DH-401: Digital musicologyThis course will introduce students to the central topics in digital musicology and core theoretical approaches and methods. In the practical part, students will carry out a practical project. ...
HUM-256: Brain, mind and societyCe cours aborde les sujets relatifs aux recherches sur les bases cérébrales des actions humaines, en revenant notamment sur l'histoire du cerveau, les changements actuels liés au développement des neurosciences, ainsi que les liens entre cerveau et maladie ...
HUM-478: Emotion, value, and life-defining choices IMost of us aspire to live meaningful lives. Yet, many of us would struggle to explain what a meaningful life is. This course provides philosophical tools and frameworks useful to understand our aspiration for meaning. ...
HUM-479: Emotion, value, and life-defining choices IIIn this master's project seminar, students prepare a high-quality article embodying the philosophical ideals of clarity, concision, and aspiration to truth. Students also defend the claim made in their article by delivering a professional presentation. ...
HUM-420: L'(in)action pro-environnementale ICet enseignement de Psychologie Sociale interroge les écarts entre intentions et comportements, les freins à l'action individuelle et collective, ainsi que les mécanismes de justification morale qui permettent de maintenir l'inaction malgré la conscience d ...
BIO-483: Neuroscience: behavior and cognitionThe goal is to guide students into the essential topics of Behavioral and Cognitive Neuroscience. The challenge for the student in this course is to integrate the diverse knowledge acquired from those levels of analysis into a more or less coherent underst ...
HUM-239: Psychology of emotionOn s'intéresse ici à nos réactions émotionnelles : comment elles émergent ? Quelles sont les théories du domaine ? Comment elles influencent notre quotidien ? Nous nous pencherons aussi sur les phénomènes émotionnels dans les domaines de l'EPFL (sciences d ...
AR-464: Enlighten your design studio projectThis course will support students in integrating daylight concepts into their ongoing studio projects. With an emphasis on the perceptual, qualitative, and emotional aspects of daylight, the objective is to achieve an awareness of how daylight both shapes ...
HUM-275: Evolutionary psychologyLa psychologie évolutionniste est une discipline située au carrefour de la biologie, de la psychologie, de l'anthropologie, des sciences sociales et naturelles qui examine les traits psychologiques et les comportements humains dans une perspective évolutio ...
CS-213: Human computer interactionLa discipline de l'Interaction Homme-Machine (ou HCI : Human-Computer Interaction) vise à systématiquement placer le facteur humain dans la conception de systèmes interactifs. ...
BIO-620: Neuroeconomics / Decision NeuroscienceThis course covers three major topics introducing: (1) fMRI methods, experimental designs and fMRI analysis; (2) recent research on cognitive and decision neuroscience in humans; (3) neuroimaging studies in the field of social cognition.
Guest speaker: Vi ...
HUM-351: Becoming an ethical engineerStudents will develop an understanding of the psychological and social processes of learning the following competences: (i) ethical sensitivity, (ii) ethical reasoning, (iii) ethical motivation, and (iv) ethical agency. Students will, at the same time, de ...
AR-638: Sensing Like a (Multipli)CityA hands-on approach on how sensing works is complemented with theoretical insights to reflect on the critical zones opened up for urban research by the expansion of coded environments, providing the students with tools and skills for stating transdisciplin ...
HUM-381: Colour psychologyThe media frequently report on how color influences one's emotions and well-being. We teach students basic skills to critically understand and interpret these claims analyzing empirical studies in affective color psychology. ...