltreatment, response and advocacy.
    (LA) (SS)
    Prerequisite: PSY 3531  
  

  • PSY 3641 Political Psychology

    Credit Hours: 3
    Introduces the nature and history of political psychology and its methodologies. Includes personality and politics, social beliefs, attitudes, social identity, racism, xenophobia, genocide, nationalism, nativism, political leadership, social movements, modernization, voting behavior, terrorism and conflict resolution.
    (SS)
    Prerequisite: HUM 2480  or PSY 1411  
  

  • PSY 3761 Abnormal Psychology

    Credit Hours: 3
    Examines psychological disorders, including theories for their development, symptomology and system of classification.
    (LA) (SS)
    Minimum student level - junior or third year
    Prerequisite: PSY 1411  
  

  • PSY 3901 Experimental Psychology 1

    Credit Hours: 3
    Covers experimental methodology and statistics. Introduces students to fundamental concepts in experimental design and statistics that support research in the field of psychology. Emphasizes the application, use and interpretation of statistics through the use of computer-based software.
    Requirement(s): Must be enrolled in Florida Tech Online. First in a two-course sequence
    Prerequisite: PSY 3012  and PSY 3013  
  

  • PSY 3999 Scholarly Project Planning Seminar

    Credit Hours: 1
    Facilitates and instructs regarding internship selection, application, and planning and proposing the scholarly inquiry project as related to the internship.
    (LA) (Q)
    Requirement(s): First of a three-course QEP internship sequence
    Prerequisite: PSY 2512  
  

  • PSY 4000 Field Internship and Research Project

    Credit Hours: 3
    Consists of the experiential component of placement at a work site.
    (LA)
    Prerequisite: PSY 4512  
  

  • PSY 4001 Applied Research Analysis Seminar

    Credit Hours: 1
    Analyzes and develops the data collected during internship into a scholarly project, culminating in an internship colloquium.
    (LA) (Q)
    Requirement(s): Third of a three-course QEP internship sequence
    Prerequisite: PSY 4000  
  

  • PSY 4112 Applied Tests and Measures

    Credit Hours: 3
    Examines the key concepts, principles and construction of measures. Focuses on the criticality of reliability and validity.
    (LA)
    Requirement(s): Must be enrolled in Florida Tech Online
    Prerequisite: PSY 3012  
  

  • PSY 4242 Organizational Psychology and Behavior

    Credit Hours: 3
    Examines the key concepts, applications, theoretical perspectives and empirical findings of organizational effectiveness on human behavior.
    (LA)
    Requirement(s): Must be enrolled in Florida Tech Online
    Prerequisite: PSY 3542 or PSY 3543  
  

  • PSY 4413 Undergraduate Research

    Credit Hours: 3
    Offers research experience under the direction of a member of the psychology faculty.
    (LA)
    Requirement(s): Instructor approval
    Prerequisite: PSY 4514  
    May be repeated for a maximum of six credits
  

  • PSY 4462 Clinical and Community Psychology

    Credit Hours: 3
    Overviews clinical psychology and community psychology. Reviews methods of clinical assessment and treatment of behavioral disorders. Presents the concepts of community psychology as they have developed from the fields of psychology, social work and public administration.
    (LA) (SS)
    Prerequisite: PSY 3761  
  

  • PSY 4511 Principles of Program Development and Evaluation

    Credit Hours: 3
    The psychological principles, methods and techniques used to assess, develop and evaluate the effectiveness of programs. Includes needs assessment methods, principles of program design, gaining support for programs and general methods for evaluating programs.
    (LA)
    Prerequisite: CRM 3012  or PSY 3012  or PSY 4514  
  

  • PSY 4512 Personal and Professional Development

    Credit Hours: 3
    Explores realistic goals for implementation of psychological knowledge, skills, abilities and values in occupational and/or educational pursuits in a variety of settings that meet personal goals. Also includes how those goals may meet societal needs.
    (LA)
    Minimum student level - junior or third year
  

  • PSY 4514 Psychological Research Methods and Statistics 2

    Credit Hours: 4
    Provides an in-depth analysis of experimental research design and laboratory procedures. Introduces analysis of between and repeated design experimental data using analysis of variance. Includes a laboratory component in which students will perform all phases of a research project.
    (LA) (Q)
    Prerequisite: PSY 2512  
  

