Tilburg University

Tilburg University

Tilburg, Netherlands

Program Facts

Program Type: Exchange

Credit Type: Transfer Credit

Terms Available: Academic Year, Fall, Spring

GPA: 2.75

Class Eligibility: Sophomore, Junior, Senior, Graduate

Program Open To: UA Students

Language of Instruction: English, Dutch

Application Deadline:
Fall & Academic Year: April 15
Spring: September 15

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Academics

Tilburg University emphasizes disciplines in the Social Sciences and Arts & Humanities fields, but offers courses of study in many diverse fields.

This is a particularly strong program for students studying Public Management and Policy, Psychology, and Sociology.

Click here for academic information for exchange students. To view available courses, scroll to the 'Course overview' section.

At the beginning of August, you can use the OSIRIS course catalog to check out course offerings for the upcoming academic year. After accessing the catalog, select the following options:

'Study Programmes'
'Tilburg University'
'Exchange Program Tilburg University'
Choose the most recent academic year's folder for your level of study and exchange term (fall, spring, full year)

Class selection tips:

A full course load is 30 ECTS per semester
Some classes have quotas on the maximum number of exchange students that can be admitted; make sure to identify plenty of back-up classes if you notice your top choices are flagged in this way
For the Fall semester, Courses in Block 1 run from August until October, and courses in Block 2 run from October to December
Exchange students make only take up to 12 ECTS in the Language Center

Scholarships:

Arizona International scholarships:

Arizona International Study Abroad Scholarships
Study Abroad Scholarship Tracker

Departmental scholarships:

Check your department's and college's websites for scholarship opportunities, or ask your academic advisor!
SILLC Global Award Fund
Honors College study abroad scholarships

External scholarships:

Gilman Scholarship (for Pell Grant recipients)
Fund for Education Abroad

Expand the sections below to view pre-approved courses at Tilburg University. This list is not exhaustive- browse the course catalog linked above for a full selection of class offerings during your term abroad.

Fall Semester Courses

European History: Politics and Culture

Course Description:

Media Witnessing: Journalism and Vigilantism

Course Description:

Language Learning and Socialization

Course Description:

How do children become members of a cultural community? In order to be an active and competent member, they not only have to learn the language, but also the (implicit) cultural norms, rules and routines of this community. In other words, they have to acquire both linguistic and cultural competence. This is the case for children growing up and learning the language(s) and culture(s) of their parents (primary socialization process), but also when they are entering and becoming part of a new community. Nowadays, most people are part of different communities; they are multilingual and multicultural. They have to learn the linguistic and cultural competencies needed for participating in each of their communities. When entering a new community, children must learn to understand and use linguistic structures in appropriate ways. Besides, they have to learn ways to participate adequately in the sociocultural practices of the community. In this course, we focus on the socialization process of children into the linguistic and sociocultural practices of a community. The socialization process, by which they become multilingual and multicultural, takes place in intercultural contact with members of the community, both in formal life organized in institutions as in informal daily life and in online communication. The focus of attention in this course will be on processes of language learning and socialization. The processes will be studied from an individual and a societal perspective, in both formal and informal settings (home, online, school).

Partner Course Code:

880057-B-6

UArizona Equivalent Course:

LING Departmental Elective, Upper division.

UArizona Units:

Psychology of Language

Course Description:

Political Philosophy

Course Description:

Brain and Behavior

Course Description:

This course studies behavior in terms of biological factors (nervous system, senses, muscular system, hormone system, etc), emphasizing the relation between the brain and behavior. The course starts with fundamental knowledge, such as the anatomy, function and pharmacology of the nervous system. How is the nervous system organized? What is a nerve cell? How do nerve cells convey information? This basic knowledge is required for a thorough understanding of the following topics: How do we derive knowledge about the brain in relation to behavior (research methods)? Which pharmacological processes come into play? How does the nervous system develop? Which diseases of the nervous system exist? Next, a number of elementary theories about the relation between the organism and behavior are discussed. Relevant questions are: how do we perceive the world around us? How do our senses interact with each other? How do we move? Finally, the so-called 'higher' cognitive functions are detailed. What causes behavior? Why do we sleep? How do we learn and remember? How do we think? The amount of knowledge presented in this course is fairly large, and sometimes quite complex. Students without preparatory training in biology or chemistry are urgently advised to pay special attention to chapters 3 to 5. In order to facilitate the necessary preparation of the lectures, a schedule of the contents of each lecture is given on Blackboard (menu Course Documents).

