dr. A. Wah

BA First-year:  Arts and Cognition. In this course, students can elaborate on the basic concepts and the main theoretical perspectives in the sciences of cognition. They can name and describe the main historical developments. They learn about the basic cognitive functions (emotion, feeling, perception, memory, imagination, and consciousness). They are able to think about art behaviours (musicking, singing, dancing, pantomiming, drawing, pretend playing, and verbal storytelling) from an evolutionary and developmental perspective. They can explain how the arts are studied from the perspective of the cognitive sciences.

BA First-year:  Lecturer-Tutor/Mentor. During group and individual meetings, the tutor helps students develop study skills and an academic study attitude by paying attention to effective study behaviour. The tutor also refers students on to other sources of support within the academic community: Study-Advisor, Student-Mentor, Student-Association, Information Services, and The Centre for Study Support and Academic Skills.

BA Third-year: Art and Cognition - University Minor Culture and Cognition. This course offers a deep dive into the cognitive perspective on art. It focuses on the possible functions of the cognitive processes underlying art behaviours drawing from both everyday cases (by means of musicking, dancing, pantomiming, drawing, pretend playing, and verbal storytelling); and clinical cases (making use of different art therapies such as music therapy; dance therapy; visual/tactile therapy; drama therapy; and writing therapy).

BA Third-year: Research Tutor - Honours College. In this tutorial, students become familiar with performing research tasks by working on conducting research for an academic publication by the supervisor. The tasks can include conducting literature research, collecting, processing, interpreting data, and/or conducting bibliographical and editorial tasks for the publication.