The Psychology of Violence | Spalding University Catalog

PSY-332: The Psychology of Violence

3 credit hours

This course serves as an introduction to those systems of thought and selected bodies of data concerned with aggression, violence, and human behavioral systems.  This level of system is seen as interfacing on the upper end of complexity with social systems and on the lower end of complexity with biological systems.  Selected areas of study include suicide, self-harm, child abuse, intimate partner violence, murder, warfare, and genocide.

Prerequisites: PSY-103 and SS-305