Overview

Description

CALENDAR DESCRIPTION:

Course can be repeated for credit. Students may not take this course for further credit if similar topics are covered. See Psychology department website for course description.

COURSE DETAILS:

Course Title:  Seminar in Developmental Psychology: Community Engaged Research in Developmental Psychology

Topics:
Community engaged developmental psychology
Qualitative methods
Cross-cultural developmental psychology

Students are expected to attend lectures and engage in discussion of the course topics.  This course will provide you with a general introduction to major theories, perspectives, research developments and methods to community engaged developmental science.  Although we will take a developmental psychology perspective throughout, we will use examples from other fields such as community development, clinical psychology, indigenous research, an anthropology.  The content can be applied to any field in psychology.  We will cover topics such as generalizability, representation, ethics, indigenous and qualitative methods.  My research is in the field of culture and developmental psychology therefore I will draw heavily upon this sub-field for readings.

COURSE-LEVEL EDUCATIONAL GOALS:

At the end of this course, you will be able to,
1) think critically about current approaches and Western assumptions in science,
2) identify the ethical and scientific reasons for doing community engaged research,
3) describe the basic principles of community engaged research, and
4) apply what you have learned in this course to your own research.

Grading

Materials

REQUIRED READING:

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