Partner Course Code:

840104-B-6

UArizona Equivalent Course:

PSYC Department Elective, Upper division.

UArizona Units:

Cognitive Psychology

Course Description:

Introduction to experimental psychology of sensation and perception, learning, memory, language, attention and thinking. Some hands-on experience in designing, conducting and reporting behavioural experiments.

Partner Course Code:

840103-B-6

UArizona Equivalent Course:

PSYC Department Elective, Upper division.

UArizona Units:

Cultural Psychology

Course Description:

Cultural differences between people are a common phenomenon. Cultural background is often mentioned as an explanation for differences in behaviour between groups or people. However, it is often unclear what these cultural differences actually are or how cultural background influences our thoughts and behaviours. It is important to be able to think critically about cultural differences because many psychologists have to deal with people from different cultural backgrounds. This requires that psychologists know about the ways that culture influences people and that they are sensitive to possible cultural differences in the daily practice of their jobs. This course aims to provide the student with an introduction to cultural psychology. At the end of the course, the student has an overview of the influence of culture on human thoughts and behaviours. In addition, students are aware of possible cultural differences and have the capacity to think critically about such differences.

Partner Course Code:

500308-B-5

UArizona Equivalent Course:

PSYC Department Elective, Upper division.

UArizona Units:

2.5

Economic Psychology

Course Description:

This course investigates the psychological and economic processes underlying individual and social decision-making. We will develop an understanding of the differences between major theories and research practices in economics and psychology. We will learn economic theories of rational behavior, and when and why these theories fail descriptively. We will also examine alternative theories of decision- making have been proposed. Finally, we will address how the findings from psychology and economics can be applied to improve public policy and real-life decision-making.

Partner Course Code:

423025-B-6

UArizona Equivalent Course:

PSYC Department Elective, Upper division.

UArizona Units:

Emotions: Scientific and Clinical Aspects

Course Description:

The aim of the course is twofold. First, we aim to make students familiar with the major concepts and theories regarding emotion and the state of the art regarding scientific research on emotion, its antecedents, correlates, and its consequences. Second, we aim to show how emotions and (dysfunctional) emotion regulation is dealt with in clinical practice.

Partner Course Code:

500192-B-6

UArizona Equivalent Course:

PSYC Department Elective, Upper division.

UArizona Units:

Evolutionary Psychology

Course Description:

This course will provide an introduction to the burgeoning field of evolutionary psychology. Evolutionary psychology starts from the premise that the human brain is the product of natural selection. Therefore, by adopting an evolutionary stance, we might come to a better understanding of the human mind and behavior. Evolutionary psychologists aim to test empirical predictions that can be derived when applying the principles of natural selection to psychological processes and human behavior. To that end, they draw on data of a multi-disciplinary nature, as will become apparent in the readings of this course. Evolutionary psychology provides a new, exciting, and often deviant perspective to all areas of psychology. That said the focus of this course is on understanding human social behavior. Although appreciation of the evolutionary approach is growing, it remains highly controversial in psychology, as well as in other scientific and societal circles. Modern evolutionary theory is often misunderstood, which has resulted in fierce debates on topics like evolution versus creation, nature versus nurture, and issues of free will and morality. Throughout this course, the most common misinterpretations about evolutionary accounts of behavior will be discussed to gain a well-informed view of the potential merits and the pitfalls of evolutionary perspectives on behavior.

Partner Course Code:

422087-B-6

UArizona Equivalent Course:

PSYC Department Elective, Upper division.

