COURSE NUMBER: | PSYC 251 | |||||||||||||||||
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COURSE TITLE: | The Person in Society | |||||||||||||||||
NAME OF INSTRUCTOR: | Dr Christopher Peet, Dr Danielle Brosseau | |||||||||||||||||
CREDIT WEIGHT AND WEEKLY TIME DISTRIBUTION: | credits 3(hrs lect 3 - hrs sem 0 - hrs lab 0) | |||||||||||||||||
COURSE DESCRIPTION: | Introduction to the study of human individuality,
personality, normal and abnormal human development, psychological
assessment and treatment and the psychic processes of social
relationships. Evaluation of various approaches to these
psychological issues. |
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COURSE OBJECTIVES: | What
does it mean to be “a person”? How to answer this question in a
modern/postmodern, Western, 21st century, society? Why do many people
“naturally” turn to psychology to answer such a question? What is
psychology? This course supplements the introduction to psychology
begun with Psyc250 (which focused on the biological side), with a focus
on the social side of psychology. Students will be introduced to how
psychology addresses development, intelligence, motivation, the
emotions, personality and abnormality, and social processes. The
treatment of psychological disorders and psychotherapy will also be
discussed. Basic assumptions and issues surrounding the research and
practice of psychology will be examined, in methodological terms and
from a Christian perspective. That all of the above themes arise in the
specific historical context of modern Western society and do not arise
‘universally’, entails a corresponding historical awareness and
sensitivity in understanding psychology. Any introduction to psychology
is therefore thoroughly historical, and the opening historical lectures
that describe the origin(s) of psychology are in fact crucially
important for an understanding of all psychology and of any specific
psychological theory. There are two central course objectives:
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