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| Course Code | Course Title | Weekly Hours* | ECTS | Weekly Class Schedule | ||||||
| T | P | |||||||||
| PSY301 | Cultural Psychology | 3 | 0 | 6 | ||||||
| Prerequisite | PSY103 | It is a prerequisite to | None |
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| Lecturer | Pınar Ünal-Aydın | Office Hours / Room / Phone | Monday: 10:00-13:00 Wednesday: 9:00-12:00 |
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| paydin@ius.edu.ba | ||||||||||
| Assistant | Assistant E-mail | |||||||||
| Course Objectives | This course will provide a comprehensive introduction to general theories and methods related to culture and diversity. It will emphasize empirical approaches to cross-cultural study and explain the importance of culture in human cognition, emotion and the behavior. Students will learn to appreciate the ways in which one’s behavior, thinking, emotion, language, health/ resilience, and development are cultural products. | |||||||||
| Textbook | Shiraev, E., & Levy, D. A. (2017). Cross-cultural psychology: Critical thinking and contemporary applications. Boston: Allyn & Bacon. | |||||||||
| Additional Literature | ||||||||||
| Learning Outcomes | After successful completion of the course, the student will be able to: | |||||||||
| Teaching Methods | Virtual class discussions with examples. Active online tutorial sessions for engaged learning and continuous feedback on progress. During semester students will be evaluated through their continuous work. Students will have midterm exam, quiz, final exam, group work and two assignments. | |||||||||
| Teaching Method Delivery | Online | Teaching Method Delivery Notes | ||||||||
| WEEK | TOPIC | REFERENCE | ||||||||
| Week 1 | Introductory lecture | |||||||||
| Week 2 | What is culture? | Selection of relevant chapters and articles | ||||||||
| Week 3 | How do we study culture? | chapter 3 | ||||||||
| Week 4 | Cognition and culture | chapter 4 | ||||||||
| Week 5 | Intelligence and culture | chapter 5 | ||||||||
| Week 6 | midterm | |||||||||
| Week 7 | Emotion and culture | chapter 6 | ||||||||
| Week 8 | Motivation, behavior and culture | chapter 7 | ||||||||
| Week 9 | Life-span development and culture | chapter 8 | ||||||||
| Week 10 | Psychological disorders | chapter 9 | ||||||||
| Week 11 | quiz | |||||||||
| Week 12 | Social cognition | chapter 10 | ||||||||
| Week 13 | Personality and the Self | chapter 11 | ||||||||
| Week 14 | Group presentations | |||||||||
| Week 15 | Group presentations | |||||||||
| Assessment Methods and Criteria | Evaluation Tool | Quantity | Weight | Alignment with LOs |
| Final Exam | 1 | 30 | ||
| Semester Evaluation Compenents | ||||
| Midterm | 1 | 20 | ||
| Quiz | 1 | 10 | ||
| Group presentation | 1 | 20 | ||
| Assignemnts | 2 | 10 | ||
| *** ECTS Credit Calculation *** | ||||
| Activity | Hours | Weeks | Student Workload Hours | Activity | Hours | Weeks | Student Workload Hours | |||
| Online lecture | 2 | 14 | 28 | Assignments | 5 | 4 | 20 | |||
| Online active tutorials | 1 | 14 | 14 | Homestudy | 1 | 14 | 14 | |||
| In-term study | 12 | 2 | 24 | Final exam | 15 | 2 | 30 | |||
| Group project | 10 | 2 | 20 | |||||||
| Total Workload Hours = | 150 | |||||||||
| *T= Teaching, P= Practice | ECTS Credit = | 6 | ||||||||
| Course Academic Quality Assurance: Semester Student Survey | Last Update Date: 02/03/2021 | |||||||||
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