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PSYCHOLOGY 273
include school reform, race relations, and the causes and consequences
of urban sprawl and metropolitan fragmentation.
Prerequisite: 200.
376./512. Health Policy and Politics. (3)
Analysis of the politics of health care in the U.S. and the
development of public health policies.
377./512. Population Policy and Politics. (3)
Analysis of U.S. and multinational policies addressing issues
of world population growth, including policy tools designed to
control population growth.
*470. Public Policy Analysis. (3)
Examines the allocative, distributive and regulatory problems
common to all governments and provides techniques necessary
to analyze the policies resulting from these problems.
Prerequisite: 200.
*475. Environmental Politics. (3)
A study of political problems of environmental protection and
land use planning.
Graduate Courses
510. Pro-Seminar in American Government and Politics.
(3)
{Offered upon demand}
511. Research Seminar in American Government and
Politics. (3) †
{Offered upon demand}
512. Topics in Government and Politics. (3, no limit) ∆
520. Pro-Seminar in Comparative Politics. (3)
{Offered upon demand}
521. Research Seminar in Comparative Politics. (3) †
{Offered upon demand}
525. Pro-Seminar in Latin American Politics. (3)
Prior course work in Latin American politics required; reading
knowledge of Spanish is highly desirable.
535. Comparative Public Administration. (3)
Examination on a comparative basis of national systems
of administration in developed and developing countries,
focusing on the organization and behavior of public bureaucracies.
Prerequisite: 375.
534. Policy Issues in Education. (3)
(Also offered as LEAD 534.) This course focuses on current
research and debates on critical policy areas relating to PK-
12 education. The class examines the role of key decisionmakers,
ideologies, and implementation constraints in policy
conflict resolution.
540. Pro-Seminar in International Relations. (3)
541. Research Seminar in International Relations. (3) †
{Offered upon demand}
551–552. Problems. (1-3, 1-3, no limit) ∆ ∆
560. Pro-Seminar in Political Theory. (3)
{Offered upon demand}
570. Pro-Seminar in Public Policy. (3)
Review of representative theories of public policy, including
policy formation, implementation and impact analysis.
{Offered upon demand}
580. Introduction to Empirical Research. (3)
Provides a systematic examination of the scope and methods
of inquiry in the discipline of political science, including the
philosophy of science, subfields, intellectual approaches,
methodological strategies, research design and ethics of
professional conduct. Required of M.A. and Ph.D. students.
{Fall}
581. Statistics for Social Research. (3)
Provides intensive experience and lab instruction in quantitative
techniques employed in political science research,
including descriptive statistics, statistical inference, hypothesis
testing, measures of central tendency, crosstabulation,
differences between means, bivariate regression, correlation
and multivariate analysis. Required of M.A. and Ph.D.
students. {Fall}
582. Survey of Political Science as a Discipline and a
Profession. (1)
Required of all graduate students in political science and recommended
to undergraduate majors. Offered on a CR/NC
basis only. {Fall}
583. Teaching and the Political Science Profession. (1)
An examination of questions relating to pedagogy, course
preparation and assessment methods, with particular attention
to the challenges of teaching undergraduate political
science courses. Offered on a CR/NC basis only.
584. Interdisciplinary Seminar on Problems of
Modernization in Latin America. (3)
(Also offered as HIST 689, ECON, SOC 584.)
599. Master’s Thesis. (1-6)
Offered on a CR/NC basis only.
681. Advanced Statistical Analysis for Social Science
Research. (3)
Focuses on a variety of advanced econometric methods.
Beginning with a review of matrix algebra and math for the
social sciences, the course provides an in-depth examination
of multiple regression and more advanced econometric
models. Required for Ph.D. students. {Spring}
Prerequisite: 581 or equivalent.
699. Dissertation. (3-12)
Offered on a CR/NC basis only.
PSYCHOLOGY
Ronald A. Yeo, Chairperson
Gordon K. Hodge, Associate Chairperson for Undergraduate
Education
Steven W. Gangestad, Associate Chairperson for Graduate
Education
Michael J. Dougher, Director of Clinical Training
Department of Psychology, Logan Hall
MSC03 2220
1 University of New Mexico
Albuquerque, New Mexico, 87131-0001
(505) 277-4121
http://psych.unm.edu
Professors
Harold D. Delaney, Ph.D., University of North Carolina
Michael J. Dougher, Ph.D., University of Illinois (Chicago)
Steven W. Gangestad, Ph.D., University of Minnesota
Jane E. Smith, Ph.D., State University of New York
(Binghamton)
Claudia Tesche, Ph.D., University of California (Berkeley)
Ronald A. Yeo, Ph.D., University of Texas at Austin
Associate Professors
Kristina T. Ciesielski, Ph.D., Polish Science Academy
(Nencki Institute)
Vincent Clark, Ph.D., University of California (San Diego)
Timothy E. Goldsmith, Ph.D., New Mexico State University
Gordon K. Hodge, Ph.D., University of California (Los
Angeles)
Akaysha C. Tang, Ph.D., Harvard University
Assistant Professors
Karin M. Butler, Ph.D., Michigan State University
ARTS AND
SCIENCES
UNM CATALOG 2006–2007 Symbols, page 611.