| CODE | PSY3160 | ||||||||
| TITLE | Respecting Diversity | ||||||||
| UM LEVEL | 03 - Years 2, 3, 4 in Modular Undergraduate Course | ||||||||
| MQF LEVEL | 6 | ||||||||
| ECTS CREDITS | 4 | ||||||||
| DEPARTMENT | Psychology | ||||||||
| DESCRIPTION | This unit sets out the right and need of everyone to be valued and accepted in society, and challenges participants to consider the social exclusion and discrimination faced by members of minority groups within the dominant culture. Reference will be made to the impact of labeling and stigma on disadvantaged groups and to discriminatory processes and structures based on age, gender, sexual orientation, weight, ethnicity, religion, politics, disability, socioeconomic or immigrant status. It will provide an opportunity for participants to reflect on their own world views and values and to consider the variety of other perspectives linked to the diversity of human cultures. This will be complemented with the consideration of strategies for promoting inclusion, overcoming bias and prejudice and developing respectful intercultural communication, and ensuring the equal valuing of each individual both in interpersonal interaction and in the larger groupings of a democratic society. Study-unit Aims: This study-unit aims to enable individuals to develop an understanding and respect for all persons whatever their characteristics, culture and background. It will raise awareness about each participant's own background culture and values as well as about the discrimination that individuals who differ in some way from the members of the dominant group tend to suffer at personal and systemic levels. It seeks to promote an understanding of the importance of the development of inclusive societies where everyone can experience a feeling of equal value and belongingness and is enabled to participate in the social, cultural, and economic activities and to contribute to the wellbeing of society. Learning Outcomes: 1. Knowledge & Understanding By the end of the study-unit the student will be able to: - Critically describe the main features of their own world view and cultural baggage; - Critically analyse the discriminatory impact of the dominant culture on members of disadvantaged groups related to differences in age, gender, sexual orientation, weight, ethnicity, religion, political beliefs and allegiances, disability, socioeconomic or immigrant status; - Critically analyse the impact of labeling and stigma on the life of the people involved; - Describe the main features of at least two cultural systems different from their own; - Describe how diversity can be a resource for the enrichment of groups and society; - Describe various intercultural communication skills that enhance respectful interaction among persons from different backgrounds; - Describe how Maltese society can become more inclusive in its socio-economic and cultural structures related to home, education, work, leisure and other community activity. 2. Skills By the end of the study-unit the student will be able to: - Critically reflect on own world view; - Empathize with disadvantaged groups who experience discrimination in everyday life; - Recognize influence of prejudice in interaction with persons from a different culture; - Demonstrate competence in intercultural communication; - Demonstrate inclusive attitudes towards persons from different cultures or with different characteristics and backgrounds from oneself; - Engage in at least one activity with persons from a different culture, belief, background or characteristics that involves reciprocal respectful interpersonal interaction. Main Text/s and any supplementary readings: - Adams, M., et al. (Eds). (2018). Readings for diversity and social justice (4th ed). Routledge. - Hook, D. (2007). Foucault, psychology and the analytics of power. Palgrave Macmillan. |
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| STUDY-UNIT TYPE | Lecture | ||||||||
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| LECTURER/S | Mariella Spagnol Beverley Abela Paul A. Bartolo Gottfried Catania Marilyn Clark Madeline Duca Maria Victoria Gauci Maria Pisani |
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