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PSYC 298 - Topical Seminar in Psychology


Credits: 3 credits in fall and winter, 4 in spring.


Prerequisite or corequisite: PSYC 250. Prerequisites vary, determined at time of offering. Seminar topics vary with instructor and term. These topical seminars are designed to introduce students to an area of current interest in the field of psychology. Students receive an overview of the research and/or applied practices that have advanced an area of psychological science. May be repeated for degree credit if the topics are different.

Winter 2019, PSYC 298A-01: Seminar: Psychology of Humor (3). Prerequisite: Instructor consent. This seminar focuses on theoretical and empirical approaches to understanding humor. We cover traditional and contemporary theories of humor, along with social psychological, developmental, and cognitive perspectives on humor. Humor as a moderator of life stress, disparagement humor, and nonverbal markers of humor will also be examined. Woodzicka. Staff.




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