UArizona Units:

Experimental Psychology

Course Description:

Cognitive Psychology is the branch of psychology that deals with the study of psychological functions such as perception, attention, learning, remembering, reading, speaking, reasoning and decision making. Cognitive psychology examines how these behaviours come about and depend on the circumstances in which they occur. In the lectures, experimental studies are mainly discussed, and some background about the experiment as a method is discussed. The following topics are then discussed: • Perception: seeing, hearing, feeling, smelling and tasting • Learning: classical and operant conditioning • Memory: remembering information in the short and long-term memory and related processes • Attention, awareness, sleep • Language: speech and writing • Thinking, problem solving, insight and other higher cognitive processes • Emotions.

Partner Course Code:

530038-B-6

UArizona Equivalent Course:

PSYC Department Elective, Lower division. Tier 1 or 2 Individuals & Societies.

UArizona Units:

Introduction to Clinical Neuropsychology

Course Description:

This course addresses the effect of innate and acquired neural damage on cognition, emotion, and behavior in adults. First, an overview will be presented of modern methods for measuring brain activity and diagnostics of brain damage and neural dysfunction. Next, an overview will be presented of the major functions of the various parts of the brain, including functional differences between the two hemispheres. Subsequently, a broad range of cognitive, behavioral, and emotional dysfunctions will be treated which can be attributed to neurological disorders, particularly dysfunctions regarding (1) learning and memory, (2) language, (3) emotion and social behavior, (4) spatial orientation, (5) attention and consciousness, and (6) voluntary movements. It will also be explained to what extent these dysfunctions are part of typical syndromes belonging to major neurological and psychiatric disorders. Finally, it will be explained how early developmental factors may be involved in the origin of brain disorders and dysfunctions, and how plasticity, recovery, and rehabilitation may play a role in the recovery and compensation of such dysfunctions.

Partner Course Code:

550022-B-6

UArizona Equivalent Course:

PSY Department Elective, Upper division.

UArizona Units:

Introduction to Cognitive Science

Course Description:

Cognitive Science is the multidisciplinary study of how minds work. Cognitive scientists come together from many different research areas to engage in an interdisciplinary attack to understand the nature of intelligence, memory, attention, imagery, language, reasoning, decision making, morality, and perception. In this course we will overview how cognitive science fundamentally rests on integrating methods and concepts from a number of disciplines, including the traditional disciplines of philosophy, psychology, computer science, neuroscience, biology, linguistics, and anthropology, as well as more recently integrated disciplines such as economics, education, mathematics, and engineering. We will discuss the philosophical perspectives, the methodologies, and the major findings of these sub-fields and how they can be integrated to understand both how we as well as how other agents (animals and machines) think. No background in any of these disciplines is assumed, and this course is intended to serve as an introduction to the unique multidisciplinary approach to studying problems of mind that Cognitive Science represents.

Partner Course Code:

822183-B-6

UArizona Equivalent Course:

PSY Department Elective, Lower division. Tier 1 or 2 Individuals & Societies.

UArizona Units:

Introduction to Psychology and History of Psychology

Course Description:

Students will be able to recognize the origins and development of psychology as a science and they have performed their first empirical research in psychology. This translates into the following concrete learning goals. Learning goals Upon successful completion of the course, with respect to the course materials (course book, lectures, lecture slides, instructions for the working groups), students will be able to: identify historical persons (e.g., Descartes, Skinner), theories (e.g., mechanistic physiology, behaviorism), and concepts (e.g., animal spirits, reinforcement), and the relationships among these; identify contemporary questions and their relationships with historical developments in psychology; reason about what conclusions historical persons most probably would have drawn with respect to historical and contemporary issues; under supervision, design, execute, and report a study about a psychological question.

Partner Course Code:

595102-B-5

UArizona Equivalent Course:

PSY Department Elective, Lower division. Tier 1 or 2 Individuals & Societies.

