Listed as Anthropology M293, Applied Linguistics M232, Education M285, Neuroscience M293, or Psychology M248
Instructors: Dr. Marjorie Goodwin, Anthropology
Dr. Jaana Juvonen, Developmental Psychology
Course numbers: Anthro M293, Applied Linguistics M232, Education M285,
Neuroscience M293, or Psychology M248
Course Overview:
This course will examine how diverse disciplines in the social sciences -anthropology, sociology, and psychology -- have analyzed developmental and social processes as well as cultural practices among groups of peers. The peer groups to be investigated will include humans of various ages (from preschool through early adulthood), social class and ethnic backgrounds, as well as nonhuman primates. Topics we will discuss entail the formation of social hierarchies and local “conventions” among primates, the construction of friendship relations and social difference (at work in interaction on the playground as well as via electronic communication), group functions of bullying in early adolescence, neural mechanisms underlying risky behavior among adolescents and involved in reading of social cues.
Tuesdays 12:15 - 3:20, Haines Hall 352.
| Week 2: | Jan 15 |
Dr. Susan Perry, Dept. of Anthropology, UCLA
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| Week 3: | Jan 22 |
Dr. Carollee Howes, Dept. of Education, UCLA
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| Week 4: | Jan 29 |
Dr. Barrie Thorne, Professor and Chair of Gender &
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Woman's Studies, Dept. of Sociology, UC Berkeley
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| Week 7: | Feb 19 |
Dr. Elisheva Gross, Dept. of Psychology, UCLA
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| Week 8: | Feb 26 |
Dr. Nim Tottenham, Sackler Institute for
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Developmental Psychobiology, Weill Medical
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College of Cornell University
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| Week 9: | Mar 4 |
Dr. Adriana Galvan, Dept. of Psychology, UCLA
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