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4.00 Credits
Programs of directed study supervised by a person approved by the Department.
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Supervised small group tutorial. Topics to be arranged.
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The study of functions and their rates of change. Fundamental ideas of calculus are introduced early and used to provide a framework for the study of mathematical modeling involving algebraic, exponential, and logarithmic functions. Thorough understanding of differential calculus promoted by year long reinforcement. Applications to biology and economics emphasized according to the interests of our students.
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4.00 Credits
Continued investigation of functions and differential calculus through modeling; an introduction to integration with applications; an introduction to differential equations. Solid preparation for Mathematics 1b.
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4.00 Credits
Supervised individual research leading to a tutorial paper.
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4.00 Credits
Join renowned neuroscientists from Harvard and elsewhere who will lead highly interactive seminars addressing core problems underlying the emergence of conscious visual experience. Topics include the requisite neuronal representations of the content of visual images, their localization within extrapersonal space and the sense of ownership of such images by a self. Subsidiary topics include selective attention, the binding problem, binocular rivalry, change blindness, recursive neuronal networks and distinction between phenomenal and access consciousness.
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4.00 Credits
Considers how culture, law, and science construct violence. Reviews clinical examples of violence (videotapes of a serial killer, a sexually violent predator, a case of maternal infanticide, and violence by law enforcement) and the responses of the courts and the criminal justice system. Then critically examines the spectrum of scientific theories and psychiatric diagnoses that seek to delineate and explain human violence.
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4.00 Credits
Seeks to better understand addiction and uses it as vantage point to understand voluntary behavior. Drug use and addiction involve genetic factors, drug pharmacology, principles governing choice, and the culturally universal voluntary/involuntary distinction. Topics include characteristics of addiction, neuronal communication, brain plasticity, OCD, genetic influences on behavior and gene expression, motivation and reward, choice, popular and scientific understanding of voluntary behavior, and the role of cultural values in drug consumption and individual choice.
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4.00 Credits
Focuses on the science of happiness, integrating findings from positive psychology, psychiatry, behavioral genetics, neuroscience, and behavioral economics. Begins with a brief history of ideas on happiness from Aristotle to Kahneman. Considers the genetics of happiness including the notion of a biologically determined hedonic set point, the brain's pleasure circuitry, and the mind's power to frame events positively, a tool used in cognitive therapies. Questions whether pleasure and happiness are our purpose.
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4.00 Credits
Teaching animals elements of human language was once considered cutting-edge science, but now receives little more than a chapter in comparative psychology textbooks. Considers rationale behind the original studies. Examines their successes and failures, and the political and scientific reasons most projects have ended. Would renewed interest in animal language re-energize studies on similarities and differences in human and nonhuman communicative behavior? What would we learn about the evolution of language?
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