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HUDV 20100 Human Development Research Designs in the Social Sciences Keels, Micere 1:30-2:50 M/W
This course aims to expose students to a variety of examples of well-designed social research addressing questions of great interest and importance. One goal is clarify what it means to do"interesting" research. A second goal is to appreciate the features of good research design. A third goal is to examine the variety of research methodologies in the social sciences, including ethnography, clinical case interviewing, survey research, experimental studies of cognition and social behavior, behavior observations, longitudinal research, and model building. The general emphasis is on what might be called the aesthetics of well-designed research.
HUDV 21401 African Civilization Part II Cole, Jennifer 9:00-10:20 TU/TH
The second quarter of African Civilization explores processes of historical transformation in Africa, and more specifically the complex legacy of the colonial encounter. Over the course of the late 19th century, the African continent was divided up among different European powers. Although sometimes at odds with each other, colonial governments, traders and missionaries all sought, in different ways, to transform African peoples. In this class we will consider some of those interventions, and how diverse African people responded. Specific topics to be addressed include medicine, gender and sexuality, religion, and money.
HUDV 23700/31200 Education and Human Development Stodolsky, Susan 1:30-2:50 W
The course provides an introduction to the connections between education and human development. Topics include the achievement and motivation of U.S. students from an international perspective, the development of literacy from a comparative perspective, equality and inequality in schools, issues of gender, ethnicity and race in relation to schooling, and historical and contemporary responses to immigration in educational institutions. The last part of the course is devoted to promising solutions to some of the educational problems exposed in the first part of the course. Possible solutions include preschool education, reducing class size, reforming the organization of schools, the development of professional communities, and family school connections.
HUDV 23900 Intro Language Development Goldin-Meadow, Susan 1:30-2:50 M/W
This course addresses the major issues involved in first-language acquisition. We deal with the child's production and perception of speech sounds (phonology), the acquisition of the lexicon (semantics), the comprehension and production of structured word combinations (syntax), and the ability to use language to communicate (pragmatics).
HUDV 24104 Aspects of Love: Cultural and Psychological Perspectives Orlinksy, David, Mitova, K. 3:00-4:20 TU/TH
This course examines the nature of love and love relationships from humanistic, philosophical, and social scientific perspectives. The quality and role of love in close relationships (ranging from courtship and 'love affairs' to marriage, from parental and filial love to friendship) have been central concerns of Western thought from classical antiquity (e.g., Plato's Symposium and Phaedrus, Aristotle's Ethics) to modern times (e.g., Freud, Fromm, and Tillich). Classes include informal lectures and discussion of readings supplemented by cinematic presentations; students will write several short essays.
HUDV 24300/39300 Qualitative Methods in Social Sciences Cohler, Bert 1:30-2:50 TU/TH
This seminar explores the varity of qualitative methods used in social science study. Perspectives surveyed include field study, including the Chicago studies of social disorganization. "Grounded Theory," ethnography and study of culture, and narrative and life-story approaches to study of person and social life. Attention is devoted to issues of method such as reliability and valildity, implications for philosophy of social science study, portrayal of both person and context or setting, and to both the complex interplay of observer and observed, and "reflexivity" in the human sciences. The requirement for the seminar is a paper related to some aspect of qualitative study in the human sciences.
HUDV 26206 Identity, Culture, and Human Development Hammack, Phillip 3:00-4:20 TU/TH
The concept of identity has undergone a resurgence of interest across the social sciences, now permeating the literature in psychology, sociology, anthropology, history, and political science. This resurgence in part stems from the notion of identity as an increasingly relevant social science construct to examine in the context of globalization. As cultures come into greater contact, identities often become threatened or challenged and subsequently reformulated over time.
This course offers an interdisciplinary approach to the study of identity, focusing on its origins in psychology and sociology. Beginning with an introduction to two interdisciplinary ways of examining human development—cultural psychology and life-course theory—we explore the concept of identity through an historic lens and an eye toward the relevance of identity in the contemporary world. The course offers a “survey” in theory and research on identity, rather than a comprehensive consideration of any one particular disciplinary perspective. As a consequence, the readings are primarily designed to introduce a multiplicity of ideas about the problem of identity in historical and contemporary perspective. The course concludes with a consideration of identity and the postmodern condition, as we survey four texts in which the question of self and society in postmodernity or late modernity has been explored.
HUDV 28000/32800 Advanced Psychoanalytic Theory Fisher, Susan 3:00-6:00 M
This seminar will focus on present psychoanalytic theories and their relationship to one another. Central to our inquiry is the dynamic unconscious of Freud and the ways in which it has been elaborated, modified or diminished in the views of Fairbairn, Klein, Winnicott, Kohut, Gedo and Modell. In addition, we will examine the problems and uses of transference and countertransference and we will look at some aspects of feminism in psychoanalytic theory.
