{"id":9,"date":"2018-08-10T15:04:35","date_gmt":"2018-08-10T22:04:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ubcpsyc307\/?page_id=9"},"modified":"2018-08-24T13:40:34","modified_gmt":"2018-08-24T20:40:34","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ubcpsyc307byc\/about\/","title":{"rendered":"What&#8217;s this all about?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">The boring version<\/span>: So cultures differ, eh? And some are the same? How so? (yawn)<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">The interesting version<\/span>: You are an alien from Omicron Persei 8 called Lrrr. You want to invade Earth by blending into \u201cEarth culture;\u201d but as you monitor the Earthlings from a distance, you notice a lot of things that you do not <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-66 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ubcpsyc307byc\/files\/2018\/08\/hands-600497_960_720-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ubcpsyc307byc\/files\/2018\/08\/hands-600497_960_720-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ubcpsyc307byc\/files\/2018\/08\/hands-600497_960_720-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ubcpsyc307byc\/files\/2018\/08\/hands-600497_960_720-624x416.jpg 624w, https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ubcpsyc307byc\/files\/2018\/08\/hands-600497_960_720.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>understand, prompting you to ask:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\u201cWhy do some people insist on staying with their parents for such a long time, while others don\u2019t?\u201d<\/li>\n<li>\u201cWhy do some people insist on choosing a mate? That takes so much work and effort!\u201d<\/li>\n<li>\u201cHow is there such diversity across the small planet, but everyone is the same back home on the big planet of Omicron Persei 8?\u201d and<\/li>\n<li>\u201cSeriously. WTF is this class about?\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>If you didn\u2019t ask these questions, that just means you\u2019re not an alien from Omicron Persei 8 called Lrrr, or you haven\u2019t thought this much about culture before; but by the end of this course, you will be asking those questions!<\/p>\n<p><strong>The purpose of this course<\/strong> is to help you gain an appreciation for the numerous ways in which culture surrounds us, is in the air, and can have real impact on our psychology and behaviours. We will equip you with the frameworks and theories with which you can understand the world of culture that surrounds you in a more scientific manner. As part of this learning process, this course will help you learn how to read and critique the primary sources of this field \u2013 journal articles in cultural psychology. <\/p>\n<p>When this course ends, students successfully meeting the course requirements will be able to:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Identify and explain the ways in which various cultures are different\/similar to each other<\/li>\n<li>Apply cultural psychological theories to explain and understand real-world issues<\/li>\n<li>Compare and contrast how cultural psychology is different from, similar to, and contributes to, other related fields of studies<\/li>\n<li>Use appropriate resources to locate empirical journal articles<\/li>\n<li>Understand and critically analyse published empirical journal articles<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: x-small\">Use of the image on this page is permitted under the Creative Commons CC0 license<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The boring version: So cultures differ, eh? 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