An introductory course surveying fundamental principles and findings in classical and contemporary psychology. Topics typically include: the brain, learning, memory, development, emotion, behavioral genetics, personality, social psychology, psychopathology, and therapies. In addition to these topics, students will learn how to read and summarize primary psychological research. Students attend a weekly lecture and must enroll in a discussion section that meets twice per week. Discussion sections are limited to 22.

An introductory course surveying fundamental principles and findings in classical and contemporary psychology. Topics typically include: the brain, learning, memory, development, emotion, behavioral genetics, personality, social psychology, psychopathology, and therapies. In addition to these topics, students will learn how to read and summarize primary psychological research. Students attend a weekly lecture and must enroll in a discussion section that meets twice per week. Discussion sections are limited to 22.

An introductory course surveying fundamental principles and findings in classical and contemporary psychology. Topics typically include: the brain, learning, memory, development, emotion, behavioral genetics, personality, social psychology, psychopathology, and therapies. In addition to these topics, students will learn how to read and summarize primary psychological research. Students attend a weekly lecture and must enroll in a discussion section that meets twice per week. Discussion sections are limited to 22.

An introductory course surveying fundamental principles and findings in classical and contemporary psychology. Topics typically include: the brain, learning, memory, development, emotion, behavioral genetics, personality, social psychology, psychopathology, and therapies. In addition to these topics, students will learn how to read and summarize primary psychological research. Students attend a weekly lecture and must enroll in a discussion section that meets twice per week. Discussion sections are limited to 22.

An introductory course surveying fundamental principles and findings in classical and contemporary psychology. Topics typically include: the brain, learning, memory, development, emotion, behavioral genetics, personality, social psychology, psychopathology, and therapies. In addition to these topics, students will learn how to read and summarize primary psychological research. Students attend a weekly lecture and must enroll in a discussion section that meets twice per week. Discussion sections are limited to 22.

An introductory course surveying fundamental principles and findings in classical and contemporary psychology. Topics typically include: the brain, learning, memory, development, emotion, behavioral genetics, personality, social psychology, psychopathology, and therapies. In addition to these topics, students will learn how to read and summarize primary psychological research. Students attend a weekly lecture and must enroll in a discussion section that meets twice per week. Discussion sections are limited to 22.

Offered as ITL 299, POR 299, FRN 299 and SPN 299. The course explores the issues in world language instruction and research that are essential to the teaching of Romance languages. Special focus will be on understanding local, national and international multilingual communities as well as theories, methods, bilingualism, and heritage language studies. Topics include the history of Romance languages, how to teach grammar/vocabulary, the role of instructors, and feedback techniques.

This course addresses a broad range of urban, social and cultural issues while also strengthening skills in oral expression, reading and writing, through the medium of short stories, essays, articles, images, music and film. In order to promote a hands-on approach to understanding culture, class assignments also encourage students to explore the Brazilian community in Boston. Prerequisite: POR 100Y or POR 125 or the equivalent.

This course will serve as a comprehensive grammar review with a focus on Brazilian media. In addition to a grammar textbook, we will be using several other sources to stimulate class discussion, as well as to improve reading comprehension, writing skills and vocabulary-building in Portuguese, including a selection of media forms and texts, websites, television, radio and film. Prerequisite: POR 100Y, POR 110 or POR 125 or the equivalent. Enrollment limited to 20.

A one-semester introduction to Brazilian Portuguese designed for speakers of Spanish, aimed at basic proficiency in all four language modalities: listening, speaking, reading and writing. Classes are in Portuguese and students’ individual knowledge of Spanish supports the accelerated pace of the course, with contrastive approaches to pronunciation and grammar. The course also provides an introduction to aspects of the cultures of Brazil, Portugal and Portuguese-speaking Africa, with discussion of authentic audio-visual materials and short texts. Enrollment limited to 25.