Courses and tutorials listed through CBD present multiple perspectives on issues surrounding the study of culture, mind/brain, and human development. CBD courses encourage discussion among disciplines, are offered at all levels of study, and may be co-taught by faculty from different schools. Students may use these courses toward a concentration in CBD.

CBD also provides funding for faculty to develop new courses and to augment current courses. Jump to past courses for examples (some of these courses may be offered again in the future).

Spring 2013 CBD Courses (visit TheHub for additional information): 

• NS 123: Human Biological Variation, P. Stone
• CS 141: The Social Psychology of Stereotyping, Person Perception, and Intergroup Relations, T. Cain
• NS 156: Brain Mechanisms, C. Gill
• CSI 201: Ethnographic Methods: The Cultures of Law, Science, and Medicine, J. Hamilton
• CS 218: Music, Mind, and Brain, N. Stillings
• CS 219: Time, History, and Memory, K. Danna
• NS 220: Human Physiology, C. Gill
• CS 252: Research Methods in Social Psychology, T. Cain
• NS 272: Anthropology of Reproduction, P. Stone
• CSI 276: What is Psychotherapy?, P. Gilford
• CSI 289: Poetry and Childhood, R. Conrad
• CS 301: The Philosophy and Science of Happiness, L. Sizer
• CSI 308: Re-Minding Culture: Advanced Topics in the Study of Mental Illness and Culture, L. Mattei
• CS 313: Brain and Cognition: Electrophysiological Methodologies, J. Couperus
• CS 317: Developmental Disorders and Language: the Case of CHARGE Syndrome, M. Feinstein
• CS 370: Mind and Brain: Evolution and Culture, N. Stillings

Past Courses

The following courses were developed or augmented with CBD course development funds:

• CS 101: Food 101, Steve Weisler
• CS/NS/SS 105: Developmental Psychopathology: Culture, Brain, and Development, Jane Couperus
• CS109: Cognition and Society, Karen Danna
• CS 118: The Emotions, Laura Sizer
• NS 154: CBD Tutorial: Science of Stress, Cynthia Gill
• CS/SS 163: Consumption and Happiness, Melissa Burch and Omar Dahi
• CS/HACU 181: Music in Culture and Nature, Mark Feinstein and Jay Pillay
• CS/SS 185: Consuming Childhood, Melissa Burch and Rachel Conrad
• CSI 207: What’s So Funny? Humor, Culture, Cognition, and the Brain, Karen Danna
• CS 215: Ways of Seeing: The Sociocognitive Bases of Perception, Karen Danna
• SS 243: Interrogating Fear: Bioterrors, the Environment and the Construction of Threats, Betsy Hartman
• HACU 250: Introduction to Modern Buddhism: Orientalism, Buddhist Psychotherapy, and the Brain Activity of Tibetan Monks, Ryan Bongseok Joo
• HACU 254: Still Photography Workshop II: Color, Jacqueline Hayden
• NS 254: Culture and Biology, Alan Goodman and Lynn Morgan
• HACU/SS 272: Altered States, Michelle Bigenho and Bethany Ogden
• CS 279: Cognition and Behavior in Domesticated Animals, Mark Feinstein
• SS 298: Development Seminar, Rachel Conrad
• CS/SS 370: Brain, Mind, and Culture, Neil Stillings and Barbara Yngvesson
• NS/CS 384: Stress Across Cultures, Cynthia Gill