History & Systems of Psychology

This course explores the history and dominant approaches that have influenced our field, and surveys the major movements, events, and players in the historical development of modern scientific psychology in the world. The course examines the basic premises of the various systems of psychology and provides a perspective on contemporary psychology by reviewing the questions that psychology has confronted over the years and its interrelationships with other disciplines. This course is not only an overview of history and systems of psychology as it is currently conceptualized, but more importantly, is a professional development course using philosophical roots of modern psychology in relationship to major contemporary systems and themes in psychology. The course provides the opportunity to develop a personal professional orientation as a soon-to-be professional psychologist, and aids the participants to develop, formulate, review, and structure their own philosophical system as emerging professional psychologists.