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.
Athena Title
Understand Cultural Diversity
Equivalent Courses
Not open to students with credit in PSYC 2150E
Semester Course Offered
Not offered on a regular basis.
Grading System
A - F (Traditional)
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
Syllabus