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PSYC372

Racial and Ethnic Identity Development

Subject code

PSYC

Course Number

372

Department(s)

Instructor(s)

K. Aronson

Course Long Title

Racial and Ethnic Identity Development

Cross Listed Courses

Description

This course is designed to develop students' understanding of how individuals from different backgrounds come to define themselves in terms of race or ethnicity. Students explore theories that explain how racial/ethnic identity develops among individuals from Caucasian, African American, Asian, Hispanic, immigrant, and mixed-race backgrounds. They also consider the role that others play in the identity development process and how identity relates to important life outcomes. As a final project, students are given the opportunity to analyze their own experience by applying course material to their own life through the creation of an autobiography. Prerequisite(s): any 200-level psychology course.

Modes of Inquiry

Historical and Social Inquiry [HS]

Writing Credit

No writing credit

Departmental Course Attributes - Major/Minor Requirements

(Psychology: IDEA)

INDS Program Relationship

IDAM - AMST Program

GEC This Course Belongs To

-

Class Restriction

Exclude First Years