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21501 Psychology and Biography
Cohler, Bert
Tu/Th 1:30-2:50
Starting from Freud's perspective on psychology and his psychobiography of
Leonado Da Vinci, this course focuses on the contributions of psychoanalysis to the study of lives in biography. We will discuss Classical and contemporary psychoanalytic perspectives reflected in in Erik Erikson's study of Martin Luther, Jean Strousse's study of of Alice James and recent psychobiogrpahical study of Abraham Lincoln. (D)
22001 Developmental Biopsychology
McClintock, Martha
TuTh 9:00 - 10:30
=HD 32001
see description 32001 (A) (B)
23905 Love, Anger, Envy, and Shame: Studying Emotion across Culture
Chapin, Bambi
M/W 1:30-2:50
=HUDV 33905
In this course, we will examine emotion as it is conceptualized, experienced,
and investigated across different societies. Focusing on four emotions in
particular, we will read ethnographic accounts of emotions which could
loosely by called love, anger, envy, and shame in order to think about what is
involved in emotional experience, how it gets shaped by culture, and what
ethnographic methods can tell us about it. In addition to this reading,
students will be conducting their own person-centered interviews focusing
on each of these emotions. This discussion-oriented course is designed for
undergraduate students, although graduate students will be welcome as
well. (C)
24105 Romantic Love: Psychological and Cultural Perspectives
Orlinksy, David
Mitova, K T/Th 3:00-4:20
PQ: BPRO 24104, HUDV 24104, ISHU 24104 or Consent of Instructor
The second course in this two-quarter sequence focuses in depth on
the experience of romantic love, both from social scientific and humanistic
perspectives. Romantic love is a central theme of literature and the arts
historically and in modern Western culture (from Dante and Shakespeare to
contemporary cinema and fiction). It is also a common but complex, 'irrational-
yet-normal' life passage (experienced from adolescence through maturity)
whose manifold aspects are illuminated variously in the light of modern
psychological, social, and cultural concepts (e.g., Freud, Jung, Reik, Simmel,
DeRougemont). Classes include informal lectures and discussion of readings
supplemented by cinematic presentations; students will write a term paper on
an approved topic of their choice. (D)
24501 Latino Identity
Gomez, Christina
W 1:30-4:20
=*CRPC 28100
The Latino population currently consists of approximately 40 million people in the United States; by the year 2050 the Census estimates that the Latino population will makeup at least 25 percent of the total U.S. population. This diverse group traces its origins to a variety of countries; and, its experience in the United States is quite varied. This course is an introduction to Latino identity, and will allow students to become familiar with the social and historical evidence of Latinos and Latin American populations. We will explore issues of race, class, gender, immigration, pan-ethnicity, politics, language, and socio-economic experiences of various Latino groups (Chicanos, Puerto Ricans, Cubans, Dominicans, Central and South Americans. (C)
25200 Body and Soul:Historical and Ethnographic Approaches to Prayer
Luhrmann, Tanya Boden, Alison
M/W 1:30-2:50
=*BPRO 25200
Body and Soul: Historical and Ethnographic Approaches to Prayer. PQ: Third- or fourth-year standing. Why do we pray? Why do we experience prayer practice as reaching out towards an intentional being whom we cannot touch, see or hear except in representation? This course approaches an answer to that question by looking at the way we pray, particularly in a Christian context. What bodily features of prayer--what kinds of bodily engagement do we find in prayer, what impact might prayer practice have upon our bodies--that might help to explain why its practice has been so compelling to so many for so many years? (C)
25900 Intro to Developmental Psychology
Staff
=HUDV 30700
=Psych 30500/20500
This course is an introduction to developmental psychology that stresses the development and integration of cognitive, social, and perceptual skills. Discussion section required.
(B)
26208 Perspectives on Sex and Gender In Human Development
Fruehan, Shana
12:00-1:20
TU/TH
This course is intended as an invitation to think about
gender from the perspective of Human Development--in terms
of both "nature" and "nurture," across the life course and
around the globe. We will read articles illustrating and
employing the diverse perspectives and methods offered in
Human Development (biological, psychological, social, and
cultural) to think about sex differences, gender, and
sexuality. By exposing students to a range of approaches,
as well as a mix of both classic and contemporary
readings, the course aims to provide the student with the
tools necessary to think critically about issues of sex,
gender, and sexuality as they arise in everyday life. (C)
27120 Language in Face to Face Interaction
Philips, Susan
3:00-4:20 TU/TH
=HUDV 37120
=ANTH 27120
=ANTH 37120
=LING 27120
=LING 37120
The course provides a basic introduction to and fundamental grounding in interactional sociolinguistics, particularly as it developed in sociology and then moved into anthropology. We will first consider foundational ideas about how concepts of self and other and of social reality emerge in social interaction, in the work of George Herbert Mead, Alfred Schutz, Erving Goffman, and Harold Garfinkel. Then attention will turn to the development of conversation analysis in this tradition by Sacks, Schegloff and Jefferson. The rest of the course will address ways that ideas in this tradition have been expanded upon and combined with other intellectual traditions to yield the complex and varied approaches to language in face to face interaction that we work with today. (C)
29700 Readings/Research:HUMDEV
Consent of Instructor
College consent papework required
Students are required to submit the College Reading and Research Course Form. Available for quality grades or for P/F grades..
