Psychological & Brain Sciences 363 - Cultural Diversity/Globe

The main aim of this course, Cultural Diversity Around the Globe, is to look at how culture shapes the way humans think, feel, and act. This course is about why people from different parts of the world think and behave differently, why Homo sapiens is a cultural species, how cultural learning shapes the human mind, and why there is substantial diversity in our psychology around the globe. The materials is this course cover topics like how culture affects our emotions, sense of self, morals, and how people behave in social contexts. An important theme of the course is understanding that a lot of psychology research is focused on Western and English-speaking populations. We will explore why this focus on a thin slice of human diversity is a problem and what we can do to make psychological research more inclusive. Special emphasis will be placed on analyzing real-world manifestations of cultural diversity based on materials covered in the course.

This course is open to PSYCH majors only. PSYCH 100 or PSYCH 102