Course description: "For the past 150 years, research in psychology and neuroscience has addressed differences in intelligence among races of people. This research has, in some cases, been used to justify racism. This course is designed to explore the issues, methodologies and findings of this research. We will cover historical research and its influence on how people justified racism, as well as modern views on the science of racism. Debate triggered by the book The Bell Curve will be a focus of the course."
Required texts: The Bell Curve by Richard Herrnstein and Charles Murray; The Mismeasure of Man by Stephen Jay Gould; Intelligence, Genes and Success - Scientists Respond to the Bell Curve by Bernie Devlin, Stephen E. Fienburg, Daniel Phillip Resnick and Kathryn Roeder.
