Advanced Psychology Seminar
PSY-423
Detailed Schedule
Week 1 – Orientation (Intro. To Health Care Reform)
Section I: Death and Dying
Week 2 – EOL decision making: Physician consultations (1) & confusion about brain death (2)
Week 3 – EOL decision making: disadvantaged populations (3) religious fundamentalism & refusing treatment (4)
Week 4 – EOL: college students beliefs about EOL decisions (5); Death Attitudes: Role of religiosity (6)
Week 5 – Death attitudes: Predictors of fear of death (7) & Cross-cultural (religious) death anxiety (8)
Week 6 – Meaning Making: Mourning and meaning (9) & Creek spirituality & meaning of death (10)
Week 7 – Continuing Bonds & Reconstructing meaning (11); Meaning making at EOL (12)
Week 8 – Student Presentation; Mid-term Review
Week 9 - Exam I (Tuesday)
Section II: Family Forms
Week 9 - begin Section II (Thursday) with Inclusive family studies and family vitality (1)
Week 10 –Marriage institutionalization or deinstitutionalization (2) and Promoting marriage (3)
**Spring Break**
Week 11 –Singles in Society (4); Together is Better (5)
Week 12 –Adapting to marriage (6); Non-traditional families I (7)
Week 13 – Non-traditional families II (8); Short-term mating (9)
Week 14 - Marital competence (10); Successful partnering (11)
Week 15 – Student Presentation; Review
Week 16 – Final Exam