Graduate Program

Spring Term Schedule

Spring 2026

Number	Title	Instructor	Time
PSYC 503-01 Development of Social and Emotional Behavior Patrick Davies T 9:30AM - 12:00PM
This course covers central theoretical and empirical topics in social and emotional development from infancy through adolescence. Guided by a behavioral systems perspective, topics explored include but are not limited to temperament, physiological functioning, attachment, coping with interpersonal threat, social affiliation, exploring the physical world, and caregiving behavior. Emphasis is placed on understanding the course, antecedents, and sequelae of children's typical and atypical social and emotional functioning in these domains through different levels of analysis (e.g., family, parents, peers, culture). Location (T 9:30AM - 12:00PM)
PSYC 512-01 Structural Equation Modeling Elizabeth Handley M 9:30AM - 12:00PM
This course will cover methods and concepts relevant to the family of statistical techniques known as structural equation modeling (SEM). Topics range from foundational concepts such as model estimation and identification and confirmatory factor analysis to more advance topics including mixture modeling and longitudinal data analysis. Location (M 9:30AM - 12:00PM)
PSYC 513-01 Meta-Analysis Bonnie Le R 9:00AM - 12:00PM
No description Location (R 9:00AM - 12:00PM)
PSYC 514-01 Analyzing Experiments: Regression to Bayes Cameron Hecht M 1:00PM - 3:30PM
Experimental data can be analyzed in many ways, each with different assumptions, strengths, and limitations. This course surveys a range of approaches to analyzing experiments, from multiple regression to multilevel models, Bayesian inference, and cutting-edge tree-based methods such as Bayesian causal forests (BCF). While some methods may be familiar, the course emphasizes when and why different approaches yield meaningfully different insights, particularly in estimating treatment effects and exploring treatment effect heterogeneity. Special attention is given to the logic of each approach, their practical tradeoffs, and how to choose and implement appropriate methods for real-world experimental data. The course includes hands-on implementation in R, with examples drawn from actual studies. Prerequisites PSYC 504 and PSYC 519 Location (M 1:00PM - 3:30PM)
PSYC 519-01 Data Analysis II-General Linear Approaches Harry Reis T 3:25PM - 6:05PM
No description Location (T 3:25PM - 6:05PM)
PSYC 519-02 Data Analysis II-General Linear Approaches Harry Reis W 12:00PM - 1:30PM
No description Location (W 12:00PM - 1:30PM)
PSYC 561-01 Children's Thinking About Society Isobel Heck W 9:00AM - 11:50AM
Children are born into a complex social landscape. How do young children come to represent, make sense of, and participate in the social world? In this seminar, we will explore how the social world first becomes represented in the human mind, as well as what young people’s thinking can tell us about society itself. Topics include the development of social categorization; children’s thinking about power, status, and inequality; the emergence of social attitudes, values, and beliefs; and children’s thinking about societal institutions, including politics, economics, and law. Emphasis will be placed on how variation in lived experience shapes social thinking across contexts and individuals and on how research with children can inform an understanding of current social issues and movements. Location (W 9:00AM - 11:50AM)
PSYC 571-01 Clinical Assessment II Andrew Cohen W 2:00PM - 5:00PM
No description Location (W 2:00PM - 5:00PM)
PSYC 571-02 Clinical Assessment II Andrew Cohen F 9:00AM - 12:00PM
No description Location (F 9:00AM - 12:00PM)
PSYC 585-01 Psychotherapy Practicum II Andrew Cohen T 9:00AM - 1:00PM
Blank Description Location (T 9:00AM - 1:00PM)
PSYC 586-01 Evidence-Based Child Psychotherapy Chad Shenk R 1:00PM - 3:30PM
This course covers the content and techniques used in widely disseminated and well-established behavioral interventions applied with the pediatric population, including children and adolescents. The course begins with an introduction to the philosophy of science, experimental methods, and mechanisms of action used to design behavioral interventions and evaluate their efficacy with children and adolescents. With this scientific foundation, the course then reviews the theoretical origins, associated treatment manuals, and techniques of major behavioral interventions for treating mood, anxiety, disruptive behavior, and trauma-related disorders with the pediatric population. Major emphasis will be placed on the common elements used across individual treatments and critically evaluating the treatment outcome research of these interventions. This course is for Clinical Psychology graduate students only. Students in other clinical programs at the University of Rochester may contact the instructor for permission to take the course. Location (R 1:00PM - 3:30PM)
PSYC 595-01 PhD Research Patrick Davies 7:00PM - 7:00PM
