| Course ID: | PSYC(AFAM) 2150. 3 hours. |
| Course Title: | Understanding Cultural Diversity |
Course
Description: | Cross-cultural psychology, including an examination of issues such as conformity, leadership, and attributional style as they vary across different cultures, with consideration of their implications for the emerging world. |
| Oasis Title: | Understand Cultural Diversity |
| Duplicate Credit: | Not open to students with credit in PSYC 2150E |
Semester Course
Offered: | Not offered on a regular basis. |
| Grading System: | A-F (Traditional) |
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| Course Objectives: | 1. To expose students the psychological differences among people across different
cultures, both domestically and internationally
2. To help students understand the extent to which they are embedded within their
own cultural context and how this process shapes how they respond to culturally
different others
3. To assist students in understanding the influence of researchers' culture(s) on
research methods and the knowledge produced based upon those methods
4. To help students understand how cultural differences may impair cross cultural
relationships
5. To expose students to indigenous psychologies and their importance in establishing
an inclusive psychological science |
| Topical Outline: | 1. Course Introduction
2. Defining Culture
3. Emics and Etics
4. Ethnocentrism
5. Culture and the Self
6. Indigenous Psychology
7. Black Psychology
8. Ethnocentrism and Research Methods
9. Culture and Human Development
10. Culture and Work
11. Stereotypes and Conflict
12. Intergroup Relations
13. Culture and Social Behavior
14. Gender as Culture
15. Culture and Communication |