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Courses Taught

Undergraduate 

  1. Abnormal Psychology
  2. Applied Experiences in Psychology
  3. Method & Theory/Research Methods in Psychology
  4. Psychology of Women
  5. Violence Against Women/Trauma, Risk, & Resilience
  6. Careers in Psychology
  7. Independent Study. This involves students doing 9 hours of assigned research activities under my supervision and attending lab meetings weekly for 3 credits. See the Trauma, Risk, & Resilience Tab on my webpage for more information.

Graduate 

  1. Abnormal Psychology
  2. Graduate Statistics & Research Design

Engaged Civic Learning 

I have taught, an engaged civic learning course, Violence Against Women, four times. As part of this course, students have delivered an enhanced, evidence-based relationship and sexual assault prevention program to 272 other college and high school students who were not in the course.

  • In 2018, all of the students in my course received the Chancellors Award for Student Civic Engagement Cavanaugh-press-release-2018
  • I published an article about my related teaching activities–see Cavanaugh, C.E. (2019). A novel model for advancing student learning and sexual assault prevention on campus. Teaching of Psychology, 46, 306-311.
  • My course serves as a model that could be used nationwide Inside Higher Ed, 2020
  • One semester, my class consisted of both traditional college students and high school seniors from the LEAP Academy who were in the dual enrollment program See here  .
  • My related teaching activities were covered in the Monitor on Psychology in April 2022