This course provides PhD students with fewer than 90 credits the opportunity to conduct, develop, and refine their doctoral research projects. Students will engage in research relevant to their field of study and make progress toward completing their dissertations. Location ( 7:00PM - 7:00PM)
PSYC 595-02 PhD Research Andrew Elliot 7:00PM - 7:00PM
This course provides PhD students with fewer than 90 credits the opportunity to conduct, develop, and refine their doctoral research projects. Students will engage in research relevant to their field of study and make progress toward completing their dissertations. Location ( 7:00PM - 7:00PM)
PSYC 595-03 PhD Research Jeremy Jamieson 7:00PM - 7:00PM
This course provides PhD students with fewer than 90 credits the opportunity to conduct, develop, and refine their doctoral research projects. Students will engage in research relevant to their field of study and make progress toward completing their dissertations. Location ( 7:00PM - 7:00PM)
PSYC 595-04 PhD Research Harry Reis 7:00PM - 7:00PM
This course provides PhD students with fewer than 90 credits the opportunity to conduct, develop, and refine their doctoral research projects. Students will engage in research relevant to their field of study and make progress toward completing their dissertations. Location ( 7:00PM - 7:00PM)
PSYC 595-05 PhD Research Ronald Rogge 7:00PM - 7:00PM
This course provides PhD students with fewer than 90 credits the opportunity to conduct, develop, and refine their doctoral research projects. Students will engage in research relevant to their field of study and make progress toward completing their dissertations. Location ( 7:00PM - 7:00PM)
PSYC 595-06 PhD Research Lisa Starr 7:00PM - 7:00PM
This course provides PhD students with fewer than 90 credits the opportunity to conduct, develop, and refine their doctoral research projects. Students will engage in research relevant to their field of study and make progress toward completing their dissertations. Location ( 7:00PM - 7:00PM)
PSYC 595-07 PhD Research Melissa Apple 7:00PM - 7:00PM
This course provides PhD students with fewer than 90 credits the opportunity to conduct, develop, and refine their doctoral research projects. Students will engage in research relevant to their field of study and make progress toward completing their dissertations. Location ( 7:00PM - 7:00PM)
PSYC 595-09 PhD Research Sheree Toth 7:00PM - 7:00PM
This course provides PhD students with fewer than 90 credits the opportunity to conduct, develop, and refine their doctoral research projects. Students will engage in research relevant to their field of study and make progress toward completing their dissertations. Location ( 7:00PM - 7:00PM)
PSYC 595-11 PhD Research Elizabeth Handley 7:00PM - 7:00PM
This course provides PhD students with fewer than 90 credits the opportunity to conduct, develop, and refine their doctoral research projects. Students will engage in research relevant to their field of study and make progress toward completing their dissertations. Location ( 7:00PM - 7:00PM)
PSYC 595-12 PhD Research Bonnie Le 7:00PM - 7:00PM
This course provides PhD students with fewer than 90 credits the opportunity to conduct, develop, and refine their doctoral research projects. Students will engage in research relevant to their field of study and make progress toward completing their dissertations. Location ( 7:00PM - 7:00PM)
PSYC 595-13 PhD Research Isobel Heck 7:00PM - 7:00PM
This course provides PhD students with fewer than 90 credits the opportunity to conduct, develop, and refine their doctoral research projects. Students will engage in research relevant to their field of study and make progress toward completing their dissertations. Location ( 7:00PM - 7:00PM)
PSYC 595-14 PhD Research Karl Rosengren 7:00PM - 7:00PM
This course provides PhD students with fewer than 90 credits the opportunity to conduct, develop, and refine their doctoral research projects. Students will engage in research relevant to their field of study and make progress toward completing their dissertations. Location ( 7:00PM - 7:00PM)
PSYC 595-15 PhD Research Christie Petrenko 7:00PM - 7:00PM
This course provides PhD students with fewer than 90 credits the opportunity to conduct, develop, and refine their doctoral research projects. Students will engage in research relevant to their field of study and make progress toward completing their dissertations. Location ( 7:00PM - 7:00PM)
PSYC 595-16 PhD Research David Dodell-Feder 7:00PM - 7:00PM
This course provides PhD students with fewer than 90 credits the opportunity to conduct, develop, and refine their doctoral research projects. Students will engage in research relevant to their field of study and make progress toward completing their dissertations. Location ( 7:00PM - 7:00PM)
PSYC 595-17 PhD Research Steven Silverstein 7:00PM - 7:00PM
This course provides PhD students with fewer than 90 credits the opportunity to conduct, develop, and refine their doctoral research projects. Students will engage in research relevant to their field of study and make progress toward completing their dissertations. Location ( 7:00PM - 7:00PM)