UArizona Units:

Psychology of Personality

Course Description:

Personality psychology is aimed at studying individuals' personal ways in which they perceive and understand the world and the characteristic ways in which they react. It is eminent that persons differ from each other. In which ways they differ and why they differ is, however, less obvious. Answering these questions is an important part of the scientific studying of personality. Personality psychology concerns human nature in a broad sense, i.e., from the general and universal characteristics that are inherent with being human to the uniqueness of individual personalities. The personality psychology uses various levels of analysis, from molecular genetics to cultural causes. Explanations for the origin of individual differences are various in nature and vary from alternative adaptation strategies, the complex exchange between genetic and environmental influences, biological characteristics such as temperament, socialization and the effect of cognitive processes, etc.

Partner Course Code:

550041-B-5

UArizona Equivalent Course:

PSY Department Elective, Lower division. Tier 1 or 2 Individuals & Societies.

UArizona Units:

2.5

Social Psychology

Course Description:

Social psychology is one of the basic disciplines in psychology. Social psychologists study the feelings, thoughts, and behaviours of 'normal' individuals, and how these feelings, thoughts, and behaviours are influenced by the implicit or explicit presence of others. Social psychology is a basic discipline and the emphasis very much on theories that predict and explain social behaviour. At the same time, social psychology is also directly relevant for society. Social psychology deals with the behaviour of people in organisations, health behaviour, consumer behaviour, financial behavior, law, education, but also love and culture.

Partner Course Code:

500214-B-6

UArizona Equivalent Course:

PSY Department Elective, Upper division.

UArizona Units:

Social Psychology of Group Dynamics

Course Description:

The aim of this course is to offer you an overview of the most important topics within the field of group dynamics.During the course, students will learn about the actions, processes, and changes that occur in and between groups and in and between individuals in these groups. For example, we will study why people join groups, how people react to exclusion, how conflicts emerge and can be reduced, and how to negotiate.

Partner Course Code:

800166-B-6

UArizona Equivalent Course:

PSY Department Elective, Upper division.

UArizona Units:

Stress and Health

Course Description:

Experiencing stress is generally associated with negative outcomes and decreased health. However, experiencing stress is not always a bad thing, stress might enhance our functioning and help us survive by perceiving danger and acting upon it. This course will focus on possible stressors and their effects on body and mind. The concept of stress and the stress response will be introduced, as well as psycho-biological mechanisms of acute and chronic stress. The effect of stress on (somatic) disease onset, progression, and recovery will be discussed. Finally, possible interventions that affect stress levels will be introduced.

Partner Course Code:

422094-B-6

UArizona Equivalent Course:

PSY Department Elective, Upper division.

UArizona Units:

Work and Health Psychology

Course Description:

Work psychology is a classic subarea of applied psychology. The object of study in this discipline is the structure and regulation of individual work performance. Topics that are studied in work psychology relate to the level and type of workload (job demands), the resources in the job and the role of individual differences in this context. All of this is relevant for health, well-being and safety on the job on the one hand, and job performance on the other. The psychology of work, health and performance is a research area in which many current developments are taking place. Some of these will be dealt with as special topics during this course.

Partner Course Code:

761004-B-6

UArizona Equivalent Course:

PSY Department Elective, Upper division.

UArizona Units:

Work Psychology

Course Description:

Work Psychology (WP) gives students the opportunity to familiarize themselves with the most important topics within the field. WP is a field of psychology which applies psychological principles towards understanding the psychological experience (i.e., their thoughts, feelings and behaviors) of individuals at work. Within this course, the primary focus will be examining ways to get the right person on the right position and more importantly how to motivate and engage them at work. This requires a focus on individual differences and job characteristics (e.g. work pressure and well-being). At the end of this course, students will have gained knowledge about the application of general psychological theory and perspectives within the context of work. The course is built around the framework that organizations are comprised of people and that people are considered to be the most valuable “asset”. Therefore, it is important for organizations to know what would influence the effectiveness of their employees within the work context. Within this framework, we will thus focus on organizational effectiveness and most importantly how we can achieve this through people. We will look at factors at mainly the individual level and discuss topics like performance, motivation, and well-being.

Partner Course Code:

575038-B-6

UArizona Equivalent Course:

PSY Department Elective, Upper division.

