The goal of this course is to develop a recognition and understanding of international justice in conflicts around the world from psychological and other perspectives. We will start by looking at different forms of justice, their limitations and dangers, and how they were applied in international conflicts. We will then examine the relationships between justice on the one side and truth, morality, forgiveness, reconciliation, tolerance, peace, (just?) war, and empathy and emotions on the other side.

This course will emphasize the neural circuits involved in sensory and motor aspects of acoustic communication behavior. Using primary peer-reviewed literature, we will explore the wide variety of communication strategies that have evolved in the vertebrate lineage, including teleosts, amphibians, songbirds, and mammals, and explore the contemporary neuroscience methods that are used in this field. The seminar-class format will be centered on discussions and in-class presentations, concluding with a research paper.

This course surveys mathematical and computational models of human cognition. After covering background readings on modeling techniques, you will engage in a hands-on project that applies a model to your research data. These models will be run in Matlab by modifying an existing model or development of a new model. Course requirements include textbook and article readings, active participation in class discussions, leading the class when covering a model related to your research, and a final presentation of your modeling project.

TED is a nonprofit organization devoted to "Ideas Worth Spreading." Prominent researchers conducting exciting research are invited to give these talks every year and they are posted on the web for the public to view and learn from. In this class we will watch 1-2 TED talks related to Psychology each week. We will read 2-3 articles by the TED presenter(s) and will discuss the work of that researcher.

Research methods in psychology including single subject and group experiments, case studies, psychological test construction and observational field techniques. Emphasis on hands-on experience in labs and on lab reports.

Examines capitalist, socialist, and humanist theories of social and economic development. Identifies the assumptions, underlying values, and operational principles characteristic of specific theories and explores their implications as international educators. A theoretical perspective for analyzing the role played by education in different development perspectives.

Over the years, the family has gradually given up many of its functions and much of its authority to outside institutions. Schools, religious institutions, peer groups, and various community organizations now perform basic tasks of socialization, education, work, and recreation that were previously the domain of the family.

History of Mexican culture, society and politics from the late 18th century to the present. Emphasis on the legacy of Spanish colonialism, popular social movements of the 19th century, origins, process, and outcome of the Revolution of 1910, the student movement of 1968, and the ongoing quest for economic and political stability against the backdrop of the 1980s debt crisis, NAFTA, and the 1994 Zapatista uprising in Chiapas. Previous Latin American history survey desirable.

Course topics: fundamentals of Fourier theory and its application to speech signals, parameterization of the speech signal for automatic and human speech recognition, state space models for speech recognition and connections to human language parsing, fundamentals of machine learning applied to supervised learning of sound categories.

This course will examine modern Brazil from 1800 to the present, concentrating on the making of the nation given its massive geographical size and diverse population. Topics studied include Brazil's status as the world's largest slave holding society in the nineteenth century, and twentieth-century attempts to establish democracy.