PSYb2881 Cultural psychology

Faculty of Social Studies
Autumn 2024
Extent and Intensity
0/2/0. 4 credit(s). Type of Completion: k (colloquium).
Teacher(s)
Mgr. Barbora Kubantová, MSc (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
Mgr. Barbora Kubantová, MSc
Department of Psychology – Faculty of Social Studies
Supplier department: Department of Psychology – Faculty of Social Studies
Timetable
Wed 25. 9. 18:00–19:40 Aula, Wed 2. 10. 18:00–19:40 Aula, Wed 9. 10. 18:00–19:40 Aula, Wed 16. 10. 18:00–19:40 Aula, Wed 23. 10. 18:00–19:40 Aula, Wed 30. 10. 18:00–19:40 Aula, Wed 6. 11. 18:00–19:40 Aula, Wed 20. 11. 18:00–19:40 U33, Wed 27. 11. 18:00–19:40 Aula, Wed 4. 12. 18:00–19:40 Aula, Wed 11. 12. 18:00–19:40 Aula, Wed 18. 12. 18:00–19:40 Aula
Prerequisites
SEMESTR(3) || SEMESTR(4) || SEMESTR(5) || SEMESTR(6) || SEMESTR(7) || SEMESTR(8)
This course is meant for bachelor's degree students from the third semester on. It is strongly recommended that Erasmus students willing to participate in this course have passed Introductory Psychology courses before.
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is only offered to the students of the study fields the course is directly associated with.

The capacity limit for the course is 24 student(s).
Current registration and enrolment status: enrolled: 22/24, only registered: 3/24
fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
Course objectives
The goal of the course is to get to know the field of cultural psychology and relate the acquired knowledge to the world around us and ourselves.
Learning outcomes
Upon completion of the course, the student will be able to: - identify and summarize the main characteristics of cultural psychology (CP);
- contrast cultural psychology with general psychology;
- summarize the most profound (cross) cultural differences in self, emotions, cognition and perception;
- describe how culture and psyche mutually constitute each other;
- relate cultural differences in psychological functioning to the ecological and sociocultural context people live in and the experience their culture provides them with;
Syllabus
  • 1)Introduction to cultural psychology; What is culture; What is cultural psychology (comparison with general psychology and cultural anthropology) and its main principles according to Shweder (1991); WEIRD cultures; How to study culture; The different levels of universalism
  • 2) Self and CP; Understanding the independent and interdependent self; Climate, geography and culture
  • 3) Learning specific to humans; Evoked vs transmitted culture; Imitative and Emulative learning
  • 4) Culture and perception; Holistic and Analytic thinking
  • 5) Culture and emotions; - Evolutionary and social-constructionist approach to emotions; display rules
  • 6) Living in multicultural worlds; colorblind vs multicultural approach; interculturalism
Literature
    required literature
  • HEINE, Steven J. Cultural psychology. Third edition. New York: W. W. Norton, 2016, xxiii, 591. ISBN 9780393283709. info
Teaching methods
The course is going to happen once in every 14 days - 25.9., 9.10., 23.10. (group A), 30.10. (group B), 6.11., 20.11., 4.12. Discussion, debate, lectures, reflection, and self-development exercises, e-learning. Apart from the compulsory literature, we will read papers and watch videos on different topics related to the field of cultural psychology.
Assessment methods
In order to get to the final colloquium the following is required: - obligatory participation at 80% of the seminars, - readings for each class, - short written papers (max 1 page) submitted continuously - final essay on a given topic
Language of instruction
English
Further Comments
Study Materials
The course is also listed under the following terms Autumn 2023.
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