2022-2023 Traditional Undergraduate Catalog

PSY 143 History and Systems of Psychology

This course will equip students with a comprehensive survey of the history of psychology from the early philosophers to present day. Various schools of psychology covered include voluntarism, structuralism, functionalism, behaviorism, Gestalt psychology, psychoanalysis, and current developments in the field. Students will be encouraged to examine each of these through the lens of a biblical worldview and postulate implications for current and future work in the field. (3 credits)