Outcomes:

After completing this class, students should be able to:

• Describe the ways in which culture, beliefs, values, the environment, and behavior interact.
• Identify ethnocentrism in psychological thought, theory, and research methods, and suggest means for reducing bias in the study of human behavior.
• Demonstrate respect for the wide diversity of human behavior as well as a knowledge of the common threads and values.
• Explain the relevance of psychology and other disciplines (such as anthropology and sociology) in understanding human behavior from a global perspective.
• Describe how culture and the environment might be important variables in situations one expects to encounter.
• Demonstrate competencies in functioning in a diverse society, thus making cross-cultural interactions more productive and enjoyable.
• Apply concepts from the course to events and everyday behavior of people from other cultures.