PSY 199 Syllabus

	Psychology 199: Seminar in Developmental Psychology (2010) Mating: Perspectives from Developmental, Genetic, and Evolutionary Psychology **************************************************** SYLLABUS

WEEK OF:	MONDAY	READING	PRESENTER
1/18	NO CLASS (MLK, Jr. Day)
1/25	Orientation and Assignments
2/1	Levels of Analysis and Reductionism	E.O. Wilson (On Human Nature, Chapter 1) Lerner, pages 50-53, 57-62, and 71-82 (all other pages in that chapter are recommended, especially 62-71)
2/8	Systems Approaches and Holism	Gottlieb (w/Lickliter, 2007) Johnston & Edwards (2002)
2/15	Evolutionary Psych	Darwin on sexual selection (Norton Anthology, pp. 230-254) Buss (2007) Buss (2009)--recommended	Maria
2/22	Evolutionary Psych	Schmitt & Buss (2001) Pillsworth & Haselton (2006) Barash (2005)--recommended	Meredith
3/1	Social Psych	Walster et al. (1966)--recommended Langlois et al. (1995) Markey & Markey (2007)	Mariana
3/8	Social Psych	Parker & Burkley (2009) Hill & Buss (2008)--recommended Chivers & Bailey (2005)	Rachel
3/15	NO CLASS (Spring Break)
3/22	Organismic/Individual	Chivers et al. (2007) Sternberg (1986) Watson et al. (2004)--recommended	Maria
3/29	Neural	Quiroga et al. (2005) LeVay (1991) Hamann, Herman, Nolan, & Wallen (2004) Maddox (1991)--recommended
4/5	Hormonal	Keverne & Curley (2004) Haselton (2007) Stern & McClintock (1998)--recommended	Rachel
4/12	Prenatal	Ellis, Ames, Peckham, & Burke (1988) Clark, Tucker, & Galef (1992) Meisel & Ward (1981)--recommended	Mariana
4/19	Molecular and Behavioral Genetic	Penn (2002) Young et al. (1999) Rushton & Bons (2005)--recommended	Meredith
4/26	Epigenetic	Lehrman (1964) Breedlove (1997) Moore (1992) Fink, Excoffier, & Heckel (2006)--recommended
5/3	Wrap-up

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