PSYC2262 · Psychology
Morrissey College of Arts & Sciences
Children have an instinct for language. Every typically developing child learns language--something neither our most powerful machines nor smartest non-human animals can do. Even adults do not learn language as quickly or successfully as children. If not exposed to a language, children will invent one. In this course, we try to understand how children learn language, why animals, machines, and adults have so much difficulty learning language, and what the answers to these questions say about what it means to be human. This course takes an interdisciplinary approach to the problem, drawing on psychology, linguistics, anthropology, animal behavior, and other fields.
Course experience
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Organization
4.2 / 5
How well the course was organized
Challenge
4.4 / 5
How intellectually challenging students found it
Attendance
4.1 / 5
How necessary attendance was
Assignments
4.4 / 5
How helpful assignments were
Weekly effort
~4
hours per week
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Across time
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Spring 2024
1 sectionSpring 2022
1 sectionSpring 2021
1 section