- Cultural Psychology

Catalog description

This course is a survey of theory, methods, and research in culture and psychology. This course examines the ways in which culture shapes psychological and physiological functioning, and the cyclical nature of that relationship. The course will also draw from other areas such as anthropology, sociology, history, and biology to give a holistic overview of the dynamic and non-essentialist nature of culture. Special emphasis will be placed on topics such as health disparities, internalized stigma, race and ethnicity, and immigration. Critically, this course will emphasize the use of an intersectional (interacting social identities) perspective in the study of culture, with specific considerations of gender, sexuality, age, and ability status. This course fulfills the Power and Justice (P) GE requirement.