Psy 306. History of Modern Psychology
Spring 2006

CALENDAR

Part 1: Introduction

Week One/January 31: Introduction

Week Two/February 7: Read Art Warmoth, "Introduction to Psy 306" & Victor Daniels, "Psychology in Greek Philosophy"

Week Three/ February 14: Read selections by James, Wundt, Titchener and Angell

Part 2. Behaviorism

Week Four/ February 21: Ch. 13. Behaviorism (from Ludy T. Benjamin, Jr., A History of Psychology)

Written Assignment for Study Guide #1 Due

Week Five/ February 28: Neobehaviorism (from Ludy T. Benjamin, Jr., A History of Psychology)

Week Six/March 7: Ch. 13. Selections from B. F. Skinner, Beyond Freedom and Dignity and Walden Two.

Part 3. Psychoanalysis

Week Seven/ March 14: View Ingmar Bergman's film Fanny and Alexander
Written Assignment for Study Guide #2 Due

Week Eight/ March 21: Sigmund Freud, Five Lectures on Psychoanalysis

Week Nine/ March 28: Selections by Adler, & Jung

Week Ten/April 4: Selections by Horney & Fromm

Part 4. Phenomenology & Gestalt Psychology

Week Eleven/April 11: Read Clark Moustakas. "Transcendental Phenomenology" from Phenomenology, Science and Psychotherapy.

View Bernd Capra's film Mindwalk, Part 1.

Written Assignment for Study Guide #3 Due

Spring Break-April 18

Week Twelve/April25: Read B. R. Hergenhahn. Ch. 14, Gestalt Psychology, from An Introduction to the History of Psychology.

View Bernd Capra's film Mindwalk, Part 2.

Part 4. Contemporary Issues and Trends

Week Thirteen/May 2: Research. Optional class discussion on the information technology revolution and the structure of service economies: "Technology and the History of Consciousness"

Written Assignment for Study Guide #4 Due

Week Fourteen/May 9:Research. Optional class discussion on the information technology revolution and the structure of service economies: "Epstemological Foundations of Postindustrial Political Economies"

Week Fifteen/May 16: Presentations Begin

Finals Week
Portfolio of Graded Assignments & Final Paper or Presentation Due