PSYC 302 - Modern and Postmodern Approaches to Psyc

Institution:

Point Park University

Subject:

PSYCHOLOGY

Description:

This course follows in a sequence from PSYC 202. The major systems under investigation will include the examination of theories within the broad spectrum of modern and postmodern psychologies, including natural science and human sci-ences approaches. The systems will be outlined in relation to their social, cultural, and historical context in 20th and 21st century psychology, 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. The natural science psychologies of focus will include behavioral and cognitive theories of psychology. The human science psychologies under study will include classical and contemporary psychoanalysis and psychodynamic approaches, Gestalt psychology, humanistic psychology and person centered theory, phenomenological and hermeneutic psychology, existen-tial psychology, and post structural theory. Each system of human psychology will be critically evaluated through an ex-amination of their metaphysical/ontological, epistemological, ethical and aesthetic claims, whether implicit or explicit within the theory. The course is designed primarily for majors in psychology. Non-majors and minors in psych may take the course only with permission of instructor. Prereq: PSYC 151 and PSYC 202. Course Objectives 1) Students will identify major figures in the history of modern natural science and human science psychology. 2) Students will distinguish human science from natural science approaches to psychology. 3) Students will define and apply key concepts in modern and postmodern theories of psychology. 4) Students will critically evaluate modern and postmodern psychological theories by identifying their social, cultural and historical context and in relationship to similiar movements in the arts, humanities and physical sciences. 5) Students will identify and critically evaluate implicit or explicit metaphysical/ontological, epistemology, ethical and aesthtic claims of modern and postmodern theories of psychology.

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3.00

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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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