Courses

Courses and tutorials listed through CBD present multiple perspectives on issues surrounding the study of culture, mind/brain, and human development. CBD courses encourage discussion among disciplines, are offered at all levels of study, and may be co-taught by faculty from different schools. Students may use these courses toward a concentration in CBD.

CBD also provides funding for faculty to develop new courses and to augment current courses. Scroll down for examples (some of these courses may be offered again in the future).

Courses Developed or Augmented with CBD funds:

CS/CSI 150: Life and Death: Conversations and Questions Across Disciplines, Daniel Altshuler and Pamela Stone
CS 101: Food 101, Steve Weisler
CS/NS/SS 105: Developmental Psychopathology: Culture, Brain, and Development, Jane Couperus
CS109: Cognition and Society, Karen Danna
CS 111: The Emergence of Literacy, Melissa Burch
CS 118: The Emotions, Laura Sizer
CS/CSI 150: Life and Death: Conversations and Questions Across Disciplines, Daniel Altshuler and Pamela Stone
CS 215: Ways of Seeing: The Sociocognitive Bases of Perception, Karen Danna
CS 219: Time, History, and Memory, Karen Danna
CS 279: Cognition and Behavior in Domesticated Animals, Mark Feinstein
CS 285: Evolution of the Human Mind and Brain, Charles Ross and Neil Stillings
CS 333: Temporal Interpretation of Narrative Discourse, Daniel Altshuler
CS/HACU 181: Music in Culture and Nature, Mark Feinstein and Jay Pillay
CS/SS 163: Consumption and Happiness, Melissa Burch and Omar Dahi
CS/SS 370: Brain, Mind, and Culture, Neil Stillings and Barbara Yngvesson
CS/SS 185: Consuming Childhood, Melissa Burch and Rachel Conrad
CSI 207: What's So Funny? Humor, Culture, Cognition, and the Brain, Karen Danna
HACU 213: New French Philosophy, Christoph Cox
HACU 250: Introduction to Modern Buddhism: Orientalism, Buddhist Psychotherapy, and the Brain Activity of Tibetan Monks, Ryan Bongseok Joo
HACU 254: Still Photography Workshop II: Color, Jacqueline Hayden
HACU/SS 272: Altered States, Michelle Bigenho and Bethany Ogden
HACU 310: Black Aesthetics: Art, Race, Nation and the Global, Monique Roelofs
IA 226: Crossing Lines: Disturbing Landscapes of Racialized Difference, Jill Lewis
NS 154: CBD Tutorial: Science of Stress, Cynthia Gill
NS 254: Culture and Biology, Alan Goodman and Lynn Morgan
NS 283: Basic Physics: Quantum Mechanics, Herb Bernstein
NS 146/346: Microscopy and Modeling, Megan Dobro
NS/CS 384: Stress Across Cultures, Cynthia Gill
SS 243: Interrogating Fear: Bioterrors, the Environment and the Construction of Threats, Betsy Hartman
SS 298: Development Seminar, Rachel Conrad

Recent CBD Courses (visit TheHub for additional information):