UArizona Units:

Public Adminstration

Policy Analysis in Public Administration

Course Description:

Cultural Sociology

Course Description:

Course objectives: To read sections of modern-classic cultural sociological books and to reconstruct central research questions, theories, method, and empirical findings. Students will read a selected number of chapters from modern-classic cultural sociological books from (roughly) the 1950s to now. The books presented center around the theme of culture and cover a variety of research methods (quantitative and qualitative methods). By reconstructing the central research questions, theories, method, and empirical findings students will gain more knowledge on each of these elements.

Partner Course Code:

424015-B-6

UArizona Equivalent Course:

SOC Department Elective, Upper division.

UArizona Units:

GLB: Criminology and Criminal Justice

Course Description:

This course offers an introduction to the discipline of criminology and the study of crime, criminal behavior, and approaches to curb crime. On successful completion of this course, students will be able to: • Name and explain the different perspectives on the object of study of criminology. • Understand the different approaches to reduction of problems of crime and blameworthy harm, and their interdependence. • Compare and contrast the main theoretical perspectives – including biology, psychology, sociology, economics and philosophy – on crime and criminal behavior; • Analyze societal problems from a criminological perspective: scope of the problem; actors involved; theoretical explanations; efforts to curb these problems.

Partner Course Code:

620295-B-6

UArizona Equivalent Course:

SOC Department Elective, Upper division.

UArizona Units:

Introduction to Sociology

Course Description:

This course is for students of International Sociology, the track Global Managament of Social Issues, and exchange students. The course provides an introduction to sociology; in its key questions and its classical theories. The key questions are: social inequality, social cohesion, and rationalization. The questions comprise many sub-questions about individuals and society, for example differences in socio-economic position between men and women (inequality), the use of social media (cohesion), and the declining role of religion (rationalization). Also, questions on organizations and the functioning of individuals within organizations are addressed. The course has lectures and (compulsory) seminars. In the lectures, the key questions and classical theories of sociology are adressed. In the seminars, we practice with applying the acquired knowledge to social issues. Three individual assignments test student's ability to apply sociological knowledge. In these assignments students select social issues formulated in newspapers and analyze this with a sociological mindset.

Partner Course Code:

410120-B-5

UArizona Equivalent Course:

SOC Department Elective, Lower division. Tier 1 or 2 Individuals & Societies.

UArizona Units:

2.5

Law in Society

Course Description:

This course introduces students to the pathways of 'law in society' by using materials from philosophy of law and sociology of law. In combination, these two different research traditions offer important insights into the problematique of instrumentalism: the belief and expectation that law functions as an instrument to solve social problems. The first part of the course (6 seminars) examines from a philosophical perspective the relationship between law, morality, and society. Through the study of philosophical texts and practical legal cases, students learn to place legal instrumentalism in relation to the philosophical traditions of natural law and legal positivism. The first part of the course takes its cue from Lon Fuller's famous 'Case of the Speluncean Explorers', a fictional legal case involving cannibalism in which four judges explore their deepest convictions about the relationship between law, morality, and society. This case serves as a background for discussing, on the basis of classical philosophical texts and legal cases, the traditions of natural law and legal positivism. We shall explore the relationship between these traditions and the belief that law (should) function as an instrument to solve social problems. In the second part of the course (6 seminars), which is sociological in nature, the participants will get to know theoretical and empirical research relating to instrumentalism and to the social working of law, with applications to anti-smoking laws, anti-discrimination laws and regimes relating to euthanasia. They will confront the nature of empirical and comparative research, its opportunities and pitfalls. The second part of the course introduces Moore's concept of semi-autonomous social fields as a way of comprehending the social functioning of rules. In the following lectures, these ideas are opposed to the basic principles of instrumentalism. This confrontation starts from theoretical considerations which are consequently applied to empirical studies on the effects of legal rules in the field of the prevention of smoking and discrimination.

Partner Course Code:

840032-B-6

UArizona Equivalent Course:

SOC Department Elective, Upper division.

