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Course Info for PSYC - 315 - 01, Spring 2025
Class number: 2365 Title: Development and Culture Department: Psychology
Career: Undergraduate Component: Seminar Session: Regular
Instructor's Permission Required: No Grading Basis: Regular Units: 1.00
Enrollment limited to 16 Current enrollment: 15 Available seats: 1
Start date: Tuesday, January 21, 2025 End date: Friday, May 9, 2025 Mode of Instruction: In Person
Schedule: TR: 10:50AM-12:05PM, LSC - 131 Instructor(s): Anselmi, Dina
Prerequisite(s): Prerequisite: C- or better in Psychology 226 or 295
Distribution Requirement: Meets Writing Emphasis Part2 & IPE Requirements
Course Description:
This seminar will look at current issues in developmental and social psychology including attachment, emotions, cognition, personality, biculturalism, gender, language, socialization and psychopathology from the perspective of cultural psychology. We will focus on the role culture, along with biology play in the outcome of development, as well as influencing our definitions of the process of development. Questions we will address include: How do we define the process of development? Can we integrate development, culture and biology into a coherent model of development? Are there cultural universals? Are current psychological models and methods sufficient to account for the role of culture in development?