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PSYCH 528

CULTURAL PSYCHOLOGY

4 credits.

Societies are shaped by the people, places, and environments that surround us. Examine the ways that culture and individual psychology make each other up, including how we think about ourselves, how we attend to and reason about the world, how we think about those like us and unlike us, and how these beliefs, attitudes, and cognitions are shared and maintained across groups.

Prerequisites & course information

Requisites: PSYCH 403 , 406 , 413, 414 , or 456 . Not open to students with credit in PSYCH 428. Course Designation: Core GenEd - Social & Behavioral Science Breadth - Social Science Level - Intermediate L&S Credit - L&S Liberal Arts and Science Repeatable for Credit: No Last Taught: Fall 2025 Learning Outcomes: 1. Examine naive realism and its associated problems. Audience: Undergraduate 2. Identify and summarize cultural variation in thinking about what a self is, what responsibilities we have to each other, how we think about groups in society, what is right and wrong, how we should feel, what the world is like, and what the nature of the good life. Audience: Undergraduate 3. Explain how historical, ecological, and societal factors help to shape cultural variation. Audience: Undergraduate 4. Understand cultural variation that exists within our own society. Audience: Undergraduate 5. Hypothesize about factors underlying cultural change and make predictions about the future. Audience: Undergraduate Learning Outcomes: 1. Examine naive realism and its associated problems. Audience: Undergraduate 2. Identify and summarize cultural variation in thinking about what a self is, what responsibilities we have to each other, how we think about groups in society, what is right and wrong, how we should feel, what the world is like, and what the nature of the good life. Audience: Undergraduate 3. Explain how historical, ecological, and societal factors help to shape cultural variation. Audience: Undergraduate 4. Understand cultural variation that exists within our own society. Audience: Undergraduate 5. Hypothesize about factors underlying cultural change and make predictions about the future. Audience: Undergraduate

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