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Guided observation of children age 2-5 at Bing Nursery School, meets in Tower House, 860 Escondido Road. Corequisite: 60.

Why do people behave the way they do? This is the fundamental question that drives social psychology. Through reading, lecture, and interactive discussion, students have the opportunity to explore and think critically about a variety of exciting issues including: what causes us to like, love, help, or hurt others; the effects of social influence and persuasion on individual thoughts, emotion, and behavior; and how the lessons of social psychology can be applied in contexts such as health, work, and relationships. The social forces studied in the class shape our behavior, though their operation cannot be seen directly. A central idea of this class is that awareness of these forces allows us to make choices in light of them, offering us more agency and wisdom in our everyday lives. Required prerequisite: PSYCH1

How do we measure personality and emotion? What parts of your personality and emotions are set at birth? What parts of your personality and emotions are shaped by your sociocultural context? Can your personality and emotions make you sick? Can you change your personality and emotions? These are questions we begin to address in this introductory course on personality and emotion. Prerequisite: Psych 1.

This course will provide students with an overview of the field of clinical psychology, the various roles of clinical psychologists in research and practice, and implications of current research in neuroscience for clinical psychology. We will discuss the definition and history of clinical psychology as a profession, research methods used in clinical psychology, issues in diagnosis and classification of disorders, techniques used in the assessment of intellectual and personality functioning, various approaches to therapeutic intervention, and issues related to ethics, professionalism, and training in clinical psychology. Throughout this course we will review and integrate relevant research in the field of clinical neuroscience with our discussion and understanding of clinical psychology.

Theories of and approaches to understanding the phenomenology, etiology, and treatment of psychological disorders among adults and children. Research findings and diagnostic issues. Recommended: PSYCH 1.

Life expectancy nearly doubled in the 20th century, creating opportunities to redesign the way we live our lives. The course considers ways to improve quality of life, health, and work in an era of unprecedented longevity.

In an increasingly globalized world, our ability to connect and engage with new audiences is directly correlated with our competence and success in any field How do our intergroup perceptions and reactions influence our skills as communicators? This course uses experiential activities and discussion sections to explore the role of social identity in effective communication. The objective of the course is to examine and challenge our explicit and implicit assumptions about various groups to enhance our ability to successfully communicate across the complex web of identity. NOTE: If you are interested in enrolling in this class, please fill out the following survey to be considered: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1CGQtF7_aIakrVp9pccVP-ih3lKf1dg7DvltEGXWMYyQ/edit?usp=sharing

Are you interested in strengthening your skills as a facilitator or section leader? Interested in opening up dialogue around identity within your community or among friends? This course will provide you with facilitation tools and practice, but an equal part of the heart of this class will come from your own reflection on the particular strengths and challenges you may bring to facilitation and how to craft a personal style that works best for you. This reflection process is ongoing, for the instructors as well as the students.

Throughout history and across cultures, people have interacted with invisible others. They have called them gods, ghosts, spirits, the dead and so forth. Humans have also experienced invisible others as responding in ways that are often (but not always) experientially consistent across time and space. They hear voices, see visions, feel presence and force. This class explores the relationship between specific psychological experiences and specific social practices through which these experiences are interpreted and cultivated. Often, these practices and ideas are intertwined with human health and medical healing, with loneliness, pain and death. We will not presume that invisible others are real or not real: the goal of the class is to understand them as real experiences. And we will ask: how do new forms of interacting with AI characters seem like and unlike these older forms? Students will explore these questions by using the practices themselves, and by reading a combination of ethnographic literature, medical science and psychological experiments.