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Your search for courses · during 2023-24 · tagged with CGSC Elective · returned 29 results
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BIOL 365 Seminar: Topics in Neuroscience 6 credits
We will focus on recent advances in neuroscience. All areas of neuroscience (cellular/molecular, developmental, systems, cognitive, and disease) will be considered. Classical or foundational papers will be used to provide background.
Waitlist only
- Fall 2023
- Quantitative Reasoning Encounter
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Biology 125 and 126 or instructor consent
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BIOL 368 Seminar: Developmental Neurobiology 6 credits
An examination of the cellular and molecular mechanisms underlying development of the nervous system. We will survey recent studies of a variety of model organisms to explore key steps in neuronal development including neural induction, patterning, specification of neuronal identity, axonal guidance, synapse formation, cell death and regeneration.
Waitlist only
- Winter 2024
- Quantitative Reasoning Encounter
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Biology 125 and 126 and Biology 240 or Biology 280
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CGSC 100 Cognitive Development in Childhood 6 credits
This Argument and Inquiry seminar will focus on the cognitive changes experienced by children in the preschool and elementary school years, in such realms as perception, attention, memory, thinking, decision-making, knowledge representation, and the acquisition of academic skills. Weekly observation at local day care centers or elementary schools will be a required course component.
Held for new students
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CGSC 253 Philosophy of Cognitive Science 6 credits
A study of the central theories, methodological and philosophical issues and major competing paradigms regarding the nature of human cognition. Topics to be treated include: the history of cognitive science as a science, and the context through which we think about mental representations, intentionality, consciousness, the use and importance of language, nativism and externalism in the cognitive sciences, embodied cognition and the constitutive roles of culture and evolution in shaping cognitive processes.
- Spring 2024
- Humanistic Inquiry Writing Requirement
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Cognitive Science 130 or instructor consent
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CGSC 253.00 Spring 2024
- Faculty:Jay McKinney 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- T, THHulings 316 1:15pm-3:00pm
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CGSC 340 Phenomenology and Cognitive Science 6 credits
This course will provide an in-depth study of phenomenology, covering both its history and contemporary debates, and phenomenology-inspired research in cognitive science, psychology and neuroscience. Roughly half the course will be devoted to the history of phenomenology, setting the main views within their historical context and explaining how these views respond to the difficulties of their predecessors. The other half will discuss contemporary philosophical debates and scientific research involving phenomenological approaches.
- Fall 2023
- Humanistic Inquiry
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Cognitive Science 130 required, 200-level Cognitive Science, Psychology or Philosophy course recommended
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CGSC 340.00 Fall 2023
- Faculty: Staff
- Size:15
- T, THOlin 104 1:15pm-3:00pm
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CS 254 Computability and Complexity 6 credits
An introduction to the theory of computation. What problems can and cannot be solved efficiently by computers? What problems cannot be solved by computers, period? Topics include formal models of computation, including finite-state automata, pushdown automata, and Turing machines; formal languages, including regular expressions and context-free grammars; computability and uncomputability; and computational complexity, particularly NP-completeness.
- Winter 2024, Spring 2024
- Formal or Statistical Reasoning
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Computer Science 200 or 201 and Computer Science 202 (Mathematics 236 will be accepted in lieu of Computer Science 202)
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CS 254.00 Winter 2024
- Faculty:Anna Rafferty 🏫 👤
- Size:34
- M, WLeighton 305 9:50am-11:00am
- FLeighton 305 9:40am-10:40am
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CS 254.00 Spring 2024
- Faculty:Josh Davis 🏫 👤
- Size:34
- M, WLeighton 305 1:50pm-3:00pm
- FLeighton 305 2:20pm-3:20pm
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CS 314 Data Visualization 6 credits
Understanding the wealth of data that surrounds us can be challenging. Luckily, we have evolved incredible tools for finding patterns in large amounts of information: our eyes! Data visualization is concerned with taking information and turning it into pictures to better communicate patterns or discover new insights. It combines aspects of computer graphics, human-computer interaction, design, and perceptual psychology. In this course, we will learn the different ways in which data can be expressed visually and which methods work best for which tasks. Using this knowledge, we will critique existing visualizations as well as design and build new ones.
