BHS 200: BEHAVIORAL SCIENCE

3 Credit Hours

This Behavioral Science course focuses on why things are the way they are. The Science of Psychology: An Appreciative View, helps students understand and appreciate psychology as a science and as an integrated whole. Informed by research and data, the course extends these themes and enhances their pedagogical value by guiding students toward topics that are most challenging and communicates the nature and breadth of psychology -and its value as a science– with an emphasis on why things are. With primary goals and focus on the understanding of human strengths and capacities, health, and wellness, and cultivates the appreciation for how extensively psychology applies to our lives.