29800 Senior Honors Seminar
One quarter registration required of GPA qualified students seeking departmental honors, to develop a research project for approval by a faculty supervisor. A program preceptor guides students in the process of research design and proposal writing. Eligible students should plan to take the B.A. Honors Seminar in the Spring quarter of their third year. PQ: Written consent of co-chair.
29900 Honors Paper Preparation
PQ: HUDV 29800. required of HD students with approved honors paper projects. students with approved honors paper projects must register for this course with their faculty supervisor to complete work on their B.A. Honors Paper, normally in the quarter proceeding the one in which they expect to graduate. Students are required to submit the College Reading and Research Course Form. Must be taken for a quality grade.
30000 Culture and Mental Health Workshop
No credit, must be registered as "R" Staff T 4:30-6:00 Judd 313
30700 Intro to Developmental Psychology
Staff
=HUDV 25900
Psych 30500/20500 Developmental Psychology. This course is an introduction to developmental psychology that stresses the development and integration of cognitive, social, and perceptual skills. Discussion section required. (B)
30801 Memory Practices
Cole, Jennifer
TU 9:00-11:50
=HUDV 30801
=ANTH 40801
Undergrads with written consent of instructor This course considers the social, psychological and cultural underpinnings of memorythat elusive faculty which is so central to the constitution of self and social life. We will start the class with an introduction to several coreways of thinking about memory: as structured by social groups (Halbwachs), as a cognitivecapability (Bartlett, Neisser), and as an important part of the human psycho-dynamic makeup (Freud and his interlocutors) and as embodied practice (Connerton/Mauss/Bourdieu). Having sketched out some tools for thinking about memory, we will move on to consider the variety of different kinds of memory, and how memory is constituted through diverse social practices, the effect of different kinds of technology on memory, and the role of memory in social and political struggle. (C)
31904 "Now I Know my ABC": Child Development across Culture
Raval, Vaishali
TH 1:00-3:50
This course will begin with a review and reflection on developmental psychology research concerning Caucasian middle class children’s understanding and experience of emotions, and what adults teach them about emotions with a focus on developmental change in emotional competence from toddlerhood through middle childhood and beyond. We will examine limited work that focuses on children’s emotions in other cultures, and generate questions pertinent to cross-cultural inquiry for developmental psychologists. I will draw on my research in various communities in Gujarat, India and my clinical work in US hospitals and clinics. We will also discuss different ways to gather information from and about children including quantitative /structured measures (i.e., rating scales and emotion diaries), talking to children, talking to adults in their environment, participant observation, and utilizing other modes of communication (i.e., children’s drawings). (B)
32001 Developmental Biopsychology
McClintock, Martha TuTh 9-10:30
=Psych 31700
This course is an introduction to the reciprocal interactions between psychology and biology, as well as fundamental principles of neural, endocrine and imune integration. The course is taught with a developmental emphasis, including animal and clinical literature. (A) (B)
32213 Culture and Power, Part 2 Subjectivities
Cole, Jennifer
W 3:00-6:00
=ANTH 32103
=HUDV 42213
PQ; Undergrads with written consent of instructor only
In this class, the second quarter of the two part sequence Culture, Power, Subjectivity, we focus closely on the question of subjectivity and the formation of subjects, and how these questions have been addressed in contemporary social theory. Readings will include Althusser, Foucault, Butler, Bakhtin, and Voloshinov, among others. The goal of the class will be both for students to acquire a basic familiarity with diverse approaches to the question of how subjects and subjectivity are formed. Given the fundamental tension between post-structuralist approaches and the assumptions about subjectivity derived from psychological anthropology, one of the goals of the class will be to think about if any bridging between these approaches is either possible or desirable. (C)
33903 Developmental Psychopathology
Lee, Steve
T/Th 10:30-11:50
Developmental psychopathology is a conceptual and methodological paradigm that actively integrates perspectives on normal and atypical development. This seminar will provide a critical review of how theories of basic development and psychopathology are used simultaneously to sharpen our understanding of each process. Students will learn important theoretical principles and research methods necessary to critically evaluate existing models of psychopathology. This course will also provide an overview of the current classification of mental disorders (depression, conduct problems, autism) including symptom descriptions, etiology, and available treatments. (B)
33905 Love, Anger, Envy, and Shame: Studying Emotion across Culture
Chapin, Bambi
M/W 1:30-2:50
=HUDV 23905
In this course, we will examine emotion as it is conceptualized, experienced,
and investigated across different societies. Focusing on four emotions in
particular, we will read ethnographic accounts of emotions which could loosely
by called love, anger, envy, and shame in order to think about what is
involved in emotional experience, how it gets shaped by culture, and what
ethnographic methods can tell us about it. In addition to this reading,
students will be conducting their own person-centered interviews focusing on
each of these emotions. This discussion-oriented course is designed for
