Timeroom: Spring 2025

Durham Liberal Arts :: Psychology

PSYC 757 (01) - Psychology of Happiness

Psychology of Happiness

Credits: 4.0
Term: Spring 2025 - Full Term (01/21/2025 - 05/05/2025)
Grade Mode: Letter Grading

Class Size: 20
CRN: 51951

Overview of empirical research in Positive Psychology. We will discuss factors that may influence happiness and subjective well-being; and effects that well-being may have on other life outcomes such as physical health. Learning involves reading and writing about evidence from research and also experimental exercises (such as doing an act of kindness).

Prerequisite(s): PSYC 402 and PSYC 502

Only listed campus in section: Durham

Classes not allowed in section: Freshman

Only listed majors in section: PSYCHOLOGY

Attributes: Writing Intensive Course

Instructors: Robert Eckstein

Start Date	End Date	Days	Time	Location
1/21/2025	5/5/2025	W	12:10pm - 3:00pm	MCC 350

Durham Liberal Arts :: Psychology

PSYC 759W (01) - Emotion and the Embodied Mind

Emotion & the Embodied Mind

Credits: 4.0
Term: Spring 2025 - Full Term (01/21/2025 - 05/05/2025)
Grade Mode: Letter Grading

Class Size: 20
CRN: 56211

This course introduces the scientific study of emotions, including where they come from and how they shape our perception of the world around us. We will discuss the ways in which action and thought are grounded in ongoing bodily needs and activity, how the mind makes meaning of external and internal sensations, and how emotions both emerge from and shape these processes. This is a writing intensive course. You will be asked to engage critically with primary source articles reporting on original research and theory, including both classic and contemporary work in the science of emotion. You are expected to contribute to class discussions and submit regular written content based on these readings (details below). Primary goals of this course include improving scientific literacy, practicing critical thinking, and building effective communication skills.

Prerequisite(s): PSYC 402 and PSYC 502

Attributes: Writing Intensive Course

Instructors: Kristen Petagna

Start Date	End Date	Days	Time	Location
1/21/2025	5/5/2025	TR	9:40am - 11:00am	HUDD 224A

Durham Liberal Arts :: Psychology

PSYC 760W (01) - Ecopsychology

Ecopsychology

Credits: 4.0
Term: Spring 2025 - Full Term (01/21/2025 - 05/05/2025)
Grade Mode: Letter Grading

Class Size: 20
CRN: 56212

Ecopsychology is a theory of the relationship between humans and nature. Ecopsychology is a focus of interest within Division 34 (Society for Environmental, Population, and Conservation Psychology) of the American Psychological Association. We will explore the impact of people?s relationships with the natural world, which includes land, waterways, plants, and animals. Different cultures will be studied as we explore people?s relationships with nature. The significance of the ways in which people connect or disconnect with nature will be studied in relation to the effect on one?s mental (and physical) health, behaviors, and worldviews. This is a writing intensive course that meets the requirement for a Group II 700 level / writing intensive course for the Psychology major. Within the Department of Psychology we have the three courses of Counseling, Health Psychology, and Psychology of Happiness, that address factors related to one?s overall well-being. This course has an ecological context in which psychological health, the health of the earth, and culture are studied; this course complements those three courses. Ecotherapy, which is applied Ecopsychology, will be explored through empirical studies and other important writings. The Ecopsychology course is also part of the interdisciplinary Native American and Indigenous Studies Minor at UNH.

Prerequisite(s): PSYC 402 and PSYC 502 and PSYC 561

Attributes: Writing Intensive Course

Instructors: Susan Hess

Start Date	End Date	Days	Time	Location
1/21/2025	5/5/2025	MW	9:40am - 11:00am	MCC 110

Durham Liberal Arts :: Psychology

PSYC 762 (01) - Counseling

Counseling

Credits: 4.0
Term: Spring 2025 - Full Term (01/21/2025 - 05/05/2025)
Grade Mode: Letter Grading

Class Size: 20
CRN: 51746

Theories of counseling, ethical considerations, professional and paraprofessional activities in a variety of work settings.

Prerequisite(s): PSYC 402 and PSYC 502 and (PSYC 553 or PSYC 561)

Only listed campus in section: Durham

Classes not allowed in section: Freshman

Only listed majors in section: PSYCHOLOGY

Attributes: Writing Intensive Course

Instructors: Susan Hess

Start Date	End Date	Days	Time	Location
1/21/2025	5/5/2025	TR	9:40am - 11:00am	MCC 245

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Durham Liberal Arts :: Psychology

PSYC 762 (02) - Counseling

Counseling

Credits: 4.0
Term: Spring 2025 - Full Term (01/21/2025 - 05/05/2025)
Grade Mode: Letter Grading

Class Size: 20
CRN: 51579

Theories of counseling, ethical considerations, professional and paraprofessional activities in a variety of work settings.

