SCHEDULE

Week # 1 - January 13, 2010
Let’s laugh! Introduction: humor offensiveness, consents, and disclaimers.What is laughter? Recognizing, vocalizing, defining, and using laughter.

Week # 2 - January 20, 2010
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 - January 27, 2010
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 - February 3, 2010
Are you laughing yet? Basic elements, factors, and subjects of effective humor. Linguistic studies of competence in communicating humor.
REVIEW!

Week # 5 - February 10, 2010
My time to laugh!
IN-CLASS EXAM!!!