CULTURAL STUDIES IN PSYCHOLOGY.

Catalog description

This course explores the critical concepts of culture, cultural identity, and ethnicity and examines their role in shaping human behavior and cognition. These issues will be approached from different psychological perspectives including clinical, developmental, social, health, and cognitive psychology. Students will learn to define, explain, and evaluate the influence that culture has on psychological processes and social interactions. Through the study of multicultural research, multimedia presentations, and class discussions, students will gain cultural awareness enabling them to critically assess research on multicultural topics. Prerequisite: PSYC 1315 .