Brain, Bodymind, and Society: All in Your Head?

Course 73A is enforced requisite to 73B, which is enforced requisite to 73CW. Limited to first-year freshmen. Drawing on several disciplines including disability studies, literary and film analysis, neurobiology, philosophy, and psychology, development of interdisciplinary account of how we relate our increasingly sophisticated knowledge of brain to contexts and meanings of subjectivity, mental health, and disability. Students make connections through interdisciplinary discussion of contemporary and historical understandings of brain structure and function; biological, psychological, and philosophical approaches to memory and learning; neuroscientific and philosophical approaches to consciousness; literary and filmic representations of mental illness and disability; and disability and mad studies critiques of biomedical model of mental illness.

P/NP or letter grading.