PSYC3353 · Psychology
Morrissey College of Arts & Sciences
The course is devoted to major psychological perspectives on emotion (such as cognitive and social psychological) both historic and contemporary, with an emphasis on how culture enters into the theory. The second part of the course focuses on ethnographies and other evidence on the possible roles of culture in emotion. Specific topics to be covered include universal recognition of emotion from facial expression, role of language in emotion, feeling rules, emotion scripts, and the development of children's understanding of emotion.
Course experience
Averages use the original five-point historical evaluation scale.
Organization
2.4 / 5
How well the course was organized
Challenge
3.8 / 5
How intellectually challenging students found it
Attendance
3.3 / 5
How necessary attendance was
Assignments
2.9 / 5
How helpful assignments were
Weekly effort
~4
hours per week
Estimated from the original workload response buckets. Individual sections may differ.
Instructor options
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Across time
Section-level results available in the recovered archive.
Fall 2024
1 sectionFall 2022
1 sectionFall 2020
1 section