SCHEDULE

Week # 1 - August 27, 2009
Let’s laugh! Introduction: humor offensiveness, consents, and disclaimers.What is laughter? Recognizing, vocalizing, defining, and using laughter.

Week # 2 - September 3, 2009
Your Brain on Laughter! Physiology and evolution of laughter. Can laughter and/or humor be addictive? “Dogs may laugh but only cats get the joke!”

Week # 3 - September 10, 2009
Humor me! What is humor? Defining humor through its attributes: sources (stimuli), their perception and evaluation, behavioral responses. From Humoral
Pathology to Paleohumorology.

Week # 4 - September 17, 2009
Are you laughing yet? Basic elements, factors, and subjects of effective humor. Linguistic studies of competence in communicating humor.
REVIEW!

Week # 5 - September 24, 2009
My time to laugh!
IN-CLASS EXAM!!!