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3.00 Credits
Every fall. SAMUEL P. PUTNAM. Research and theory regarding the interacting influences of biology and the environment as they are related to social and emotional development during infancy, childhood, and adolescence. Normative and idiographic development in a number of domains, including morality, aggression, personality, sex roles, peer interaction, and familial relationships are considered. Prerequisite: Psychology 210, 252, and junior or senior standing.
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3.00 Credits
Every spring. SUZANNE LOVETT. Examines the development of cognitive understanding and cognitive processes from infancy through adolescence. Emphasis on empirical research and related theories of cognitive development. Topics include infant perception and cognition, concept formation, language development, theory of mind, memory, problem solving, and scientific thinking. Prerequisite: Psychology 210, 252, and junior or senior standing.
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3.00 Credits
Every spring. PAUL SCHAFFNER. Examines how people experience work in modern human organizations. Weekly seminar meetings address motivation, performance, commitment, and satisfaction; affect and cognition at work; coordination of activity; anticipation, planning, and decision making; organization- environment dynamics; and the enactment of change. Prerequisite: One psychology course numbered 260-279 and junior or senior standing.
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3.00 Credits
Advanced Independent Study and Honors
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3.00 Credits
Spring 2007. ELIZABETH PRITCHARD. Basic concepts, methods, and issues in the study of religion, with special reference to examples comparing and contrasting Eastern and Western religions. Lectures, films, discussions, and readings in a variety of texts such as scriptures, novels, and autobiographies, along with modern interpretations of religion in ancient and contemporary, Asian and Western contexts.
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3.00 Credits
Spring 2007. SUSAN L. TANANBAUM. Explores Jewish life through the lenses of history, religion, and ethnicity and examines the processes by which governments and sections of the Jewish community attempted to incorporate Jews and Judaism into European society. Surveys social and economic transformations of Jews, cultural challenges of modernity, varieties of modern Jewish religious expression, political ideologies, the Holocaust, establishment of Israel, and American Jewry through primary and secondary sources, lectures, films, and class discussions. (Same as History 125.)
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3.00 Credits
Fall 2006. SCOTT R. SEHON. Does God exist Can the existence of God be proven Can it be disproven Is it rational to believe in God What does it mean to say that God exists (or does not exist) What distinguishes religious beliefs from non-religious beliefs What is the relation between religion and science Approaches these and related questions through a variety of historical and contemporary sources, including philosophers, scientists, and theologians. (Same as Philosophy 142.)
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3.00 Credits
Fall 2006. ELIZABETH PRITCHARD.
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3.00 Credits
Spring 2008. DALLAS DENERY. Traces the origins of the scientific revolution through the interplay between late-antique and medieval religion, magic, and natural philosophy. Particular attention is paid to the conflict between paganism and Christianity, the meaning and function of religious miracles, the rise and persecution of witchcraft, and Renaissance hermeticism. (Same as History 204.)
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3.00 Credits
Fall 2007. JORUNN BUCKLEY. Furnishes a non-apologetic outline of Islam while tackling anti-Islamic prejudices common in general American culture. Selected themes include the religion's own terminological apparatus and categories of understanding, ritual and ethics, religious and secular leadership, mystical traditions, and modernity issues in Islam. In the interest of balance, there is an emphasis on including works by Muslims, especially regarding central topics in modern Islam.
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