How much of what you are is related to the places you have lived and experienced? What is the importance of place in your most memorable experiences? Is it possible to find any memory that is not physically situated somewhere? This course is an invitation to reflect on these and other meaningful questions about the psychological and emotional relationships between people and their environments. Drawing on a variety of disciplines, including psychology, geography, architecture, and design, this course introduces environmental psychology and its contribution to understanding how physical environments influence your behavior, cognition, identity, and memory. Using place-based methodologies, you discuss concepts such as place attachment, place identity, and cognitive maps. Reflect on issues of memory, meaning of home, trauma, displacement, and the power of nature in our psychological well-being. Click here for a promo video.
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