McGill University

This course explores the nature of existentialist thought as represented in various philosophical and literary texts. The course examines themes including freedom, alienation, responsibility and choice, and the nature of self.

This interdisciplinary course in Asian media studies bridges media studies and area studies to examine media in both broad conceptual terms and historically and geopolitically grounded ways. This course challenges existing paradigms within media studies that assume a North American context, and foregrounds media objects and practices that resist categorization. It also draws upon a rich array of secondary sources to survey existing methods and approaches to Asian media texts and phenomena. Topics covered include histories of media infrastructures; material culture; geopolitics of colonialism, imperialism, and regionalism; institutional histories of media production; analyses of popular and industrial media practices; questions of technology and capitalism; gender and fandom; and the constitutive role of media in shaping notions of modernity and environment.

This course focuses on the examination of three important systems in a child's life: family, school, and community. The course also discusses societal influences on student growth, development, and adjustment. Emphasis is placed on evidence-based practices in collaborating with families and community organizations to form partnerships, classroom interventions, and school-based initiatives to enhance well-being.

This course offers a study of sample space, events, conditional probability, independence of events, and Bayes' Theorem; basic combinatorial probability, random variables, and discrete and continuous univariate and multivariate distribution; independence of random variables; and inequalities, weak law of large numbers, and central limit theorem.

This course examines the emergence of the EU and its innovative institutions and policies. It explores current debates about the EU's developing identity, internal political economy, institutions of multilevel governance, and external relations. The course includes a simulation of a European Council or Parliament session.

This course is an introduction to the scientific study of mind and behavior. The course discusses topics including basic concepts and methods in psychology, and highlights the relevance of psychology to everyday life such as attachment, aggression, depression, parenting, and personality change.

Astrobiology is the study of life throughout the universe. This course covers the search for, and characterization of, habitable worlds. The course explores the formation and evolution of stars and planets, the astronomical and geological factors that impact a planet's habitability, the evolution of life on Earth, and the potential for biological evolution beyond an organism's planet of origin. The course includes a series of exercises, applications, and in-class activities that illustrate how scientists use logic and reasoning to solve problems and deal with uncertainties at the frontier of knowledge.

This course offers a study of the developments in cognitive neuroscience and cognitive neuropsychiatry via readings from primary sources. Topics include: the neural bases of memory; emotion; social cognition; neuropsychiatric diseases. This course integrates knowledge from studies in clinical populations and functional neuroimaging studies.