PSYC 553 (02) - Personality

Additional description:

In particular, the course is designed to create a sense of the total functioning of the individual by understanding how the parts of personality interact to bring it about.  There are a number of more specific objectives that will help develop such understanding, parallel to the divisions of the course: (a) to master the definition of personality, and basic concepts in personality theory and measurement, (b) to learn about the major parts of personality, (c) to learn about the ways in which personality is organized, both structurally and dynamically, and (d) to survey personality development and the ways in which various theorists have recommended that personality develop.  Through understanding this material and how it applies to our own personalities and those of the people we know, our thinking about ourselves and why we are the way we are should become more sophisticated.