Required Reading

Psychology 177, Psychobiography and Life History

Dr. Alan Elms

Winter 2001 READING ASSIGNMENTS AND EXAM SCHEDULE

Jan. 9-11: Sigmund Freud, Leonardo da Vinci and A Memory of His Childhood (Alan Tyson translation only), "Editor's Note" and Chs. 1-2; Alan C. Elms, Uncovering Lives, Chs. 1 & 2.

Jan. 16-18: Freud, Leonardo da Vinci and A Memory of His Childhood, rest of book; Elms, Uncovering Lives, Ch. 3.

Jan. 23-25: John Bowlby, Charles Darwin: A New Life, Prologue + Chs. 2, 3, 4, 7, 8; Elms, Uncovering Lives, Ch. 4.

Jn. 30-Fb. 1: Bowlby, Charles Darwin, Ch. 12 (sections III and IV only), 13, 14, 15, 16, 18 (sections V & VI only), 19 (sections I, II, III only), 21, 22 + Appendix.

Feb. 6 MIDTERM EXAM

Feb. 8: Doris Kearns Goodwin, No Ordinary Time: Preface, Chs. 1, 3 (pp. 73-80), 4, 5.

Feb. 13-15: Goodwin, No Ordinary Time, Chs. 6 (pp. 149-160), 7, 8 (pp. 202-209), 9 (pp. 216-225), 10 (pp. 240-253), 11, 25; Elms, Uncovering Lives, Chs. 12 & 13.

Feb. 20-22: Literary Psychobiography reader, Year 2001 edition (from Navin's Copy Shop): four Cordwainer Smith stories; Elms, Uncovering Lives, Chs. 7 & 10.

F. 27-Mar. 1: Literary Psychobiography reader: four James Tiptree Jr. stories; Elms, Uncovering Lives, Ch. 15.

March 6-8: Erik Erikson, Gandhi's Truth, pp. 97-175.

March 13: Erikson, Gandhi's Truth, pp. 176-254.

March 21: FINAL EXAM, 4-6 p.m.