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PSYCHOLOGY & LITERATURE
Course #12157
Half Year
½ Credit
Available to Grades 11-12
Can the characters we read about provide insight into human behavior or reflect who we really are? Students in this course will have the opportunity to study two diverse disciplines: psychology and literature. Students will read both classic and modern texts such as Hesser's Kissing Doorknobs, Styron's Darkness Visible, and Schreiber's Sybil as a way to interpret human behavior. They will explore authors’ motivations for the creation of characters as a means of understanding and gaining insight into themselves. Special emphasis will be placed on the study of well-known psychologists, patient/character case studies, and psychological theories and illnesses. Film selections will allow students opportunity for in-depth analysis of characters' psyches.
Prerequisite: English 9 and 10