This course seeks to interest students in the Latin American culture by studying it from multiple perspectives.
Culture
Start Date: Self Paced Course - Start anytime
Cultural Psychology reviews the cultural, community, and ecological factors that play a role in how people perceive their environment. It is the integration of the nature and nurture phenomenas, whereby an individual’s psyche is determined, or at least influenced, by both that individual’s culture and those other cultures to which the individual is exposed.
Start Date: Feb 25th 2013
Personal matters are social issues! Developing the Sociological Imagination provides students with the opportunity to learn more about themselves and their society.
Start Date: Feb 4th 2013
This course examines how the idea of "the modern" develops at the end of the 18th century and how being modern (or progressive, or hip) became one of the crucial criteria for understanding and evaluating cultural change during the last two hundred years.
Start Date: Jan 28th 2013
This course will explore how digital cultures and learning cultures connect, and what this means for e-learning theory and practice.