Description of Individual Course Units
Course Unit CodeCourse Unit TitleType of Course UnitYear of StudySemesterNumber of ECTS Credits
SEÇ3192016335Cultural PsychologyElective355
Level of Course Unit
First Cycle
Objectives of the Course
Encourage student to think of cultural meaning systems and practices as central to understanding higher-level mental process.
Name of Lecturer(s)
Dr. Öğr. Üyesi Şule BAŞTEMUR
Learning Outcomes
1Interacts effectively and responsibly with people of different backgrounds and cultural perspectives.
2Explains how individual differences affect beliefs, values, and interactions with other people or vice versa.
3Researches sociocultural and international contexts affecting individual differences.
4Recognize the prejudices and discriminatory behaviors that may occur in himself and others.
Mode of Delivery
Formal Education
Prerequisites and co-requisities
None
Recommended Optional Programme Components
None
Course Contents
Scope of Cultural Psychology, basic concepts, theories, methods and implications of mutual constition of culture and self for cross-culturally divergent psychological patterns in cognition, emotion, motivation, moral reasoning, and psychopathologies.
Weekly Detailed Course Contents
WeekTheoreticalPracticeLaboratory
1Course introduction, methodology, evaluation and sources of the course
2History of cultural psychology
3Individulalism and collectivism
4Exploring the Turkish cultural model
5Cultural and self-concept
6Culture and motivation
7Culture and cognition
8Midterm exam
9Midterm exam
10Culture and morality
11Culture and emotion
12Culture and mental health
13Some particular cultural world
14The search for universal
15Final
16Final
Recommended or Required Reading
1) Kağıtçıbaşı, Ç. (2010). Benlik, Aile ve İnsan Gelişimi: Kültürel Psikoloji. İstanbul: Koç Üniversitesi Yayınları. 2) Heine, S. (2007). Cultural Psychology. NY: W.W.
Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods
Assessment Methods and Criteria
Term (or Year) Learning ActivitiesQuantityWeight
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End Of Term (or Year) Learning ActivitiesQuantityWeight
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Yarıyıl (Yıl) İçi Etkinlikleri50
Yarıyıl (Yıl) Sonu Etkinlikleri50
SUM100
Language of Instruction
Turkish
Work Placement(s)
None
Workload Calculation
ActivitiesNumberTime (hours)Total Work Load (hours)
Midterm Examination133
Final Examination133
Attending Lectures14342
Report Preparation14342
Individual Study for Mid term Examination11818
Individual Study for Final Examination14242
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours)150
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