Academic Catalog 2025-2026

PY 475 Personality Theories

This course is an inquiry into the historical and contemporary perspectives of the psychological study of individual similarities and differences as factors in the development of an individual's personality. Major personality theories covered in this course include psychoanalytic, lifespan, trait theories, humanistic, behavioristic, cognitive, cognitive-behavioral, and existential.

Credits

3

Prerequisite

PY 150 and six additional hours of psychology

Offered

Fall