PSYC 385 - Humor and Children

Semester Offered: Fall
1 unit(s)

What is funny to a child? How does that change as they get older, and how does that reflect their social and cognitive development? What can the development of children’s humor reveal about the nature of humor and jokes? This course grapples with these questions using a range of literature about humor from developmental psychologists, philosophers, and cognitive scientists. Nicholas de Leeuw.

Prerequisite(s): At least two 200-level Psychological Science courses, a research methods course in Psychological Science (may be concurrent), and permission of the instructor.

One 2-hour period.

Course Format: CLS