CS-102T Biological Evolution in the Public Sphere: S. Hameed
CS 104T Cognitive Science Fiction: J. Davila
CS-111 The Emergence of Literacy: M. Burch
CS 114 Introduction to Philosophy: J. Westphal
CS 117T Philosophy of Education: E. Alleva
CS 123 Introduction to Psychological Science: R. Rosenberg
CS 131 Technologies of Mediatization: J. Miller
CS 134 Brain and Cognition: J. Morris
CS136 Cognitive Psychology: J. Morris
CS 141 The Social Psychology of Building Peach in the Context of Violent Intergroup Conflict: R. Steele
CS 176 Discovering Rules in an Extinct Language: Sound Patterns of Osage: D. Altshuler
CS 207 Infant and Child Development: R. Rosenberg
CS 208 How People Learn: T. Zimmerman
CS 263 Artificial Intelligence: L. Spector
CS 278 Freewill and Determination: J. Westphal
CS 285 Evolution of the Human Mind and Brain, Charles Ross and Neil Stillings
CS 338 Current Issues in Cognitive Science: M. Feinstein
CS 345 Research Seminar in Linguistics and Philosophy: Performative Utterances: D. Altshuler
NS 104 Optics and Holography: F. Wirth
NS 121 Human Biology: C. Jarvis
NS 158 Brain Mechanisms: C. Gill
NS 221 Animal Physiology: C. Gill
NS 242 Case Studies in Global Health: Biosocial Perspectives: F. Aulino
NS 262 Biochemistry: J. Castorino
NS 386 New Ways of Knowing: H. Bernstein
CSI 124 Ethnographies of Power and the Power of Ethnography: L. Keough
CSI 170 Minding Culture: In the Case of Mental Illness: M. Mattei
CSI 173/HACU 173 Sex, Science, and the Victorian Body: P. Stone and L. Sanders
CSI 190T Art/Artifact: African Art and Material Culture: R. Engmann
CSI 195 Population and Development: Crisis, Controversy, and the Politics of Coercion: A. Hendrixson
CSI 214 "People Without History:" Historical Archaeologies of Atlantic Africa and the African Diaspora: R. Engmann
CSI 272 Critical Psychology: P. Gilford
CSI 286 Postcolonial Feminist Science Studies: J. Hamilton and A. Willey
CSI 356 Special Topics in Childhood, Youth, and Learning: An Integrative Seminar: K. Luschen
HACU 120 The Anatomy of Pictures: L. Falk
HACU 121T The Body in Modern and Contemporary Art: S. Levine
HACU 140 Writing from the Diaspora: Readings in Contemporary Women’s Fiction: A. Ellis
HACU 165 Seeing Ourselves: C. Nolasco
HACU 191 Feminist Philosophy: the Mysterious, the Playful, the Funny, the Useless, the Intimate, and the Indifferent: M. Roelofs
HACU 229 The Aesthetics of “Social Engagement”: E. Gottesman
HACU 269 Translations and Translators: A Workshop on Cross-Cultural Encounters: N. Holland and P. Barskova
HACU 272 Dance and Culture: The Power of Dance: D. Lowell
HACU 292 The Bioapparatus: L. Falk
HACU 293 Race, Gender, and Sexuality in the Digital Age: S. Loza
HACU 332 Text, Image, Culture, Structure: HACU Research Seminar: K. Koehler

Past Courses

CS 123T: Adolescent Development: Culture, Brain, and Development, J. Couperus
CSI 123T: Rethinking Childhood, R. Conrad
NS 124T: Tutorial: HIV/AIDS 30 Years Later, M. Dobro
CS 133: Introduction to Social Psychology, T. Cain
NS 137T: Sex, Death, and Teeth: Life Stories Recorded in Teeth, A. Goodman
NS 154: The Science of Stress, C. Gill
CSI 162: Bodies, Guts, and Bones: A Biocultural Approach to Diet and Nutrition, P. Stone
CSI 190: Understanding Culture and Power: an Introduction to Cultural Anthropology, L. Keough
CSI 204: Ways of Knowing in the Social Sciences, K. Chang
CS 208: Qualitative Methods in the Behavioral Sciences, T. Cain
CSI 218: Bioethics in a Post-Genomic Age, J. Hamilton
CS 233: Abnormal Psychology: Culture, Brain, and Development, J. Couperus
CS 245: Minds, Brain, and Machines: The Fifty Key Ideas, N. Stillings
CSI 250: Critical Ethnography, K. Luschen
CSI 266: Who Owns Culture?, M. Bigenho
CS 287: Evolution of Artificial Neural Networks, J. Davila
CSI 310: Buddhism and Psychotherapy, P. Gilford and R. Joo
CS 335: Seminar in Mind, Brain, and Behavior, N. Stillings
CSI 365: Childhood, Youth and Learning: Division III Seminar, R. Conrad