TEACHING COMMUNITY PSYCHOLOGY IN POSTAPARTHEID SOUTH-AFRICA

Community Psychology can play an important role in the post-apartheid psychology curriculum as South Africa struggles to implement its Recon struction Development Programme. A Community Psychology course was dev eloped to address some of the pressing issues that face the Black majo rity in South Africa. The course perspective, course structure, readin g materials, and assignments are described. The relevance of psycholog y during the postapartheid era and the challenges chat psychologists f ace at historically Black South African universities are discussed. Th e course has been contextualized for South Africa; however, it can be adapted to suit any Community Psychology course taught in societies th at struggle with racist, sexist, and economic forms of oppression.