- Spring 2024
- Formal or Statistical Reasoning Quantitative Reasoning Encounter
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Computer Science 200 or 201
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CS 314.00 Spring 2024
- Faculty:Eric Alexander 🏫 👤
- Size:16
- M, WHulings 316 9:50am-11:00am
- FHulings 316 9:40am-10:40am
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CS 320 Machine Learning 6 credits
What does it mean for a machine to learn? Much of modern machine learning focuses on identifying patterns in large datasets and using these patterns to make predictions about the future. Machine learning has impacted a diverse array of applications and fields, from scientific discovery to healthcare to education. In this artificial intelligence-related course, we’ll both explore a variety of machine learning algorithms in different application areas, taking both theoretical and practical perspectives, and discuss impacts and ethical implications of machine learning more broadly. Topics may vary, but typically focus on regression and classification algorithms, including neural networks.
- Fall 2023, Winter 2024
- Formal or Statistical Reasoning
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Computer Science 200 or 201 and Computer Science 202 (Mathematics 236 will be accepted in lieu of Computer Science 202)
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CS 320.00 Fall 2023
- Faculty:Anna Rafferty 🏫 👤
- Size:34
- M, WLanguage & Dining Center 104 9:50am-11:00am
- FLanguage & Dining Center 104 9:40am-10:40am
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CS 320.00 Winter 2024
- Faculty: Staff
- Size:34
- M, WLanguage & Dining Center 104 9:50am-11:00am
- FLanguage & Dining Center 104 9:40am-10:40am
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CS 344 Human-Computer Interaction 6 credits
The field of human-computer interaction addresses two fundamental questions: how do people interact with technology, and how can technology enhance the human experience? In this course, we will explore technology through the lens of the end user: how can we design effective, aesthetically pleasing technology, particularly user interfaces, to satisfy user needs and improve the human condition? How do people react to technology and learn to use technology? What are the social, societal, health, and ethical implications of technology? The course will focus on design methodologies, techniques, and processes for developing, testing, and deploying user interfaces.
- Spring 2024
- Formal or Statistical Reasoning Quantitative Reasoning Encounter
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Computer Science 200 or 201 or instructor permission
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CS 344.00 Spring 2024
- Faculty:Amy Csizmar Dalal 🏫 👤
- Size:34
- T, THAnderson Hall 329 1:15pm-3:00pm
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ECON 265 Game Theory and Economic Applications 6 credits
Game theory is the study of purposeful behavior in strategic situations. It serves as a framework for analysis that can be applied to everyday decisions, such as working with a study group and cleaning your room, as well as to a variety of economic issues, including contract negotiations and firms’ output decisions. In this class, modern game theoretic tools will be primarily applied to economic situations, but we will also draw on examples from other realms.
- Spring 2024
- Quantitative Reasoning Encounter Social Inquiry
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Economics 111
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ECON 265.00 Spring 2024
- Faculty:Jonathan Lafky 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WWillis 211 1:50pm-3:00pm
- FWillis 211 2:20pm-3:20pm
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ECON 267 Behavioral Economics 6 credits
This course introduces experimental economics and behavioral economics as two complementary approaches to understanding economic decision making. We will study the use of controlled experiments to test and critique economic theories, as well as how these theories can be improved by introducing psychologically plausible assumptions to our models. We will read a broad survey of experimental and behavioral results, including risk and time preferences, prospect theory, other-regarding preferences, the design of laboratory and field experiments, and biases in decision making.
