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SOCIAL MEMORY (PY3067)

This course inquires into the nature and dynamics of how groups (families, institutions, countries, etc.) reconstruct and represent the past together. The problem of social memory is approached from multiple disciplinary perspectives. Students will have the opportunity to explore various places of memory in Paris and examine how these historical events are constructed in the present.

THE AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL PROCESS (PY3068)

This course explores autobiographical remembering as an issue of neuroscientific, cultural, and narrative psychology, while also considering it as a subject of other memory studies. It draws particular attention to how scientific, psychological, social, technological, artistic, and conceptual changes in various cultural fields have transformed the traditional idea of memory as an archive of the past.

SOCIETY, ILLNESS, & HEALTH (PY3069)

This course examines health and illness in a social, cultural and historical context. The first part of the course focuses on physical or behavioural 'symptoms' without any apparent organic aetiology (e.g. sick-building syndrome), appearing in members of specific groups or localities (socio-genic illness). The second part of the course considers socio-cultural shaping and experience of other more prevalent disorders.

THE PSYCHOLOGY OF IMMIGRATION AND RACISM (PY3070)

This course explores the psychology of immigration and racism within social, cultural and political contexts. It guides students to explore how our lived experience of immigration and racism is embedded in social relations,national governance, and global affairs. This course approaches these topics in light of major theoretical schools as well as interdisciplinary
methods.

TOPICS IN LITERATURE & PSYCHOANALYSIS (PY3090)

Topics change every year. The course uses French literary or cinematographic material in order to introduce and illustrate important psychoanalytical notions which will help students understand the complexity of the human psyche and its cultural constructions. Course subjects have included: Fairy Tales and the Complexity of growing up, Psychoanalysis as Detective Story, Scandal as a cultural pathology, Islam and the invention of the Self... Taught in French.

TOPICS IN PSYCHOLOGY AND FRENCH (PY3090)

Topics change every year. The course uses French literary or cinematographic material in order to introduce and illustrate important psychoanalytical notions which will help students understand the complexity of the human psyche and its cultural constructions. Course subjects have included: Fairy Tales and the Complexity of growing up, Psychoanalysis as Detective Story, Scandal as a cultural pathology, Islam and the invention of the Self... Taught in French.

TOPICS IN PSYCHOLOGY (PY3091)

Treats a series of topics that change every year and deal with various aspects of psychology. Courses are taught by permanent or visiting faculty and are generally related to their fields of specialization.

INTERNSHIP (PY3098)

Internships may be taken for 1 or 4 credits. Students may do more than one internship, but internship credit cannot cumulatively total more than 4 credits.

TOPICS IN PSYCHOLOGY (PY3910)

Topics vary by semester