HON 406 - Brain, Mind, and Film

Prerequisite, acceptance to the University Honors Program. This course explores aspects of the psychological and brain sciences through the lens of motion pictures. As such, the material engulfs interdisciplinary topics from neuroscience, psychology, philosophy, and film studies with an emphasis on a juxtaposition of cognition with the humanities. The course draws on aspects of philosophy (e.g., epistemology, general philosophy of science, philosophy of particular sciences, logic, foundations and philosophy of logic, rhetoric, and psycholinguistics), anthropology and sociology (e.g., ethnography, first-person versus third-person accounts, altered consciousness, transcultural effects, group trends), clinical applications and medicine, and the computational and engineering sciences. Letter grade. (Offered as needed.) 3 credits