HIST 3711 is also offered in Spring 2025
HIST 3711 is also offered in Spring 2024
HIST 3711 is also offered in Spring 2022
Spring 2021 | HIST 3711 Section 001: Cognitive History (52055)
- Instructor(s)
- Class Component:
- Lecture
- Credits:
- 3 Credits
- Grading Basis:
- Student Option
- Instructor Consent:
- No Special Consent Required
- Instruction Mode:
- Completely Online
- Class Attributes:
Delivery Mode
Online Course
- Times and Locations:
- Enrollment Status:
Open (11 of 40 seats filled)
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog Description:
- Cognitive History will examine how research in cognitive neuroscience provides historians with new knowledge and methods for asking questions about the past. It is not a course on the history of the cognitive sciences. Instead, it is about practicing history in the cognitive age, a period that began more than fifty years ago, and an approach to explaining how humans think and act that has been adopted within fields across our universities. The course will combine broad readings and discussions in "Big History" and the shift from behaviorism to cognition with more specific studies about memory, narrative, aesthetics, the body, and violence. Students will have an opportunity to apply a cognitive history approach to a specific topic that emphasizes one of the following topics: Evolution, Behaviorism, Cognitive Cultural Studies, Memory, Narrative, Aesthetics, the Body, and Violence. Students will help guide discussions for the relevant class sessions on these topics and write an essay on the selected theme.
- Class Description:
- Student may contact the instructor or department for information.
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/52055/1213
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