Special emphasis will be placed on death attitudes and the relationship to various lifestyles. This course is designed to permit the student a scheduled time for extensive reading in selected topics. Each conference will constitute an examination of the conferee's experiences. Admission by permission of the Departmental Chairperson. This course integrates the research skills the student has acquired as a Psychology major.
Students engage in individual research similar to that found in graduate thesis courses.
Each student proposes an original research project. This course integrates the research skills students have acquired in Minority Mental Health Research Scholars Program. Each student will be required to design an original mental health related research project and write the introduction, literature review, and method sections of a research report. This course completes the research project begun in Senior Research Seminar I. Students are to collect and analyze data and write the results and discussion sections of reports on their original research projects. Students will be required to write a thesis and a publication version of the investigation, and to submit the latter version to an undergraduate research publication.