What Makes Us Human

Fall 2024

Details

Credit

4

Mode

In Person

Component

Seminar

Meets

In Person -

Instructors

Joonkoo Park

Description

What are we? What defines us? How did human culture arise? We communicate with spoken and written language, we make tools to build even more complicated tools, we learn calculus to solve differential equations, we use inductive reasoning to seek generalizable knowledge, we understand other people's mind and emotion, we understand humor, we lie, cheat, and deceive others. Are these what makes us human? This course examines psychological and neuroscientific bases of human mind and behavior that are uniquely related to human culture and experience (that is, humanity). In an active seminar format, students will learn to think critically about how scientific research can help us understand the humanity and what makes us human.

Eligibility


Open to Commonwealth College students only.

Notes

Academic status as a sophomore or junior is determined by the number of credits completed, NOT by the number of years an individual has been a student. Sophomores have completed 27-56 credits. Juniors have completed 57-86 credits.
Class will be open to other CHC students later in the registration period.

Start Date

End Date

Subject Description

Psychological & Brain Sciences

Subject

PSYCH

Catalog Number

201H

Class Number

33737

Course ID

117205

Section

01

Class Attributes

HONS: ENRICHED

Academic Career

UGRD

Meeting

Tu Th 10:00AM 11:15AM Tobin Hall room 307

Gen-Eds

SB

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