Course Offerings by term

Uses Horney's differentiation of the situation and the character neuroses to introduce the theory of a basic neurotic character structure, consisting of insecurity, anxiety, hostility, craving for affection, and the defenses.


DayStart TimeEnd TimeRoom
Tuesday
12:10
13:30
G-002
Friday
12:10
13:30
G-002

This course will provide an introduction to theories of personality and counseling, including psychodynamic, humanistic, cognitive, behavioral, and family systems approaches. Theories will be examined in relation to their key concepts, view of human nature, therapeutic processes, techniques and procedures. Theories will be critiqued and compared, with special emphasis on the application of cultural and ethical issues


DayStart TimeEnd TimeRoom
Monday
15:20
18:15
PL-3

Studies the nature and causes of individual behavior and thought in social situations. Presents the basic fields of study that compose the science of social psychology, and how its theories impact on most aspects of people's lives. Topics of study include: conformity, persuasion, mass communication, propaganda, aggression, attraction, prejudice, and altruism.


DayStart TimeEnd TimeRoom
Monday
13:45
15:05
C-103
Thursday
13:45
15:05
C-103

Human beings are cultural beings. We cannot understand human nature without understanding its cultural fabric. We cannot understand ourselves and our being in the world without understanding this world as a cultural world, in fact, as consisting of multiple cultural worlds in which we live at the same time. In this course, we inquire why the cultural dimension is crucial for human psychology. To this purpose, we explore a number of cultural worlds, Western and non-Western. We also investigate various psychological functions such as thinking and consciousness, remembering and memory, and self-construction and identity. And we look at different cultural sign and symbol systems such as language, art, literature, and film. In this way, the course also offers the opportunity to think about our own cultural existence and the way we view ourselves and others.


DayStart TimeEnd TimeRoom
Tuesday
15:20
18:15
PL-1
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 fulfil the fundamentals requirements in the psychology major.
DayStart TimeEnd TimeRoom
Wednesday
13:45
15:05
G-009
Wednesday
15:20
16:40
G-102
Wednesday
15:20
16:40
VISIT-1

Studies the psychological processes involved in the acquisition, understanding and use of language. Provides an overview of the following research areas: speech perception, word recognition, sentence and discourse processing, speech production, first-, second-, and third-language acquisition, bilingual and multilingual acquisition, and language processing in the brain. PY 1000 is recommended as a prerequisite.


DayStart TimeEnd TimeRoom
Tuesday
13:45
15:05
G-113
Friday
13:45
15:05
G-113

Psychology and philosophy have a long history in common. The course addresses philosophical dimensions and implications of psychology – concerning our understanding of cognition, action, emotion, imagination, mind, body, and brain. It also deals with central issues in philosophy that reflect and elaborate our understanding of human psychology and the way it is scientifically investigated: consciousness, thought and language, identity, and other forms of human subjectivity and its social, cultural, and historical fabric.


DayStart TimeEnd TimeRoom
Wednesday
13:45
16:40
PL-1
This course inquires into the nature and dynamics of how groups (families, institutions, countries, etc.) reconstruct and represent the past together. The problem of social memory is approached from multiple disciplinary perspectives. Students will have the opportunity to explore various places of memory in Paris and examine how these historical events are constructed in the present.
DayStart TimeEnd TimeRoom
Monday
10:35
11:55
SD-2
Thursday
10:35
11:55
SD-2

This course examines health and illness in a social, cultural and historical context. The first part of the course focuses on physical or behavioural 'symptoms' without any apparent organic aetiology (e.g. sick-building syndrome), appearing in members of specific groups or localities (socio-genic illness). The second part of the course considers socio-cultural shaping and experience of other more prevalent disorders.


DayStart TimeEnd TimeRoom
Monday
16:55
19:50
G-102

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.


DayStart TimeEnd TimeRoom
Thursday
15:20
18:15
PL-3