page_title: Institute of Psychology (Szeged)
section_title: The beginnings of psychology education in Szeged (1921-1929)
hierarchical_section_title: Institute of Psychology (Szeged) / The beginnings of psychology education in Szeged (1921-1929)
caption_attribution_description: English: Sándor Imre (1877-1945) pedagogue Magyar: Imre Sándor (1877-1945) pedagógus
context_page_description: Institute of Psychology of the University of Szeged, Szeged, Hungary, is located at 2 Egyetem Street, at the Szeged University Campus of the Faculty of Arts. The Institute of Psychology in Szeged is the longest-standing psychology institute in Hungary.
  Today, the Institute provides a three-year Psychology Bachelor of Arts training, followed by a two-year Master of Arts course in two possible majors: Cognitive and Neuropsychology, or Counseling and Educational Psychology.
context_section_description: By 1919, the turmoils of history forced the University of Cluj-Napoca to relocate, and in 1921, the Hungarian National Assembly (according to the terms of Act XXV of 1921) designated the town of Szeged as the temporary location of the university. The former campus site was the Neo-Renaissance building in Szeged's Dugonics Square, originally built as a secondary school for modern languages and sciences in 1873. From 1925, the Faculty of Arts and part of the Faculty of Sciences were moved to the Neo-Roman building at 2 Egyetem Street, formerly a railway discount broker's office. The three-story building was built in 1912, according to the plans of Ottoway István and Winkler Imre.
  Psychology was first recognized as a major subject at the university by Professor Imre Sándor, who realized that the study of psychology is just as important as that of pedagogy. Accordingly, on 20 October 1926, he filed his petition to the directors of the university for the establishment of a fundamentally different, modern Department of Pedagogy and Psychology. György Málnási Bartók, the Professor of the Department of Philosophy, was an avid supporter of the petition, since the tuition of Psychology had been the responsibility of his department at that period. In his petition, Imre Sándor listed the following fields and branches as belonging to the new Department's sphere of competence: General Psychology, Developmental Psychology, Psychology of Differences, Education of Backward Children, Psychotechnics, and Pedagogical Somatology.
caption: Sándor Imre (1877–1945) pedagogue
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