undergraduate students, although graduate students will be welcome as
well. (C)
34502 Anthropology of Museums (2)
Fogelson, Ray
=*ANTH 34502
=SOSC 34500
=MAPS 34500
PQ: Open to advanced undergraduates with consent of instructors. Using anthropological theories and methodology as a conceptual framework, this seminar will explore the organizational and ideological aspects of museum culture(s). The course includes visits to museums with guest museum professionals as guides into the culture of museums. The seminar continues in the Spring quarter, when students will conduct ethnographic fieldwork in a Chicago-area museum. (C)
35502 East-West differences: a biosocial perspective
Freedman, Dan
MF 3:00-4:20
PQ: 3rd or 4th year undergrads
This course will start with recent data on differential cognitive and perceptual styles East and West as gathered by the team at the University of Michigan under R. Nisbett. Unlike Nisbett’s split meta-theoretical approach (‘everything is learned’) our interpretation involves the nonduality of culture and biology, so that the very same data may be seen as contributions to social psychology, anthropology, and biology. Overton’s work on split metatheory in the social sciences will serve as a philosophical framework for this interdisciplinary dialogue. Alternatively, Eastern philosophy achieves a similar position from a rather different angle (Loy’s ‘Nonduality’). The work of Cavalli-Sforza’s group, backed by recent DNA based data (e.g., Jorde and Bamshad, 2004), lends an evolutionary perspective to this picture via demonstrations of genetic and linguistic distances between western Europeans and Far Eastern populations.
To enrich Nisbett’s experimental observations we will read selections from 13th and 14th century classics East and West, and view and discuss similarly themed examples from modern cinema. Our own research videotapes of newborns, mothers and toddlers East and West, and Korean adoptees will provide further material for our discussions. We hope to end the perennial quibble of ‘is it cultural or biological’ with our emphasis on interdisciplinary dialogue. As Suzuki, the Zen scholar, put it to Western scientists: You have taken heredity and environment apart, and now you are stuck with putting them together again.
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37120 Language in Face to Face Interaction
Philips, Susan 3:00-4:20 TU/TH
=HUDV 37120
=ANTH 27120
=ANTH 37120
The course provides a basic introduction to and fundamental grounding in interactional sociolinguistics, particularly as it developed in sociology and then moved into anthropology. We will first consider foundational ideas about how concepts of self and other and of social reality emerge in social interaction, in the work of George Herbert Mead, Alfred Schutz, Erving Goffman, and Harold Garfinkel. Then attention will turn to the development of conversation analysis in this tradition by Sacks, Schegloff and Jefferson. The rest of the course will address ways that ideas in this tradition have been expanded upon and combined with other intellectual traditions to yield the complex and varied approaches to language in face to face interaction that we work with today. (C)
37121 Female and Male Circumcision Worldwide: Constructions and Contestations of Culture, Gender and Identity
Ahmadu, Fuambai
W 6:00-9:00
PQ: Advanced undergrads, Intro to Anthr is preferred
This graduate seminar will examine some of the burgeoning literature on female and male initiation and circumcision rituals in multicultural contexts: from East and West Africa to Melanesia, from the Middle East to Middle America, from cases studies of indigenous practitioners in their home countries to changing practices and traditions among immigrants in Europe. The proposed focus is on the study of cross-disciplinary approaches to understanding female and male genital cutting with particular emphasis on cultural or anthropological, psychological/psychoanalytical and religious perspectives. The seminar will also include some review and discussion of contemporary debates on female and male circumcision arising from international feminist, human rights, health, and political discourses on the limits of cultural relativism and tolerance of difference within liberal democracies. (C)
37503 Research Seminar in Animal Behavior III
Maestripieri, Dario
12:00-1:30
= EVOL 37800
Limited to Graduate Students
This graduate workshop involves weekly research seminars in animal behavior given by faculty members, post-docs, and advanced graduate students from this and other institutions. The seminars are followed by discussion in which students have the opportunity to interact with the speaker, ask questions about the presentation, and share information about their own work. The purpose of this workshop is to expose graduate students to current comparative research in behavioral biology and meet some of the leading scientists in this field. Students must register for this course in the Autumn quarter and will receive credit in the Spring, at the end of the 3-quarter sequence. (A)
38200 Mind and Biology Proseminar III
Kay, Leslie, John Cacioppo, Martha McClintock, Dario Maestripieri
M 12:00-1:50
PQ: Permission of Instructor; =Psych 37200; 100 units in Spring after attending 3-quarter sequence PQ: Permission of Instructor. The goal of this proseminar is to give graduate students the opportunity to be exposed to and discuss the research in biopsychology currently conducted at the Institute for Mind and Biology. The Mind and Biology Proseminar meets four times a quarter (plus an orientation meeting in Autumn quarter, each time for two hours. A meeting consists of a 45 – 60 minute research presentation by an IMB faculty member (or a guest speaker) and 60 minutes of discussion. Students will earn 100 units in Spring quarter after completing the three-quarter sequence.