- Fall 2023
- Quantitative Reasoning Encounter Social Inquiry
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Economics 110 and 111
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ECON 267.00 Fall 2023
- Faculty:Jonathan Lafky 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WWillis 211 1:50pm-3:00pm
- FWillis 211 2:20pm-3:20pm
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EDUC 234 Educational Psychology 6 credits
Human development and learning theories are studied in relation to the teaching-learning process and the sociocultural contexts of schools. Three hours outside of class per week are devoted to observing learning activities in public school elementary and secondary classrooms and working with students.
Extra Time required.
- Fall 2023
- Social Inquiry
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EDUC 234.00 Fall 2023
- Faculty:Deborah Appleman 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- T, THWillis 114 1:15pm-3:00pm
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LING 216 Generative Approaches to Syntax 6 credits
This course has two primary goals: to provide participants with a forum to continue to develop their analytical skills (i.e., to ‘do syntax’), and to acquaint them with generative syntactic theory, especially the Principles and Parameters approach. Participants will sharpen their technological acumen, through weekly problem solving, and engage in independent thinking and analysis, by means of formally proposing novel syntactic analyses for linguistic phenomena. By the conclusion of the course, participants will be prepared to read and critically evaluate primary literature couched within this theoretical framework.
- Winter 2024
- Formal or Statistical Reasoning
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Linguistics 115
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LING 216.00 Winter 2024
- Faculty:Catherine Fortin 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WLeighton 426 1:50pm-3:00pm
- FLeighton 426 2:20pm-3:20pm
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LING 217 Phonetics and Phonology 6 credits
Although no two utterances are ever exactly the same, we humans don’t function like tape recorders; we overlook distinctions to which mechanical recording devices are sensitive, and we “hear” contrasts which are objectively not there. What we (think we) hear is determined by the sound system of the language we speak. This course examines the sound systems of human languages, focusing on how speech sounds are produced and perceived, and how these units come to be organized into a systematic network in the minds of speakers of languages.
- Fall 2023
- Formal or Statistical Reasoning
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100-level Linguistics course
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LING 217.00 Fall 2023
- Faculty: Staff
- Size:25
- M, WWillis 114 1:50pm-3:00pm
- FWillis 114 2:20pm-3:20pm
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LING 275 First Language Acquisition 6 credits
Humans are unique among animals in that we attain native speaker competency in any language(s) we receive a sufficient amount of exposure to during the right time of our development. The path of first language acquisition is remarkably stable regardless of the language(s) being acquired, and yields insights into the nature of human language. In this course, we explore children’s capacity to acquire language, with a focus on its implications for linguistic theory. Topics include acquisition of phonology, morphology, syntax, and semantics, and acquisition in extraordinary circumstances.
- Winter 2024
- Social Inquiry
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100-level linguistics course
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LING 275.00 Winter 2024
- Faculty:Catherine Fortin 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WLeighton 426 12:30pm-1:40pm
- FLeighton 426 1:10pm-2:10pm
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LING 325 Syntax of an Unfamiliar Language 6 credits
In this course we examine, with the help of a native speaker consultant, the syntax of a language deliberately chosen for its being unfamiliar to all the participants. Our goals will be to construct a coherent and theoretically respectable account of principles of the grammar of this language, and to understand what our account reveals about the structure of human language generally. Each student will investigate some aspect of the syntax of the language in depth, culminating in a class presentation and research report.
- Fall 2023
- Science with Lab
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Linguistics 216
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LING 325.00 Fall 2023
- Faculty:Catherine Fortin 🏫 👤
- Size:15
- M, WWeitz Center 231 9:50am-11:00am
- FWeitz Center 231 9:40am-10:40am
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LING 340 Topics in Semantics 6 credits
Semantics is the study of what words and constructions mean in a language and how speakers come to actually interpret those meanings. In this course we explore several objects of inquiry within the field of semantics, including compositional semantics (i.e., the computation of meaning over syntactic structures), lexical semantics (with a particular emphasis on verb meanings), and how the various interpretations of ambiguous constructions are derived.
