HIST 484
Victorian Psychology
Last Offered Fall 2011
Division II Writing Skills
This course is not offered in the current catalog

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Although the Victorian era has traditionally been considered a psycho-social model of emotional inhibition and sexual prudery, recent studies have demonstrated that this characterization grossly oversimplifies the attitudes toward emotional and sexual life held by Europeans and Americans in the second half of the nineteenth century. This tutorial will investigate professional and popular ideas about human psychology during the Victorian era. We will attempt to define and understand what people thought and felt about insanity, the unconscious, dreams, sexuality, the relationship between natural impulses and civilized society, child development, the psychological differences between men and women, and the relationship between the physical and the psychical. The course will concentrate on the close reading and analysis of primary documents from the era.
The Class: Format: tutorial
Limit: 10
Expected: 10
Class#: 1448
Grading: OPG
Requirements/Evaluation: students will meet with the instructor in groups of two once a week; every other week each student will present a paper of approximately 5-7 pages on a topic determined by the instructor, due by 5pm the day before the tutorial meeting
Extra Info: the other student will function as a critic of the paper presented, expected to be familiar with the assigned reading
Extra Info 2: may not be taken on a pass/fail basis
Prerequisites: none
Enrollment Preferences: History majors
Distributions: Division II Writing Skills
Attributes: HIST Group C Electives - Europe and Russia
HIST Group F Electives - U.S. + Canada

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