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Topic: The Animal in Anthropology. How does the figure of the animal appear in anthropological thought? Looking at classical topics such as totemism, sacrifice and pastoralism, as well as emerging topics on animal rights, we shall see how anthropological concepts bend or are bent by the animal as boundary marker or bridge between self and other.
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Looking at fiction, poetry, visual montage, and other forms of experimental writing in contemporary anthropology, we will explore ethnography as a creative practice of provoking altered states such as compassion, dream, wonder, and shame.
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3.00 Credits
This course explores the role of gender in the production and contestation of socio-economic inequality and political domination. Examples will be drawn from Latin America and other colonial and post-colonial societies.
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3.00 Credits
The course examines four systems of truth (religious, mathematical, scientific, psychoanalytic), and four concepts of diaspora (publics, circulations, power, discipline). The aim is to understand how truths subsist in diaspora amongst other truths – when dispersed beyond their institutional homes, when held to by members of scattered social groupings.
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3.00 Credits
In the next 30 years we will know how the brain works just as we now know how the immune system and cardiovascular system work. An Introduction to Neuroscience is meant to provide students with the background to understand what we know about the brain now and what we will find out about the brain in the near future. This course is intended as an introduction for anyone interested in majoring in Neuroscience and as a survey of an exciting field of research to any student.
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3.00 Credits
This course surveys theory and research concerning how the human brain carries out mental processes. Co-listed as 050.203 in Cognitive Science.
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3.00 Credits
Course will give students the "hands-on" experience of the interdisciplinary nature of neuroscience. Students will use anatomical, behavioral, and neurophysiological techniques to understand the basic underlying principles of neuroscience. Prereqs:( AS.080.305 and AS.080.306) or AS.200.141 or Instructor's Permission. No registration permitted beyond the first class meeting.
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3.00 Credits
The purpose of this course is to explore the phenomenon of stress by investigating the neural, endocrine and molecular mechanisms involved. By reviewing both animal and human research, this course will consider disorders of the stress control system and the adverse impact of stress on human physical and mental health. Topics in this class will include, but are not limited to I) disorders such as PTSD, anxiety, major depression; II) interactions between stress and neurodegenerative disorders; III) stress-immune-inflammatory interactions; IV) the role of stress in obesity, hypertension, and other metabolic syndromes; V) stress effects on reproduction. Students will finish this course with a greater understanding for the fundamental neuroendocrine responses to stress and its consequent and/or associated adverse effects on human health.
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3.00 Credits
Prereqs: AS.080.203 or AS.050.203 or AS.200.141 or 080.105 or permission The nervous system is a fully integrated, two-semester course that surveys the cellular and molecular biology of neurons as well as the structure and function of the nervous system.
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3.00 Credits
Prereq: 080.305 The course uses the functional organization of the somatosensory system as a means to examine mechanisms of neutral development. Generation and maturation of neurons, guidance of axons, formation of synapses and the regressive events that shape the adult nervous system will be examined. At the same time we will explore the structure and function of brain regions that allow us to feel pain and temperature, detect vibration, recognize shape and perceive where we are in space. Finally, the single-neuron events that lead to adaptive changes in function will be explored in the context of central nervous system control of movement and of higher order functions of speech and memory.
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