Joel.Simone

I’m two weeks and four chapters into an online Multicultural Psychology course with Steven Bundy. I’m really enjoying the class, and it certainly is a sleeper course. The course is very well organized, and I really am enjoying the personal study time. In addition, this is the first semester I’m working with a spacing technique for studying, and this course is included in this trial.

I had a lot of ideas during the reading and research work, however, I was still getting caught up on other necessities left over from The Doorway. A brief breakdown, so far I’ve studied the meaning of (ch1) Multiculutre Society, (ch2) Multiculure Issues Involving Research and Testing, (ch3) Differences in Worldviews, and (ch4) Differences in Communication. I enjoyed the chapter on communication the most, for I was fascinated with the two main types of communication: high- and low-context. High context is communication that is indirect or almost symbolic. Like a man wanted his son to take garbage out, he would put a garbage on the kitchen counter when he new his son would use the kitchen. Low-context is linguistic direct or literal, e.g., “take the garbage out kid!” I was even more fascinated by how the types of communication varies between different ethnic cultures.

Anyhow, I’m looking forward to logging ideas and notes for the rest of this course.