Academic Team:
Elizabeth Skowron (eskowron@uoregon.edu)
First-Year Experience Seminar Instructor
Amanda Bullock (abulloc2@uoregon.edu)
FIG Assistant
9 credits
UGST 109 First-Year Experience Seminar - 1 credit
BDC 100: T 4 - 4:50 PM
CRN: 16215
BI 170 Happiness: a Neuroscience and Psychology Perspective - 4 credits
Lecture
STB 156: MW 12 - 1:20 PM
CRN: 10644
Discussion
UNTH 264: F 12 - 12:50 PM
CRN: 10648
Students then also will be in one of the following:
PSY 201 Mind and Brain - 4 credits
STB 156: TR 12 - 1:50 PM
CRN: 14466
PSY 202 Mind and Society - 4 credits
Lecture
STB 156: MW 2 - 3:50 PM
CRN: 14467
Discussion
CON 260: F 10 - 10:50 AM
CRN: 14483
About the FIG:
In this FIG, we will learn about how social experiences shape our physical and mental health for better and worse. Is there evidence of biological embedding of adverse and positive social experiences? Is it true that experiences that we have early in life can “get under our skin”? Can positive social experiences later in life overcome the effects of ACES (i.e., adverse childhood experiences) on our health and well-being? Our FIG will combine discussions and experiential learning, with student visits to a psychology lab studying these questions.
BI 170 Happiness: a Neuroscience and Psychology Perspective - CoreEd or major satisfying course
This course examines research in positive psychology and neuroscience that reveal the behavioral activities and mindsets that promote positive life engagement and the neural circuits that influence this. The course will examine the evidence that happiness is significantly influenced by genetics and mindset, with only a small component arising from life circumstances.
PSY 201 Mind and Brain - CoreEd or major satisfying course
Mind & Brain is part of a two-course sequence (with Mind & Society, PSY202) that provides an overview of introductory psychology. This course covers experimental approaches to the study of the human mind and brain, including such topics as the history and methods of psychological research, the organization of the nervous system, sensation, perception, attention, learning, memory, cognition and consciousness.
PSY 202 Mind and Society - CoreEd or major satisfying course
This course is an introduction to psychological research methods, child and adult development, personality structure and functioning, social processes in every-day life, cultural and cross-cultural models of human adaptation, and abnormal-clinical psychology. This course is part of a two-term sequence in introductory psychology. The other course in this sequence (PSY 201) emphasizes learning, perception, memory, and the role of neural structures in psychological processes. PSY 201 and 202 are not prerequisites for each other.