Diversity Prosperity Resilience: A Psychological Perspective I

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Through a series of reading, discussion, projects, presentations, and exercises, this advanced seminar will enhance students' understanding of the interaction between the mind, body, situations, circumstances, and society and the influence that these exert on our experience of diversity, well-being, prosperity, resilience, and disparity. Inter-and intra-individual differences (biological, psychological and social), are shaped by, and in turn, shape cultural diversity. The course will enhance students' understanding of individual and cultural diversity, locally and globally. Cultural diversity, or indeed any kind of diversity with a group of people, inevitably contributes to demarcating identifiable versus non-identifiable traits and preferred versus non-preferred characteristics; eventually these preferences and identification contribute to disparities.