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Robert Throop and Lloyd Gordon Ward. "Research Note: Mead's Course of Study in Germany: Leipzig & Berlin." St. Catharine's, ON: The Mead Project (2006)

Mead's Course of Study in Germany: Leipzig & Berlin

The following information was gathered from the archives of the Karl Marx University (formerly the University of Leipzig) and the University of Berlin, by Hans Joaz for his book G.H. Mead: A Contemporary Re-examination of his Thought (1985). The following summary was assembled from page 18 of the text and from endnote 14 to Chapter 2 on page 218 of Joaz's book.

Mead spent one term at the University of Leipzig, trying to obtain a place at Wundt's laboratory. During that time he was enrolled in the following courses

Winter semester 1888/89

• "Fundamentals of Metaphysics," with Wundt
• "History of More Recent Modern Philosophy," with Heinze
• "The Relationship of German Philosophy to Christianity since Kant," with Rudolf Seydel

Mead then transferred to the University of Berlin

Summer semester 1889

• "Experimental Psychology," with Ebbinghaus
• "History of More Recent Modern Philosophy, with Consideration of the Modern Development of Culture in its Entirety," with Paulsen
• "Psychology and Anthropology," with Paulsen
• "Philosophical Exercised Based on Schopenhauer's The World as Will and Idea," with Paulsen
• "General Anatomy," with Waldeyer

Winter semester 1889/1990

• "Psychology with Consideration of Experimental and Physiological Psychology," with Ebbinghaus

Summer semester 1890

• "Ethics, Presented in it Principles and Particular Explications," with Wilhelm Dilthey
• "Philosophy of Religion," with Pfleiderer

Winter semester 1890/91

• "Physiology," with Munk
• "Pedagogics," with Paulsen

Summer semester 1891

• "History of Philosophy," with Wilhelm Dilthey
• "Philosophical Exercises Based on Kant's Critique of Pure Reason," with Paulsen,
• "Anthropology and Psychology,' with Paulsen
• "General or Theoretical Political Economy," with Schmoller

Notes

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