D. Maestripieri, J. Cacioppo, L.Kay, M. McClintock. Autumn, Winter, Spring (A)
39900 Readings in Human Development
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40303 Research Methods: Exploration of Small N andCausal-comparative Research Methods.
Keels, Micere
W 10:30-1:30
=Psych 40303 During this course students will
explore small N and causal research design issues
through reading and discussion. Topics covered
include the small-n problem, correlative versus
deductive methods, causation, logic and methods of
comparison, and qualitative comparative analysis. (M)
40750 Intro to Developmental Psychology
staff
=HUDV 30700
=*Psych 30500/20500
This course is an introduction to developmental psychology that stresses the development and integration of cognitive, social, and perceptual skills. Discussion section required. (B)
40801 Memory Practices
Cole, Jennifer
TU 9:00-11:50
=HUDV 30801
=ANTH 40801
Undergrads with consent of instructor
This course considers the social, psychological and cultural underpinnings of memorythat elusive faculty which is so central to the constitution of self and social life. We will start the class with an introduction to several coreways of thinking about memory: as structured by social groups (Halbwachs), as a cognitivecapability (Bartlett, Neisser), and as an important part of the human psycho-dynamic makeup (Freud and his interlocutors) and as embodied practice (Connerton/Mauss/Bourdieu). Having sketched out some tools for thinking about memory, we will move on to consider the variety of different kinds of memory, and how memory is constituted through diverse social practices, the effect of different kinds of technology on memory, and the role of memory in social and political struggle. (C)
40901 What Counts as Data
Goldin-Meadow, Susan Luhrmann, Tanya
TU 1:30-4:20
=Psych 46000
This course will explore what counts as data in the disciplines of psychology, anthropology and linguistics. Each of these disciplines has its own rules and conventions about what can be taken as evidence for or against an hypothesis, including how that evidence is acquired. Our goal will be to explore these rules and conventions with respect to one or two seminal problems that have attracted researchers from all three disciplines. (M)
41001 Honorification in Interaction
Philips, Susan W 1:30-4:20
=Anth 57210
=LING 57210
Upper graduate level seminar
Linguistic honorification is one most obvious ways culture and social structure are encoded in language. Lexical and morphological aspects of language structure in particular are regularly ideologized locally and by linguists as having to do with the negotiation of respect, politeness, and hierarchical status differentiation. Such forms and their meanings have been richly documented, yet there has been relatively little examination of honorifics in actual socially situated language use until quite recently. The purpose of this course is to consider how our understanding of linguistic honorifics is altered by examination of the use of linguistic honorifics in face to face interaction. We will address some concepts that have shaped current understandings of honorifics, such as speech style, speech register, and the concept of honorifics itself. We will then examine recent examples of research on honorifics in face to face interaction and also engage in a collaborative analysis of transcripts of the use of Tongan chiefly lexical honorifics in several kinds of public institutional settings in Polynesian Tonga. Issues include the relations between language ideologies and language use, the relations between linguistic honorification and other semiotic systems, and the links between the strategic use of honorifics and broader sociocultural processes such as ethnic identity construction and nation state building processes. (C)
41150 Psychopathology: Core Concepts and Current Directions
Raval, Vaishali
W
1:00-4:00
HDCP students only
Clinical Psych majors only
Limit 3s206 This course provides a foundational framework for understanding one of the core areas of clinical psychology. Competent clinical research and practice require familiarity with and knowledge of various forms of psychopathology, critical evaluation of the information learned, and the facility to integrate this knowledge and the subsequent reflection into clinical practice and research. This course will comprehensively review DSM-IV and current diagnostic practices, review and critically evaluate the research concerning prevalence, etiological perspectives, and sequale of major psychiatric disorders (i.e., mood, anxiety, and personality disorders, schizophrenia, substance abuse, disorders first identified in childhood), and critically reflect on current diagnostic practices in the context of individual differences, developmental trajectories leading to different outcomes, cultural and sociopolitical factors, and evaluate their overall utility and limitations. Our objectives will be to 1) provide you with a working knowledge of the DSM-IV, 2) encourage you to reflect on diagnostic practices and current research in the area, and 3) help you develop and practice skills in identifying symptoms, clinical case formulation, and diagnosis using case presentations and role plays.
