African emic
African culture
Your cultural journal is a place for reflection and for connecting the topics we learn about in class with assigned activities, your experiences and observations.
Unit 1 is designed to increase your:
Understanding of terms (culture, nationality, race and ethnicity) and frameworks (the cultural context of behavior; week 1).
Understanding of etics and emics and cultural worldviews, in particular horizontal and vertical forms of individualism and collectivism (week 2).
Understanding of enculturation and acculturation, in particular acculturation agents and strautegies (week 3).