PSYC 3369 Understanding the Social World: Social Cognition in Humans and Other Animals
This course will address the puzzle of how we make sense of our social world by focusing on questions such as: how do we carve our world into meaningful social groups, understand what others are thinking and maintain productive cooperative relationships? These questions will be tackled using both developmental and comparative approaches, with the goal of understanding how social cognition takes shape over childhood and what aspects of human social cognition are shared with other animals.
Course overview
- Department
- Psychology and Neuroscience
- School
- MCAS
- Credits
- 3
- Level
- Undergraduate
- Offered
- Periodically
Catalog details
- Prerequisites
- PSYC2241
Requirements fulfilled
Course evaluations
- Course rating
- 4.31 / 5 · Very Good
- Instructor rating
- 4.61 / 5 · Excellent
- Terms evaluated
- 5
| Term | Instructor | Course overall | Instructor overall | Well organized | Clear learning objectives | Intellectually challenging | Helpful assignments | Applicable beyond course | Attendance necessary | Weekly effort | Responses |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fall 2025 | Katherine J McAuliffe | 4.5 | 4.8 | 4.8 | 4.8 | 4.5 | 4.7 | 4.7 | 4.6 | 4–6 hrs/week | 14 of 20 |
| Spring 2025 | Katherine J McAuliffe | 4.3 | 4.7 | 4.8 | 4.7 | 4.7 | 4.5 | 4.4 | 4.7 | 4–6 hrs/week | 28 of 30 |
| Fall 2023 | Richard Ahl | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 11 of 17 |
| Spring 2023 | Katherine J McAuliffe | 4.4 | 4.7 | 4.7 | 4.7 | 4.6 | 4.5 | 4.6 | 4.7 | 4–6 hrs/week | 41 of 47 |
| Spring 2022 | Katherine J McAuliffe | 4.1 | 4.5 | 4.6 | 4.8 | 4.4 | 4.3 | 4.5 | 4.8 | 1–3 hrs/week | 25 of 42 |
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Sections
- Section 01
- Section 01