PSYC 595-18 PhD Research Thomas O'Connor 7:00PM - 7:00PM
This course provides PhD students with fewer than 90 credits the opportunity to conduct, develop, and refine their doctoral research projects. Students will engage in research relevant to their field of study and make progress toward completing their dissertations. Location ( 7:00PM - 7:00PM)
PSYC 595-19 PhD Research Loisa Bennetto 7:00PM - 7:00PM
This course provides PhD students with fewer than 90 credits the opportunity to conduct, develop, and refine their doctoral research projects. Students will engage in research relevant to their field of study and make progress toward completing their dissertations. Location ( 7:00PM - 7:00PM)
PSYC 595-20 PhD Research Jody Manly 7:00PM - 7:00PM
This course provides PhD students with fewer than 90 credits the opportunity to conduct, develop, and refine their doctoral research projects. Students will engage in research relevant to their field of study and make progress toward completing their dissertations. Location ( 7:00PM - 7:00PM)
PSYC 595-21 PhD Research Benjamin Suarez-Jimenez 7:00PM - 7:00PM
This course provides PhD students with fewer than 90 credits the opportunity to conduct, develop, and refine their doctoral research projects. Students will engage in research relevant to their field of study and make progress toward completing their dissertations. Location ( 7:00PM - 7:00PM)
PSYC 595-22 PhD Research Nestor Tulagan 7:00PM - 7:00PM
This course provides PhD students with fewer than 90 credits the opportunity to conduct, develop, and refine their doctoral research projects. Students will engage in research relevant to their field of study and make progress toward completing their dissertations. Location ( 7:00PM - 7:00PM)
PSYC 595-24 PhD Research Cameron Hecht 7:00PM - 7:00PM
This course provides PhD students with fewer than 90 credits the opportunity to conduct, develop, and refine their doctoral research projects. Students will engage in research relevant to their field of study and make progress toward completing their dissertations. Location ( 7:00PM - 7:00PM)
PSYC 595-25 PhD Research Chad Shenk 7:00PM - 7:00PM
This course provides PhD students with fewer than 90 credits the opportunity to conduct, develop, and refine their doctoral research projects. Students will engage in research relevant to their field of study and make progress toward completing their dissertations. Location ( 7:00PM - 7:00PM)
PSYC 595-26 PhD Research Jennie Noll 7:00PM - 7:00PM
This course provides PhD students with fewer than 90 credits the opportunity to conduct, develop, and refine their doctoral research projects. Students will engage in research relevant to their field of study and make progress toward completing their dissertations. Location ( 7:00PM - 7:00PM)
PSYC 595-27 PhD Research Hannah Kramer 7:00PM - 7:00PM
This course provides PhD students with fewer than 90 credits the opportunity to conduct, develop, and refine their doctoral research projects. Students will engage in research relevant to their field of study and make progress toward completing their dissertations. Location ( 7:00PM - 7:00PM)
PSYC 986V-01 Full Time Visiting Student Brigid Cahill 7:00PM - 7:00PM
This course affords graduate students visiting the University of Rochester full-time student status. Visiting students will engage in research, discussion, and/or professional training in partnership with an academic department or faculty member. This course is for visiting students of University Health Services only. Not affiliated with the Department of Psychology. Location ( 7:00PM - 7:00PM)
PSYC 986V-02 Full Time Visiting Student Harry Reis 7:00PM - 7:00PM
This course affords graduate students visiting the University of Rochester full-time student status. Visiting students will engage in research, discussion, and/or professional training in partnership with an academic department or faculty member. This section is for visiting students of Psychology. Location ( 7:00PM - 7:00PM)
PSYC 991-01 Clinical Internship Chad Shenk 7:00PM - 7:00PM
No description Location ( 7:00PM - 7:00PM)
PSYC 999-01 Doctoral Dissertation Harry Reis 7:00PM - 7:00PM
This course provides PhD students who have completed or are currently completing 90 credits of coursework and have fulfilled all degree requirements (except for the dissertation) with the opportunity to work full-time on their dissertation. Students will make significant progress toward completing their degrees. Location ( 7:00PM - 7:00PM)

Number	Title	Instructor	Time
Monday
PSYC 512-01 Structural Equation Modeling Elizabeth Handley
This course will cover methods and concepts relevant to the family of statistical techniques known as structural equation modeling (SEM). Topics range from foundational concepts such as model estimation and identification and confirmatory factor analysis to more advance topics including mixture modeling and longitudinal data analysis.
