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?

Questions for Junior Practicum - all the weeks

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Questions for Junior Practicum

Fall 2011

Homework - for every class, look at the script and choose between 10-15 new words:

1. Write down a brief dictionary definition in English.

2. Give one example from each (a full sentence, using the word in a collocation).

3. In class, read the examples to your fellow students (in pairs or groups)

Week 3

Discuss in class:

1. What is bio-luminescence? What is it used for?

2. How much of the ocean have we explored so far? What are some things we found?

3. Give some examples of animals in shallow water.

4. What did the cephalopod do?

5. What do male squid do when they fight?

6. What happened when the female was around?

7. Give some examples of mimicry.

Prepare at home, present in class (mostly to your group):

Come to class with examples of animal behaviour in the water. It should be something that looked interesting or surprising to you. Describe the behaviour, explain why the animal does it, and tell us why you found it interesting.

Week 4

Discuss in class:

1. What is “the celestial openness of the child’s mind”?

2. What is the critical period for learning a new language? Why?

Mastering sounds:

3. What is her focus on?

4. What is the technique they use?

5. What is the conclusion?

6. When does the change occur? How?

7. Can adults do that?

8. Describe the Mandarin experiment.

At home:

Make a list of English words that are difficult to pronounce or distinguish.

Make a little test in Korean for your teacher. See if he can hear your words correctly.

Week 5

Discuss:

1. What is a simile? Give examples.

2. What is a metaphor? Give examples.

3. What is the source? The target?

4. How do we make metaphors? What are the steps?

5. What is cognitive dissonance according to the speaker?

6. What are agent metaphors?

7. What are object metaphors?

8. What is the effect of using metaphors on Wall Street?

9. Why does it matter?

10. Why is language fossil poetry?

At home – prepare

Take a song in English – look for metaphors

Take a song in Korean – identify metaphors

Read the news for one day – identify metaphors

Give examples of metaphors used in everyday English

Week 6

Discuss in class:

1. Why do plants flower?

2. Which pollen gives us allergies. Why?

3. What do insects get?

4. What do some plants do to attract insects?

5. How do plants get their pollen on the insects?

6. What is Darwin’s orchid? Why is it named after him?

7. How do plants deceive? Give examples.

8. Do people use the same tricks? Give examples.

9. What does Arum do?

10. Why are many flowers red in the tropics?

11. What does an insect see? Explain UV filters, etc.

At home - prepare

Find examples of non-flower tricks – other plants.

Find example of animal tricks.

Do you think deception is necessary for reproduction?

Week 7

In class:

1. What does she use as a sculpture material?

2. What was her first creation?

3. What was the Porto piece? Describe it.

4. Describe the Philadelphia creation.

5. What is 1.26 in Denver?

Prepare at home. Short Presentation in Class.

Find an example of interesting art – building, sculpture etc., and present it in class. You can search TED or the Internet, bring pictures, or show them on the screen etc.

Explain who made the piece, and why. What are the materials, how it works, why is interesting, etc…

Week 9

Discuss in class:

1. What is a chemical clock? Why do we have it?

2. What is the body clock for humans?

3. What happens to humans in a bunker?

4. What are we well equipped to do?

5. What’s the ideal under natural light conditions?

Prepare at home, and make a short presentation in class:

Make a short presentation on sleep. You can focus on segmented sleep, or choose another topic related to sleep.

Week 10

Before you watch the presentation: Think and write down your answer:

What are the causes of poverty. How can poverty be fought?

Discuss in class:

1. What is the best way to immunize children?

Describe the Indian experiment.

2. How can you stop malaria?

3. How can you get kids to go to school?

4. What is a randomized control trial?

Alternative:

Redo her presentation, using your own words. Split the presentation in three; each member of the group presents one part.

At home:

Research and describe your favourite NGO. What do they do?

Week 11

Before you watch:

How many guys are there in your classes?

Do guys study better than girls?

How did guys behave in class (elementary, high school, university)?

Discuss in class:

1. What is the problem that guys face?

2. What is the data?

3. What is physical intimacy?

4. What kind of increase in shyness do we see? Is that true in your experience?

5. Why do guys prefer male bonding? Explain.

6. What do they prefer now?

7. What are the causes?

8. What is arousal addiction?

9. What is the fastest growing industry in America?

10. What does that mean?

At home and short presentation to your groups:

The differences between boys and girls.

Week 12

Discuss in class

1. What was the Highline?

2. How did Robert get involved in this?

3. How did he get his idea?

4. How did he persuade the city?

5. What did they do?

6. What are the side effects?

7. What is the next step?

8. What was he afraid of?

9. What does he like about it?

10. Describe an urban area that’s not pleasant (example: Naeri). How could you transform it? Think of concrete steps to improve an area.

At home and short presentations:

Find examples of urban transformations on the Internet.

Week 13

A.

1. What are the four ways sound affects us? Describe each of them.

2. Why is most retail sound inappropriate?

3. What are the four golden rules?

B.

1. How much do we retain when we listen?

2. What is the definition of listening?

3. What are some techniques we use to listen? Describe them.

4. How does sound place us in time and space?

5. Why are we losing our listening ability?

6. Why is that a problem?

7. What are the five simple exercises to listen better?

8. Explain the acronym he uses.

At home:

Think of examples from your life when sound was polluting.

What kind of music would be good for a clothing store? And for a bakery? Do a bit of research on the Internet.

Week 14

1. What was the first study?

2. What’s the connection between longevity and smile?

3. How often do kids smile?

4. Why is it difficult to smile and frown at the same time?

5. What is the facial feedback response theory?

6. What is the connection between smile and chocolate

7. What are the benefits of smiling?

At home

Prepare a little anecdote of a time in your life that’s connected to a smile ( a personal experience).

Week 15

Discuss in class:

1. What was the Stanford study?

2. How many kids ate the marshmallow?

3. What’s the most important factor for success?

4. What did the follow-up study say?

5. What was the result of the Colombian experiment?

6. What did the girl with the blue ribbon do?

7. What did the Koreans do?

Prepare at home:

What do you think? What are the conditions for being successful in life?

Do you have the personality traits that could help you be successful? If not, can you change your attitude?