UArizona Units:

Social Groups in the Digital World

Course Description:

Howard Becker (1963) opens his seminal study on deviance with the following statement: ‘All social groups make rules and attempt, at some times and under some circumstances, to enforce them. Social rules define situations and the kinds of behavior appropriate to them.’ A prerequisite for being an ‘accepted member’ of a social group is knowledge about the group and its rules. To know what is good (or cool) behavior and what is bad (uncool) behavior. A lot has changed since Becker wrote about ‘deviant sub-cultures’ like Jazz musicians and marihuana users. In many cases social groups and their social worlds in the digital era cannot be understood anymore as national sub-cultures. The digital revolution has deeply changed the infrastructures of knowledge, and consequently, the nature and characteristics of knowledge itself. It has, in short, generated a new knowledge economy with different producers, consumers, modes of circulation and uptake, and different forms of knowledge representation (YouTube clips, for instance, have dislodged the monopoly of mass media on the mass circulation of content images). In this course, we will update Becker's theory and reseach by looking deeper into the effects of digitalization on social groups and worlds. Can we understand trolls as a subculture? And what about hipters? The focal point of this course is that we can only understand the local, offline world - including sub-groups and their infrastructures - if we also take the global and online on board. Students will learn how to analyze social groups and the knowledge one needs to identify oneself as a member in the 21st century and to be able to identify how the online changes the offline. Next to a midterm, every student needs to publish one article on Diggit Magazine.

Partner Course Code:

800153-B-6

UArizona Equivalent Course:

SOC Department Elective, Lower division. Tier 1 or 2 Individuals & Societies.

UArizona Units:

Social Problems

Course Description:

During this course, social problems will be discussed and approached in a scientific way. After a general introduction in which students learn how sociologists think about social problems, there are lectures on the understanding of the historical context in which social problems arise in modern society. Historical embedding and the framing of social problems are some examples of this. Theoretically, the objectivist (positivist) and constructivist (interpretative) approach of social problems will be discussed. Furthermore included topics are moral panic (e.g. urban legends), the natural history of social problems, 'owners' of problems and the difference between social-, sociological- and policy problems. Besides the historical component, there is attention for current social problems like migration and poverty. In the labs, we will (among other things) discuss the arena where social problems are fighting for attention: the media. By means of comparing different sources (e.g. different newspapers), students learn that the seriousness and size of a social problem is differently framed by different media. Goal is to make students aware of claims of different 'owners of social problems' and to let them reflect critically upon this for research and policy. In the labs, there is also attention for discussions around current social problems on the basis of literature and documentaries, and for presenting a social problem of own choice in groups.

Partner Course Code:

410101-B-5

UArizona Equivalent Course:

SOC Department Elective, Lower division. Tier 1 or 2 Individuals & Societies.

UArizona Units:

2.5

Spring Semester Courses

UArizona Units:

2.5

Organizational Development

Course Description:

During this course you will acquire integrated understandings and knowledge into the dynamics of organizational development within the framework of increasing turbulence in the environment of organizations. You will draw on several disciplines, including psychology and sociology. You will learn to critically examine the various theoretical approaches of organizational development by way of confronting these approaches with business cases and with data collected in the field. You will develop your capability to design a research plan and to collect qualitative data.

Partner Course Code:

441079-B-6

UArizona Equivalent Course:

BNAD Department Elective, Upper division.

UArizona Units:

The Economics of Banking and Finance

Course Description:

History of Modern Philosophy

Course Description:

The course surveys the rise of modern philosophy, from the sixteenth century to the beginning of the nineteenth century, and some major philosophical themes as discussed in this period. Themes include epistemological ones (knowledge, science), ontological ones (metaphysics, mind and soul), practical ones (ethics, social philosophy), and theological ones (God). Key thinkers considered will be René Descartes, Benedict Spinoza, David Hume, Immanuel Kant, and others. The main aim of the course is to introduce students to a formative period of philosophy and modern critical thinking, to the ideas of major thinkers from that period, and thereby to important philosophical discussions, concepts, and arguments.

