23800 Theories of Emotion and The Psychology of Well Being

Stein, N.

= *PSYC 36400

= PSYC 26400

= HUDV 36400

= HDCP 46450

This course will review different approaches to the study of emotion and well being, different ways of measuring well being, the relationship between positive and negative well being, and the degree to which well-being can be changed.  We will discuss studies that focus on the mechanisms that control psychological well being, and the thinking, appraisals, and beliefs that lead to positive versus negative well being.  We will also investigate those conditions that produce irrevocable changes in psychological well being and those conditions that promote robustness.  

24204 Romantic Love: Cultural & Psychological Perspectives

Orlinsky, David

Mitova, K.

=*BPRO 24204

M/W 3:00-4:20

PQ: 3rd or 4th yr. standing & concurrent registration in 24100 or HUMA 24100or ISHU 24100

Romantic love is a "big problem" because of its central role in personal life and its ambiguous relationship to marriage in modern society. This course focuses in depth on the experience of romantic love from psychological, social scientific, historical and humanistic perspectives. Classes include informal lectures and discussion of readings supplemented by cinematic presentations. D. Orlinsky, K. Mitova. Spring, 2007.

26210 The Experience of Religion in Asia

Cassiniti, Julia

= RLST 26210

TU/TH 10:30-11:50

This course will examine the cultural psychology of  religion in Asia.  We will make use of ethnographies, sociological, psychological and anthropological theories and classical texts to situate the experience of religion within the framework of an individual or a community living within a particular religious historical and cultural milieu. The course is broken into three sections, focusing in turn on the religious experiences of South Asia, Southeast Asia, and East Asia. In each week we will look at an overview of one religion, an exerpt from that religion’s texts, an ethnographic account of the area of practice, and a leading analysis of religion. A number of themes will apear as we survey the area’s religions: theories of reincarnation, karma, a personal relationship to intentional gods and goddesses, and processes of training to escape from rebirth are features apparent in Hinduism, Jainism, Buddhism (Theravada, Mahayana, Tibetan, and Zen) as well as in a number of local religious traditions in the region. These themes and the anthropological understanding of how people relate to them will be examined in the course.   

26212 Teaching and Learning as Social Process

Thompson, Greg

In this course, we will examine how intersubjectivity, or shared understanding, is developed in teaching encounters.  How is it that students and teachers are able to develop a shared understanding of the referents of their speech, particularly when their speech refers to rather abstract concepts to which one cannot easily point?  Further, what social processes are involved in getting the teacher and the student(s) “on the same page” such that they share an understanding of the subject matter that is being taught?  The limits of a purely psychological approach will be considered, and the perspective of linguistic anthropology will be offered as a means to better understand how social processes provide a foundation for the development of intersubjectivity.  The two central concepts from linguistic anthropology that will be employed are interactional frame and identity-in-interaction.  We will focus on the teaching of adolescents and adults, but will consider how these processes might operate differently in younger children.  The course will be of interest to students interested in education, theories of teaching, studies of interaction, linguistic anthropology, and the psychology of learning.

27102 Memory, Mourning, and Commemoration

Cohler,Bert

Homans, Peter

Taught every other year with Bert Cohler

=*BPRO  26050

=FNDL 23102

=RLST 28100

=PSYC 25450

=DIVAASR 30001

=HUDV 37102

3rd and 4th yr. standing

T/Th 1:30-2:50

Memory, Commemoration and Mourning. (=AASR 30001, FNDL 23102, HUDV 27102, PSYC 25450, RLST 28100) PQ: Third- or fourth-year standing. This course focuses on the manner in which we make use of the past, the personal past, the collective past, and the place of social and historical change in retelling and rewriting life-history and history. The course begins with a discussion of memory, conceptions of the personal and historic past, and such related issues as nostalgia, mourning, and the significance of commemoration in monument and ritual. These issues are explored in a number of topics such as twentieth-century war memorials, high school and college reunions, and the Holocaust and its representation in contemporary European society. B. Cohler, P. Homans. Spring, 2007.

27200 Religious Redeemers

van der Haven, Alexander

=*RLST

Time: TBA

In this course we will focus on a number of self-proclaimedreligious redeemers from diverse historical and cultural backgrounds, such as the Buddha, Sabbatai Sevi, David Koreshand Sai Baba. Our aim is to think through several issues surrounding religious redeemers, such as the usefulness of a general term for culturally and historically very different phenomena, the possibility to develop psychological models for redeemers and for their followers, the question whether there are specific patterns in comparative redemptive theologies, and whether we can point out specific socio-historical contexts that are fertile for the emergence of redeemers.

