ABSTRACT
Cross-Cultural Psychology is a senior-level class that integrates the students’ liberal arts experiences. Students are exposed to a more global psychological perspective. Students were required to make two-part entries in the class journal once a week: one section responding to other entries, and a second section reacting to anything presented in the class, readings for the week, or the service-learning project itself. In explaining their views to their peers, students found it necessary to examine and evaluate the values that functioned in their decision making in addition to recognizing the role their disciplinary training played in forming their positions. In studying study-guide questions, in completing their take-home tests, and in working with their refugee families, they learned to learn cooperatively. Psychology in many aspects became alive for students through the combination of working with people from other cultures and reflecting on the applicability of theoretical concepts. Ideally, in the future, there would be a prerequisite course on cross-cultural issues.
