Cross Cultural Psychology
Fall & Spring
This course is available from Fall 2012
| 3 credits
| Core course
| Study Tour:
Western Denmark
and
|
Berlin
Majors:
Anthropology,
Psychology,
and
Sociology
This course will examine psychological research findings, theory, and methods related to the study of human behavior and experience as a function of culture. Culture will be interpreted to include ethnicity and social class, but may also include other general factors that have a similarly broad effect in psychology. We will examine the influence of culture on such psychological domains as: basic perceptual and cognitive processes, human development and family processes, and issues in social, personality, clinical, and abnormal psychology.
Our own culture is as invisible to us as the air that we breathe, yet its impact is profound. Your previous courses in psychology have likely presented research conducted in western societies as “the way humans think, feel and behave.” Much of the research in cross-cultural psychology identifies limitations to these generalized rules. For this reason it takes a special open-minded approach to fully appreciate the impact culture has on our lives as well as those whose culture differs from our own.
Prerequisites
A university-level psychology course.
Instructors
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Sanna Schliewe
Cand. psych. (University of Copenhagen, 2009). Clinical psychologist in private practice since 2011 specialized in cross-cultural clients. External Lecturer, Aalborg University, Department of Psychology with supervision of cross-cultural empirical projects for the BA degree (2010 and 2012). Clinical psychologist, Dronning Ingrids Hospital, Nuuk, Greenland (2009-2010). MA Research on foreigners’ acculturation in India (2008). With DIS since 2012.
