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Jul 31, 2025
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IECD-526 Cross-Cultural Understanding4 semester credits
This course focuses on socioemotional, socio-cognitive, and behavioral development of children and adolescents in different cultural settings throughout the world. This class studies specific cross-cultural topics that affect children’s lives in their preparation for adulthood in individual as well as global cultural environments. We study how children’s lives are changed through globalization, stages of development from a cross cultural framework, parent-child relationships, and family systems in diverse areas of the world. We look at sibling relationships, gender roles, and gender differences and their implications in challenges that children and adolescents are encountering across the world.
Delivery Method: Online
Grading Default: Letter
Learning Outcome(s):
Students successfully completing this course will be able to:
- Develop a deeper understanding of their own cultures and biases and how these values and beliefs influence their work with children and families.
- Develop an awareness of different cultures and influence on parent-child relationships.
- Develop an understanding of how cultures create individual differences and developmental trajectories.
- Compare cultures and develop an understanding of component parts of cultures within a related topic.
- Become aware of sensitivity to the “other’s” culture, suspend judgment, interact authentically and with empathy, and reflect on feelings evoked within oneself.
- Foster interagency collaborations and promote cultural humility within communities with diverse world views.
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