- Spring 2024
- Formal or Statistical Reasoning
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Linguistics 216
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LING 340.00 Spring 2024
- Faculty:Cherlon Ussery 🏫 👤
- Size:15
- M, WAnderson Hall 323 12:30pm-1:40pm
- FAnderson Hall 323 1:10pm-2:10pm
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NEUR 127 Foundations in Neuroscience and Lab 6 credits
This course is an introduction to basic neural function. Topics include neural transmission, development of the nervous system, anatomy, sensory systems, learning and the corresponding change in the brain, and the role of the nervous system in behavior. Team-based learning will be used to understand the experiments that shape current knowledge.
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NEUR 127.52 Fall 2023
- Faculty:Eric Hoopfer 🏫 👤 · Sarah Meerts 🏫 👤
- Size:16
- T, THWeitz Center 235 10:10am-11:55am
- THulings B04 1:00pm-5:00pm
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NEUR 127.53 Fall 2023
- Faculty:Eric Hoopfer 🏫 👤 · Sarah Meerts 🏫 👤
- Size:16
- T, THWeitz Center 235 10:10am-11:55am
- WHulings B04 2:00pm-6:00pm
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PHIL 116 Sensation, Induction, Abduction, Deduction, Seduction 6 credits
In every academic discipline, we make theories and argue for and against them. This is as true of theology as of geology (and as true of phys ed as of physics). What are the resources we have available to us in making these arguments? It’s tempting to split the terrain into (i) raw data, and (ii) rules of right reasoning for processing the data. The most obvious source of raw data is sense experience, and the most obvious candidates for modes of right reasoning are deduction, induction, and abduction. Some philosophers, however, think that sense perception is only one of several sources of raw data (perhaps we also have a faculty of pure intuition or maybe a moral sense), and others have doubted that we have any source of raw data at all. As for the modes of “right” reasoning, Hume famously worried about our (in)ability to justify induction, and others have had similar worries about abduction and even deduction. Can more be said on behalf of our most strongly held beliefs and belief-forming practices than simply that we find them seductive—that we are attracted to them; that they resonate with us? In this course, we’ll use some classic historical and contemporary philosophical texts to help us explore these and related issues.
- Spring 2024
- Humanistic Inquiry Writing Requirement
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PHIL 116.00 Spring 2024
- Faculty:Jason Decker 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- T, THLeighton 304 3:10pm-4:55pm
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PHIL 217 Reason in Context: Limitations and Possibilities 6 credits
Our reflection on significant human questions is often (perhaps always) embedded within a larger set of cultural or personal theoretical commitments. Such embeddedness suggests our reflection cannot achieve the standard of objectivity characteristic of a traditional ideal of rationality. Is this realization to be welcomed insofar as it weakens traditional dogmatic claims to truth and the associated implication that certain views or frameworks are superior to others? Or, in spite of the unmooring of the philosophical tradition from set criteria, do we still find ourselves committed to some ordering of rank and, if so, how do we make sense of this? In this course we’ll examine these questions as they arise in the writings of Nietzsche, Heidegger and other continental philosophers. We will devote part of the course to the ancient sources (Plato and Aristotle) with whom the continental philosophers are in conversation.
- Fall 2023
- Humanistic Inquiry Writing Requirement
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PHIL 217.00 Fall 2023
- Faculty:Allison Murphy 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- T, THLeighton 303 10:10am-11:55am
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PHIL 223 Philosophy of Language 6 credits
In this course we will look at how philosophers have tried to understand language and its connection with human thought and communication. The course will be split into two parts: Semantics and Pragmatics. In the first part, we’ll look at general features of linguistic expressions like meaning and reference. In the second part, we’ll look at the various ways in which speakers use language. Topics to be considered in the second part include speech acts, implicature, and presupposition.
