Culture and Cognition

4 units · Undergraduate upper division (100-199)

Lecture, four hours. Introduction to theoretical foundations of research on culture and cognition. Drawing from insights of cultural psychology and anthropology, study of various definitions of community spaces, etc.; and consideration of social, political, and educational implications of ways these terms are conceptualized. Study address questions of relationship between culture and development of mind; how this relationship might be studied; what insight research on culture and cognition offers for the organization of learning environments; and for understandings of diversity and equity. Letter grading.