Behavioral Sciences Department| Behavioral Sciences Department |
Chair
Larry D. Walker, Ph.D.**BEHAVIORAL SCIENCES**
The Department of Behavioral Science offers programs of MAJOR study in the disciplines of PSYCHOLOGY and SOCIAL WORK (a student can major in either area) and programs of MINOR study in the disciplines of SOCIOLOGY OR PSYCHOLOGY. A specific goal of all three programs is to equip students to compete academically with any comparably educated student from any American college or university. This goal is reached, however, by teaching psychology, social work, and sociology from a distinctly CHRISTIAN frame of reference.
The department's official position is that to know something is not necessarily to adopt that knowledge as part of one's own value system. A lack of knowledge pre-empts one's right to challenge, refute, or otherwise deny any belief system with which one claims to disagree. Therefore, the department is committed to equip students to be knowledgeable as defined by the three professions while providing a strong Christian framework with which to evaluate theories, techniques, and beliefs. This allows the department to graduate students who are academically informed, yet biblically sound.
E-mail address: behavior@oru.edu
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