Partner Course Code:

700292-B-6

UArizona Equivalent Course:

PHIL Department Elective, Lower division.

UArizona Units:

Philosophy of Mind

Course Description:

Philosophy of Mind is about what we, human beings, are. Are we physical organisms, or are we embodied (or possibly sometimes disembodied) minds? And what accounts for our consciousness and cognition? After an introductory sketch of the main questions within philosophy of mind, various positions on the mind-body problem will be presented: dualism and materialism/physicalism and, within physicalism, behaviourism, identity theory and functionalism. Subsequently the problem of mental causation will be discussed, and a solution will be proposed in the form of computationalism and representationalism (Fodor). Next the notion of intentionality as mark of the mental will be dealt with. Arguments for and against computationalism will be presented, as well as the question whether there is a fundamental difference between intrinsic (human) intentionality and derived (machine) intentionality (Searle, Dennett). The possibilities for Artificial Intelligence will be discussed. Then we turn to consciousness: what is it, what are its characteristics, is a scientific explanation possible (Nagel, Jackson, Dennett). After that we will discuss the possibility of free will, and link this question to the notion of personal identity (Strawson, Dennett, Libet, Locke, Hume). Finally brain centrism and embodied embedded cognition will be discussed (Gallagher, O’Regan and Noë, Clark and Chalmers).

Partner Course Code:

700195-B-6

UArizona Equivalent Course:

PHIL Department Elective, Upper division.

UArizona Units:

Philosophy, Politics, Economics, and Law

Philosophy of Economics and Economic Ethics

Course Description:

Partner Course Code:

422087-B-6

UArizona Equivalent Course:

PSYC Department Elective, Upper division.

UArizona Units:

Introduction to Cultural Psychology

Course Description:

Our course explores what psychology has to say about multicultural societies, international students, and cultural diversity. We will showcase insights from psychology via two approaches: First, we give an overview of the most influential models of cross-cultural differences and intercultural communication in lectures. Second, we strongly believe in “learning by doing”, and therefore, we use several practical modules: roleplaying games (negotiation and mediation) and a business case (on a tech start up operating globally).

Partner Course Code:

840122-B-6

UArizona Equivalent Course:

PSYC Department Elective, Upper division.

UArizona Units:

Introduction to Psychology (for International Students)

Course Description:

Students gain a general overview of contemporary psychology, with a strong focus on social psychology. They gain insight into relevant problems, theories, research methods, outcomes of research, and real-life applications. During the workshops students will have the opportunity to see how research on different topics in social psychology is done and they will run small studies themselves. They also report and present these studies. At the end of the course, students will be able to: Explain the factors that predict human behavior in social situations Recognize social situations, and identify which (social) psychological processes play a role Conduct, analyse and present (social) psychological research

Partner Course Code:

410123-B-5

UArizona Equivalent Course:

PSY Department Elective, Lower division. Tier 1 or 2 Individuals & Societies.

UArizona Units:

2.5

Neuropsychiological Assessment

Course Description:

Familiarity, understanding and basic experience with neuropsychological diagnostics.

Partner Course Code:

423022-B-6

UArizona Equivalent Course:

PSYC Department Elective, Upper division.

UArizona Units:

Organizational Psychology

Course Description:

Organizational psychology gives students the opportunity to familiarize themselves with the most important topics, ideas and literature within the field of organizational psychology. The goal of this course is to learn the basics of Organizational Psychology by showing you how to use a psychological lens to look at organizational issues and learn how to tackle those issues

Partner Course Code:

575032-B-6

UArizona Equivalent Course:

PSY Department Elective, Upper division.

