HUDV 20100            Human Development Research Designs in the Social Sciences

Keels, Micere

M/W 1:30-2:50

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, J.

Tu/Th 9:00-10:20 

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 23249            Animal Behavior 

Mateo, Jill

M/W/F 10:30-11:50

PQ: Completion of the general education requirement for the biological sciences. This course provides an introduction to the mechanism, ecology, and evolution of behavior, primarily in nonhuman species, at the individual and group level. Topics include the genetic basis of behavior, developmental pathways, communication, physiology and behavior, foraging behavior, kin selection, mating systems and sexual selection, and the ecological and social context of behavior. A major emphasis is placed on understanding and evaluating scientific studies and their field and lab techniques.

HUDV 23906            Psychological Anthropology 

Hall, Timothy

W 1:30--4:20

The relationship between culture and psyche has long intrigued social scientists and philosophers, and many of the great debates in social theory may be seen as part of this investigation: how can culturally constituted values affect individual behavior and macroeconomics (Weber, Protestant Ethic); how can social and economic arrangements drive individuals to suicide (Durkheim, Suicide); how do the diffuse interactions of a capitalist society change one’s self-concept (Simmel, Philosophy of Money). More specific to anthropology, awareness of different ways of carving up the perceived world and evaluating the resulting pieces has challenged us to find ways of understanding across cultural and subcultural groups. 

Much of American anthropology in particular, from the students of Franz Boas onwards, has been driven by these debates: how similar or different are human psyches across cultures; are there universals to human nature; how does culture exert causal force; what is culture made of and how is it reproduced; how does culture get into our heads or, conversely, how does it get out of our heads and into the world, and in what sense does it do so?

This course follows several of these themes, beginning with early (mainly American) psychological anthropologists who first made the case that human behavior can only be understood by attending to how the mind divides the world into categories and assigns them significant meanings: in other words, that one cannot study humans’ interactions with their environment without understanding that their environment is (in part) culturally constituted.

Combining these insights with psychoanalytic theories of drive and development, scholars of the Culture and Personality School then asked how cultural categories are shared and reproduced and how they acquire their emotional significance. Applied research on Japan, Germany, and the Soviet Union in the 1940s and 1950s gave way to the more theoretical Human Relations projects of the 1960s, including studies of child development, gender and familial relations, values and cross-cultural communication, and mental health.

Since the 1960s, a parallel strand has drawn on cybernetics, cognitive science, and ethnoscience to inform new approaches to understanding culture’s components in cognitive psychological terms. These new formulations address many weaknesses of the older approaches, including a more sophisticated understanding of variation within cultures, different kinds of cultural knowledge, and more realistic models of how culture can do what it does.

Several classic topics in psychological anthropology will be passed over lightly, as these are addressed in much greater depth by other courses in Human Development: psychological approaches to religion, including trance and possession; the interaction of social and cultural processes with mental health; and cross-cultural challenges to psychoanalytic theories. We will discuss aspects of the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis and the relationship between language and cognition in passing as they bear on other issues in psychological anthropology.

HUDV 28000            Advanced Psychoanalytic Theory 

Fisher, Susan

M 3-6 

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 37502            Research Seminar in Animal Behavior II 

Maestripieri, Dario; Mateo, Jill

W 12:00-13:00

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 45400            Seminar: Research on Psychotherapists 

Orlinsky, David

Th 10:30 - 12 plus lab

PQ: Consent of instructor.

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 45600            When Cultures Collide: The Moral Challenge in Cultural Migration 

Shweder, R. 

W 9:30-11:50

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 45700            Urban Field Research

Taub, Richard

W1:30 - 4:30 

This course will focus on methods for collecting qualitative field data in urban settings from the ground up, so to speak, and to discuss some related methodological issues.  In addition to readings, there will be field assignments and students will discuss each other's notes.

HUDV 48412            Publications, Grants, and the Acadmeic Job Market

Maestripieri, Dario

Time/Day TBA

New course offering