2017-2018 Graduate Catalog

PSY 5010 CROSS-CULTURAL PSYCHOLOGY

Advanced study of the ways cultural factors shape and affect human behavior. Factors include be- haviors, ideas, values, institutions, and the study on analytic levels of individual behaviors, universal behaviors, and culture-specific be- haviors. Personality and the definitions of social and abnormal behavior in culture-specific contexts are explored, with clinical emphasis given to integrate the complex components of cultural psychology. Not open to students who have completed the undergraduate cross-cultural psychology course. Prerequisites: Six graduate credits completed and permission of the graduate coordinator.

Credits

3