PSYC-3335 Positive Psychology
A growing movement within psychology, positive psychology seeks to balance the discipline’s long-time emphasis on study of human weakness and disorder by seeking to measure, understand and foster the characteristics of strength and virtue that make life most worth living. Positive psychology is simply psychology; its emphasis, however, is on factors such as hope, thankfulness and self-control that contribute to human flourishing. This course will provide students with an introduction to the concepts, studies and researchers that have been influential in shaping this approach to psychology. The course will also seek to integrate and compare the ideas of positive psychology with biblical principles.