PSYC 413
The Resilient Mind
Last Offered Fall 2020
Division II
This course is not offered in the current catalog

In this seminar, we will explore the psychological, environmental, and biological variables that shape an individual’s response to stress and/or adversity. We will discuss how factors such as personality, coping style, social network/community, gender, brain mechanisms, and genes can influence one’s ability to adapt and recover from a crisis. Students will critically examine depictions of resilience in popular literature and film, and employ empirical scientific articles from across multiple approaches and sub-disciplines of psychology to delve deeper into their analyses. Class meetings will be primarily discussion based and student-led, with the central goal of developing skills in forming and communicating evidence-based arguments.