For your Signature Assignment in this course, you will prepare your “Journey Toward Multiculturalism” journal, a report on your own growth as a multicultural psychologist. In your report, be sure to address the following:

1. Note how your understanding as a multicultural psychologist has changed since you took the baseline at the beginning of the course. What new points did you learn?

2. What surprised you most?

3. What did you learn about your own cultural identity: your values, worldview, communication style, and acculturation, if appropriate?

4. What did you learn about during the course that you disagree with, and why?

5. What would you like to learn more about, and how do you plan to continue your journey of awareness as a multicultural psychologist?

6. In your own current or potential work as a psychologist, how do you think this course has made a difference to you? What is the main takeaway message from this course, for you, and perhaps for your colleagues or workplace?

7. Finally, prepare an annotated bibliography of the important resources that you discovered in this course. Be sure to choose at least two resources from each activity topic.

For your Signature Assignment in this course, you will prepare your “Journey Toward Multiculturalism” journal, a report on your own growth as a multicultural psychologist. In your report, be sure to address the following:

1. Note how your understanding as a multicultural psychologist has changed since you took the baseline at the beginning of the course. What new points did you learn?

2. What surprised you most?

3. What did you learn about your own cultural identity: your values, worldview, communication style, and acculturation, if appropriate?

4. What did you learn about during the course that you disagree with, and why?

5. What would you like to learn more about, and how do you plan to continue your journey of awareness as a multicultural psychologist?

6. In your own current or potential work as a psychologist, how do you think this course has made a difference to you? What is the main takeaway message from this course, for you, and perhaps for your colleagues or workplace?

7. Finally, prepare an annotated bibliography of the important resources that you discovered in this course. Be sure to choose at least two resources from each activity topic.

multicultural psychologyCulture is man-made, and each culture has a collection of created objects that can be studied and compared. People from different geographical regions have created cultures that are shaped by particular environmental challenges and resources. To survive, people have had to adapt to the ecology of the regions in which they live. Furthermore, the objects they created were products of the environment and were limited by the resources that were available. These objects, called objective elements, are the focus of this assignment.

Using the South University Online Library and the Internet, research and select three cultural groups from three different and distinct geographical areas and climates. To accomplish this task, find a city or town in the region you are looking. Usually, that city or town will have either a chamber of commerce page or town pages describing what you will need to know for this assignment, such as population demographics and cultural and community events, as well as restaurant types. It will take some searching, but you should be able to locate much of the information through these sources. Your task is to compare the groups using three objective elements. Determine how the specific environments shaped the creation of the elements. Choose three objective elements from the following list:
Culturally specific foods
Cultural or community events
Transportation
Music
Physical artistic creations
For this assignment, complete the following table. Each cell should describe the objective element. In addition, explain how the specific environment shaped the formation of that element.
Comparison of Objective Elements from Three Different Cultures

Groups from Different Geographical Areas
Objective Elements
Culture 1
Culture 2
Culture 3

In a 2- to 3-page Microsoft Word document, include the following:
The completed comparison table of objective elements
A brief essay explaining what you learned from this assignment and including answers to the following questions:
What did you learn about the impact of environment on culture
Did the three cultural groups successfully adapt to their environments
How much did the three different cultural groups alter the environment for survival