In this course students will focus on ways to minimize the losses and maximize the gains associated with normal aging and aging with disease. Students will explore possible solutions to real-world problems for older adults. Topics such as malnutrition, loneliness, changes in physical and cognitive abilities, falls, death/dying, indoor and outdoor activities for frail older adults, and caregiver burden will be discussed.

This course can be used to fulfill the Capstone requirement for senior Psychology majors. If interested, please contact alison.paglia@unh.edu

Emotion and the Embodied Mind

This course introduces the scientific study of emotions, including where they come from and how they shape our perception of the world around us. We will discuss the ways in which action and thought are grounded in ongoing bodily needs and activity, how the mind makes meaning from incoming sensory input from the external world and the internal milieu, and how emotions both emerge from and shape these processes. 
Prereq: Psyc 402; 502; or permission. WI

Psychology of Race, Power and Culture
"Psychology and race" is a rapidly expanding area in the history of psychology encompassing the cultural contexts of psychological thought. We explore black ideas for secondary and higher education, how ethnic minorities entered into U.S. psychology, Jewish influences on cultural psychology in Russia, shame/guilt in Japanese psychology, an Afrocentric psychologist activist, and much more. In each case study, we focus on leading figures and place them in a cultural context. Discussion-based course, home works, films, quizzes, no final, and racial autobiography or research paper. WI