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PS320H
Socual Psychology: Investigations of the Self
Holly Hodgins

This course offers an opportunity to acquire hands-on research experience and experimental skills in a small laboratory group. Students will read journal articles on selected topics in social psychology, design a study, collect data, and use a computer data analytic statistical package to analyze their data. Three hours of lecture and two hours of lab per week. Prerequisite: PS217 , or consent of instructor.

PS376
Senior Research Project II
Faculty: The Department

Students will work with an individual faculty member to complete a major research project developed in Senior Research Project I. A final project will be submitted in thesis form to the faculty supervisor at leat two weeks before the end of the term. Each student will make an oral presentation of the final project to the other senior thesis students and the psychology faculty. Prerequisites: PS375. May not be taken concurrently with PS378. May be used to fulfill the thesis requirement for honors in psychology.

PS378
Senior Seminar
Prof. Douglas Gutheil

Students will work with course instructor to complete a major written project. The project can be a synthesis of the literature in a particular topic of psychology, or an original theoretical formulation. The final project should demonstrate a conceptual integration of the material, and should demonstrate both originality and idependence of work. In addition to the written project, each student will make an oral presentation summarizing the project. The written version of the project will be submitted at least two weeks before the end of the spring semester. Prerequisite: PS306. This course may by used to fulfill the thesis requirement for honors in psychology.

PY 221H
Galaxies and Cosmology
Prof. Mary Crone

Course objectives include understanding our current picture of the universe on large scales as well as the methods used to reach this understanding. Class participants will discuss how confident we can be about various conclusions reached about the universe – e.g. its age and eventual fate. Students will be expected to complete a final project (a paper or a presentation) as wells as the regular tests, class discussions, and examinations. The final project will be a critical analysis of current research on a relevant topic of the student’s choice using recent astrophysical data Results will be presented orally and submitted as a written research paper. Prerequisite: PY192 or PY194.