Psychology

This course will introduce students to various visual; literary; architectural; and musical forms of artistic expression throughout history. Students will consider these art forms as representations of the global human condition during the time periods in which they were created. Students will develop a framework for evaluating and making critical arguments about various literary texts in the context of other art forms. The course will help students draw connections from various texts to their own lives, to other texts, and to the world. The course then discusses selected psychological disorders and associated common therapies.

This course focuses on the period from conception through late adulthood, with emphasis on developmental principles and theories in the areas of cognitive, emotional, social, personality, and physical development. This course is designed to promote the student’s understanding of the process by which people become someone different while remaining in many aspects the same. This process, called human development, exposes our inherited structures to a lifetime of experiences.