Short description: The course is aimed to provide Students with the skills of predicting and explaining social behaviors and using knowledge from the scope of social psychology in concrete daily situations. Students will have an opportunity to learn diagnosing social situation (level of: prejudice, conflict, aggression, attitudes, stereotypes) and preparing procedures aimed at change of observed situations.

Short description: The first introductory course in general psychology deals with the basic processes of perception, learning, and thinking. The course also presents information that helps to better understand mechanisms underlying these processes. The course attempts to go beyond the description of facts and theories, it promotes critical thinking about research findings and addresses some of the applications of psychological research. The course gives an opportunity to take look at the broad scope of psychology from its beginning up to the recent findings. After this course Students will be better prepared for perceive, understand and take an attitude toward human life problems.

Short description: The course is aimed to develop skills of critical analysis of scientific texts in the area of biological foundations of human behavior. Another goal is the right usage of data concerning biological aspect of the mental life sphere. It is also aimed to show Students directions to study selected areas of neurobiology on their own.

Short description: The lecture is. related to the promotion of well-being, the prevention of mental disorders, and the treatment and rehabilitation of people affected by mental disorders. The aim of the lecture is to focus on psychopathology, diagnosis, treatment, rehabilitation and prevention of mental disorders. The symptoms leading to the diagnosis of mental disorders will be discussed in the context of modern classification systems. The Student will also learn about the etiology and evidence based treatment models of the main groups of mental disorders: psychoses, mood disorders, substance abuse, eating disorders, anxiety and personality disorders.

Short description: The objective of the course is to acquaint Students with the main theories and research on individual differences in the areas of temperament, intelligence (abilities), and cognitive styles; the origins of individual differences; and the role of individual differences in explaining human functioning. The fundamentals of individual difference psychology comprise knowledge on the structure and functional aspects of temperament and intelligence as well as theoretical foundations of standard methods of temperament and intelligence diagnosis.

Short description: The course is aimed to give Students an opportunity to learn how to formulate problems and questions in the area of psychological assessment. Students will learn to treat the process of assessment as a whole and learn the consequences of each step in the process. Students will also have an opportunity to understand the necessity to interpret and integrate data form various sources and will be able to use data obtained with various methods and techniques.

Short description: Multiculturalism of Europe is rather obvious and but still it is a challenge for nations and individual citizens. Each country probably accepts the challenge a in a bit different way than others. The course is designed to familiarize Students with European Models of Multiculturalism.

Short description: The lecture gives Students a basic knowledge of the four interacting scientific fields - psychology, ethology, genetics and evolution and teaches them the critical analysis of ideas and theories in that scope.
The lecture covers 4 main topics:
1. Attitudes of humans to animals in various cultures and development of scientific theories of behavior (including elements of ethology, evolution and heredity). Interactions between these fields of science.
2. Comparative ethology.
3. Contemporary evolutionary psychology.
4. Human behavior from the evolutionary and ethological perspective.

Short description: TThe course is aimed to present topics at the crossroads of economics and psychology. Some of the topics are: risk taking and harm avoidance, time preference, altruism and reciprocity - psychological mechanisms of human economic behavior. Students will also be familiarized with existing research on economic psychology.

Short description: Psychologist is a public confidence profession. To better prepare student for such a responsible task the courses teaches perceiving and identifying ethical dilemmas relating to psychological practice. It also teaches how a psychologist can protect oneself against breaking basic rules of the profession.

Short description: The course provides knowledge in the broad area of personality. It gives basis for critical usage of theory in a description and interpretation of mental life phenomena. It teaches formulating problems and differentiating between different stands in personality psychology - research, therapeutic and pedagogic.

Short description: The course is intended to provide Students with the basic philosophical concepts - including those used in psychological literature. Another aim is to develop skills of analyzing culture texts and place them in a broader philosophical context. The course prepares for critical evaluation of arguments and theoretical stands. Students will gain skills of using basic formal tools in order to evaluate correctness of definitions, classifications and argumentation.

Short description: The course is aimed to give Students understanding of:
• the major schools of thought that have contributed to the development of psychology
• the relationship between theoretical and applied psychology
• the contribution of research milestone in psychology to contemporary psychological theories and applications.

Short description: The aim of the courses is to give Students an opportunity to get knowledge in using methods of psychological help. Student will have an opportunity to learn how to help people and groups effectively. The course will give students an opportunity to learn about different kinds of psychological help, their advantages and disadvantages, possible outcomes and consequences.

Short description: The aim of the course is to integrate theory and practice with real-life applications to make the study of individual differences psychology both interesting and meaningful to students. Another objective is to encourage critical thinking by focusing on the process of scientific inquiry and comparing empirical data with common-sense ideas. Seminar program is complementary to the program of the lecture.

Short description: This course's main goal is to provide Students with the information required in order to prepare and write essays and psychology research reports (advanced course) in accordance with the conventions of the 5th edition of The Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association (APA Editorial Style).
An emphasis will be put on learning to apply in your writing the appropriate conventions included in The Ethical Principles of Psychologists and Code of Conduct, with a special stress on reducing bias in language with regard to gender, sexual orientation, racial and ethnic identity and disabilities.

Short description: The main goal of this course is to guide Students through all stages of a research process- starting from formulating of the research question and hypothesis(es), through actually doing an empirical study designed to deal with the issue, to the analysis of the obtained data and preparation of an empirical report from the study. Moreover, students will prepare a Power Point presentation of the results. This is not a course of statistics or methodology, but its aim is to consolidate your competence in these areas that you have gained earlier in the course of study.

Short description: The first introductory course in general psychology deals with basic psychological processes. It also presents information that helps to better understand mechanisms underlying these processes. The course not only describes facts and theories but also includes elements of statistics and methodology as well as promotes critical thinking. Finally, the course addresses some of the applications of psychological research.

Short description: The workshop is conducted in the reference to the lecture by the same title. The aim is to give students possibility to use the knowledge gained during the lecture in a more practical way.

Short description: The first introductory course in general psychology deals with basic psychological processes. It also presents information that helps to better understand mechanisms underlying these processes. The course not only describes facts and theories but also includes elements of statistics and methodology as well as promotes critical thinking. Finally, the course addresses some of the applications of psychological research.

Short description: The course will assist Students in developing your basic psychological skills in a safe and learning environment. The main objective of this course is practice through cooperative learning. Students will gain basic knowledge and apply what you have learned in the following domains: verbal and non verbal communication, group processes, conflict management, assertiveness, time management, self-awareness. Students will have the opportunity to test your training skills as well as to get feedback from the group as each session will involve sample exercises prepared, conducted and evaluated by other participants.

Short description: The aim of the course is mastering of basic computer skills (word processor, spreadsheet, presentation graphics). The course is patterned upon a subset of the international ECDL standard (European Computer Driving License).

Short description: The aim of the course is to teach Students how to conduct literature search related to a given problem, how to review literature, make conclusions, ask questions and formulate a theoretical model of a investigated phenomena. Students' task is to solve a problem through finding relevant knowledge (finding and reading literature) and its creative use.