- Psychology of Diversity

Catalog description

This course will introduce students to issues that characterize diverse societies and will present analyses of these issues from a psychological perspective. We will learn how social categories, such as race, social class, religion, gender, ethnicity, sexual orientation, etc. inform individuals’ identities, the way they make sense of their social world, and the way they act in it. The social hierarchies and power inequalities between different groups that characterize the U.S. and many other societies in the world will be at the heart of our analysis. We will read theory and research on social identities, origins and functions of prejudice and stereotyping, their effects on the targeted populations and on ways of reducing prejudice, improving intergroup relations as well as redressing inequality. This course fulfills the Power of Justice (P) GE requirement.