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3.00 Credits
Lecture SS1011, SS1211, SS1311, SS1411, SS Core Trans, EN1011, EN1015, FY1011, FY1001 This course briefly covers the history of abnormal psychology as a subject of psychology; it introduces the characteristics, treatment and diagnosis of recognized psychological disorders in the United States; and it looks at how culture and historical period contribute to concepts of disorder and mental health. The course explores, compares, and contraststhe ways that mental health and disorder are understood from biological, learning, cognitive, psychodynamic, and cultural perspectives in psychology. Students write reaction papers based on films, literature, and works of visual art with psychological disorders as their subject.
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3.00 Credits
Lecture SS1011, SS1211, SS1311, SS1411, SS Core Trans, EN1011, EN1015, FY1011, FY1001 Positive Psychology introduces students to the empirical study of human strength, spanning topics such as optimism vs. pessimism, creativity, resilience, forgiveness, stress-reduction, and altruism. Positive Psychology developed in contrast to approaches emphasizing human weakness and mental unrest, like abnormal psychology and clinical psychology. Instead of focusing on what goes wrong, Positive Psychology uses methods of inquiry to understand what makes people feel fulfilled, happy and able to withstand stress. This approach is applied across disciplines including developmental psychology, social psychology, and clinical psychology, and across other disciplines including sociology, anthropology and neuroscience. This course presents the content and methods of Positive Psychology in both experiential and traditional formats, and it uses multiple means of assessment to engage the strengths of different learners.
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3.00 Credits
Lecture SS1011, SS1211, SS1311, SS1411, SS Core Trans, EN1011, EN1015, FY1011, FY1001 Drawing from the disciplines of Psychology & Education, this course offers students the opportunity to delve deeply into theories of development, cognitive psychology, motivation and learning. Students participate in role plays, simulated experiments, and other activities that help illustrate key concepts that are being discussed. The course culminates in students teaching a unit of their own and applying concepts from educational psychology to strengthen their own learning repertoire.
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3.00 Credits
Lecture SS1011, SS1211, SS1311, SS1411, SS Core Trans, EN1011, EN1015, FY1011, FY1001 Cognitive psychology explores the psychology of mental activity. This course examines both classic and current issues in human cognition. Topics addressed include an overview of the history of cognitive psychology, research methods, the neural basis of cognition, perception, attention, memory, the representation of knowledge, language and problem solving. Students learn discipline specific terminology, evaluate different perspectives in the field, and apply concepts to their own cognitive processes and learning styles.
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3.00 Credits
Lecture NS1011, NS1021, NS1111, NS1211, NS1311, NS Core Trans, SS1011, SS Core Trans, EN1021, EN1015, FY1011, FY1001 Biological Psychology explores the brain from physiological, evolutionary, and developmental perspectives. Topics include basic neuroanatomy and physiology; anatomy, development and plasticity of the brain; regulation of body homeostasis; and the biological basis of behavior. Specific attention is directed toward comprehending and evaluating research methods and findings.
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3.00 Credits
Lecture SS1011, SS1211, SS1311, SS1411, SS Core Trans, EN1011, EN1015, FY1011, FY1001 This course explores popular (and unpopular) definitions of Race, Class and Gender in the United States. Through course reading complemented with film, students will explore the consequences and inequality of dominant and subordinate groups that occur within Race, Class and Gender and how they interconnect in our modern society. Students will learn the development of the social constructions that create our current concepts of these institutions. Students will analyze how the members of these groups are portrayed in the social institutions of the media, business, sports, law and education. While the reading load is largely made up of shorter essays, students will be expected to write many short papers.
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3.00 Credits
Lecture SS1011, SS1211, SS1311, SS1411, SS Core Trans, EN1011, EN1015, FY1011, FY1001 Food is utterly essential (and often insufficiently available) to all human cultures, making the topic particularly rich for anthropological study. This special topics course will explore a variety of issues, including cultural food habits and taboos, gender and food consumption, food and identity, and the cultural economy of food. In addition to reading classic food ethnographies and watching films, students may conduct field work at local restaurants, farms, food banks and markets.
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3.00 Credits
Lecture SS1011, SS1211, SS1311, SS1411, SS Core Trans, EN1011, EN1015, FY1011, FY1001 Ethnography is an empirical, scientific approach for describing the cultural aspects of human life. This course will investigates the range of research methods used by cultural anthropologists to conduct ethnographic field work, with an emphasis on observation, interviewing, surveying, and the use of archived materials. Although examples from contemporary anthropologists will be used to highlight the methods under study, students will also learn through explicit skills instruction and hands-on practice of research methods. Each student will conduct a community-based, field methods project that allows them to hone their research skills, synthesize their learning and present their findings.
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3.00 Credits
Lecture SS1011, SS1211, SS1311, SS1411, SS Core Trans, EN1011, EN1015, FY1011, FY1001 This course provides students the opportunity to develop a better understanding of the economic, political and cultural dimensions of globalization. Students will gain an appreciation of how relations between geographically far-flung peoples have gained a sense of immediacy made possible through the split second international transmission of information. The course begins with an historical overview of the evolution of the "world system" and proceeds to take up such topics as: different theoretical views of international relations, trade, multinational corporations, the homogenization of culture, terrorism and conflict, the environment and international wealth distribution. The course also investigates the roles of international institutions such as the World Trade Organization, the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund.
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3.00 Credits
Lecture SS1011, SS1211, SS1311, SS1411, SS Core Trans, EN1011, EN1015, FY1011, FY1001 This multi-disciplinary course gives students the opportunity to learn about human sexuality from psychological, sociological, political, historical and cultural perspectives. Each semester begins by exploring cultural and historical aspects of sexuality, as well as a look at research methods that have been used and are being used to inform our understanding of human sexuality. Topics for the rest of the semester are student driven and vary from semester to semester. Past topics have included sexual behavior and expression across the lifespan, sexual and gender identity, communication in sexual relationships, and sexuality, media, art and the law. This course utilizes a seminar-style format in which students prepare for and engage actively in weekly roundtable discussions about the topics being studied. The course also provides an opportunity for students to undertake individual or small group projects on a topic of particular interest to them.
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