Learning Goals for Psych 478: Cultural Psychology
Janxin Leu
By the end of this class, students should be able to:Content: Explain how psychologists study culture at several levels of analysis (e.g., environment, group, individual). Demonstrate knowledge and understanding of “independent” and “interdependent” cultures. Demonstrate knowledge and understanding of how “universal” laws in psychology vary by situation and culture.
Methods: Evaluate whether data collected from middle-class, European-American college students reflects behavior of other cultural groups. Be able to understand experimental designs and to interpret graphical display of data and results.
Critical Thinking: Reflect on information from cultural psychology and apply it to your lives. Demonstrate scientific fluency by being able to summarize and evaluate information from scientific and/or popular sources. Be epistemologically aware—understand how psychologists come to know things
Multicultural Awareness: Understand the ways culture and experience affect how knowledge is constructed. Demonstrate tolerance of multiple individual and cultural perspectives. Understand aspects of human behavior that are shared across or may differ according to cultural, ethnic, gender, geographic, or other boundaries. Communication: Summarize and synthesize resources effectively.