September 27, 2018
The History of Psychology offers a foundation for understanding modern psychological science and for understanding human nature. By exploring psychology’s cultural, philosophical and theoretical roots, learners will consider how Christian values inform psychological science as it continues to develop, especially as discoveries are made about how fearfully and wonderfully we have been created. Topics will include psychology as science and philosophy, culture, structuralism and functionalism, theoretical and applied psychological research, and various theories that have developed to explain human nature and experience.