COGST 4150 - Culture, Cognition, Humanities

(crosslisted) COML 4229, PSYCH 4150
(ALC-AS, ETM-AS, KCM-AS)

Fall. 3 credits. Student option grading.

Enrollment limited to: juniors and seniors or by permission of instructor.

M. Christiansen, L. Dubreuil.

Seminar on the essential features and qualities of culture and how it impacts human endeavors. Because understanding culture necessarily requires interaction across multiple areas of study, this interdisciplinary seminar will be based on discussions of recent research at the interface of cognitive science and the humanities. Topics may include: animal cultures, the evolution of language, the symbolic revolution, knowledge acquisitions, play, rituals and the arts.