Instructor: Chris Bjornsen, Ph.D. (email)       Home Web page

Office: 367 East Ruffner

Office phone: 395-2736

Office Hours:  11:00-12:00 M-R & by appt.

email: cbjornse@longwood.lwc.edu

Class times: 8:00 - 10:00 a.m. May 17-21

Classroom: 368 East Ruffner

Web page with lecture notes

Course Description:

"Cross-cultural psychology is the systematic study of relationships between the
cultural context of human development and the behaviors that become
established in the repertoire of individuals growing up in a particular culture"
(Berry, Poortinga, & Pandey, 1997, p. x)

The class will begin on May 17th. We will study in the classroom during the week of May 17th through May 21st at Longwood College. During this "didactic" section of the course, students will attend class for two hours each day, and will read selected articles on Cross-Cultural Psychology. Class time will be spent discussing the content of these articles, listening to other information presented by Dr. Bjornsen on Cross-Cultural Psychology, as well as information regarding the countries we will be visiting. Students will be tested on the material read and presented during this week of class on the 21st.

I have arranged with the director of housing to allow students to live in on-campus during the first week of this class. Then, on May 24th, we travel as a group to Paris, France. Students will be chaperoned by Dr. Bjornsen and Dr. Maureen Walls, a psychologist who teaches in the psychology department and also works as a therapist in the Longwood College Counseling Center. While in Europe, the group will travel to several cities in France, Switzerland and Italy. Students will not be allowed to venture off by themselves without the permission of Dr. Bjornsen.

In each city, we will have an "experiential education" component: Meeting with a Psychologist (research and/or practice), Public Mental Health providers, and Psychology students to learn about how psychology "works" in different cultures, and how culture creates people with different characteristics. We will also be meeting with students studying psychology in France, Switzerland, and Italy.

Students will then be expected to spend the weekend at home preparing to leave for Europe on Monday, May 24th. Students must arrange for their own transportation to Dulles Airport, just West of Washington, D.C., for the 6:50 p.m. / or 10:50 p.m. flight. Students should plan on arriving at Dulles by 5:00 p.m. at the latest. We will meet at the departure gate for our flight. If students are planning to leave a vehicle in the long-term parking lot at Dulles, they should be prepared to pay $5.00 per day when they return on June 9th. This total would be $80.00. It is recommended that students leave this amount of cash in an envelope in the glove compartment of their vehicle, so that there will be no difficulty paying for parking upon return to the U.S. We will leave Rome on June 9th to return to Washington, D.C. As a group we can of course arrange to car-pool to and from Dulles.

Students will spend the weekend before we depart for Paris writing a list of questions that they can ask French, Swiss, and Italien residents which pertain to the topic of the class. These questions should in part come from the reading and learning that will have taken place during the week prior to the trip to Europe.

All participants will be given the opportunity to participate in an open Forum we will give to the entire campus in the Fall to describe the experience of the class and trip. I will set up a time in either Hiner or Hull auditorium, and we will present our experience to any and all students. Dr. Bjornsen will scan in photos of our trip to use as a Power Point slide show that will accompany the presentation.  I see this as a very informal presentation, with lots of give-and-take discussion with the audience.

For students taking the class:

Those of you taking the class, you should buy the book in the bookstore before the class begins, and read chapters 1, 2, & 3 before class starts. We're only meeting for a week in class, and unless you want to be tested over in Europe (I wouldn't) we need to get this out of the way before we go.

Required Reading:

Culture and Psychology, by David Matsumoto. 1996, Brooks-Cole Publishing.

Course Objectives:

(1) To introduce students to the specialty area within psychology called cross-cultural psychology.

(2) To learn how culture affects human development, and how humans create culture.

(3) To broaden the perspective of students taking the class, fostering an appreciation of human beings that is much richer and deeper than before

(4) To awaken the spirit of exploration in each student
 

Class assignments:

Your grade in the class will be determined through
the following:

1.  Reading, class attendance & participation, and quizzes during week one.

2. Investigate your cultural heritage and investigate the culture of one of the countries we will visit in the next few weeks. This will be done in conversations with your family members, and finding reading in the library and on the internet about France, Switzerland, and Italy.

3. Written Journal kept in Europe. Entries must be written daily. Dr. Bjornsen
will check on these regularly. Journal entries will reflect learning that either links together or goes beyond what we learned in week one and direct experiences in Europe. These journals will be turned in to Dr. Bjornsen. Selections from this journal will be used in a Web Page that Dr. B will construct about our class/trip. Students will be given their journals back either in person at the end of the Summer or mailed to their homes.

