PSYC 228 - Psychology & Literature

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Raritan Valley Community College

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Description:

Prerequisites: ENGL 111 - English I and PSYC 103 - Introduction to Psychology or permission of instructor. Psychology and Literature is a team-taught course that examines novels, plays, short stories, fairy tales and poems through the lens of psychology. Works by authors such as Williams Shakespeare, Arthur Miller, Fyodor Dostoevsky and J.D. Salinger may be studied from the perspectives of psychologists such as Sigmund Freud, B. F. Skinner, Erik Erikson, Carl Rogers, and Carol Gilligan. This course is taught by two instructors (one from Psychology and one from English) and may be taken for either Psychology or English credit, but not both.

Credits:

3.00

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Instructional Type:

Lecture

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Institution Website:

www.raritanval.edu

Phone Number:

(908) 526-1200

Regional Accreditation:

Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools

Calendar System:

Semester

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