Study Guide

Objective

Upon successful completion of the course participants will have an understanding of culture as based on values. They will understand the cognitive mechanisms behind stereotyping. They will be familiar with differences and shifts in values around the world, and of the conflicts they produce. They will understand the concepts of honor, face and dignity cultures, and of the challenges these concepts produce between national cultures, as well as between cultural majorities and minorities.

Content

The course is helpful for anyone aiming at working in a multicultural environment, particularly where cultural conflict might occur or be dealt with (for example, but not exclusively, political sciences, social work, education and law). It includes: Definitions of culture; the World Values Survey; research into culture as based on the concepts of dignity, honor and face; the role of identities in cultural conflict.

Teaching methods

Face-to-Face

Further information

If you miss the first class session and have not discussed your absence with the teacher, your place can be given to the first person on the waiting list.
Remember to cancel your registration if you will not be taking the course. A degree student attending the Lapland University of Applied Sciences can register free of charge for LUC studies offered by the University of Lapland,
if the studies can be linked to their own degree. Enrollment takes place through the Applicant’s Desktop of the University of Lapland: https://hakeutuminen-lay.peppi4.lapit.csc.fi/web/hakijan-tyopoyta/.
From the left hand menu, first select "Study selection" and then "LUC studies YO”, and you will see the entire offering. Choose the study unit in question and register.

Evaluation scale

H-5

Assessment criteria, satisfactory (1)

5-1/fail