Teaching the First Course in Psychology and Culture

This symposium provides beginning and recent psychology teachers with a variety of perspectives on teaching the first course in culture-oriented psychology. Drawing from the experiences of four seasoned cross-cultural psychologists from Japan and the United States, a variety of ideas and suggestions will be explained and proposed. The structure of the symposium is strongly influenced by a forthcoming chapter entitled “Culture and the psychology curriculum: Foundations and resources”, written by W. J. Lonner, K. D. Keith & D. Matsumoto. It is the first chapter in the second edition of the Oxford Handbook of culture and psychology, edited by D. Matsumoto & H. C. Hwang (Eds.). Participants have chapters in that text. The overall structure of the chapter will be distributed at the beginning of the session.