PSY 441 History of Psychology

Prerequisites: PSY 101 or instructor permission. Open to senior psychology majors. This reading-intensive capstone course exposes students to the history of the field. It begins with an overview of epistemological and ontological philosophical theories of the 17th and 18th centuries. It then contextualizes and analyzes the history of psychological ideas of the 19th and 20th century from a broad political, economic, and sociocultural framework.