What is Psychology?

The science of psychology explores:

• Nature and causes of behavior, feelings, and thoughts

• Effective ways to maintain psychological and social health

• How changes and discoveries reveal new understandings, new research possibilities, and new applications to the human condition

What is Psychology at SPU?

• Providing students with solid academic and experiential grounding in the theory, research, and practice of the field of psychology

• Preparing and inspiring able and motivated students to enter and contribute to the field of psychology

• Nurturing students toward valuing themselves and others as persons of worth, created in God’s image

• Empowering students to act in this world. That is, actively celebrating God’s human and non-human creation, actively showing mercy and compassion to the vulnerable, and actively challenging and changing aspects of society that deny or denigrate persons.