101. First Year Seminar in Interdisciplinary Studies.
(3). (HU).
Section 001 – Conservatism and Democracy: England After the French
Revolution. This First-Year Seminar considers these questions:
What is conservatism? and what good (or bad) is it? What is democracy?
and what good (or bad) is it? The course will explore these questions
by an intensive examination of some key texts written in England after the French Revolution. Authors will include Burke, Paine, Wollstonecraft, Percy Shelley, Byron, Mary Shelley, Coleridge, and Wordsworth. (Herzog)
411. Topics in Interdisciplinary
Studies. Advanced undergraduate standing. (1-3).
(HU). May be repeated for credit.
Section 001 – Emotions. This course will provide an overview
of the major psychological theories of emotion from William James
to the present, including physiological, cognitive, expressive, behavioral, and social factors in emotional experience. It is
a survey of historical and current psychological theories of emotion, and the related empirical evidence. The interrelationship between
cognition and emotion will be emphasized; neurophysiological research
will be (relatively) de-emphasized. The main assignment is a 15-20
page paper. Students currently conducting research on any aspect
of emotion may elect to give a class presentation in place of the paper. The following major issues will be considered and reconsidered throughout the course, along with any other issues of particular
concern to the students: (1) Are emotions innate or learned? Universal
or culture-specific? Or, more realistically, which aspects of
emotion are innate and which are learned? (2) What roles do physiological
processes (central and autonomic); expression; cognition; subjective
experience or "feeling"; and behavior play in emotion?
(3) How many emotions are there: two, a few, many or an infinite
number? (4) (Related to 3). Are emotions primarily categorical
or primarily dimensional? Is there a way of combing these two
points of view. (5) Are emotions disruptive or useful and in what
ways? (6) How do emotions develop in infancy and childhood? These
questions are heuristic; i.e., none of them will be answered definitely.
The course is open to graduate students and advanced undergraduates.
There are no prerequisites, but students with no background in
psychology may be given additional required readings. (Ellsworth)
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