History and Systems in Psychology.

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This course explores major developments and ideas in the history of psychology as an academic discipline. Although our focus is on psychology, this course also introduces students to the history and foundations of the profession of school psychology, including education, special education, health care, and related fields. This course examines the historical progression of ideas central to psychology, the philosophical and empirical roots of those ideas, and the confluence of those ideas into the various systems we have today. This survey course includes such topics as of the history of psychology from the early Greek philosophers, through the beginnings of modern science and philosophy, through the early approaches to psychology, to psychology in its most contemporary form.