PSY 800 - History and Systems: Orientation to Clinical Psychology

Credit Hours: 3

This course is a study of the foundations of the discipline of clinical psychology and the relationship between historical development and current systems and issues within the field. Students will review the growth of the science of psychology, including principal systems, key theoretical debates and developments, and contemporary views on the history of the field. In addition, students will analyze the role the field of psychology has played in creating, perpetuating, and failing to challenge racism, discrimination, and other harms to communities of color and other underrepresented and marginalized groups and consider the current and future efforts to reconcile and repair both past and present inequities in the field.

Prerequisite: admission to Doctor of Psychology program or permission of instructor.
Lecture Contact Hours: 3

Typically Offered: Fall