The psychology program at SPU endeavors to accomplish four goals: (1) To provide students with solid academic and experiential grounding in the theory, research, and practice of the field of psychology; (2) to prepare and inspire able and motivated students to enter and contribute to the field of psychology; (3) to nurture students toward valuing themselves and others as persons of worth, created in God’s image; and (4) to empower students to act in this world. That is, actively celebrating God’s human and non-human creation, actively showing mercy and compassion to the vulnerable, and actively challenging and changing aspects of society that deny or denigrate persons.