History & Systems of Psychology

This course is a part of:

Associate of Paralegal Studies

Bachelor of Science in Legal Studies

Bachelor of Business Administration

Bachelor of Science in Psychology

This competency-based, writing-intensive course explores psychology's history and major schools of thought. From the Greek philosophers to the contributions of modern schools of thought such as evolutionary psychology, this course explores important theoretical and methodological movements in psychology such as structuralism, functionalism, applied psychology, behaviorism, and psychoanalysis. Students are asked to evaluate the relative merits of each of psychology's approaches and deepen their knowledge of game-changing studies in the field.

Course Learning Outcomes

• Explore how psychology's history is studied, its philosophical influences, its physiological influences, and the contributions of its founders.

• Explain the theoretical tenets and empirical methods of structuralism, functionalism, and applied psychology.

• Investigate the theory and methods used in Behaviorism and Gestalt Psychology.

• Discuss the contributions of psychoanalytic and humanistic theory and method, and the contemporary developments in psychology.

• Evaluate the relative merits of psychology's major schools of thought and key studies in the history of psychology.