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Introduction to Psychology
Introduction to Psychology is a survey of the scientific study of human nature, including how the mind works, and how the brain supports the mind. Topics include the mental and neural bases of perception, emotion, learning, memory, cognition, child development, personality, psychopathology, and social interaction.
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T.S. Eliot (cont.) 1
Professor Hammer’s discussion of “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” continues with particular attention paid to the poem’s psychological, social, and generic elements. Eliot’s place in literary criticism and his modernist poetics are considered in the essay “The Metaphysical Poets.” The essay’s critique of Romanticism serves as a bridge to Eliot’s masterwork, The Waste […]
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Public Policy and Presidential Politics
In this lecture, Professor Holloway gives a political biography of Jesse Jackson as a way to help understand the shifting cultural politics of the 1960s, the rise of a different array of politics in the 1970s, and the high politics of the 1980s. Professor Holloway traces Jackson’s ascension into Martin Luther King’s inner-circle, his work […]
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Depression and Double V continued
In this lecture, Professor Holloway continues discussing African American political possibilities in the second half of the 1930s by examining the new mentality at work in black America. He focuses on the National Negro Congress, the Marian Anderson Easter Sunday Concert, and the March on Washington movement. These examples reveal the diverse strategies and organizing […]
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Depression and Double V
The 1930s was a decade filled with economic, legal, political, and social controversy. In this lecture, Professor Holloway looks at the Great Depression and the federal government’s responses to it, including the New Deal’s impact on African Americans, both materially and symbolically. As the federal government openly courted their favor, African Americans organized various political […]
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Human Capital and Specialization – Teams and Coordination
“This the eighteenth lecture in the “”Lectures on Human Capital”” series by Gary Becker. This series of lectures recorded during the Spring of 2010 are from ECON 343 – Human Capital, a class taught every year by Gary Becker at the University of Chicago. In this class, Becker expounds upon the theory of Human Capital […]
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Human Capital, and Intergenerational Mobility – Bequests and Other Topics of the Household
“This the sixth lecture in the “”Lectures on Human Capital”” series by Gary Becker. This series of lectures recorded during the Spring of 2010 are from ECON 343 – Human Capital, a class taught every year by Gary Becker at the University of Chicago. In this class, Becker expounds upon the theory of Human Capital […]
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Berkeley Entrepreneurs Forum: Entrepreneurs and the Decisions They Make
Co-sponsored by Gray Ghost Ventures and Omidyar Network Thursday, March 22, 2012 While starting any new company is challenging, there is a unique set of tough decisions for the entrepreneur working to solve the world’s greatest social problems. After all, social ventures are often established to address issues that neither governments nor markets naturally seem […]
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Eat, Drink, and Be Merry: The Spread of Obesity, Nicholas Christakis
Nicholas Christakis, a Professor at Harvard University, discusses the conclusions of a study about the influence one’s social network has on their weight.
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Dartmouth – “After the Recession: Can the Obama Administration Fix the Economy?”
David Leonhardt’s column on economics and business appears on Wednesday in The New York Times. David has been writing about economics for The Times since 2000. He was one of the writers who produced the paper’s recent series on social class in the United States. He has written frequently about economic policy, real estate and […]
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