42200 Research Seminar in Behavioral Endocrinology
McClintock, M.
M 12:00 - 1:20
BPSB 323
=*Psych42200; Bpsy 42200 =EvBio42200; meets with Psych 26200
(A)
42213 Culture and Power, Part 2 Subjectivities
Cole, Jennifer
W 3:00-6:00 =ANTH 32103
PQ: Undergrads with written consent of instructor only
In this class, the second quarter of the two part sequence Culture, Power, Subjectivity, we focus closely on the question of subjectivity and the formation of subjects, and how these questions have been addressed in contemporary social theory. Readings will include Althusser, Foucault, Butler, Bakhtin, and Voloshinov, among others. The goal of the class will be both for students to acquire a basic familiarity with diverse approaches to the question of how subjects and subjectivity are formed. Given the fundamental tension between post-structuralist approaches and the assumptions about subjectivity derived from psychological anthropology, one of the goals of the class will be to think about if any bridging between these approaches is either possible or desirable. (C)
42401 Trial Research in Human Development - I
Taub, Richard
W 1:30-4:20
Required of first and second year Department of Psychology graduate students. This course is taken in the Spring quarter of the first year, and again in the Autumn quarter of the second year. The purpose of this seminar is to help students formulate and complete their trial research projects.
43950 Developmental Psychopathology
Lee, Steve
T/Th 10:30-11:50
Developmental psychopathology is a conceptual and methodological paradigm that actively integrates perspectives on normal and atypical development. This seminar will provide a critical review of how theories of basic development and psychopathology are used simultaneously to sharpen our understanding of each process. Students will learn important theoretical principles and research methods necessary to critically evaluate existing models of psychopathology. This course will also provide an overview of the current classification of mental disorders (depression, conduct problems, autism) including symptom descriptions, etiology, and available treatments.
44450 Developmental Biopsychology
McClintock, Martha
TU/TH 9-10:30
Clinical Psych majors only
45201 What has Philosophy (East or West) to offer researchers in Human Development?
Freedman, Dan
TH 1:30-4:20
Classical Philosophy has been interested in the really big picture. If one agrees that the whole is greater than the sum of the parts, and that research is necessarily into some part, it behooves the researcher to obtain at least a glimpse of the whole. It follows that HD student research, when placed in philosophical perspective, may give the work, whether proposed or underway, some mooring it presently lacks. Among the philosophical perspectives offered will be the work of Loy on Eastern nonduality and of Hegel, especially his dialectical logic and his analysis of the 'identity of opposites.'
45370 Supervison Seminar III
Suth, Andy
HDCP students only
45800 Clinical Ethnography Practicum
Luhrmann, Tanya
HD graduate students only
49900 Research in Human Development
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50812 Culture and Agency
Carr Summerson
W 9:00-11:50
=*SSA50812
This seminar explores the relationship between agency and culture-that
is, between the human capacity to act and the dynamic systems that shape
the meaning and direction of that action. Readings and discussions are
geared toward understanding key scholarly formulations of agency-from
the familiar notion that agency is a property of individual actors to
the idea that agency exists as a kind of opportunity in time and space.
While the
course focuses on reading primary texts in cultural and social theory,
we will also examine a number of empirical studies that demonstrate how
different groups of people, across an array of cultural and historical
settings, have thought about how and under what circumstances it is
possible to act. Throughout the course, we will think critically about
the ethical
and political consequences of such popular and scholarly notions. For
example, we will inquire into how certain formulations of agency
intersect with Neoliberal projects (e.g. globalization,
multiculturalism) and discourses (e.g. learned helplessness, dependency)
that are familiar to contemporary American social work. Students
concerned with issues of political mobilization may also have special
interest in this course, as we grapple with how human agency both
reproduces and transforms cultural systems
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