Бакалавриат
2026/2027
Психология предубеждений
Статус:
Курс по выбору (Психология)
Кто читает:
Департамент психологии
Где читается:
Факультет социальных наук
Когда читается:
4-й курс, 1 модуль
Охват аудитории:
для своего кампуса
Язык:
английский
Кредиты:
3
Контактные часы:
36
Course Syllabus
Abstract
The course is designed for the first year bachelor students and is based on the previously learned courses ("Cognitive Psychology", "Experimental Psychology", “Social Psychology", “Qualitative and Quantitative Research Methods in Psychology”). This course is aimed to introduce to students basic findings and new directions in the area of prejudice research. Specific topics addressed are: On the nature of prejudice: “old” prejudice and modern racism; Prejudice formation: easy to get in touch, hard to get rid of; Group identity, scapegoating, and stereotype threat “assistance” in prejudice formation and enhancing; Prejudice reducing techniques: strengths and weaknesses. Classroom activities follow several rules. Firstly, combination of lecture sessions (which are aimed to provide theoretical and methodological basics) with discussions, analysis of video fragments, and group work (which develop students’ abilities to analyze and compare different approaches, justify their ideas, and participate in the scientific discussion) makes the course diverse and interesting for students. Secondly, concentrated approach to course material and studying process is applied. Each meeting is devoted to a specific topic and includes both a lecture and a seminar session. This type of classes’ organization leads to several consequences. Foremost, students come at lecture having a background knowledge that provides in turn a base for lecture information learning. Further, there is no a time gap between lecture and seminar, that reduces time for introduction part of seminar and allows to study more in depth. Thirdly, tasks that increase student’s responsibility for the education process. For instance, students chose a particular topic, form a working group, read additional literature about this topic, and are responsible for discussion at seminar devoted to this topic. Fourthly, tasks that are aimed to set a connection between course materials and students’ research projects. This gives students an opportunity to see an alternative to their research plan, compare and evaluate its strength and weaknesses. Working language of the course is English (teaching and all communications).
A prerequisite for the course is a basic knowledge of psychological concepts and research areas (the courses studied are "History of Psychology", "Cognitive Psychology", "Developmental Psychology", "Social Psychology", "Methods of Data Analysis in Psychology", "Psychodiagnostics")