Course code

PSP6032.LT

old course code

PSP6032

Course title in Estonian

Kultuur, kõne ja mõtlemine

Course title in English

Culture, Language and Thinking

ECTS credits

5.0

Assessment form

Examination

lecturer of 2024/2025 Autumn semester

Not opened for teaching. Click the study programme link below to see the nominal division schedule.

lecturer of 2024/2025 Spring semester

Not opened for teaching. Click the study programme link below to see the nominal division schedule.

Course aims

To provide survey of the relationships between culture, speech, and thinking with following from it the account of the development of mind, culture and a man.

Brief description of the course

An introduction to the science and MySelf. What is Me? What is the environment? Me and the sensual world. Me and the extrasensory world. Semiotically mediated thinking and speech. Transformation of Me on the basis of speech. What is culture? Theory of the stages of psychic development. From childhood to adulthood. From unicellulars to humans ... and further. And how does all this concern Me?

Learning outcomes in the course

Upon completing the course the student:
- understands the abstract theory of the culture, speech and thinking relationships with its potential to explain interesting mental phenomena.

Teacher

Prof. Aaro Toomela, PhD

Study programmes containing that course

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