Friday, July 3, 2015
Wednesday, June 10, 2015
Sunday, May 10, 2015
Friday, May 8, 2015
Psychology : Masterpiece
Learning Goals/Outcomes for the B.A. in Psychology
- Demonstrate the ability to think scientifically about human behavior and psychological processes and to differentiate conclusions based on evidence from those based on speculation or personal belief.
- Evaluate research methods and designs, to distinguish observations from conclusion.
- Demonstrate an understanding of the breadth of psychology, including different areas of psychology, such as the social, abnormal, developmental, personality, and cognitive areas, and different approaches to the study of psychology, such as biological, interpersonal, and sociological approaches.
- Show respect and appreciation for human diversity.
- Interpret the ethical practice of scientific inquiry and apply a consideration of ethical issues and values, both within and beyond the discipline, to their daily lives.
- Speak and write effectively, both generally and in the language of the discipline.
- Research, review, and critically analyze a current topic in psychology.
Thursday, May 7, 2015
Masterpiece Questions
Why do we dream?
How can we motivate ourselves more effectively through reinforcement?
How can we get our working memory to work for us?
What’s the key to solving life’s problems?
How can we communicate more effectively?
What is intelligence (and why should we care)?
What does it mean to be self-actualized?
How does the mind-body connection affect our emotions?
Monday, April 27, 2015
Modernist Biography
Related Schools & Movements
• Harlem Renaissance
• Jazz Poetry
Books by this Poet
• The Weary Blues
James Mercer Langston Hughes was born February 1,1902, in Joplin, Missouri. He was raised by his grandmother until he was thirteen, due to the fact that his parents divorced. His life and work were enormously important in shaping the artistic contributions of the Harlem Renaissance of the 1920s. Hughes refused to differentiate between his personal experience and the common experience of black America. He wanted to tell the stories of his people in ways that reflected their actual culture, including both their suffering and their love of music, laughter, and language itself. After his graduation from Lincoln in 1929, Langston Hughes published his first novel, Not Without Laughter. May 22, 1967, Langston Hughes died from complications of prostate cancer. His funeral little in the way of spoken eulogy, but filled with jazz and blues music.
Modernist Quote
"Let the rain kiss you. Let the rain beat upon your head with silver drops. Let the rain sing you a lullaby."
- Langston Hughes
Monday, April 13, 2015
"The Weary Blues" by Langston Hughes
Droning a drowsy syncopated tune,
Rocking back and forth to a mellow croon,
I heard a Negro play.
Down on Lenox Avenue the other night
By the pale dull pallor of an old gas light
He did a lazy sway. . . .
He did a lazy sway. . . .
To the tune o’ those Weary Blues.
With his ebony hands on each ivory key
He made that poor piano moan with melody.
O Blues!
Swaying to and fro on his rickety stool
He played that sad raggy tune like a musical fool.
Sweet Blues!
Coming from a black man’s soul.
O Blues!
In a deep song voice with a melancholy tone
I heard that Negro sing, that old piano moan—
“Ain’t got nobody in all this world,
Ain’t got nobody but ma self.
I’s gwine to quit ma frownin’
And put ma troubles on the shelf.”
Thump, thump, thump, went his foot on the floor.
He played a few chords then he sang some more—
“I got the Weary Blues
And I can’t be satisfied.
Got the Weary Blues
And can’t be satisfied—
I ain’t happy no mo’
And I wish that I had died.”
And far into the night he crooned that tune.
The stars went out and so did the moon.
The singer stopped playing and went to bed
While the Weary Blues echoed through his head. He slept like a rock or a man that’s dead.
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