PSYC 365 - Cross-Cultural Human Development

To what degree does culture shape and constrain the development of human ability, thought, and behavior? What features of human behavior lie beyond culture’s reach? In pursuing these questions, students study how sensorimotor, perceptual, emotional, cognitive, social, and personality development proceed in diverse cultural contexts. Theories of human development and the cross-cultural methodologies used to test them are critiqued in detail. Inquiry is framed by an understanding of cultural and biological evolution and incorporates readings from developmental and cross-cultural psychological science, and from anthropology and sociology.

Credits: 1.00
Corequisite: None
Prerequisites: PSYC 200
Major/Minor Restrictions: None
Class Restriction: None
Recommended: PSYC 309 is recommended.
Area of Inquiry: Natural Sciences & Mathematics
Liberal Arts CORE: None

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