Syllabus

Submitted by admin on Tue, 01/02/2007 - 2:29pm.

Here's a table showing the general structure of the quarter. For specific assignments, see the "Assignments" webpage.

 

 

DATES

READINGS

ASSIGNMENTS DUE

THEMES

ACTIVITIES

Week 1

April 2-4

 

Plato, Aristotle,Descartes, Locke, Pinker, readings: on Web

-ABC re readings

-Anatomy Pages

1-1,1-2,1-3

What’s in the mind?

How does it get there?

Covenant

Mind inventory

Web intro.

Week 2

April 9-11

Damasio, pp 1-130

-ABC re readings

-Anatomy Pages 1-5,1-6, 2-1

NVC handout

What parts of brain are responsible for consciousness?

Overview of Brain Structure

NVC

Week 3

April 16-18

Damasio, pp 131-276

-ABC re readings

-Anatomy Pages 2-3, 2-5, 4-4


Emotion

Thinking about feeling

(Anatomy)

Thinking about Feeling

NVC

Week 4

April 23-25

Damasio, pp 277-335

"The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat" -download, for Wed.

-ABC re readings

-Anatomy Pages 4-9, 4-11, 5-1


Emotions and consciousness

Brain Mysteries video

(Anatomy)

NVC

Week 5

April 30-May 2

 

Hobson, pp 1-122


-ABC re readings (Mon. only)

-Anatomy Quiz (Wed.)

-Draft of Integration paper #1 due Wed., May 2

Attachment and mind/brain development

Attachment video

NVC

(Anatomy)

Week 6

May7-9

 

Hobson, pp123-274

Siegel, Ch. 2, "Memory" text on Webpage

-ABC re readings (Mon. only.)

-Integ. Paper #1 due Wed. May 9

The intersubjective


(Anatomy)

NVC

Week 7

May 14-16

Siegel: CH. 3: Attachment (Mon.)

Katherine Nelson, Ch.3 text on Web (Wed.)

Rosenberg, "Empathy" on web (for Wed.)

-ABC re readings

-Anatomy Pages: 5-33

The hybrid mind

empathy

Coherent autobiographical narratives

(Anatomy)

Week 8

May 21-23

 

Katherine Nelson, Ch. 11 text on Web

PTSD article and Beah article, on Web (for Wed.)

-ABC re readings Mon only

-Draft Int #2 due 6/4


-Anatomy Pages: 5-26

Enculturation and the mediated mind

 

Trauma and recovery

DRUM Mon and Wed

(Anatomy)

Week 9

May 28-30


Tatum: texts on Web

NO CLASS MONDAY 5/28

-ABC re: Tatum Wednesday

-Anatomy study guide will be handed out Wed.

Cultural identity

compassion, repair, forgiveness

Workshop on Identity

(Anatomy)

Week 10

June 4-6

 

Read: Osherson, Kindlon, and Young-Eisendtrath
texts on Web

Integrative Essay #2 due Mon., 6/4

 

-Anatomy Quiz Wed.

FOODFOR POTLUCK Wednesday

 

Gender identity, Moral development, 

 

Closure, termination, food

Eval. workshop; sign-up

Week 11

June 11-13

Evaluation week

Self and faculty evals