Fall 2025
Research Seminar in Social Psychology (PSYC 4410)
This course is designed for the student who has some background in social psychology and methodology and wants to pursue some aspect of it in depth. Each year the course will focus on a particular broad theoretical or applied area of social psychology (e.g., social cognition, group processes, interpersonal relationships) and students will pursue individual projects from within that area. Through exposure to these individual projects and a core of assigned readings, students will attempt to develop an understanding of the theoretical and methodological issues that are important to the development of research in the chosen area of social psychology.
The readings for this course are journal articles and book chapters, which will be available via handout, Nexus, PsycINFO, or library reserve. The APA Publication Manual (7th edition) is not required but highly recommended.
Winter 2026
Organizational Leadership & Decision Making (PSYC 3450)
This course provides an in-depth survey of research and theory about leadership and decision making in organizations. Established power, trait, behavioral, contingency-based, social exchange and transformational models of organizational leadership are examined as well as several more recently developed models such as servant, authentic, and adaptive leadership. Additional topics include team leadership and leadership ethics.
The textbook will be: Northouse, P.G., (2021). Leadership: Theory and Practice (9th Ed.) Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications. The “interactive e-book” content is not required.