HD 4310 - Mind, Self, and Emotion

(crosslisted) AAS 4310, COGST 4350
(SBA-HE)

Fall. 3 credits. Letter grades only.

Prerequisite: HD 1150 or HD 1170 or PSYCH 1101. Enrollment limited to: 20 upper-class undergraduate or graduate standing. Co-meets with COGST 6390/HD 6390.

Q. Wang.

Offered to students who are currently conducting research or planning to do research in the near future on one of the three topics-memory, self, or emotion. The course examines current data and theories concerning the topics from a variety of perspectives and at multiple levels of analysis, particularly focusing on the interconnections among these fields of inquiry. The “scale of observation” is viewed as occurring within the person (brain mechanisms, including genetics), at the level of the person (content-goals, beliefs, desires, etc.), and between persons (relationships and group interaction-including culture).

Outcome 1: Students learn to develop research ideas and design a study to test their ideas. They each complete a research proposal by the end of the semester.