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Your search for courses · during 2023-24 · taught by kabrams · returned 5 results
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CCST 208 International Coffee and News 2 credits
Have you just returned from Asia, Africa, Europe, or South America? This course is an excellent way to keep in touch with the culture (and, when appropriate, the language) you left behind. Relying on magazines and newspapers around the world, students will discuss common topics and themes representing a wide array of regions. You may choose to read the press in the local language, or read English-language media about your region, meeting once each week for conversational exchange. (Language of conversation is English.)
- Fall 2023, Winter 2024, Spring 2024
- Humanistic Inquiry International Studies
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Participation in an off-campus study program (Carleton or non-Carleton), substantial experience living abroad, or instructor permission.
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IDSC 238 Vaccines: Science, Skeptics, and Stakeholders 6 credits
Vaccines are often touted as one of humankind’s greatest biomedical achievements. They have undoubtedly prevented hundreds of millions of deaths from infectious diseases since their discovery. Yet, there remain many obstacles that prevent their wider development and dissemination. Among these are the technological challenges associated with vaccine development, the well-funded anti-vaccination movements that often thrive on and spread misinformation, and economic hurdles that affect the production and equitable distribution of vaccines. Through an interdisciplinary lens that incorporates material from biology, psychology, and economics, this course will allow students to reach an integrated understanding of vaccines.
- Spring 2024
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PSYC 254 Psychopathology 6 credits
This course will focus on causal factors and clinical presentations of mental disorders, such as mood disorders, anxiety disorders, eating disorders, dissociative disorders, and psychotic disorders, among others. We will use an integrative approach that incorporates psychological, biological, interpersonal, and sociocultural perspectives. Methods of assessment and treatment will also at times be discussed.
- Fall 2023, Winter 2024
- Social Inquiry
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Psychology 110 or instructor permission.
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PSYC 254.00 Fall 2023
- Faculty:Ken Abrams 🏫 👤
- Size:20
- T, THAnderson Hall 329 1:15pm-3:00pm
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8 spots held for sophomores (sophomores register for PSYC 254 10)
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PSYC 254.10 Fall 2023
- Faculty:Ken Abrams 🏫 👤
- Size:8
- T, THAnderson Hall 329 1:15pm-3:00pm
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Held for sophomores, sophomores unable to register should waitlist for PSYC 254 00
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PSYC 254.00 Winter 2024
- Faculty:Ken Abrams 🏫 👤
- Size:28
- T, THAnderson Hall 121 3:10pm-4:55pm
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PSYC 399 Capstone Seminar 6 credits
Each of the three capstone seminars focus on a topic of interest to students in psychology. The goals of the course are to consider questions on a selected topic through reading primary research and discussion and review skills pertinent to scholarly investigation within the topic. Students are then mentored through a substantial paper related to the seminar topic.
- Fall 2023
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Several 200-level Psychology courses and senior Psychology major
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PSYC 400 Integrative Exercise 3 credits
Students independently revise and extend the fall term paper, integrating the feedback from their faculty advisor. Based on this work, students submit a final comps paper (approx. 20 pages) that makes original contributions to the field of psychology through critiquing existing psychology primary sources, applying empirically-supported psychological theories to new questions, generating potential applied guidelines, and/or proposing new theories or empirical studies based on published theories and empirical research.
- Fall 2023, Winter 2024, Spring 2024
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Psychology 399