To provide students with the first of a three part series of an introductory level psychology course. The goals of the course are to explore the major psychological approaches to the study of behavior, including their history, contributors, methods, research findings, terminology, and current directions. The course promotes the development of scientific values and skills, recognition of individual bias in experimentation, and the ability to evaluate generalizations and encourage personal development through increased understanding and tolerance of the behavior of others and a curiosity about the forces that make us behave as we do. The students will learn of new research techniques that result in classic findings as well as how to interweave the theme of psychology as a scientific enterprise with that of psychology as a course of knowledge and practice that can improve the quality of life.