The course directly aims at encouraging the students to take part in an emotion research team and produce valuble outcomes like a submission of a manuscript to a respectable journal and participating in an emotion congress with a poster presentation. To reach this aim students should, first, form a strong background about emotion studies. This can be done by attending lectures. Secondly, the students should make integrations about the literature. This can be achieved by three ways within the scope of this course:

1. Participating in the lectures with your own ideas

2. Presenting a topic of interest to the class with your own ideas and making the class to discuss on the topic and finally writing a manuscript integrating the discussed points

3. Discussions during poster presentations

Carrying out an empirical study and having it published, I presume, is the ultimate indicator of a scholar's academic skills. The course does intend to contribute to the development of your academic skills. So, you are required

1. to choose a topic of interest and make a literature survey about it,

2. to develop hypotheses and a suitable design to test them,

3. to choose a suitable sample and carry out the empirical study on the sample,

2. to write an APA format manuscript and submit it to a related journal

3. to present the poster format of the study in the Department and in an emotion congress