Unit 10

Unit 11

Pamela Meyer – How To Spot a Liar

Questions for Discussion

1. Why is lying a ‘cooperative act’?

2. Who is Henry Oberlander and what was his rule?

3. How many time will you be lied to on an average day?

4. Which people lie more? In what situations?

5. What did Koko do? Why does lying have an evolutionary value?

6. What are the telltale signs that Bill Clinton lied?

7. What are body-language tips that someone is lying?

8. What are the signs that someone is honest?

9. What are the signs someone is lying?

10. What did John Edwards do in the interview?

11. What is one dangerous facial gesture you should know?

12. What are some other indicators that may signal a lie?

13. Describe the Erin Runnion and Diane Downs example.

14. What do you think? When is lying ok? When is it not?

Unit 8

Unit 9

Paul Bloom: The Origins of Pleasure

Questions for Discussion

1. What is the Goering story? What is its point?

2. Why do origins matter? What is the first answer a sociologist would give?

3. What is a ‘natural born essentialist?’

4. What does  it mean to say that “pleasure is deep’?

5. How can you get kids to like carrots?

6. How can you get adults to enjoy wine?

7. What affects which people we find attractive?

8. What is the Capgras syndrome and how does it relate to the main point?

9. Recount the example of George Clooney’s sweater. What does it show?

10. Recount the Joshua Bell and Maria Olmsted examples. What do they show?

11. What does the pain experiment show?

12. So why do we prefer originals? What does Denis Dutton say about this?

Unit 5

Unit 5

Homaru Cantu and Ben Roche: Cooking as Alchemy

Questions for Discussion

1. Look on the Internet. Who are these people?

2. Explain the printed maki roll idea.

3. Explain the champagne with seafood idea.

4. What is their Cuban cigar made out of?

5. Describe their plate of nachos. How did they make it?

6. What is in their hamburger patty? How did they come up with the original idea?

7. What is a miracle berry and what does it do?

8. How do they make tuna?

9. What are the implications of cooking like this?

Junior Practicum - Spring 2012 - Chung Ang University

Junior Practicum

 Spring 2012

Syllabus

This class will be largely based on TED talks, to be found on the Internet. Students will watch the presentation online and take notes; then we’ll watch together in class, discuss the topics and the vocabulary. Students will also required to make short presentations and present them to the class. The class will provide feedback.

Grades will be based on homework and presentations (20%), midterm (30%) and finals (40%).

Note: most talks will be about 10 to 20 minutes.

There will be a Course Package for this class, to be bought or downloaded.

Provisional Class Schedule

Week 1: Introduction

Week 2: Unit 1 – Harald Haas - Wireless Data

Week 3: Unit 2 – Annie Murphy Paul -What we learn before birth

Week 4: Unit 3 – Positive Psychology

Week 5: Unit 4 – Dan Gilbert on Happiness

Week 6: Unit 5 – Homaru Cantu and Ben Roche - Cooking as Alchemy

Week 7: Unit 6 – Gladwell on Spaghetti Sauce

Week 8: Midterm Exams

Week 9: Unit 7 – Liberal of Conservative

Week 10: Unit 8 – Paul Bloom on The Origins of Pleasure

Week 11: Unit 9 – Denis Dutton - A Darwinian theory of Beauty

Week 12: Unit 10 – Pamela Meyer - How to Spot a Liar

Week 13: Unit 11 – Dan Pink on Motivation

Week 14: Unit 12 – Rifkin on the Empathic Civilization

Week 15: Review

Week 16: Final Exams

“Problems cannot be solved by the same level of thinking that created them.”

      Albert Einstein

Unit 1

Introduction to the Class

What we will do in this course

Step 1

Watch the lecture at home.

You study the vocabulary at home. Take out between 15-20 vocabulary items from the talk.

Give one example with each of them (written).

Step 2

In class

Discuss your vocabulary example with each other.

Step 3

We watch the TED talk once or twice.

Step 4

Discuss the questions with your partner or a small group.

Step 5

Step in front of the class and tell us, in about 1-2 minutes, the idea that you liked from this lecture.

If you absolutely hated the TED talk, you can say ‘pass,’ but you must give the same number of ‘little talks’ as every other student in this class. Before another student has done their second talk, you must deliver your first.

Harald Haas: Wireless Data from every light bulb

Questions for Discussion:

1. How many cellular radio masts are there?

2. What is the first issue?

3. What is the second issue?

4. What are the other two issues?

5. Briefly describe the different parts of the electromagnetic spectrum.

6. What is the difference between an LED and a normal light bulb?

7. What is SIM OFDM? What does it do?

8. What are the four main benefits of this new technology?

9. What are the potential applications of this technology?

10. What do you think? How could this work?

Unit 2

Annie Murphy Paul: What we learn before we are born

Questions for discussion

1. What is fetal origins?

2. What do babies learn in the womb? What is the first thing?

3. How do we know that?

4. How do babies cry?

5. Describe the carrot juice example.

6. And the anise example.

7. What is the fetus learning in the uterus?

8. Describe the Western Holland example. Why did those babies have problems later in life?

9. What are the implications of that for North Korea?

10. Describe the 9/11 example.

11. What are the implication of this lecture for what a pregnant woman does, or should do?