- Winter 2024
- Humanistic Inquiry Writing Requirement
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PHIL 223.00 Winter 2024
- Faculty:Jason Decker 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WLeighton 236 11:10am-12:20pm
- FLeighton 236 12:00pm-1:00pm
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PHIL 272 Early Modern Philosophy: Seventeenth and Eighteenth Century Philosophy 6 credits
This seventeenth and eighteenth century philosophy course is not limited to any geographic region: it is open to Indigenous philosophical traditions as well as those of Europe, the Americas, Africa, and Asia. On the metaphysical side, we will cover topics such as time and space, freedom, and divinity. Ethical issues that we will cover include, but are not limited to, moral responsibility, virtue, suffering, and the good life. Further, we will cover epistemic issues concerning belief, perception, and knowledge.
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PHIL 272.00 Spring 2024
- Faculty:Hope Sample 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WWeitz Center 230 11:10am-12:20pm
- FWeitz Center 230 12:00pm-1:00pm
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PHIL 297 Kant’s Philosophy of Mind 6 credits
Kant’s contributions to philosophy of mind cover a diverse array of aspects of consciousness and have deeply influenced the history of philosophy of mind. His phenomenological reflections on the perception of space and time and the basic categories through which we judge inspired subsequent Kantian philosophers and even contemporary debates about the role of concepts in perception. Further, Kant’s account of judgments of beauty and the sublime provide essential background for contemporary aesthetics. Finally, Kant’s universal law formulation of his central moral principle provides an innovative way to understand moral decision making in terms of collective rationality.
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PHIL 297.00 Fall 2023
- Faculty:Hope Sample 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WLeighton 236 1:50pm-3:00pm
- FLeighton 236 2:20pm-3:20pm
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PSYC 216 Behavioral Neuroscience 6 credits
An introduction to the physiological bases of complex behaviors in mammals, with an emphasis on neural and hormonal mechanisms. Psychology 216 does not require concurrent registration in Psychology 217, however, a grade of C- or better must be earned in both Psychology 216 and 217 to satisfy the LS requirement. Expected preparation: Psychology 110 or instructor permission.
- Spring 2024
- Science with Lab
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PSYC 216.00 Spring 2024
- Faculty:Lawrence Wichlinski 🏫 👤
- Size:32
- M, WBoliou 104 11:10am-12:20pm
- FBoliou 104 12:00pm-1:00pm
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PSYC 220 Sensation and Perception 6 credits
We will address the question of how humans acquire information from the world to support action, learning, belief, choice, and the host of additional mental states that comprise the subject matter of psychology. In other words “How do we get the outside inside?” We will initially consider peripheral anatomical structures (e.g., the eye) and proceed through intermediate levels of sensory coding and transmission to cover the brain regions associated with each of the major senses. Readings will include primary sources and a text. In addition to exams and papers, students will conduct an investigation into an area of personal interest. A grade of C- or better must be earned in both Psychology 220 and 221 to satisfy the LS requirement.
- Winter 2024, Spring 2024
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Psychology 110 or instructor permission
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PSYC 220.00 Winter 2024
- Faculty:Julia Strand 🏫 👤
- M, WLeighton 305 1:50pm-3:00pm
- FLeighton 305 2:20pm-3:20pm
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8 spots held for sophomores (sophomores register for PSYC 220 10)
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PSYC 220.10 Winter 2024
- Faculty:Julia Strand 🏫 👤
- M, WLeighton 305 1:50pm-3:00pm
- FLeighton 305 2:20pm-3:20pm
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Held for sophomores, sophomores unable to register should waitlist for PSYC 220 00
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PSYC 220.00 Spring 2024
- Faculty:Violet Brown 🏫 👤
- M, WAnderson Hall 121 9:50am-11:00am
- FAnderson Hall 121 9:40am-10:40am
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8 spots held for sophomores (sophomores register for PSYC 220 10)
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PSYC 220.10 Spring 2024
- Faculty:Violet Brown 🏫 👤
- M, WAnderson Hall 121 9:50am-11:00am
- FAnderson Hall 121 9:40am-10:40am
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Held for sophomores, sophomores unable to register should waitlist for PSYC 220 00
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PSYC 238 Memory Processes 6 credits
Memory is involved in nearly every human activity: We use our memory not only when we reminisce about the past, but when we study for our exams, talk to our friends, and tie our shoes. This course explores the psychological science of human memory. We will examine different types of memory, how we encode new memories and retrieve old ones, how to ensure a memory is never forgotten, and how to implant a false memory in someone else. In doing so we will look at both old and new research, and discuss how memory research can be applied to some real world environments, such as courtrooms and classrooms. By the end of the course you will be familiar with the major issues in the field of memory research and be able to evaluate the quality of the studies used as evidence in these debates.
