Cross-Cultural Psychology

Catalog description

This course is designed to link basic principles in cross-cultural developmental psychology and practical everyday events and questions as above ones together to help students cultivate a global perspective on human behavior and gain an understanding of, and appreciation for, human development as it takes place in various cultural settings throughout the world. Experiential learning will be an important component of this course. Each student will have a chance to observe the behavior of a child/adolescent of different ethnic background from his or her own and develop their own cross-cultural viewpoint on human development.