PSY 396. Tutorial in Psychology: Diversity & Psychology
Mondays 7:00 – 8:00pm
Faculty Parlors, Main Building
Spring 2007

Instructors:
Professors Jill Hill, Sandra Marshall, Vic Muñoz

Email:
jhill@wells.edu
smarshall@wells.edu
vmunoz@wells.edu

Click to see Ground Rules from Fall 2006
Tutorial Description

A dialogical space to engage with transforming psychology, developing multicultural competence, and centering the marginalized in psychology and education. Critical self-examination of attitudes, beliefs, and assumptions regarding race, class, gender, sexual orientation, ability, culture, etc. through group interaction and dialogue.

This tutorial meets the need to provide a time and place for ongoing and in-depth discussion of how to diversify the psychology curriculum and develop multicultural competence. It will provide a weekly dialogical space for critically examining the roles of race, ethnicity, culture, sexual orientation, socioeconomic class, gender, age, ability, and other categories of difference on individual and social levels.

We will critically explore topics, such as how western research shapes our understanding of human behavior, possibilities for constructing different psychologies, how paradigms frame our understanding of human life, how class and gender shape identities in the classroom, implicit assumptions in developmental theory and their consequences in the practice of psychology.

Participants will be encouraged to continue critical examination of their attitudes, beliefs, and assumptions regarding race, class, gender, sexual orientation, ability, culture, etc. through dialogues and interactions with other participants.

This is an ongoing tutorial and may be repeated for credit.

Readings for the Tutorial (Spring 2007)

Strategies for Building Multicultural Competence in Mental Health and Educational Settings, Madonna G. Constantine (Editor), Derald Wing Sue. 2005
Racism without Racists, Eduardo Bonilla-Silva. 2003
A Race is a Nice Thing to Have, Janet Helms. 1992
Straightforward: How to Mobilise Heterosexual Support for Gay Rights, Ian Ayres and Jennifer Gerarda Brown. 2005

A reader on LGBT issues with a cultural focus will be made available.

Participants will be invited to share other relevant readings with the class that will form the basis of weekly dialogues.  
The participants in the tutorial will determine readings.

See Culturally Competent Psychology Education from APA's Multicultural Guidelines

Related Readings (For you to have a short list of more resources)

Becoming Culturally Oriented, Nadya Fouad & Patricia Arredondo
Overcoming Our Racism: The Journey to Liberation, Derald Wing Sue
On the Nature of Prejudice:  Fifty Years After Allport, John Dovidio, Peter Glick, & Laurie A. Rudman
Addressing Racism:  Facilitating Cultural Competence in Mental Health and Educational Settings, Madonna Constantine & Derald Wing Sue
The Heart of Whiteness:  Confronting Race, Racism, and White Privilege, Robert Jensen
A Race is a Nice Thing to Have, Janet Helms.
The Light in Their Eyes, Sonia Nieto.
Teaching Community: A Pedagogy of Hope, Bell Hooks
Pedagogy of the Oppressed, Paulo Freire
Lost Subjects, Contested Objects, Deborah Britzman
Releasing the Imagination, Maxine Greene

Nature and amount of written work
Journal writing for self-reflection.

Other work required in the course
To be determined by participants.

Credits
1 credit hour (No pre-reqs)

Grading
Letter grade
Attendance at all meeting times is required

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