PSYC 239 required. A grade of C- or better must be earned in both PSYC 238 & 239 to satisfy the LS requirement.
- Fall 2023
- Social Inquiry
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Psychology 110 or instructor consent
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PSYC 238.00 Fall 2023
- Faculty:Mija Van Der Wege 🏫 👤
- Size:24
- M, WWeitz Center 235 11:10am-12:20pm
- FWeitz Center 235 12:00pm-1:00pm
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8 spots held for sophomores (sophomores register for PSYC 238 10)
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PSYC 238.10 Fall 2023
- Faculty:Mija Van Der Wege 🏫 👤
- Size:8
- M, WWeitz Center 235 11:10am-12:20pm
- FWeitz Center 235 12:00pm-1:00pm
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Held for sophomores, sophomores unable to register should waitlist for PSYC 238 00
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PSYC 250 Developmental Psychology 6 credits
An introduction to the concept of development, examining both theoretical models and empirical evidence. Prenatal through late childhood is covered with some discussion of adolescence when time permits. Topics include the development of personality and identity, social behavior and knowledge, and cognition. In addition, attention is paid to current applications of theory to such topics as: day care, the role of the media, and parenting.
- Fall 2023
- Social Inquiry Writing Requirement
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Psychology 110 or instructor permission
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PSYC 250.00 Fall 2023
- Faculty:Kathleen Galotti 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WHulings 316 9:50am-11:00am
- FHulings 316 9:40am-10:40am
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PSYC 366 Cognitive Neuroscience 6 credits
It should be obvious that every process that goes on in the mind has physiological underpinnings. But, whether we can unlock the secrets of learning, memory, perception, language, decision-making, emotional responding, empathy, morality, social thinking, deception, and manipulation as they are supported by neurons and neural connections is a longstanding and elusive problem in psychology. Contemporary primary source articles are mostly used for this discussion-driven course, but a brief textbook/manual on brain processing is also required. The student should leave the class with a working understanding of brain processes and of contemporary theories of brain processes that may support many mental processes in humans.
- Winter 2024
- Quantitative Reasoning Encounter Social Inquiry
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Psychology 110 or Biology 125 or Psychology 216 or Neuroscience 127 or permission of the instructor.
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PSYC 366.00 Winter 2024
- Faculty:Julie Neiworth 🏫 👤
- Size:15
- T, THAnderson Hall 121 1:15pm-3:00pm
- T, THHulings B12 1:15pm-3:00pm
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PSYC 375 Language and Deception 6 credits
In this course we will examine deception and persuasion in language use. We will take up three main issues. The first is what it means to deceive and how people deceive others through language. What methods do they use, and how do these methods work? The second issue is why people deceive. What purposes do their deceptions serve in court, in advertising, in bureaucracies, in business transactions, and in everyday face-to-face conversation? The third issue is the ethics of deception. Is it legitimate to deceive others, and if so, when and why?
- Spring 2024
- Quantitative Reasoning Encounter Social Inquiry
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Psychology 232, 234, 238 or Cognitive Science 236.