This course is designed to help students understand behavior in terms of its biological causes. Building on that base, students should be able to understand and explain the biological mechanisms involved in areas such as sensation, perception, movement, arousal, sleep, dreaming, reproduction, emotion, learning, memory and communication. This course is taught fall semester. General Psychology 1 is required. Official Course Description Faculty who teach this course Psychology of Religion Psychology of Religion relates modern psychological theory, research, and practice to the study of religious experience, especially Christian religious experience.
Students correlate the topics covered in the course with actual religious behavior they observe.
Rather than being a lecture course with tests, this course emphasizes discussion and the preparation of a notebook that includes notes from the texts as well as notes about the content and observations about one religious meeting per week. This course is taught spring semester. Official Course Description Faculty who teach this course Psychology of Personality Psychology of personality is designed to introduce students to some of the most prominent personality theorists and their theories. Students learn through the experience of preparing and delivering teaching modules on several theorists and their theories to develop their teaching skills. The materials students prepare, along with the records of their presentations, become a work sample portfolio.