HUDV 29700 Readings/Research Staff
HUDV 29900 BA Paper Preparation Staff
HUDV 30204 Immigration and Urban Sociolinguistics Vigouroux, Cecile 1:30-2:50 M/W
Focusing on urban migration, we’ll study how multilingual speakers (re)shape their language repertoires both in the “host society” and along their social- and spatial trajectories. We’ll focus on language practice and attitude, approaching them as spatial constructions and as organizations of urban space(s). We’ll see how migrants appropriate their multilayered space and how they display a dynamic identity repertoire according to settings and co-interactants. We’ll start by examining the broader context of globalization, questioning, among other things, the relationship between local and global context.
HUDV 30901 Biopsychology of Sex Differences Mateo, Jill 1:30-2:50 M/W
This course will explore the biological basis of mammalian sex differences and reproductive behaviors. We will consider a variety of species, including humans. We will address the physiological, hormonal, ecological and social basis of sex differences. To get the most from this course, students should have some background in biology, preferably from taking an introductory course in biology or biological psychology.
HUDV 31600 Language Development Goldin-Meadow, Susan 1:30-4:30 W
This course addresses the major issues involved in first-language acquisition. We deal with the child's production and perception of speech sounds (phonology), the acquisition of the lexicon (semantics), the comprehension and production of structured word combinations (syntax), and the ability to use language to communicate (pragmatics)
HUDV 33102 Native Peoples of North America, II Fogelson, Ray TBA
This course is a comprehensive review of Native American cultural history, including consideration of intellectual context, prehistory, ethnology, history, and the contemporary situation. The last half of the third quarter is devoted to a mutually agreed-on topic in which students pursue individual research, the results of which are presented in seminar format.
HUDV 34502 Anthro of Museums-1 Fogelson, Ray TBA
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. (NOTE: Winter quarter is a prerequisite for participation in Spring Quarter.)
HUDV 37502 Research Seminar in Animal Behavior II Maestripieri, Dario 12:00-1:00 W
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.
HUDV 37801 If Someone Asserts It Deny It: Critical Reason and Political Correctness in Social Science Shweder, Rick 1:30-4:20 TU
This seminar is an experiment in honoring the skeptical intellectual tradition. That intellectual tradition, which has its home in the great universities of the world, aims to achieve accuracy and impartiality in human understanding through a principled commitment to explore the other side, even when that requires the articulation of an unpopular, politically incorrect or against the current point of view. While it may be a matter for debate whether the intellectual virtues we associate with skepticism are at risk of being sacrificed in the academy these days, this seminar engages a social science and public policy literature that raises skeptical doubts about "received wisdom" on a variety of consequential fronts. Warning to prospective seminar participants: "... a good university, like Socrates, will be upsetting" (The University of Chicago "Kalven Committee Report", November 11, 1967).
HUDV 38100 Mind and Biology Proseminar II McClintock, Martha Maestripieri, Dario Mateo, Jill 12:00-1:30 M
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.
HUDV 39101 Seminar: Research on Psychotherapists Orlinsky, David ARR
This seminar is designed for advanced students interested in exploring research opportunities. It draws on data accumulated in a decade-long study of psychotherapists of different professions, theoretical orientations, and career levels that has been conducted collaboratively in more than a dozen countries. The methods and major findings to date will be reviewed, and students will then develop their own projects utilizing a data base of more than 5,000 therapists, which covers many aspects of their professional and personal characteristics. Special attention will be paid to developmental processes and to the problems involved in making cross-national and cross-cultural comparisons. Winter,
HUDV 42214 Ethnographic Writing Cole, Jennifer 1:30-4:20 W
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. .
HUDV 43112 Developmental Risk and Resilience Hans, Sydney 9:00-11:50 W
This course will focus on understanding varied theoretical perspectives for understanding ways in which individuals adapt to life challenges. Theories will be considered that address biological, psychological, and social risk and protective processes. Theory and empirical research will be examined respect to particular populations of interest for social work intervention, including maltreated children, children living in poverty, delinquent youth, adolescent parents, children who have experienced divorce or loss of a parent, immigrant youth, and young people exposed to war/terrorism/community violence.
HUDV 43600 Process of Judgment and Decision Making Goldstein, William 1:30-2:50
Processes of Judgment and Decision Making. 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. Winter.
HUDV 45600 When Cultures Collide: The Moral Challenge in Cultural Migration Shweder, Rick 9:30-11:50 W
Coming to terms with diversity in an increasingly multicultural world has become one of the most pressing public policy projects for liberal democracies in the early 21st century. One way to come to terms with diversity is to try to understand the scope and limits of toleration for variety at different national sites where immigration from foreign lands has complicated the cultural landscape. This seminar examines a series of legal and moral questions about the proper response to norm conflict between mainstream populations and cultural minority groups (including old and new immigrants), with special reference to court cases that have arisen in the recent history of the United States.
HUDV 54000 Statistical Research Methods I Keller, Thomas TBA
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