Psychology Course Syllabus (<-- click on the link here!)
Course GoalsPsychology is a discipline of questions. At its core, it attempts to answer the question of why humans think and behave the way they do—no easy task, given the diversity of human behaviors and cultures!
The discipline of psychology is enormously diverse, covering topics like language, child development, mental disorders, cognition, personality, and consciousness. However, within this huge variety of potential focus points, there are a few types of analysis and questions that we can use to construct a framework. Our main goal for this course is to help you understand how psychologists approach studying human behavior, to give you a solid grounding in key studies about human behavior and cognition, and to have you ultimately thinking and behaving as a psychologist. |