Here's the reading schedule (read before the date on the schedule):

Monday: chapters 1, 2, 3  (pp. 1-56)
Tuesday - chapters 5, 7  (pp. 77-106, 137-156)
Wednesday - chapters  8, 9 (pp. 157-202)
Thursday - chapters 10, 12 (pp. 203-220, 243-264)
Friday - chapters 14, 15 (pp. 285-311)

We will have one quiz on Wednesday, first part of class, on chapters 1, 2, 3, 5, 7, and other material I bring in to class in lecture format. The second quiz will be on Friday, after we discuss chapters 14 & 15, and will cover chapters 8, 9, 10, 12, 14, & 15, and other material in lecture.

Points for the class:
Quizzes: 100 points each (200)
Participation: 200 points
Journals:  200 points
Total: 600 points
Grading: 10-point scale.

Itinerary:
 

Sunday	Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday	Saturday
	May 17 Class - LWC	May 18 Class - LWC	May 19 Class - LWC	May 20 Class - LWC	May 21 Class - LWC	May 22
May 23	May 24 Dulles Airport 5:00 p.m.	May 25 Arrive Paris 8:10 a.m.	May 26 Paris	May 27 Paris	May 28 Paris	May 29 Travel to Lucerne, Switzerland
May 30 Switzerland	May 31 Switzerland	June 1 Zermatt	June 2 Glacier	June 3 St Moritz to Genoa	June 4 Genoa	June 5 Travel to Rome
June 6 Rome, Italy	June 7 Rome, Italy	June 8 Rome, Italy	June 9 Leave Rome, Arrive Dulles

Contacts:

France:

Professor Hélène STORK, assistant GOVINDAMA
INSTITUT DE PSYCHOLOGY 28 rue Serpente Paris

http://www.univ-paris5.fr/BIENVANG.HTM
http://www.cido.univ-paris5.fr/psy/dessenfetado.html
http://www.paris.org/Facs/
http://www.cnrs.org/AutresWWW/univfr.html

Switzerland:

Dr. Wolfgang Friedlmeier, University of Konstanz, Konstanz, Germany
011 33 07531 88 36 98, Wolfgang.Friedlmeier@uni-konstanz.de

Italy:

Genova:

Will meet:
Prof. Mara Manetti, Disa, Sez di Psicologia, Vico S. Antonio 5/7
16126 Genova- Italy, home tel. +39010566198, office tel +390102099854
fax +390102099854, manetti@disa.unige.it

Genova Dept of Psychology
UNIVERSITÀ DEGLI STUDI DI GENOVA
Sezione di Psicologia
http://www.lettere.unige.it/sif/strutture/1/psico/psico.htm

Rome:

Will meet:

Prof. Anna Maria Ajello
Prof. Cristina Zucchermaglio

Dr. Alessandra Fasulo
Dipartimento di Psicologia dei Processi di Sviluppo e Socializzazione
Universita' di Roma "La Sapienza", Via dei Marsi 78, 00185 Roma
tel. 39 6 49917671/69, fax  39 6 49917652
Alessandra Fasulo <afasulo@dip38.psi.uniroma1.it>

Dr. Laura Sterponi

(Dr. Clotilde Pontecorvo, Dept of Psychology, University of Rome
011 39 06 4991 7550,  http://www.uniroma1.it/)

Rail Europe 800-438-7245
Nate - extension 4131 - booking number AP4193359
Europass - Saver pass -  tickets but not reservations - 6 day 314 per person - $12 for pass protection - refund if lost or stolen -  314+12+98+14 = $438
9:32 depart Zermatt - arrive 5:55 Disentis - Panoramic Cars - 2 groups of 6
$98 per person - plus reservation fee $14.00 per person. Train # 904
They will send to me 2-3 day shipping guaranteed - Airborne Express -
$ 438.00 each * 12 (+$10 processing fee) = $5,266.00 total)
CB put this on American Express and LWC will reimburse CB out of Agency Account.

sched switz  http://www.sbb.ch/

France:

Paris: Arrive May 25 - Depart for Lucerne May 29

*** Hotel des Nations, 54 rue Monge, 75005  Tel: 01 43 26 45 24
email:  hoteldesnations@compuserve.com
http://www.globe-market.com/h75005nations.htm
http://www.paris-hotel.com/files/aphs_vis.qry?quartier=2&prix=&type=chd&pos=12&langue=gb

5 double rooms with shower for 580 FFr per night per room and
2 single for 560 FFr per night per room with shower/wc.
58 FFr per person per day for breakfast.

