Introduction to Cultural and Community Psychology PSY101

This unit is supposed to involve culture and community, yet the only culture you learn about is on of indigenous Australian's. There is one lecture on Muslims (presented by a guest lecturer), one lecture on homosexuality in which you watch a video and one lecture on asylum seekers. Every other lecture is purely based on Indigenous Australians, or at least links back to them somehow. Not that this is a bad thing, it's just not what you expect because this unit is supposed to teach you about other cultures as well.

I strongly recommend doing PSY141 and/or PSY173 alongside this unit as they are a major help. This unit does not teach you any research skills at all, and if you haven't done psychology before it will be very challenging. Do PSY141 if you can choose only one.

I would not recommend doing this unit unless you absolutely have to, it is poorly laid out and the lecturer just sucks.

Assessments
There are two major assignments plus the exam. The exam is incredibly easy because you're given the exam questions and answers throughout the semester- so make sure to study those. One of the assignments involves absolutely nothing to do with what you learn about during the semester and relies on you to do all of your own research.

Workload
How does the overall workload of this unit stack up to others? Does it pile on at the end of semester or is it evenly distributed?

Overall Positives
The one lecture on Australian Muslims was interesting, and that's about it.

Overall Negatives
The lecturer is overly social justice, the tutors aren't very knowledgeable (two different tutors gave me two opposite lots of information regarding an assignment) and the assignments aren't linked to what you actually learn in class.

I hated this unit, it's an easy pass but don't do it if you have a choice.

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