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College Catalog 2016-2017 
    
College Catalog 2016-2017 [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

PSYC 243 - Psychological Anthropology

Cross-Listed as  ANTH 243 
This course explores the relationship between self, culture and society. We will examine and discuss critically the broad array of methods and theories anthropologists use to analyze personality, socialization, mental illnes and cognition in different societies. Our aim is to address questions related to the cultural patterning of personality, the self and emotions and to understand how culture might shape ideas of what a person is. We will also seek to understand how cultures define behavior as abnormal, pathological or insane, and how they make sense of trauma and suffering. Prerequisite(s): ANTH 111  Alternate years. (4 Credits)