PSYC 514-01 Analyzing Experiments: Regression to Bayes Cameron Hecht
Experimental data can be analyzed in many ways, each with different assumptions, strengths, and limitations. This course surveys a range of approaches to analyzing experiments, from multiple regression to multilevel models, Bayesian inference, and cutting-edge tree-based methods such as Bayesian causal forests (BCF). While some methods may be familiar, the course emphasizes when and why different approaches yield meaningfully different insights, particularly in estimating treatment effects and exploring treatment effect heterogeneity. Special attention is given to the logic of each approach, their practical tradeoffs, and how to choose and implement appropriate methods for real-world experimental data. The course includes hands-on implementation in R, with examples drawn from actual studies.
Monday and Wednesday
Tuesday
PSYC 585-01 Psychotherapy Practicum II Andrew Cohen
Blank Description
PSYC 503-01 Development of Social and Emotional Behavior Patrick Davies
This course covers central theoretical and empirical topics in social and emotional development from infancy through adolescence. Guided by a behavioral systems perspective, topics explored include but are not limited to temperament, physiological functioning, attachment, coping with interpersonal threat, social affiliation, exploring the physical world, and caregiving behavior. Emphasis is placed on understanding the course, antecedents, and sequelae of children's typical and atypical social and emotional functioning in these domains through different levels of analysis (e.g., family, parents, peers, culture).
PSYC 519-01 Data Analysis II-General Linear Approaches Harry Reis
No description
Tuesday and Thursday
Wednesday
PSYC 561-01 Children's Thinking About Society Isobel Heck
Children are born into a complex social landscape. How do young children come to represent, make sense of, and participate in the social world? In this seminar, we will explore how the social world first becomes represented in the human mind, as well as what young people’s thinking can tell us about society itself. Topics include the development of social categorization; children’s thinking about power, status, and inequality; the emergence of social attitudes, values, and beliefs; and children’s thinking about societal institutions, including politics, economics, and law. Emphasis will be placed on how variation in lived experience shapes social thinking across contexts and individuals and on how research with children can inform an understanding of current social issues and movements.
PSYC 519-02 Data Analysis II-General Linear Approaches Harry Reis
No description
PSYC 571-01 Clinical Assessment II Andrew Cohen
No description
Thursday
PSYC 513-01 Meta-Analysis Bonnie Le
No description
PSYC 586-01 Evidence-Based Child Psychotherapy Chad Shenk
This course covers the content and techniques used in widely disseminated and well-established behavioral interventions applied with the pediatric population, including children and adolescents. The course begins with an introduction to the philosophy of science, experimental methods, and mechanisms of action used to design behavioral interventions and evaluate their efficacy with children and adolescents. With this scientific foundation, the course then reviews the theoretical origins, associated treatment manuals, and techniques of major behavioral interventions for treating mood, anxiety, disruptive behavior, and trauma-related disorders with the pediatric population. Major emphasis will be placed on the common elements used across individual treatments and critically evaluating the treatment outcome research of these interventions.
Friday
PSYC 571-02 Clinical Assessment II Andrew Cohen
No description