($57.52 U.S. per day per person doubles; $230.08 per person for 4 days)
($102.15 U.S. per day per person singles; $408.60 per person for 4 days)

348 FFr per person per day double room
580 * 4 nights * 5 rooms = 11600 FFr = $1,917.36 U.S.
560 * 4 nights * 2 rooms = 4480 = $ 740.50 U.S.
58 FFr * 4 days * 12 persons  = 2784 = $ 460.17 U. S.
Total = $ 3,118.03

Subway: From Charles de Gaulle Airport: R.E.R. ":C" to cluny /sorbonne you change for line No.10 direction " Austerlitz" and get up at the station "Cardinal Lemoine".

We need to purchase Metro (subway) tickets to get from the Airport to the Hotel.

Switzerland:

Swiss Embassy
http://www.swissemb.org/

Welcome to Switzerland - tourism
http://heiwww.unige.ch/switzerland/

Lucerne: Arrive May 29 - Leave for Zermatt June 1

Hotel Rosli Pension  - Pfistergasse 12 CH-6003 Luzern
Tel.  ++41 41 240 09 11 Fax. ++41 41 240 09 01
E-mail: info@roesli.ch, http://www.roesli.ch/
Double rooms 150 SFr per day for 3 days ($50.69 U.S. per person per day)
Single rooms 150 SFr per day
Breakfast 15 SFr per person for two days ($10.14 U.S. per person per day)
Includes outdoor pool priveledges across the street at the Hotel Baslertor (sister hotel)

Trains: leave every hour to Zermatt - 9:41 a.m. - 5hours - 3 changes (Olten, 10:18 ) leave Olten 10:31 arrive Brig 1;03, leave 1:08 arrive Visp 1:14, leave Visp 1:31 - arrive Zermatt 2:45)

Zermatt - Leave 8:52 (or 9:32) am, arrives St Moritz 4:55 (or 5:55)

Zermatt to Disentis not covered - 103 SFr each (covered in student fees)

Bernina Express to Tirano - 7 SFr reservation - on June 3 - departs 11:00 am, arrive Tirano 1:28.

Zermatt: Arrive evening of June 1 - Leave for St Moritz on the Glacier Express on June 2.

Hotel Ambience:  http://www.reconline.ch/ambiance/englisch/home.htm
Hannelore and Andre Koslich - 3920 Zermatt - Tel. 027/9672338 Fax 027/9675901
Made reservation - 4/19/99 through email.
They will send fax with Bank information.

Double rooms 120 SFr per day - includes breakfast and taxes
Single rooms 70 SFr per day - includes breakfast and taxes

Zermatt home page
http://www.zermatt.ch/index.e.html

Universities
http://www.unilu.ch/

Here is a photo of the Panoramic Train we'll be travelling on between Zermatt and St Moritz. As well as a photo of the top of Mt Pilatus, just outside of Lucerne, which we should visit at a cost of @ $30 per person (not yet included).

St. Moritz  - Arrive June 2 - Leave for Genova June 3.
Rail schedule from St Moritz to Genova:  http://bahn.hafas.de/bin/query.exe/en

St Moritz home page

Photos of St. Moritz      http://www.stmoritz.ch/archives/gallery.htm

Hotel Laudinella CH 7500 St Moritz. Tel. 081 832 21 31 Fax. 081 833 57 07
http://www.laudinella.ch
Double rooms 150 SFr per day - including taxes and breakfast
Single rooms SFr 90 per day  - including taxes and breakfast

http://www.stmoritz.ch/basics/lodging.htm

Have email from the following:
http://www.waldhaus-am-see.ch/English/English.htm

http://www.stmoritz.ch/core/core.htm

http://www.placestostay.com/destination/europe/swiss/graubunden/dest.asp
 

Italy:

Genoa: Arrive June 3 - Leave for Rome June 5

Hotel Astoria Piazza Brignole, 4 Genova, Tel: 010 87 33 16 Fax: 010 831 73 26
email: astorige@tin.it   http://cgi.venere.it/ihr/gsearch_showdata.cfm?hid=9032.0 (not much info)
Double room 180,000 Lira per day - includes taxes and breakfast
Single room 130,000 Lira per day - includes taxes and breakfast
 

