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Unit of Study PSYC3005 - Culture and Psychology (2025)

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  • Unit type

    UG Coursework Unit

  • Credit points

    12

  • Faculty/College

    Faculty of Health

  • Placement

    No

  • Enrolment information

Unit description

Critically engages with the ways culture can shape reality and be shaped by individuals, groups and institutions, including how psychological science, theory and research are conceptualised and practiced. Intercultural communication at the level of the individual, community and institution, and as in relation to cultural health, will be examined with a particular emphasis on Australia’s Indigenous and migrant peoples. Cultural issues and debates will be discussed in national and global contexts.

Unit content

  1. What is culture: yours, mine and theirs
  2. Culture, constructs, assumptions and theory: situating mainstream psychology  
  3. Language and inter-cultural communication  
  4. Culturally-appropriate research methods 
  5. Bringing it home: culture and health  
  6. Cultural issues nationally and on the world stage

Availabilities

Location Domestic International
Coffs Harbour
Term4
Term4
Gold Coast
Term4
Term4
Online
Term4
Term4

Learning outcomes

Unit Learning Outcomes express learning achievement in terms of what a student should know, understand and be able to do on completion of a unit. These outcomes are aligned with the graduate attributes. The unit learning outcomes and graduate attributes are also the basis of evaluating prior learning.

On completion of this unit, students should be able to:

engage in critical thinking about culture, particularly the influence of culture on psychological science, theory, and research

appraise the complexities around inter-cultural communication and how to apply these considerations in practice

describe how individuals and groups can be shaped by, and shape, the culture of which they are a part

critically examine and communicate in a collaborative academic format current issues and debates related to cultural and Indigenous issues in the national and global context

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