Psychology & Brain Sciences 891MP - S-Multicultural Psychology

The term "multicultural" is applied broadly to include issues of minority or marginalized status, as related to race, ethnicity, culture, gender, sexual orientation, disability, religion, spirituality, class, and the elderly. This course utilizes principles and concepts of multicultural and cross-cultural psychology to attempt to acquire an increased understanding of diverse, underrepresented groups, with an emphasis on understanding racism, sexism, heterosexism, classism and ageism. It utilizes the multicultural competencies perspective to facilitate learning how to perform effective research and clinical work with individuals who are of different cultures, ethnicities, genders, sexual orientations, socioeconomic status, ages, ability, religion and spirituality.

Open to Graduate Psychology majors only.