Hotel Assaroti - http://members.it.tripod.de/~assarotti/index.html
http://www.italyhotel.com/genova/genova.html

Rome: June 5 - June 8

Hotel Forte  Via Margutta, 61 00187 Tel. +39-063200408/063201803
E-Mail: forte@venere.it      http://www.italyhotel.com/roma/forte/

single=150,000 Lira per day - includes taxes and breakfast
double=200,000 Lira per day - includes taxes and breakfast

Leave Rome for Dulles (flight change in Zurich) on June 9

Air Fare - Dulles>Paris, Rome>Dulles             =      $607.70
Europass - Train                                             =      $262.30 (actually is $438.00 per person)
Hotel                                                              =   $1,050.00    ($70 per night)
Chaperones                                                    =     $200.00
Total                                                              =   $ 2,120.00

Plus $76.00 if we want to do the Glacier Express in Switzerland.

Total with the Glacier Express = $2,196.00

This does not include the $377 you will pay if you are taking the class for credit with Longwood College.

Longwood students taking the class for credit should complete a "Study Abroad Scholarship Application" form, which I have. I'm told that Longwood has between $100 and $200 for EACH student taking the class, which can be applied to the trip to Europe.

Washington -> Paris, on May 24th, Rome -> Washington, on June 9th

The fare is $607.70 per person....

PICTURE ID REQUIRED FOR AIRPORT SECURITY CHECK

24 MAY 99  -  MONDAY
AIR   DELTA AIR LINES INC  FLT:8207   COACH          BREAKFAST
WASHINGTON DULLES-PARIS   DE GAULLE OPERATED BY AIR FRANCE
LV WASHINGTON DULLES            10:25P           EQP: BOEING 777    07HR 20MIN

25 MAY 99  -  TUESDAY
AR PARIS   DE GAULLE            11:50A           NON-STOP
ARRIVE: AEROGARE 2 TERMINAL C                  REF: 827CCT

09 JUN 99  -  WEDNESDAY
AIR   SWISSAIR             FLT:601    ECONOMY        BREAKFAST
LV ROME FIUMICINO               940A           EQP: AIRBUS A319
DEPART: INTERNATIONAL TERMINAL                 01HR 35MIN
AR ZURICH                       1115A          NON-STOP
ARRIVE: TERMINAL A                             REF: RRDYL8
AIR   DELTA AIR LINES INC  FLT:2775   COACH          LUNCH
ZURICH-WASHINGTON DULLES OPERATED BY AUSTRIAN AIRLINES
LV  ZURICH                       1205P          EQP: AIRBUS A310
DEPART: TERMINAL A                             09HR 25MIN
AR WASHINGTON DULLES            330P           NON-STOP    REF: 827CCT

French Society of Analytical Psychology (C. G. Jung)
http://www.cgjung.com/nstitutx.html
                       Société Française de Psychologie Analytique
                       6, rue Rampon, 75011 Paris, France
                       Tel. (43) 57 18 26, Fax (43) 57 20 50
                       Président: M. Christian Gaillard
                       1er Vice-Président: Mme. Viviane Jullien-Palletier
                      2ème Vice-Président: Mme. Marie-Laure Colonna
                       Secrétaire générale: Mmme. Claire Dorly
                       Trésorièe: Mme. Françoise Caillet

The Glacier Express - Zermatt to St Moritz - 7 hr 15 min - This route provides the traveller with 291 km (182 mi) of varied scenery through the enchanting landscape of the Alps. On this, the slowest express train in the world, you make your way through 91 tunnels, over 291 bridges, across the 6,777 foot Oberalp Pass and through the longest metre-gauge railway tunnell in existence. The steepest parts of the stretch are accomplished by virtue of rack-railways.

Association of Graduate Analytical Psychologists of The C.G. Jung Institute Zürich
                       The C.G. Jung Institute Zürich
                       Hornweg 28, 8700 Küsnacht/Zürich, Switzerland
                       Tel. (01) 910-9064; Fax (01) 910-5451
                       President: Dr.phil. Paul Brutsche
                       Directors of Study: Irene Vetter-Lüscher, lic.phil. (Program
                       "E"--adults) and Dafnea B. Sorgedrager, dipl. Psych. (Program
                       "K"--adolescents)
                       Secretariat: Yvonne Trüeb, Wibichstrasse 79, CH-8037 Zürich.
                       Tel. (01) 272-2410, Fax (01) 272-3606

