Psyc 890 001 or Psyc 592 008

DBS Professional Seminar

Course Syllabus - Spring 2004

Dr. Adam Winsler

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Instructor:                   Adam Winsler, Ph.D.              Office:             2023 David King Hall

Phone:                       (703) 993-1881            Office Hours:    Wed 10-11, Thur 1-2, + by  appt.

Email:                        awinsler@gmu.edu                  Winsler URL:            http://classweb.gmu.edu/awinsler         

Course Schedule           W  11:30–12:20                     Location:         ENT 176

Credit Hours:               1                              

          

Course Description & Goals

 

The Spring DBS professional seminar is designed to serve as a mechanism for facilitating student organization of the DBS brown-bag colloquia series. Students in this course will organize the speaker series both for the current Spring semester and for the following Fall semester. This involves contacting and scheduling both external and internal speakers and panels, deciding on topics and formats to be covered, advertising the sessions, attending the sessions, and providing a variety of speaker-support functions (AV/technology needs, drinks, lunch, parking, maps etc…)

 

 

Course Requirements/Assignments/Activities

 

1)     Attendance/participation at the colloquia. Students are required to attend every colloquium this semester. Students are allowed to miss one session without penalty but after that, the students grade will be affected.

 

2)     Planning/organizing future colloquia – Students are responsible for completing the speaker schedule for this semester and for practically filling the speaker schedule for the next fall.

 

3)     Speaker support. Students will assist in providing speaker support this semester (AV/technology needs, drinks, lunch, parking, maps etc…)

 

 

Use of Technology

 

We can use WEBCT for online discussion if desired. This will be determined on the first day of class.

 

 

Grading Procedures

 

Grades for this course will be on a satisfactory/no credit basis. In order to receive a satisfactory pass, students will need to complete requirements above.

 

 

Accommodation for Students with Disabilities

 

It is the policy of the University and this instructor to make reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities. Students who may have special needs because of a physical or learning disability are encouraged to contact the Disability Resource Center ASAP (222 Student Union I) 993-2474 http://www.gmu.edu/student/drc/  Students with disabilities who are in need of accommodation relative to class attendance/arrival, course requirements, or related aspects of course performance and who have already processed the necessary paperwork with Disability Support Services must initiate such a request in writing immediately, and prior to any anticipated need, to the instructor. Such requests will be accommodated within the reasonable constraints of fairness and timeliness with regard to the instructor and the other students enrolled in the course.

 


Speaker Schedule

 

Date

Speaker

Topic

Wednesday

Jan 21

 

Organizational meeting

 

Wednesday

Jan 21

 

Dr. Ken Rubin
University of Maryland, Department of Human
Development

The Prevalence, Provisions, and Pitfalls of Friendship in Middle Childhood

Wednesday Jan 28

Dr. Michael Ullman
Georgetown University
Department of Neuroscience

A Neurocognitive Perspective on Second Language Acquisiton
and Processing: The
Declarative/Procedural Model

Wednesday Feb 4

Dr. James Youniss
Catholic University

Department of Psychology

 

Wednesday Feb 11

Dr. Tonya Dodge
George Washington University

Department of Psychology

Participation in Athletics and Sexual Risk Taking in Adolescent Girls

Wednesday Feb 18

Dr. John Philbeck
George Washington University

Department of Psychology

 

Wednesday Feb 25

 

Dr. Carol Sigelman
George Washington University

Department of Psychology

 

Wednesday March 3

Dr. Elyse Lehman

George Mason University
Department of Psychology

Measurement Issues in Studying the Development of Sustained Attention in Elementary School Age Children

Wednesday March 10

NO CLASS –SPRING BREAK

 

Wednesday March 17

Dr. Johannes Rojahn       ** ??

George Mason University
Department of Psychology

 

Wednesday March 24

Dr. Nathan Fox
University of Maryland
Department of Human Development

 

Wednesday March 31

 

Merry Bullock, American
Psychological Association

 

Wednesday

April 7

 

 

Wednesday April 14

Dr. Melanie Killen

University of Maryland

Department of Human Development

 

Wednesday

April 21

Dr. Peter Marshall
University of Maryland
Department of Human Development

EEG Development and Behavior in Institutionalized Children in Romania

Wednesday

April 28

Dr. Jane Clark

University of Maryland

Department of Kinesiology