INQ-110 | Ghosts and Human Perception

Full Title: Ghosts and Human Perception

Topic Description:

What do our beliefs about ghosts tell us about our perceptions of truth? What are the distinctions between beliefs and knowledge? This interdisciplinary examination of ghost lore and research into haunting experiences will range from religious notions of the afterlife to psychological studies of such phenomena as schizotypal hallucinations to scientific knowledge of how environmental factors such as infrasound and electromagnetism affect our perceptions of the world around us. The class even gives a brief nod to quantum physics. The students will not be sitting around scaring themselves silly with campfire ghost stories but examining how their beliefs about ghosts provide clues to their most basic assumptions about what it means to be human.

Counts as Global? No

Topic Approved: January 2009