Applied Intercultural and Community Psychology
UndergraduateMAQ-PSYX30012025
Course information for 2025 intake
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- Study method
- 100% online
- Assessments
- 100% online
- Entry requirements
- Prior study needed
- Duration
- 13 weeks
- Loan available
- FEE-HELP available
Applied Intercultural and Community Psychology
About this subject
On successful completion, a student will be able to
- Demonstrate broad and coherent knowledge of the underlying principles, theories, and methods across core topics in applied community and intercultural psychology
- Show research-informed self-directed pursuit of scholarly inquiry to analyse, critique, and discuss theory and research in community and intercultural psychology, community-based research practices and interventions
- Effectively apply intercultural psychology and community-based methods across a range of settings, modalities, and audiences, for positive impact at the foundational level of competency
- Apply psychology knowledge and skills in a manner that is ethical, reflexive, culturally appropriate, and sensitive to the diversity of individuals
- Recognise contextual factors by employing and adapting to flexible and ethical systems-thinking to promote diversity, inclusion, and equity in psychology
- A week-by-week guide to the topics you will explore in this subject will be provided in your study materials.
This unit will introduce you to the psychology sub-disciplines of applied intercultural and community psychology. It will focus on theory and methods, as well as the ways in which interactions within and across different cultures influence behaviour, well-being, cognition, and the constructions and understandings of self, others and social reality. With a focus on strengths and competencies, not simply deficits and or inequities, the unit will include review of historical antecedents, paradigms, conceptual models, strategies and tactics of social and community change and action. Topics will include theory and evidence-based examples and methodologies from selected contexts and social systems, such as education, mental health, community organizations, the workplace, health care, the justice system, and social services.
- Action Plan (25%)
- Needs Assessment (35%)
- Recorded Presentation (40%)
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Entry requirements
Prior study
You must have successfully completed the following subject(s) before starting this subject:
Others
30cps from 2000-level PSYU or PSYX units including (PSYU2222 or PSYX2222)
Additional requirements
- Other requirements - Students who have an Academic Standing of Suspension or Exclusion under Macquarie University's Academic Progression Policy are not permitted to enrol in OUA units offered by Macquarie University. Students with an Academic Standing of Suspension or Exclusion who have enrolled in units through OUA will be withdrawn.
Study load
- 0.125 EFTSL
- This is in the range of 10 to 12 hours of study each week.
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What to study next?
Once you’ve completed this subject it can be credited towards one of the following courses
UndergraduateMAQ-PSY-DEG
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