Prerequisite(s): PSYC 402 and PSYC 502 and (PSYC 553 or PSYC 561)

Only listed campus in section: Durham

Classes not allowed in section: Freshman

Only listed majors in section: PSYCHOLOGY

Attributes: Writing Intensive Course

Instructors: Susan Hess

Start Date	End Date	Days	Time	Location
1/21/2025	5/5/2025	TR	11:10am - 12:30pm	HORT 201

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Durham Liberal Arts :: Psychology

PSYC 762 (03) - Counseling

Counseling

Credits: 4.0
Term: Spring 2025 - Full Term (01/21/2025 - 05/05/2025)
Grade Mode: Letter Grading

Class Size: 20
CRN: 52829

Theories of counseling, ethical considerations, professional and paraprofessional activities in a variety of work settings.

Prerequisite(s): PSYC 402 and PSYC 502 and (PSYC 553 or PSYC 561)

Only listed campus in section: Durham

Classes not allowed in section: Freshman

Only listed majors in section: PSYCHOLOGY

Attributes: Writing Intensive Course

Instructors: Melinda Morrill

Start Date	End Date	Days	Time	Location
1/21/2025	5/5/2025	M	11:10am - 2:00pm	MCC 110

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Durham Liberal Arts :: Psychology

PSYC 782W (01) - Autobiographical Memory

Autobiographical Memory

Credits: 4.0
Term: Spring 2025 - Full Term (01/21/2025 - 05/05/2025)
Grade Mode: Letter Grading

Class Size: 20
CRN: 56213

This course will explore autobiographical memory from a lifespan developmental perspective. Topics include flashbulb memories; the origins of personal memory in infancy and early childhood; memory and trauma; exceptional memory abilities; memory and the self; memories of life transitions; false memories; and gender and cultural differences in memory performance. Classes will be discussion-based and interactive.

Prerequisite(s): PSYC 402 and PSYC 502

Attributes: Writing Intensive Course

Instructors: Kari Dudley

Start Date	End Date	Days	Time	Location
1/21/2025	5/5/2025	T	2:10pm - 5:00pm	MCC 110

Durham Liberal Arts :: Psychology

PSYC 785 (01) - Social Development

Social Development

Credits: 4.0
Term: Spring 2025 - Full Term (01/21/2025 - 05/05/2025)
Grade Mode: Letter Grading

Class Size: 20
CRN: 56214

Examines development of social interactions. Emphasizes important social relationships for the child (e.g., attachment to parents and friendships with peers). Considers other topics of relevance to social developmentalists, such as temperament, aggression, social cognition, and sex roles.

Prerequisite(s): PSYC 402 and PSYC 502 and PSYC 581

Attributes: Writing Intensive Course

Instructors: Nikolay Dimitrov

Start Date	End Date	Days	Time	Location
1/21/2025	5/5/2025	TR	2:10pm - 3:30pm	MCC 230

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Durham Liberal Arts :: Psychology

PSYC 791W (04) - Special Topics

SpcTop/Culture and Human Devlp

Credits: 4.0
Term: Spring 2025 - Full Term (01/21/2025 - 05/05/2025)
Grade Mode: Letter Grading

Class Size: 20
CRN: 54538

New or specialized courses are presented under this listing. Advanced material not normally covered in a regular course offering in which instructor has specialized knowledge through research and study. May be repeated for different topics.

Prerequisite(s): PSYC 402 and PSYC 502

Repeat Rule: May be repeated up to 4 times.

Equivalent(s): PSYC 791

Only listed campus in section: Durham

Classes not allowed in section: Freshman

Attributes: Writing Intensive Course

Instructors: Pablo Chavajay

Start Date	End Date	Days	Time	Location
1/21/2025	5/5/2025	TR	11:10am - 12:30pm	MURK 202

Additional Course Details:

Culture and Human Development

“Culture”-an essential concept that is often disregarded, much debated, or often misunderstood in many arenas. Yet, culture has wide-ranging implications in our everyday life-socially, politically, emotionally, and cognitively. This course is designed to examine the critical roles culture plays in understanding various psychological phenomena. Drawing on research in communities throughout the world, it considers how cultural values, beliefs, and goals of development shape everyday life. Prereq: Psyc 402; 502; 581; or permission. WI.

Durham Liberal Arts :: Psychology

PSYC 791W (06) - Special Topics

SpcTop/Socio-MoralJudgementDev

Credits: 4.0
Term: Spring 2025 - Full Term (01/21/2025 - 05/05/2025)
Grade Mode: Letter Grading

Class Size: 20
CRN: 56215

Section Comments: Topic: Socio-Moral Judgement Development

Prerequisite(s): PSYC 402 and PSYC 502

Repeat Rule: May be repeated up to 4 times.

Equivalent(s): PSYC 791

Attributes: Writing Intensive Course

Instructors: Bolivar (Boli) Reyes-Jaquez

Start Date	End Date	Days	Time	Location
1/21/2025	5/5/2025	R	2:10pm - 5:00pm	MCC 110

Additional Course Details:

Topic: Socio-moral judgment development

This course focuses on how, from early in life, people start making judgments and decisions in their social lives—as well as why they can sometimes act in biased and/or sub-optimal ways. Social judgments can take many forms, such as deciding whether someone is real or not real, similar to or different from others, worth trusting or avoiding, better or worse than others, and so on. We will examine the roles that age, mental capacities, and context can play in shaping the ways in which we evaluate other individuals.