4 courses with the subject SOCS, each shown exactly as we captured it from the college's catalog, with every element we hold. Where the wording looks broken, that is our reading of the catalog, not the college's text.
An introduction to various schools of thought that explain why people behave the way they do. Topics covered in the course include personality, motivation, memory, learning, perception, nature, nurture, and adaptation.
An examination of how the behaviors, thoughts, and feelings of the individual are influenced by the presence of other persons. Topics such as attitude formation and change, altruism and aggression, interpersonal attraction and love, stereotypes and prejudice, and criminal justice and conformity will be discussed. In addition, various empirical research methods will be examined and applied to these topics.
This course examines the way food is produced, prepared, exchanged, presented, and given meaning in cultures around the world both in the present day and in our archaeological past. It will examine the role of food culture in human origins and in the rise of sedentary civilization, the implication of food in culture formation and collapse, the symbolism of specific foodstuffs; who prepares food and how it is done; who feeds whom and how these relations are expressed and valued.
Archaeologists utilize material culture to understand the lives of past and present human societies, including the ways in which humans decide what and how to eat, and the ways in which those choices impact their societies. Material culture related to food choices can give significant insight into how and when human beings evolved, spread through, and interacted with their environments and each other. The analysis of archaeological foodways reveals both practical strategies for survival and cultural norms and values, while the utilization of experimental archaeology can recreate lost foods and drinks.
Source: Culinary Institute of America's catalog, linked per course · table learning_unit · CourseShelf publish 61
