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PSC 405X - Evolution of Cooperation and Conflict

(3 units)
Explores the millennia-long evolution of human cooperation, including why we cooperate, how conflicts arise, are avoided, and resolved.

Prerequisite(s): PSC 231 .

Grading Basis: Graded
Units of Lecture: 3
Offered: Every Fall - Even Years

Student Learning Outcomes
Upon completion of this course, students will be able to:
1. describe the evolution of cooperation in human society.
2. distinguish between biological and social bases of cooperation.
3. contrast ethical and biological bases for cooperation and conflict.
4. analyze the circumstances in which either cooperation or conflict emerge.
5. explain social and political structures that encourage cooperation and minimize cooperation.
6. compare and contrast the how social and political institutions succeed in promoting cooperation and reducing conflict.
7. synthesize a multidisciplinarily diverse corpus of scholarly research on the evolution of cooperation.
8. apply theories of cooperation and conflict to a novel research design based on a behavioral experiment.


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