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Class number:
3431
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Title: Risk & Resilience |
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Department: Psychology |
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Career: Undergraduate |
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Component: Seminar |
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Session: Regular |
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Instructor's Permission Required: Yes |
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Grading Basis: Regular |
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Units: 1.00 |
| Enrollment limited to 15 |
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Current enrollment: 8 |
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Available seats: 7 |
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Start date: Tuesday, September 2, 2025 |
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End date: Wednesday, December 17, 2025 |
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Mode of Instruction: In Person |
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Schedule: T: 1:30PM-4:10PM, AAC - 231 |
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Instructor(s):
Helt, Molly
Anselmi, Dina
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Prerequisite(s): This course is open only to senior Psychology majors. |
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Distribution Requirement: Meets Social Sciences Requirement |
Course Description:
This seminar will focus on the physical and psychological concepts of risk and resilience. Risk typically refers to the likelihood of experiencing negative developmental outcomes. Resilience helps us to cope with stress, navigate relationships with other people, pursue opportunities with confidence, and bounce back from setbacks, trauma, and loss. How these concepts have been studied in psychology and other related disciplines will be our primary focus by examining how research has shifted over time to emphasize the need to be proactive rather than intervene after negative consequences have occurred. Questions we will address include: How have the definitions of risk and resilience changed over time? How do individuals survive and thrive despite significant physical or psychological deprivations? What individual and cultural differences are there in response to different risk factors? What new risk factors (for example, screen and social media usage) may be impacting the resilience of younger cohorts? We will look at key theoretical models, traditional and newer methods of researching these concepts, and empirically validated interventions that improve resilience both at the individual, family, community, and societal levels. |