27903 Yucatec Maya

Lucy, John

Gaskins, Suzanne

Debbenport, Erin

= HUDV 47903

=*LACS

=ANTH 27903

=ANTH 47903

=LGLN 48100

Tu/Th 9:00-10:20 &ARR

Basic introduction to the modern Yucatec Maya language, an indigenous American language spoken by about 750,000 people in southeastern Mexico. Three consecutive quarters of instruction will be offered for those aiming at basic and intermediate proficiency. Students receiving FLAS support must take all three quarters. Others may elect to take only the first quarter or first two quarters.  Students wishing to enter the course midyear (e.g., those with prior experience with the language) must seek explicit permission from the Instructor.  Materials exist for a second year of the course; interested students should consult with the Instructor.  Students wishing to continue their training with native speakers in Mexico may apply for FLAS funding in the summer to support such efforts.

29500 Independent Research Consultation

Staff

PQ; 4th year HD majors

Time: TBA

HUDV 29500. Independent Research Consultation. Fourth-year HD majors who are not seeking departmental honors but wish to engage in a minor research project in their HD concentration area may register for this elective course to obtain consultation and guidance from a graduate preceptor. The course may be taken for two quarters, but only one may count toward completion of HD program requirements. A paper based on the research project is required in order to receive a quality grade. PQ: 4th year standing in the HD major. Staff, Autumn, Winter, Spring.

29800 B.A. Honors Seminar

Staff

Time: ARR

PQ: Consent of the undergraduate program chair. Required for students seeking departmental honors, this seminar is designed to help develop an honors paper project that will be approved and supervised by a HD faculty member. A course preceptor will guide students through 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. Staff, Spring.

29900 Honors Paper Preparation

Select section from faculty list on web

Time: ARR

PQ: HUDV 29800 and an approved honors project. To complete work on their Honors Papers,  students must register for this course with their faculty supervisor, normally in the quarter preceding the one in which they expect to graduate. Students are required to submit the College Reading and Research Course Form. The grade assigned to the Honors Paper will become the grade of record for this course. Staff, Autumn, Winter, Spring.

34903 Human Sciences and the Law

Winter, Alison

=*HIST 34903 PQ: Upper level undergrads only

TH 4:30-7:20

This course is the history of scientific issues in the law, and the history of the handling of scientific evidence and scientific expertise from around 1850 to the present day.

36400 Theory of Emotion and Psychology of Well Being

Stein, Nancy

=PSY 26400/36400

=HD 23800

Time: TBA

This course will review different approaches to the study of emotion and well being, different ways of measuring well being, the relationship between positive and negative well being, and the degree to which well-being can be changed.  We will discuss studies that focus on the mechanisms that control psychological well-being, and the thinking, appraisals, and beliefs that lead to positive versus negative well being.  We will also investigate those conditions that produce irrevocable changes in psychological well-being and those conditions that promote robustness.  

37503 Research Seminar in Animal Behavior III

Maestripieri, Dario

Mateo, Jill

= EVOL 37800

Limited to Graduate Students

12:00-1:30

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.

38200 Mind and Biology Proseminar III

Kay, Leslie, John Cacioppo, Martha McClintock, Dario Maestripieri

PQ: Permission of Instructor; =Psych 37200; 100 units in Spring after attending 3-quarter sequence

M 12:00-1:50

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

40303 Research Methods: Exploration of Small N and Causal-comparative Research Methods

Keels, Micere

=Psych 40303

W 10:30-1:30

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.

42214 Ethnographic Writing

Cole, Jennifer

=HUDV 32214

PQ: Consent of instructor only

Enrollment limited to 12

W 1:30-4:20

This course is intended for qualitative, anthropologically oriented graduate students engaged in the act of ethnographic writing, be it a thesis, a prospectus or an article.  The course is organized around student presentations of work in progress and critical feedback from course participants.  It is hoped that each participant will emerge from the course with a polished piece of work. Only graduate students will be admitted and consent of the instructor is mandatory.

42401 Trial Research in Human Development – I

Cole, Jennifer

Open only to HumDev Graduate students

TH 9:30-12:20

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.

42700 Theories of the Self

Lucy, John

=Psych 45400

15  Ph.D. students

Counts as psych theory requirement but NOT A SURVEY COURSE

T/TH 1:30-3:00

This course examines influential theories of self formation and functioning especially with respect to how the theories handle social interaction and verbal communication. The course emphasizes close reading, analysis, and discussion of basic texts representative of major approaches.

44700 Seminar: Topics in  Judgement & Decision Making

Goldstein, Bill

=*PSYC 44700

no undergrads

W 1:30-4:20

This course offers a survey of research on judgment and decision making, with emphasis placed on uncertainty and (intrapersonal) conflict.  An historical approach is taken in which the roots of current research issues and practices are traced.  Topics are drawn from the following areas: evaluation and choice when goals are in conflict and must be traded off, decision making when consequences of the decision are uncertain, predictive and evaluative judgments under conditions of uncertain, incomplete, conflicting, or otherwise fallible information. W. Goldstein.