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    Feb 02, 2026  
American University Catalog 2025-2026 
    
American University Catalog 2025-2026

PSYC-100 Introduction to Psychology (3)


Why do people and other creatures think, feel, act, and interact as they do? This course surveys the major concepts in the many different areas contained within the field of psychology and teaches students how to think like psychologists. Lectures, textbook readings, and assignments introduce the phenomena, research, and theory central to the discipline.