Topics covered include social influence, mass communication, human aggression, prejudice, interpersonal attraction, personality, and the self. In addition, social constructionist theories of social behavior are presented in exploring gender, human relationships, love and romance, human sexuality, social identity, and consciousness. While all societies identify individual behavior that deviates from the norm, not all societies ascribe the same meaning to it. This course considers how culture contributes to society's understanding of unusual behavior. We describe parallels between modern anorexia and medieval European religious fasts.
Emphasis is on textual analysis rather than self-evaluation.
Robert Marchesani Use of the Internet for private communication has opened up a new dimension in our personal relations. There also emerges the phenomenon of cyberpsychosis and other symptoms of our frustration gone wild. This course applies Salvador Dali's paranoic-critical method to studying online interactivity. To Be Real. Caroline Wilson Poems, diaries, journals, fantasies, and novels have long been written as therapy.