Psy 303.  Person in Society: 
Constructing a Multicultural Society in the United States

Spring 2005

Lecture/Film/Reading Schedule

   Part I.  The Promise of Multicultural Society:  Social and Cultural Perspectives

   Week

   1 (2/4)  Orientation to the Class --Sandi Stein

   2 (2/11)  Lecture:  The Cognitive Basis of Social Systems --Art Warmoth.   Lecture Notes for this lecture are on reserve in the library.

  • Arthur Warmoth.  Culture, Somas and Human Development (from Somatics Magazine/Journal)
  • Clifford Geertz.   Excerpts from Ch. 3. The Growth of Culture and the Evolution of Mind, and Ch 4. Religion as a Cultural System (from The Interpretation of Cultures)
  • Peter L. Mangione.  Culture as a Process (from A Guide to Culturally Sensitive Care)
  • Brenetta Ward-Rader.  The Nature of Identity
    •   3 (2/18) Film:  The Wedding Banquet (Ang Lee)
  • Selections from Conversations with Maxine Hong Kingston
    •   4  (2/25) Film:  Monsoon Wedding (Mira Nair)
  •  Elaine Leeder. Ch. 3. Theories on the Family (from The Family in Global Perspective)
    •   5 (3/4) Film:  Mi Familia/My Family (Gregory Nava)
  • Carlos Fuentes.  Introduction (from The Buried Mirror)
  • Eduardo Obregón Pagán. Ch. 3. Genealogy of a Crisis (from Murder at the Sleepy Lagoon)
    •    6  (3/11)  Film:  The Color Purple (Alice Walker/Steven Spielberg)
  • Alice Walker.  Selection from The Color Purple
  • Elaine Leeder. Ch. 4. The History of the Family in the United States (from The Family in Global Perspective)