                       Schweizerische Gesellschaft für Analytische Psychologie
                       Sekretariat: Haldenstr. 64, 8302 Kloten, Schweiz
                       Präsident: Jan Peter Hallmark
                       Weitere vorstandsmitglieder: France Amerongen, Ruth Ammann,
                       Ursula Ulmer, Andreas Wöhrle, Mario Schlegel, Verena
                       Rossetti-Gsell, Jean-Jacques Moser

                       C.G. Jung Institut:
                       Hornweg 27, 8700 Küsnacht
                       Tel. (01) 910-5323 and Fax (01) 910-5451

                       Präsident des Curatoriums: Paul Brutsche
                       Studienleiterin: Irene Vetter-Lüscher

                       E-mail: junginst@jung-institut.ch
                       Web site: http://web.eunet.ch:80/jung-institut.ch/

Much more information will be provided here as I extract information from the Travel Guide books I've purchased. If you want to save some money, I'll let you use the Travel Guides I have.

You should have: Passport, Driver's License, International Student ID card, Longwood College student ID, Copy of Birth Certificate, Social Security Card.

Make sure you have insurance before you leave. The College requires proof of insurance before it will let you travel under its auspices. Please talk to John Reynolds in the International Studies Program, 2nd floor Grainger.

Some countries do not allow visitors to enter if their passport expires in under six months.

Photocopy the photo page of your passport, your driver's license, your second photo ID, any credit cards you are carrying, your birth certificate. Give me a copy of these photocopies, and leave a copy at home with your parents. In case these items get ripped off while in Europe, these copies will make it easier to cancel or replace your items.

Do not bring any expensive items with you on the trip. If you must (e.g., camera), bring the receipt if you have it. This way if customs decides to challenge you on where you purchased the item, you'll be able to document that you did not purchase it on the trip. (Items purchased on the trip are supposed to be taxed when you leave.)

If you will have any prescription drugs with you, carry them in the original containers. We are told also to carry prescription drugs in carry-on bags, not in checked luggage. Luggage is scanned for contents before loading, and if the scanner detects capsules or pills, they may hold the bag in the airport and wait until the owner comes to claim it before searching it and releasing it to you. You don't want to get to Paris while your bags are sitting in customs in Washington, D.C.

If you wear glasses or contact lenses, carry an extra pair and the prescription.

The International Student Identity Card is the most widely accepted form of student identification. It will provide you with discounts for sights, theaters, museums, etc. If you have one, ask about discounts even when none are advertised. The card costs $19 U.S.
Go to this web site for the card:
http://www.istc.org/

You should obtain a Cash Card (Debit Card) from your bank well before you leave. This is a card that you can use to access your savings and checking accounts through ATM machines in Europe. You will need to have a 4-digit PIN to use this card.

Credit card telephone numbers:
Mastercard: 800-999-0454
Visa: 800-336-8473

If you know what's good for your wallet, you'll leave the mini-bar (small refrigerator)
in your hotel room alone.

Bring a litre of bottled water for the plane trip - one of the reasons long flights become uncomfortable is that people easily get dehydrated due to the dry cabin air. You should also consider purchasing one of the inflatable headrests and a pair of foam earplugs in order to get a good night's sleep on the plane ride over to Europe.

On the day we leave, students should not drink any alcohol. This includes drinking on the plane ride. Your body will have enough difficulty dealing with jet-lag without adding other undue stress.

Safety:
Never go anywhere along. Try to carry as little cash as possible.Carry cash and other valuables (passport) in a place that will be difficult to access by a theif. The best place to carry cash and credit cards is in a waist money belt or pouch. You can purchase one of these at Walmart for about $7.00. Never count your money in public, especially if you are alone. Don't use a fanny pack, a purse, a shoulder bag, or a knapsack to keep valuables; they are too easily pulled from your body by a snatcher.

Never purchase or transport illegal substances. You should expect to be searched at any time during your trip, and you should expect that the luggage you check-in at the airport will be searched for illegal substances. If you break this common-sense rule and you get caught, you are on your own.

Exchange rates:
http://www.italianvillas.com/cgi-local/exchange.pl

Apr 12, 1999
  1.00 USD  United States Dollars   =   6.05 FRF     French Francs
  1.00 USD  United States Dollars   =   1.48 CHF    Swiss Francs
  1.00 USD  United States Dollars   =   1,785 ITL      Italian Lira

BUG - The Backpacker's Guide to Europe
http://www.bugeurope.com/

Zermatt
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