Weekly Blog
Weekly Blog 1 | Enter: Cross-Cultural Psychology!
The course objectives are academic as well as personal development. This course will help me in a variety of ways—each module and chapter in the book already connect with a topic in another psychology course I’m taking as well. I’m very interested to see how the knowledge will build together.
I chose this picture because I’m also reading Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind by Yuval Noah Harari and I think evolutionary psychology adds another layer of depth of understanding culture by taking into account how humankind developed cultures and tribes.
I am also currently taking a Human Centered-Design, Intro Cognitive Psychology and Scientific Methods and I’ve already been able to draw connection between the 4 courses. I expect that this course will develop a cultural perspective with the topics I’m learning in my other courses for a well rounded cultivation of the field of psychology in my Junior year and onward.
I’m hoping to gain knowledge I can use in my everyday life and in the field. We are all human, but knowing the differences in how we interact with our environment due to multiple factors is just as important to understanding the complexities of humans as other subfields of psychology.
What will help me be successful is again, drawing those connections to really synthesize the information. Also, completing work ahead of time—it took some time to get adapt to the pace of the course but I’m figuring it out. There is time to plan ahead and complete work ahead of schedule as well.