Bachelor
2022/2023
Social Psychology
Category 'Best Course for Broadening Horizons and Diversity of Knowledge and Skills'
Type:
Elective course (Sociology and Social Informatics)
Area of studies:
Sociology
Delivered by:
Department of Sociology
When:
2 year, 1, 2 module
Mode of studies:
offline
Open to:
students of one campus
Language:
English
ECTS credits:
5
Contact hours:
48
Course Syllabus
Abstract
The course covers a broad range of social psychology topics from both theoretical and applied perspectives. The course would be focused on classical social psychology issues such as social influence, social groups, interpersonal relationships and communications. It would also include several notable applications of social psychology to such issues as judgment and decision making, health and illness and internet communications. The current state of the art and emerging initiatives in modern social psychology, including the open science movement would be discussed in detail.
Learning Objectives
- Learning how to use and explain theories of social psychology in different situations.
- Analyze and evaluate the strengths and limitations of published works
- Learn basic principles of social psychological interventions
Expected Learning Outcomes
- Apply social psychology theories to understand different social problems on group, organization and society level
- Explain specific theories of social psychology and use that theory to interpret and predict behavior in specific social situations.
- Know and ready to use the effective communication strategies on interpersonal and group level
- Know basic principles of social psychological interventions development on the group and community levels
- Review and evaluate published works, their strengths and limitations at a basic level
Course Contents
- Introduction to the state of the art of social psychology
- Self and self-presentation
- Groups and group performance
- Interpersonal and intergroup relationships
- Social cognition and social influence
- Social psychology applications
Assessment Elements
- Project
- Exam test
- In-class ParticipationEach seminar students get a grade for seminar participation. Depending on the seminar content, one of three grading methods are used: 1. Short test on assigned readings or seminar content (0-4) + in-class participation (0-4).2. Presentation (0-4) + in-class participation (0-4).3. In-class participation (0-8). Up to 2 extra grades could be earned for the active participation in the discussion including providing thoughtful questions, elaboration, comments or criticism for the other students’ presentations and ideas. One seminar with the minimum grades would be excluded from the calculation of the accumulated in-class participation grades.
