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1.00 Credits
Students will be introduced to the psychological study of children's mathematical thinking and learning through a variety of theoretical and experimental readings from laboratory and school-based studies. Students will also review selected sections of grade-school mathematics textbooks from commonly used curricula to identify connections between particular theoretical viewpoints and their curricular implementations.
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The course will begin by examining different attitudes and practices during prenatal development and continue through early adulthood. We will consider the perspectives of the child, parents, other family members, and larger society. Developmental experiences will be examined in traditional societies and developing nations, as well as in modern industrialized societies. A wide range of developmental topics will be considered. Examples of topics in child development include weaning practices, sleep patterns, paternal contribution, education, sibling relationships, and childcare practices. Examples of topics in adolescence and early adulthood include anxiety in adolescence and the age of economic independence, sexual activity, and marriage. Some disturbing and controversial material will be discussed in a respectful atmosphere (e.g., cultural relativism and severe neglect). Students will have the opportunity to opt out of potentially disturbing discussions. The strengths and weaknesses of multiple theoretical approaches to development will be addressed and debated. A few examples of these theories include cultural relativism, universal learning mechanisms, evolutionary ecology, and evolutionary psychology.
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1.00 Credits
This advanced seminar will explore contemporary psychological theories and multidisciplinary empirical research of anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa, and binge eating disorder. Using eating disorders as an example, we will study how culture, familial factors, and personal vulnerability contribute to risk for psychiatric disorders.
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1.00 Credits
The study of the psychology of reading encompasses many aspects of human cognition: from sensation and perception to comprehension and reasoning. This class will provide an overview of research in the psychology of reading. Topics such as word recognition, eye movements during reading, comprehension, learning to read, methods of teaching reading, the brain and reading, reading in different languages, and reading impairments in children and adults will be covered.
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1.00 Credits
This course is designed to allow students to conduct supervised research in the area of memory and cognition. Working as a team with the instructor and other members of the research group, students will undertake a semester-long project on a topic in memory research.
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1.00 Credits
Students in this advanced undergraduate research course will work in teams on novel and ongoing research studies focused on understanding neurocognitive dysfunction and its treatment in neuropsychiatric illness. Students will be matched to a research project and will participate in different aspects of this research including background literature review, acquiring elementary skills in neurocognitive and symptom assessment, and collecting and/or analyzing extant data using SPSS. Students may also be involved in learning cognitive training procedures.
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1.50 Credits
This course allows you to ask and answer questions that you feel most passionately about through the analysis of existing data. The focus is on helping you develop and complete your own research project. The course offers unlimited one-on-one support; ample opportunities to work with other students who share your interests; training in numerous skills that prepare you to work in many different research labs across the University that collect empirical data; and a final project that can be submitted for possible publication in one of Wesleyan's student-run journals. It is also an opportunity to fulfill an important requirement in several different majors.
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1.00 Credits
This course will examine the many ways in which religion is understood and practiced by a variety of communities as well as the ways it is critically engaged and understood by scholars in the field of religious studies. The three divisions of the curriculum of the Department of Religion (religious traditions, thematic approaches, and method and theory) will be represented in the course's examples and approaches. Topics covered in this course include religious violence and conflict, the significance of myth and narrative in providing schemes of meaning, the production of community solidarity and difference through rituals, the construction and transmission of traditions through texts and objects, and religious conflict.
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1.00 Credits
This course offers an introduction to the Hebrew Bible and to modern biblical scholarship. We will examine texts from various parts of the Bible as well as different types of scholarly approaches to those texts. Approaches that we will address include source criticism, form criticism, feminist criticism, historical-critical criticism, anthropological criticism, rhetorical criticism, liberation theology, and Jewish theology. The aim of the course is to engage with the biblical text in a way that fosters critical discussions of its content and fluency with scholarly methodologies, such that students will be prepared to further navigate the field of biblical studies on their own.
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1.00 Credits
This course is an introduction to the political, social, and religious world of Christianities during the first three centuries of the Common Era. Through discussion sessions, it will explore the controversy between emerging orthodoxy and heresy and its propagandistic impact upon the development of church organizations, interpretations of sexuality and the roles of women, the rise of gnosticism, and the formation of the Christian Bible.
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