Purpose Statement

Psychology + Academic Programs + Academics

The Department of Psychology attempts to develop graduates, who have strong personal identity and interpersonal skills, to become professionally competent in their knowledge of the discipline of psychology; this includes a personalized, integrative understanding of how their faith interacts with psychology.

Educational Objectives

  • To promote in students a personal integrative perspective regarding faith and psychology, spiritual formation as a part of the developmental process, and an ability to apply that perspective to issues in various related disciplines as well as to the practical world in which students live.
  • To provide students with an adequate preparation for graduate school that includes current advances in the discipline.
  • To equip students with critical thinking and problem-solving skills from a biblical worldview so they will be prepared to make a difference in our changing world.

The Department of Psychology's theme verse is Isaiah 50:4, "The Sovereign Lord has given me an instructed tongue, to know the word that sustains the weary. He wakens me morning by morning, wakens my ear to listen like one being taught." (NIV)