PSGA-6360 - Social Policy & Applied Psychology (3) Syllabus via Blackboard, eRes, or email.
This course covers current, possible and ideal interactions between research and social policy in regard to issues affecting infants, children and youth. Examples include child care, antipoverty programs and welfare reform, early interventions, school reform, child welfare, youth development, ethnicity and immigration, effects of the media, juvenile justice, health care, and international comparisons. Students prepare a summary of research on a topic covered in class and then formulate a testimony for Congress based on the state of our research knowledge.

PSGA-6850-Program Evaluation (3) Syllabus via Blackboard, eRes, or email.
This course reviews the theories and practice of program evaluation. Programs dealing with children, youth and families are emphasized. Students volunteer in a program site and design an evaluation of that site. Topics depend to some extent on the sites in which students work, but core issues of evaluation are covered such as stakeholders, implementation and implementation analysis, design and impact analysis, participation rates and attrition, community-wide initatives and theories of change, and programs as contexts for development.

PSGA-8350-ADP Practicum (with Ann Higgins D’Alessandro) (3) Syllabus via Blackboard, eRes, or email.
This is a professional development course for third year graduate students in the Applied Developmental Psychology Program. Students spend at least one day per week in a site of their choosing and design and execute a research project in that s ite. CV preparation, grant and journal article review, designing an ADP course, and career options are also covered.

PSRU-2700- Infant and Child Development (3) Syllabus via Blackboard, eRes, or email.
This course explores children's development from infancy to adolescence. It follows a scientific orientation, reviewing theories of child development and scientific studies that teach us about infants and children. It is organized around topics such as emotions, cognitive development, and families rather than around age periods. That is, we examine emotional development from infancy up to adolescence, then cognitive development from infancy to adolescence, and so forth.  Throughout the course we examine the nature of our knowledge--why do we believe this to be true-- and consider the implications for parenting, teaching, or other real world interactions with infants and children

PSRV-4920-Youth, Values, and Society (3) Syllabus via Blackboard, eRes, or email.
This is a Senior Values Seminar that also can serve as a capstone course in Psychology. It explores youth development historically and in contemporary context, examining the portrayal of youth in the media and literature as well as in science. Youth is examined as a time for development of values that one carries throughout life. Scientific readings, readings on values as well as literature and films are reviewed.