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3.00 Credits
This advanced seminar will undertake a careful study of the most famous political book ever written, Plato's Republic. In it, Socrates and two young friends become founders of the best political community. Along the way they explore difficult and even troubling questions about justice and the truly best way of life for a human being. Are you up to the challenge to join them in their founding?
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3.00 Credits
What is the relationship between philosophy and Islam? Does the divine law (Shari'a) need to be supplemented with purely rational reflections on the nature and purpose of political life? What is the place of toleration and individual rights in the Islamic legal and philosophic tradition? We will explore these and similar questions by focusing on two particularly fertile periods of Islamic thought - the encounter of Islam with Greek philosophy in the classical period and its encounter with modern secular west in late modernity.
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3.00 Credits
Almost all human beings agree that to live well one must live with others. But how are we to live together? What end or purpose orders our relations? What are our obligations? What are our rights? By examining the writings of various seminal thinkers, this seminar seeks to shed light on these questions which are at the core of the great controversies between political orders and even between political parties.
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3.00 Credits
This seminar explores major theories and issues in cognitive developmental psychology. Students gain a historical understanding of the emergence of developmental psychology as a field, become familiar with the theory of Jean Piaget, and explore recent findings about how infants and young children make sense of the world. Each week focuses on a new topic. Examples include children's understandings of numbers and objects, their ability to perceive emotion in others, and autism.
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3.00 Credits
Abnormal behaviors characteristic of mental disorders are discussed with respect to psychological and biological origins and treatments. Topics include theoretical approaches, such as cognitive science and neuroscience; brain mechanisms that regulate behaviors associated with mental disorders such as schizophrenia and Alzheimer's disease; interactive effects of genetic predispositions and environmental stresses in the cause of mental disorders; treatment of mental disorders by the use of biological methods, such as drug therapy, and psychological techniques, such as behavior therapies; and the prevention of mental disorders by behavior modification, stress management, and life style.
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3.00 Credits
This course examines how five major fields of psychology have approached the study of art and creativity: clinical/personality psychology, social psychology, neuropsychology, cognitive psychology, and developmental psychology. Thus, this course provides an overview of different areas of psychology as well as an examination of how each of these areas has studied art and creativity. The course focuses on the psychological processes involved in both the creation of and response to art: how these processes operate in the normal adult, how they develop in the child, and how they break down under conditions of psychosis and brain-damage.
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3.00 Credits
This course is an introduction to the field of biopsychology, an approach to psychology stressing brain function as the source of cognition and behavior. We begin the course by establishing a "common vocabulary" by reviewing basics of brain and neuronal function. The bulk of the course addresses how brain function controls perception of the physical world, is altered by drugs and physical damage, and controls basic behaviors - eating, sleeping, language, and sex - that make humans so unique. A major underlying theme will be how the brain and mind have evolved over time and develop within an individual.
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3.00 Credits
Memory doesn't just help us to excel on exams or to reminisce with friends. The ability to learn from past experiences makes us who we are and allows us to function in society. This course uses the study of memory as a way to explore the psychological research process. We will examine how we remember and why we forget, how our memories are tied to our sense of self and to our relations to others in society, and how everyone from advertisers to professors can capitalize on the nature of memory to influence what we remember about an experience.
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3.00 Credits
This is one of a two-course introductory sequence required for Psychology majors. The course is concerned with the biological (genetic, evolutionary, and physiological) bases of behavior and with the attempt to characterize in physiological and cognitive terms the underpinnings of human motivation, emotion, sensation, and thought.
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3.00 Credits
This course is one of two introductory courses required for Psychology majors, along with PS 110. PS 110 and PS 111 can be taken in any order. This course introduces students to the basic questions, perspectives, and methods that characterize the fields of developmental, social, cultural, personality, and clinical psychology.
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