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Social Psychology

2021/2022
Academic Year
ENG
Instruction in English
3
ECTS credits
Course type:
Compulsory course
When:
2 year, 2 module

Instructor

Course Syllabus

Abstract

The course covers broad range of social psychology topics from both theoretical and applied perspective. The course would be focused on classical social psychology issues such us interpersonal perception and communication, cultural differences, interpersonal and intergroup influences. 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 art and emerging initiatives in modern social psychology, including open science movement would be discussed in details.
Learning Objectives

Learning Objectives

  • Ability to undertake research, including problem analysis, setting tasks and objectives, identification of the research object and subject, of research methods as well as assess the quality of the conducted research
  • Ability to analyze socially significant problems and processes with impartiality and scientific objectivity
  • Ability to solve problems in professional practice based on analysis and synthesis
Expected Learning Outcomes

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

Course Contents

  • Introduction
  • Social influence
  • Groups
  • Relationships
  • Social psychology methods and the replication crisis
Assessment Elements

Assessment Elements

  • non-blocking Seminar participation
    Seminar class absence and retakes ● Students are responsible for notifying the teacher of their absence due to an extenuating circumstance or illness prior to the missed class (by email or in person). ● Classes missed due to illness or an extenuating circumstance are excluded from the calculation of accumulated grade. ● Students who missed more than 6 seminar hours due to illness or an extenuating circumstance have to provide home assignments for missed seminars in a written form not later than 2 weeks before the final examination. ● Assignments, requirements and recommendations are provided individually by email upon request from the student.
  • non-blocking Project Work
    Students who missed more than 1 month due to the illness or an extenuating circumstance and couldn’t participate in the group projects could be assigned another form of the project – a learning diary.
  • non-blocking Exam test
Interim Assessment

Interim Assessment

  • 2021/2022 2nd module
    0.3 * Exam test + 0.4 * Seminar participation + 0.3 * Project Work
Bibliography

Bibliography

Recommended Core Bibliography

  • DeLamater, J. D., & Collett, J. L. (2019). Social Psychology (Vol. Ninth edition). New York, NY: Routledge. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsebk&AN=1753380

Recommended Additional Bibliography

  • Ward, A., & DeLamater, J. D. (2013). Handbook of Social Psychology (Vol. Second edition). New York: Springer. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsebk&AN=1074048