PSYC 228 - Psychology and Literature

(3,0) 3 Credits

Prerequisite(s): ENGL 111 - English Composition I and PSYC 103 - Introduction to Psychology or permission of instructors.
Psychology and Literature is a team-taught course that examines novels, plays, short stories, fairy tales and poems through the lens of psychology. Works by authors such as Williams Shakespeare, Arthur Miller, Fyodor Dostoevsky and J.D. Salinger may be studied from the perspectives of psychologists such as Sigmund Freud, B. F. Skinner, Erik Erikson, Carl Rogers, and Carol Gilligan. This course is taught by two instructors (one from Psychology and one from English) and may be taken for either Psychology or English credit, but not both.

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