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Environment, Race, and the Psychology of Place
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Open—Fall
This service-learning course will focus on the experience of humans living within physical, social, and psychological spaces. We will use a constructivist, multidisciplinary, multilevel lens to examine the interrelationship between humans and the natural and built environments, to explore the impact of racial/ethnic group membership on person/environment interactions, and to provide a critical analysis of social dynamics in the environmental movement. The community partnership/service-learning component is an important part of this class. We will work with local agencies to promote adaptive person/environment interactions within our community.
Psychology courses
- Babies, Birds and ’bots: An Introduction to Developmental Cognitive Science
- Child and Adolescent Development
- First-Year Studies: Child and Adolescent Development in North American and African Contexts: Opportunities and Inequalities
- Children’s Friendships
- Children’s Health in a Multicultural Context
- Children’s Literature: Developmental and Literary Perspectives
- Crossing Borders and Boundaries: The Social Psychology of Immigration
- Cultural Psychology of Development
- Environment, Race, and the Psychology of Place
- First-Year Studies: The Developing Child: Perspectives from Experience, Observation, and Theory
- Gender Research Seminar: Focus on Men and Masculinities
- Individualism and/or Diversity Reconsidered
- Introduction to the Theory of Social Representations
- Landscapes of Injustice: Psychology and Social Change
- Memory Research Seminar
- Mindfulness: Neuroscientific and Psychological Perspectives
- Narrative Neuropsychology
- Pathways of Development: Psychopathology and Other Challenges to the Developmental Process
- Personality Development
- Puzzling Over People: Social Reasoning in Childhood and Adolescence
- Social Thinking
- The Changing Self: Narratives of Personal Transformation
- The Empathic Attitude
- The Feeling Brain: The Biology and Psychology of Emotions
- Theories of Development
- Theories of the Creative Process
- The Psychology of Religious Experience
- The Synapse to Self: The Neuroscience of Self-Identity
- Trauma, Loss, and Resilience
Vera Wang '71 addresses Class of 2013; photos, videos, media clips available on Commencement site