PSYC 608 - Human Diversity Research and Intervention

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This course explores human diversity in the research and practice of psychology. Similarities and differences across a wide variety of human diversity, including ethnicity, race, age, gender, sexual orientation, class, religion, ability, community/cultural context will be discussed. This course will include a focus on understanding the definitions, development, meanings, values and implications of diverse identities and experiences in society, in psychology, and in work with research participants and intervention clients. The main focus will be on practical guidelines for understanding the salience of diversity in psychological work and becoming a culturally competent psychologist in a complex, multiply diverse society. Primary and secondary source readings, including first person accounts and research and intervention case vignettes will be utilized as a means of understanding how issues of culture are manifest and transversed in a variety of cultural contexts.