Course Description
Psychology is a heterogeneous discipline with diverse historical roots. In this course, we will cover some of the major ideas, thinkers, movements in the discipline of Psychology with particular focus on ideas that have had a largescale impact on the discipline and society. The goal of this course is to enrich our perspective with regard to psychology's history, its current state and its possible futures. Course content is organized around 6 topics: How to think about psychological research methodology (how psychologists support their claims), what is behaviour, what is a person, what are goals, what are games, and what is meaning? In discussing these central topic, we will meet some of the greatest thinkers that have contributed to the discipline.
Intended Learning Outcomes
CILO-1: Form an overarching knowledge framework that incorporates cognitive, emotional, motivational, sociocultural aspects of psychology, and use it to make sense of findings in psychology.
CILO-2: Identify core psychological concepts and principles.
CILO-3: Use core principles and concepts to describe and explain of a wide range of phenomena.
CILO-4: Independently raise questions, formulate their own hypotheses, and evaluate existing research within the context of academic debates.
CILO-5: Independently arrive at critical judgments contemporary research in various areas of psychology and express their thinking in writing.