PSY 6643 - Cross-Cultural Topics

1. The Holocaust — To become a student of an event of this magnitude requires willingness to think the unthinkable and bear the unbearable in a desperate attempt to understand the unfathomable. A healthy percentage of class time on discussion of assigned readings by historians, rabbis, survivors, German officers, poets, philosophers, essayists and the occasional psychologist. Prerequisite: PSY6605.
2. Psychology and Spirituality
3. Hispanic History — To familiarize students with major trends in the history and culture of Mexico from pre-Columbian to present. Requires student seminar papers on subjects including: Mexican literature, politics, art, economic and social problems, historical figures.
4. Ritual and Healing –– Participants will seek scholarly and psychological understanding of the functions of ritual in past and contemporary cultures (especially as regards identify formation, place, life passages, grieving and meaning making). Mastery of Mircea Eliade’s and Victor Turner’s concepts applied to specific formation and mindful use of rituals – cultural, personal and professional.
5. East-West Psychologies
6. Psychology of Religions
   
7. Critical Issues in Latin America (taught in Mexico City)