PSY 3440 - Psychology of Gender

• Students will be able to analyze the complex nature of current and historically controversial issues related to the study of gender within professional psychology, including how gender and culture impact those theories.
• Students will be able to criticize research on the ways in which gender influences expectations, thoughts, verbal/non-verbal communication, and behavior across interpersonal, organizational, societal, and cultural domains.
• Students will be able to construct collaborative dialogue with peers in order to gain a greater understanding of psychology, gender, and cultural issues.
• Students will be able to discuss feminist and multicultural critiques of traditional psychology.
• Students will be able to identify the major concepts and theories of the psychology of gender and be able to explain how culture impacts gender issues (cultural values, cultural beliefs, cultural practices) and how gender impacts cultural issues.
• Students will be able to interact with culturally different others while being open to perspectives that differ from their own.
• Students will be able to describe their own beliefs about gender and culture and how those systems affect their perspectives, behaviors, and biases.
• Students will be able to interpret intercultural experiences connected to gender, sexual identity, culture, race, social class from their own and others’ worldview and to act in a supportive manner that recognizes the feelings of another cultural group.