Weekly Journal Guidelines for Psy 448 Cross-cultural Industrial Psychology in Argentina, and Psy 328 Culture and Mental Health in Argentina

The goal of writing a journal is to record, over the duration of the course, your experiences both in and out of class that have been meaningful to you in regard to your learning about culture and psychology.  The journal becomes a motion picture capturing passing time in words for you to replay as you wish to give you perspective, objectivity, and integration in your present.  The journal is meant to increase your awareness of how you experience some of the concepts that we will be learning about in class and how you demonstrate some of those concepts in action.  Because the principles we discuss can generalize to almost all human interactions, you can begin to recognize them in your everyday experience as well as in more focused "psychologically oriented" relationships.  Most entries should incorporate a) a class concept we discussed or you read about, b) a cultural awareness, and c) your personal reactions. I invite you to reflect on the premises, assumptions, and presuppositions that you bring with you from your home culture.   Please use the journal as an opportunity to expand your awareness of ideas and ways of relating that you judge to be important to you.  Ideally, at the end of the term you will be able to look back over your journals and discover that your ways of thinking, perceiving, and behaving have changed significantly in a positive direction.  In the future, you may take for granted abilities and knowledge that you now may not even know that you need to learn about.  Keeping track of your development in the field of psychology is a life-long process that you can use in a more systematic way by using the journal as one method.