Opportunity to explore career possibilities. Limited to students interested in developing curatorial and exhibition skills through museum or gallery work; intern in the Paul Robeson Gallery on the Newark campus or in other locations, under department supervision.
Open to juniors and seniors only.
Examines American social welfare policies and programs from the New Deal to the present. Analysis of the impact of changing social conditions, values, and norms on contemporary policies and programs and their impact on society relative to responses to social need; directions for future social policy explored.
Prerequisites: 21:350:101,102.
Major theoretical and experimental contributions to the understanding of normal personality and its development; relative adequacy of different theories in dealing with specific empirical data.
Prerequisite: 21:830:102.
Psychological study of the individual's social interaction; theories of interaction and the empirical research employed in the investigation of topics such as attitude formation and change; group structure and process; and motivation, learning, and perception in a social context.
Prerequisites: 21:830:102.
Introduces the study of human cognition. Topics include perception, attention, memory, knowledge representation, language, problem solving, thinking, and reasoning. How is the world represented, and what are the processes underlying those representations? Considers the real-world implications of laboratory findings.
Prerequisite: 21:830:101.
Basic methods and paradigms in the cognitive and behavioral sciences. Research from areas of psychology in psychophysics, learning, memory, and perception are used to illustrate basic paradigms used in the cognitive and behavioral sciences. Students conduct experiments, analyze data, and write reports in standard psychology formats.Prerequisite: 21:830:301.
Error analysis; interpolation theory; numerical solution of equations; polynomial approximations; numerical differentiation and integration; solution of differential equations.Prerequisite: 21:640:136 or 156.
Row reduction, solving linear systems; vector spaces, subspaces, bases; linear transformations, images, and kernels; eigenvalues, eigenvectors, and diagonalization of matrices; applications to differential equations, computer graphics, and numerical calculation.Prerequisite: 21:640:136 or 156, or permission of instructor. Credit not given for both 21:640:219 and 350.
Modern probability, statistics, and statistical inference; discrete and continuous distributions of random variables, statistical inference, hypothesis testing, linear regression, and correlation.Prerequisite: 21:640:119 or 135 or 155, or permission of instructor.
Scientific study of human behavior, including historical foundations, methodology, neural base of behavior, sensation and perception, and cognition.
Note: 21:830:101 and 102 may be taken simultaneously or in either order.