Literature and Psychology

Coordinator: Associate Professor Katherine Lahti (Language and Culture Studies)

The literature and psychology minor devotes itself to integrating literary and psychological insights into human beings, their behaviors, and their destinies as these are represented in texts of philosophy and literary and dramatic art, and in cognitive, social, and psychoanalytic psychologies. This minor consists of six courses approved by the coordinator as relevant to the integration of literature and psychology.

Students completing this interdisciplinary minor must include courses from at least three different fields. Students take a 200-level course to begin the minor, and then progress to at least two courses at the 300 level. As a culmination, students complete a 400-level research and writing project, integrating and developing work from several previous courses in this program.

Course requirements:

For more information about course requirements, please contact the coordinator of the minor.

• Literature and psychology courses
  • CLCV 203. Mythology
  • CLCV 208. Men, Women, and Society in Ancient Greece and Rome: Myth and Reality
  • CLCV 224. Sex and Sexualities in Ancient Greece and Rome
  • ENGL 220. Crime and Passion: Studies in Victorian Literature
  • ENGL 260. Introduction to Literary Studies
  • ENGL 265. Introduction to Film Studies
  • ENGL 315. Girls Growing Up in Victorian Literature
  • ENGL 343. Women and Empire
  • ENGL 351. Shakespeare
  • ENGL 424/824. Studies in Victorian Literature
  • ENGL 490. Writing/Research Project
  • GRMN 233-10. Franz Kafka
  • HISP 327. Memory at Work in Latin American Culture
  • HIST 203. Magic and Medicine in Ancient Greece
  • HIST 318. Gender and Sexuality in Middle Eastern History
  • LATN 221. Intermediate Latin I: A Blend of Greek and Roman
  • NESC 101. The Brain
  • NESC 201. Principles of Neuroscience: Neurobiology
  • NESC 401. Neurochemistry
  • PHIL 214. Philosophy of Art
  • PHIL 217. Philosophy and Literature
  • PSYC 270. Clinical Psychology
  • PSYC 273. Abnormal Psychology
  • PSYC 310. Psychology of Gender Differences
  • PSYC 375. Psychology of Human Sexuality
  • PSYC 391. Psychology of Language
  • PSYC 471. Psychotherapy
  • RUSS 233. Love, Sex, War in Tolstoy
  • RUSS 253. Fantasy and Realism
  • RUSS 257. Dostoevsky
  • RUSS 357. Dostoevsky