Advanced Courses
Courses engaging psychology at a conceptual and philosophical depth.
These courses are designed for deeper engagement with psychological ideas and their underlying assumptions.
Advanced courses deepen psychological understanding by engaging foundational ideas at a conceptual and philosophical level. They emphasize integration, sustained reflection, and the careful examination of meaning, responsibility, and human experience.
Introduction to Existential Psychology
This course explores the philosophical foundations that shape how we understand human freedom, responsibility, meaning, and identity. Drawing from Kant’s emphasis on moral agency and the existential tradition’s focus on lived experience, it examines how these frameworks contribute to a nuanced psychological perspective on what it means to be a thinking, choosing human being.
Rather than offering techniques or simplified models, the course invites sustained engagement with complex ideas that ground advanced psychological inquiry. Learners will be encouraged to think critically about the assumptions underlying psychological concepts and to trace how philosophical commitments influence both theory and practice.
Meaning as Practice: Building Purpose in a Fragmented World
This course examines one of the most common modern misunderstandings about meaning: the belief that it is something to be discovered rather than something built. Drawing from psychology and lived experience, it explores how purpose develops through responsibility, alignment, and sustained engagement, especially when life feels uncertain or fragmented.