  • PSY 4515 Psychology Honors Thesis

    Credit Hours: 3
    Includes the preparation of an undergraduate thesis under supervision of a faculty member. Involves all components of the research process, including conceptualization, literature review, method and hypothesis development, data collection and analysis, and preparation of the final document.
    (LA) (Q)
    Requirement(s): Acceptance to Psychology Honors Program  
    Prerequisite: PSY 4514  
    May be repeated for a maximum of six credits
  

  • PSY 4521 Animal Learning and Behavior

    Credit Hours: 3
    Surveys major topics including learning vs. unlearned behavior, communication, reproduction, cognition, social behavior and tool use. Employs evolutionary, genetic and environmental perspectives to understand behavior.
    (LA)
    Prerequisite: (BIO 1020  or EDS 1032 ), and PSY 1411 , and (MAR 2801  or PSY 2512 )
  

  • PSY 4522 Comparative Animal Cognition

    Credit Hours: 3
    Explores current topics in animal cognition (from communication to metacognition) in a wide variety of species. Teaches how to appreciate the similarities and difference in cognitive abilities of humans and other animals, and understand why studying the mind of nonhumans provides an important base for cognition in psychology.
    (LA)
    Prerequisite: MAR 2801  or PSY 3421  or PSY 4521  
  

  • PSY 4590 Psychology Honors Seminar

    Credit Hours: 1
    Discusses theoretical and empirical research in psychology and related fields in a seminar format.
    (LA)
    Requirement(s): Department approval and acceptance to Psychology Honors Program 
    May be repeated for a maximum of four credits
  

  • PSY 4612 Employment and Personality Testing

    Credit Hours: 3
    Explores the application, psychometrics and legal considerations of tests and measures in applied settings. Includes personality, cognition and other forms of selection testing.
    (LA)
    Requirement(s): Must be enrolled in Florida Tech Online
    Prerequisite: PSY 4112  
  

  • PSY 4712 Professional and Ethical Issues

    Credit Hours: 3
    Examines and discusses the value of empirical evidence, tolerance of ambiguity, ethical behaviors (including the APA Ethics Code) and other values that underpin psychology as a science.
    (LA)
    Minimum student level - freshman or sophomore
    Requirement(s): Must be enrolled in Florida Tech Online
    Prerequisite: PSY 3012  
  

  • PSY 4901 Experimental Psychology 2

    Credit Hours: 3
    Covers experimental methodology and statistics. Builds on the knowledge introduced in PSY 3901 Experimental Psychology 1 . Includes independent work related to research design and analysis of data sets. Culminates in the production of a final research project. Serves as the QEP course for the applied psychology program.
    (Q)
    Requirement(s): Must be enrolled in Florida Tech Online. Second in a two-course sequence
    Prerequisite: PSY 3901   
  

  • PSY 5000 Clinical Colloquium

    Credit Hours: 0
    Provides speakers from the faculty, community and student body, covering a wide spectrum of psychological topics and areas of interest. Required for all Psy.D. students each fall and spring semester of their enrollment, with the exception of the internship year.
  

  • PSY 5002 Pre-Practicum

    Credit Hours: 1
    Provides foundation skills and knowledge in preparation for practical training. Involves both didactic methods and opportunities to observe and shadow clinicians/advanced students in practice. Serves as an adjunct to PSY 5541  and PSY 5542 .
  

  • PSY 5003 Hypnotherapy

    Credit Hours: 2
    Overviews the application of hypnotherapy to clinical practice. Includes instructor lectures, demonstrations and student practice. Covers tests for suggestibility, methods of trance induction and deepening, and applications to specific problem areas in psychological and medical practice.
    Requirement(s): Requires a minimum of six credit hours of PSY 5595 Practicum 
  

  • PSY 5100 Introduction to Research in I/O Psychology

    Credit Hours: 3
    Provides I/O students the basic knowledge and skills needed to excel during their graduate experience and to pursue productive careers as I/O scientist-practitioners. Includes professional issues in I/O, scientific reading and writing, and fundamental statistical and research concepts.
  

  • PSY 5101 Statistical Research Methods 1

    Credit Hours: 3
    Introduces psychological research methods and designs, including analysis and interpretation of simple correlational and experimental designs.
 

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