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THESIS METHODOLOGY SEMINAR (PO5099)

This seminar is required for all students in their final semester of classes in the MAIA program. It is designed to instruct them in the appropriate methodology for the actual writing of the thesis. During the course of the semester students will be personally guided as they choose their thesis topic and will create an outline and abstract in preparation for their research and/or fieldwork.

INTRO TO PSYCHOLOGY (PY1000)

This course discusses the intellectual foundations of contemporary psychology. Students learn about the concepts, theories and experiments basic to an understanding of the discipline, including classic thought and recent advances in psychology such as psychoanalysis, learning theory,biological mechanisms, developmental, social, cognitive, personality and abnormal psychology.

INTRO TO PSYCHOLOGY (PY1000)

This course discusses the intellectual foundations of contemporary psychology. Students learn about the concepts, theories and experiments basic to an understanding of the discipline, including classic thought and recent advances in psychology such as psychoanalysis, learning theory,biological mechanisms, developmental, social, cognitive, personality and abnormal psychology.

TOPICS IN PSYCHOLOGY (PY1091)

Treats a series of topics that change every year and deal with various aspects of psychology. Courses are taught by permanent or visiting faculty and are generally related to their fields of specialization. This course can be used to fulfill the fundamentals requirements in the psychology major.

TOPICS IN PSYCHOLOGY (PY1091)

Treats a series of topics that change every year and deal with various aspects of psychology. Courses are taught by permanent or visiting faculty and are generally related to their fields of specialization. This course can be used to fulfill the fundamentals requirements in the psychology major.

MADNESS, MANIA, & THE CINEMA (PY2007)

Analyzes alienation and delusional states psychodynamically as presented in contemporary film. First studies acute hysteria and multiple personalities (Petrie's Sybil). Then approaches the elaboration of a persecution complex (Polanski's Rosemary's Baby), amnesia and dissociation (Parker's Angel Heart), and psychotic breakdown Bergman's Through a Glass Darkly or The Hour of the Wolf).

GENDER-IDENTITY, SEXUAL ORIENTATION, & THE CINEMA (PY2008)

Deals with the pathologization of the human sexual potential by social pressures and compulsory demand for normalization. Examines deviance and stigmatization by way of Goffman's essay Stigma; studies gender identity in Crisp-Gold's film The Naked Civil Servant; analyzes the problems of alternative sexual preference as presented in the Merchant-Ivory production of Maurice and in Metzger's herese et Isabelle. PY2051 is recommended as a prerequisite.

SHATTERED BRAINS, FRACTURED MINDS (PY2009)

This course provides knowledge - but also provokes the student's knowledge on the mind-brain relationship. Phenomena in brain-damaged patients teach us how the brain creates our mind. We will talk about how memory, language, visual perception, but also social processes or the body image are represented in the brain. This course is not a standard neuropsychology course and is accessible for non-psychology students.

PSYCHOLOGY & GENDER (PY2010)

Surveys major issues concerning gender and the science of psychology in an attempt to answer the question: why is there such a gender gap when women and men share more psychological similarities than differences? Topics include: developmental processes and gender; gender roles and stereotypes, biology and gender; cross-cultural perspectives of gender; social-cultural theories of gender; language and gender, emotions and gender, health and gender.

UNDERSTANDING HUMAN DEVELOPMENT (PY2013)

The course is an introduction to developmental psychology. From various points of view it explores the key question What is, and how can we understand, human development? It engages with central issues of developmental psychology (among others, through the work of influential psychologists such as Jean Piaget, Lev Vygotsky, E. Erikson, Jerome Bruner, Katherine Nelson, Peggy J. Miller, and Michael Tomasello) and puts them into cross- and interdisciplinary contexts. These contexts include evolutionary theory; cultural and sociocultural, narrative, and critical psychology; history; anthropology; and philosophy. Beyond the scientific and conceptual domain, the course also investigates phenomena of human development in literature, arts, and film.
PY1000 is strongly recommended as a prerequisite.