| LEC # | TOPICS | kEY DATES |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Introduction and Overview: Why Study "Feelings?" Conduct and Administration of Subject | |
| 2 | ZAAMM Part I Human Systems: Levels and Aspects of Organization and Development Affective Aspects in Human Systems from Cells to Societies | Writing assignment 1 due |
| 3 | ZAAMM Part II Learning Means Changing - Perceiving and Responding Appropriately Memory: Preserving and Applying the Lessons of Experience Relations Involving both Stability and Change What Is the Aim? To Maintain Prevailing Conditions? To Promote Change? Evaluating Behavior. What Is Good? What Is Not Good? Moral Reasoning and Ethical Decision-making | |
| 4 | ZAAMM Part III "Things of Beauty and Beholder's Eyes": A Field Trip in Search of Quality at the MFA | Writing assignment 2 due Writing assignment 3: MFA Reaction Form due |
| 5 | ZAAMM Part IV MFA Field Trip Follow-up: Evaluating the Experience | Writing assignment 4 due |
| 6 | Wrapping up Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance (ZAAMM) What is Quality in Education? | Writing assignment 5 due Writing assignment 6 due |
| 7 | Problématique du changement: "Paradigms Lost and Regained" What is a "Scientific Revolution?" Changing Beliefs, Values and Practices in Science and Society | Writing assignment 7 due |
| 8 | The Neuropsychology of Affect The Emotional Brain | Writing assignment 8 due Writing assignment 9 due |
| 9 | The Science of Violence and Vice Versa? | Writing assignment 10 due |
| 10 | Ethics of Science | Writing assignment 11 due Writing Assignment 12: Term paper proposals due |
| 11 | Environmental Values: What is "Sustainability?" Environmental Values: What Does it Have to do with Affect? | Writing assignment 13 due |
| 12 | Is "A New Way of Thinking" Conceivable? Is a Paradigm Shift Necessary? Desirable? Possible? | Writing assignment 14 due |
| 13 | Term Project/Paper Presentations Closure Discussion | Term paper |