Economic analysis of natural resource use and conservation. Includes analyses of the use of fuel, forest, marine and biodiversity resources. Focuses on evaluating natural resource use in terms of efficiency and sustainability, and designing regulations for correcting inefficient and unsustainable resource markets. Participants in the honors colloquium additionally complete a research project on the natural resource topic of their choice.

Despite many advances in the diagnoses and treatment of mental illness, those afflicted with mental illness remain one of the most highly stigmatized groups in society. In this seminar, we will investigate stigma associated with mental illness from diverse perspectives, including social psychology, clinical psychology, evolutionary psychology, sociology, public policy, history, and biology.

This course is designed for students to explore connections between psychology and public policy, and to envision ways in which psychology research can inform policy issues and contribute to the public good. Topics will include how public responses to policy issues may be shaped by ways in which issues are framed, how research findings from psychology might usefully contribute to public discourse about social issues, and how psychology researchers and policymakers can work together effectively to promote social change.

This course offers an introduction to the field of child and adolescent psychopathology. We will review contemporary approaches to understanding the clinical features, diagnosis, causes, developmental course, and prevention of major psychological disorders in childhood and adolescence.

Human cognition, including attention, perception, memory, language processing, and problem solving.

This course will explore the role of mental healthcare law and procedure in the criminal justice system, and will address how mentally ill clients are processed through the criminal justice system. Students will be introduced to the many mental health resources and treatment programs that are currently available to assist individuals. We will also explore contemporary issues in mental health and criminal justice, such as the treatment of mentally ill juveniles and women within the criminal justice system as well as the accessibility of mental healthcare services for at-risk groups.

How can lawyers create social change and use their skills for the public good? This course will explore in depth the areas of social change lawyering (which may include civil rights (for a variety of protected classes), poverty law, environmental advocacy, immigration law, and criminal justice reform) and examine the tools that lawyers utilize to create change. We will delve into history, look at the challenges, and consider the efficacy of law as a vehicle for social change.

Explores themes that span the legal studies curriculum and many other courses on campus: the various relationships between law, societies, and justice on a global scale. While each instructor will assign different readings and emphasize different subject matter that will be identified in the course description on each syllabus (see below), the general themes and goals of this course are shared across sections.

How do dreams become incorporated into films? How are dreams like movies, or the film experience like dreaming? While Hollywood has long been called a "Dream Factory," the cinema of dreams extends around the world and from the earliest history of film. We will examine the ways that dreams have signified in cinema, and especially how films can serve purposes in our lives similar to the role of dreams. Ultimately, we will explore the oneiric as a way of understanding film and as an aesthetic and stylistic approach to filmmaking.

This course will provide a basic introduction to arts-based research methods in the social sciences for students already familiar with qualitative methods, but eager to explore different ways of conducting interdisciplinary research. Students will develop an understanding of the theoretical foundations of arts-based research and will be able to critically assess the appropriate application of arts-based work. Students will conduct two course projects: The first project will be the creation of a folio of visual and performative artistic explorations of their existing body of qualitative data.