Spring 2026 Course Search

Delights of Ephemera — CUR2227.01

Instructor: Anne Thompson
Days & Time: MO,TH 10:00am-11:50am
Credits: 4

Delights of Ephemera explores the significance of mass-produced materials in the context of art movements and exhibitions. Contrary to its definition, ephemera can have power and permanence, giving agency to marginal and marginalized groups and providing a record of actions outside institutional structures. A poster for an exhibition can be as important—or, in terms of its historical presence, more important—as the exhibition itself.

Autobiographical Memory — PSY2246.01

Instructor: Anne Gilman
Days & Time: MO,TH 1:40pm-3:30pm
Credits: 4

What do we remember about our lives, and how do these memories contribute to our sense of self?  This course will begin with an introduction to the scientific study of human memory to better understand how autobiographical memory brings episodic, semantic, and other types of memory together.  We will then explore what autobiographical memory has revealed about the development of memory in childhood at brain and behavioral levels.  Cross-cultural research has substantially reshaped the scientific understanding of autobiographical memory, and we will focus particularly on groun