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PSYCH 129: Happiness, Well-Being, Gender (FEMGEN 156)

Exploring the meaning and attainment of psychological well-being and happiness, this course will address gender differences in well-being and approaches that can be used by all individuals to improve their state of happiness and well-being. Course literature will be drawn primarily from social, clinical, and positive psychology, but will be drawn from other disciplines as well. Students will actively engage with course material by critiquing studies, discussing research, and applying methods for improving well-being to their daily lives.
Last offered: Winter 2014

PSYCH 130: Experimental Pragmatics

How do we understand language as it is used in context? Pragmatic reasoning allows us to go beyond the literal semantics of what someone says to infer what they actually meant. This course will be an in-depth investigation of recent experimental work on pragmatics. Students will read the primary research literature as they learn the skills necessary to develop and run an original experiment investigating our pragmatic inference abilities. Required: Psych 131, Linguist 130A, Linguist 188, or permission of instructor.
Last offered: Winter 2015

PSYCH 130A: NARRATIVE PSYCHOLOGY

This is an exploration of how human experience is remembered, organized, and transformed through stories people tell about their lives. Through a multicultural perspective we examine how narrative approaches in human development and health care offer promising ways to psychological and social wellness. We integrate transdisciplinary scholarship, traditional cultural wisdom, and self-reflective, experiential learning to connect our academic work with our personal lives.
Last offered: Spring 2014

PSYCH 130S: Positive Psychology: Happiness & Well-Being

Exploring the meaning and attainment of psychological well-being and happiness, this course investigates approaches that can be used by all individuals to improve their state of happiness and well-being. Course literature is drawn primarily from social, clinical, and positive psychology, but is also drawn from other disciplines as appropriate. In this course, students will actively engage with course material by critiquing studies, discussing research, and applying methods for improving well-being to their daily lives.
Last offered: Summer 2014

PSYCH 132A: Navigating Race and Identity in America: The Role of Psychology in Racial Interactions (CSRE 118F)

How have social institutions and historical factors led to the belief systems and stereotypes that shape how race is experienced in American society, and how do these belief systems affect the way individuals within racial groups come to view and define themselves?nThis course will serve as an introduction to how people¿s psychology¿how they think, feel, and act¿shapes their experience of race and identity in America. After a brief discussion about the structural and systemic origins of the racial status quo, we will examine the way that individuals navigate the social and racial landscape of modern-day America. Complementing courses that take sociological approaches to race in America, this course will focus on how individuals¿ perceptions and thoughts about the world affect how they interpret and respond to social situations.nFor example, the course will address:n¿nhow stereotypes about one¿s race or identity can cause individuals to feel threatened, and can undermine health, feelings of belonging, and academic performance n¿nhow an individual¿s concerns about the thoughts and beliefs of others can radically affect identity formation, particularly during adolescencen¿nhow individuals have to navigate multiple cultural identities, especially as minority group members contending with mainstream ideas that differ from their ownn¿nhow majority group members (e.g., Whites) view their role in racial systems, and how they deal with concerns about being or appearing prejudiced n¿nhow interventions can use social psychological concepts to mitigate negative outcomes of racial inequalitynWe will then use our understanding of these concepts to examine and consider different racial situations thoughout American society and to understand how individuals navigate and experience race and identity. Throughout the course, we will watch films, read literature, and analyze music and art that reflect the experience of race and identity.
Last offered: Spring 2016

PSYCH 132S: The Neglected Senses: Hearing, Touch, Smell and Taste

Whereas psychology and neuroscience have made great strides in understanding how we perceive the world through all five of our senses, most undergraduate courses focus primarily on vision. The most popular undergraduate perception textbooks devote less than half of their pages to all four other senses. This course will be devoted to these neglected senses: hearing, taste, olfaction and touch. The course will provide answers for the following questions: What stimuli activate the senses of hearing, taste, olfaction and touch? How do we detect that these stimuli are there? How does the brain process information from the senses? How do the senses affect each other? And what can we learn from studying people¿s behavior alone (using psychological methods)?
Last offered: Summer 2014

PSYCH 134: Seminar on Language and Deception (LINGUIST 134)

Deceptive, exploitative, and other noncooperative uses of language. How is language used to deceive or exploit? Where are these techniques practiced and why? What are the personal, ethical, and social consequences of these practices? Prerequisite: 131, LINGUIST 1, or PHIL 181.
Last offered: Winter 2015 | UG Reqs: GER:DB-SocSci, WAY-SI

PSYCH 134S: The Art and Science of Emotional Intelligence

Emotional intelligence has been promoted as essential in finding meaning and fulfillment in our work and relationships. This course is designed to provide an introduction to research and theory on emotional intelligence as a relatively new concept in psychology that has profound influence in education, health, and business. We will critically review it as a scientific concept, looking at the research and the biological bases for emotional intelligence. We will then explore its four basic areas of self understanding, self management, social understanding, and social management. For each area we will engage in self reflection and learn and practice ways of enhancing our emotional intelligence.
Last offered: Summer 2014

PSYCH 136S: Learning and Memory: Theory and Applications

This course explores how our behavior in the present is guided by our past experiences, and how we can apply these principles to our own learning and to the broader world around us. We will explore the theory of learning and memory, including an introduction to multiple memory systems, the ways in which memory can succeed but also fail, and how memory integrity changes across the lifespan and across clinical populations. We will also explore applications of this theoretical content to the real world technologies and policies that touch our everyday lives, such as applications in brain training, advertising, the legal system, and the classroom.
Last offered: Summer 2016

PSYCH 138: Wise Interventions (PSYCH 238, PUBLPOL 238)

Classic and contemporary psychological interventions; the role of psychological factors in social reforms for social problems involving healthcare, the workplace, education, intergroup, relations, and the law. Topics include theories of intervention, the role of laboratory research, evaluation, and social policy.
Last offered: Autumn 2015 | UG Reqs: WAY-SI
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