Psychology

This introductory course in social psychology presents the methodological and theoretical issues of the discipline through the acquisition of historical, empirical, and analytical reference points. It explores major issues specific to contemporary societies, such as the formation of norms, social identity, and submission to authority. In particular, the course focuses on the phenomena known as “crowd psychology,” at the crossroads of individual and collective psychology. It explores the specific issues and reasoning in "crowd psychology" through authors, trends, and concrete experiences.

This course introduces the basic anatomy of the human brain and nervous system, and how they are employed to achieve everyday human activities, from thoughts to action. It also examines how the abnormalities within the brain can result in psychiatric problems. Course topics include: nerve cells and nerve impulses; synapses; anatomy and research methods; genetics, evolution, development and plasticity; vision and other sensory systems; wakefulness and sleep; internal regulations; reproductive behaviors; emotional behaviors; learning and cognitive functions, and psychological disorders.

This course discusses the behavior of individuals in an organization. It explores an individual's personality, values, work emotions, decision-making, creativity, motivation, and leadership among groups or teams. 

This course provides hands-on experience with mice to study their behavior through a set of experiments. Experiments include injection of medicines and blood sampling, locomotor activity, hot plate, tail suspension, Morris water maze, elevated plus maze, S1 stereotaxic surgery demo plus dye-injection plus buffer preparation, S2 perfusion, S3 PCR plus Gel electrophoresis , H1 brain sectioning plus section mounting, H3 cell counting plus image analysis. During the semester, each student is assigned to two mice, and is responsible for its living, including environment and food. Assessment: two presentations plus a final report.