PSYC 202 - Ancient to Modern Approaches to Psychology

Institution:

Point Park University

Subject:

PSYCHOLOGY

Description:

This course is the first in a sequence of two courses focused on the history and systems of psychology, and is the pre-requisite for the second course in the sequence, PSYC 302. The major systems under investigation will include pre-modern western and eastern systems of psychology, including aboriginal(e.g. African, Australian, Native American), Asian( eg Yoga, Taoism, Buddhism, Confucianism), Ancient Greek and Roman, Scholastic, Renaissance Humanism, Empiricism, Rationalism, Romanticisim and Decadence perspectives on human psychology, as well as the emergence of modern laboratory psychology with psychophysics, physiological psychology, structuralism, functionalism, and eugenics. The systems will be outlined in relation to their social, cultural and historical context, and will be examined in an interdisciplinary fashion., in relation to correlative trends in the arts, humanities and physical sciences, to the extent that they illuminate the project of the theories under examination. Each system of human psychology will be critically evaluated through an examination of their metaphysical/ontological, epistemological, ethical and aesthetic claims, whether implicit or explicit within the theory. This course is designed for majors in psychology, though non-majors and minors may take the course with permission. Prereq: PSYC 151 Course Objectives 1) Students will identify major figures in the history of pre-modern and early modern psychology. 2)Students will define and apply key concepts in premodern and early modern systems of psychology. 3) Students will critically evaluate pre-modern and early modern psychological theories by identified their social , cultural and historical context adn in relationship to similar movements in the arts, humanities, and physical sciences. 4) Students will identify and critically evaluate implicit or explicit metaphysical/ontological, epistemology, ethical and aesthetic claims of pre-modern and ealry modern theories of psychology.

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3.00

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Instructional Type:

Lecture

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Institution Website:

www.pointpark.edu

Phone Number:

(412) 391-4100

Regional Accreditation:

Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools

Calendar System:

Semester

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