UArizona Units:

Personality Disorders

Course Description:

This course focuses on personality disorders (PDs). PDs are a class of mental disorders that is characterized by enduring maladaptive patterns of behavior, cognition, and inner experience. These patterns are exhibited across many situations and contexts, and deviate from experiences, thoughts and behaviors that are accepted by the culture an individual lives in. They develop early, are inflexible, and are associated with significant distress or disability. During this course, students learn about aspects of PDs such as their characteristics, symptom criteria in the DSM-5, association to other mental disorders, epidemiology, and relation to gender, age and culture. We also zoom in on two conflicting perspectives on PDs (namely, categorical versus dimensional perspective) and discuss different explanatory theoretical models such as the neurobiological, cognitive and interpersonal model. These models underlie different available interventions, such as schema therapy. Finally, we zoom in on specific individual personality disorders – such as borderline personality disorder or antisocial personality disorder), their general aspects (i.e. characteristics, diagnostic criteria, etiology, prevalence etc.) and opportunities for intervention.

Partner Course Code:

550038-B-6

UArizona Equivalent Course:

PSY Department Elective, Upper division.

UArizona Units:

Political Psychology

Course Description:

Political psychology is an interdisciplinary dynamic subfield at the intersection of psychology and political science. It has a focus on the role of human thought, emotion, and behavior in politics. It analyzes political science as related to entities such as voters, lawmakers, local and national governments and administrations, international organizations, political parties, and associations. While the grammar of "political psychology" tends to stress psychology as the central field, the discipline could also be accurately labeled "the psychology of politics," so as to more evenly recognize the interdisciplinary nature of the field. In the course, both contemporary and classic articles are compiled, demonstrating the ever-changing nature of political psychology and offering comprehensive coverage of social psychological research into the processes that have governed local and global affairs in the postmodern world. Topics covered include authoritarianism, political leadership, public opinion, decision-making, prejudice, inter-group relations, terrorism, and revolution.

Partner Course Code:

500178-B-6

UArizona Equivalent Course:

PSYC Department Elective, Upper division.

UArizona Units:

Psychopathology

Course Description:

After having taken the course students are supposed to be able to: define the main concepts of psychopathology. describe the origins and models (e.g., behavioral model) of psychopathology. describe and identify the main categories of mental disorders (e.g., anxiety disorders, mood disorders, schizophrenia, dissociative disorders, personality disorders, eating disorders) in terms of: signs and symptoms, and the biological, cultural and psychosocial factors that play a role in predisposing, precipitating and perpetuating these disorders; treatment methods; prognosis. describe and explain clinical research methods and state-of-the-art research in psychopathology.

Partner Course Code:

421096-B-5

UArizona Equivalent Course:

PSYC Department Elective, Lower division.

UArizona Units:

2.5

Social Cognition

Course Description:

In this course you will learn about social cognition—the part of psychology that deals with how individuals understand and make sense of the social world. You will learn about research that allows you to better understand how people think about and act upon their social environment and the people who inhabit it. On the one hand, social cognition is a theoretical, fundamental part of psychology. It can give us answers about such fundamental questions as: how do people form opinions? Or: why do people sometimes do good things, and sometimes they behave unfairly or in a morally questionable way? On the other hand, social cognition is also a practical part of psychology because it allow

Partner Course Code:

422052-B-6

UArizona Equivalent Course:

PSY Department Elective, Upper division.

UArizona Units:

Social Neuroscience

Course Description:

The purpose of this course is to clarify the neural mechanisms that underlie human social behaviour. How is information about the world and others processed and acted upon? Can behavior on the basis of this knowledge be predicted and influenced? How is social information processing and social behavior connected to the problems of our time? At the end of this course students will be able to explain a number of timely inter-individual social problems from a cognitive/neuropsychological perspective and have more insight in their possible solutions. Students will be introduced to the diverse methods and concepts of social neuroscience. We will focus on topics as (1) evolutionary origins of social intelligence and culture, (2) emotion and motivation, (3) reading faces and bodies, (4) understanding others, (5) interacting with others, (6) relationships and falling in love, (7) groups and identity, (8) morality and antisocial behavior, and (9) development of the social brain from infancy to adulthood. From the perspective of adaptive plasticity of the brain, we will also consider to what extent behavior and emotions connected to these topics can be modified. The topics will be discussed in the context of direct human social interaction and in the context of the problems of our times.

Partner Course Code:

4222093-B-6

UArizona Equivalent Course:

PSY Department Elective, Upper division.

UArizona Units:

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