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Course: 2024/2025

Social Psychology

(14438)

Bachelor in Political Science (Plan: 396 - Estudio: 205)

Coordinating teacher: ORRIOLS GALVE, LLUIS

Department assigned to the subject: Social Sciences Department

Type: Electives

ECTS Credits: 6.0 ECTS

Course: 4º

Semester:

Requirements (Subjects that are assumed to be known)

Political behavior Electoral analysis

Skills and learning outcomes

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Description of contents: programme

1. Introductory elements of social Psychology 2. Knowledge, limited rationality, information process, bias and heuristics 3. Social identity and group dynamics in politics 4. Personality, emotions, political attitudes and beliefs 5. Research techniques in political psychology: the experiments

Learning activities and methodology

LECTURE SESSIONS: These are class presentations by the professor, supported by computer and audiovisual media, where the main concepts of the subject are developed, and materials and bibliography are provided to complement students' learning. REDUCED LECTURE SESSIONS: These sessions involve readings discussion, solving practical cases, problems, etc., posed by the professor either individually or in groups. TUTORING: Personalized assistance provided to students by the professor, either individually (individual tutoring) or in groups (group tutoring).

Assessment System

% end-of-term-examination 60
% of continuous assessment (assigments, laboratory, practicals...) 40

Calendar of Continuous assessment

Exam: 60% of final grade. The reading materials will be part of the exam material.
Tests on the reading materials and presentations/essays delivered in due day: 40% of the final grade. 

In the extraordinary call, there will be an in-person written exam in the classroom. The evaluation system for this call adheres to the regulations governing the university's continuous assessment processes: The grade from the continuous assessment process will be retained if the student followed it. If they did not follow it, they have the right to an exam worth 100% of the total grade for the subject. If the student followed the continuous assessment, they will have the right to be graded in the extraordinary call considering only the grade obtained in the final exam when it is more favorable for them."

Extraordinary call: regulations

Basic Bibliography

Cottam, Martha, Dietz-Uhler, Beth, Mastors, Elena, and Thomas Preston . Introduction to Political Psychology.. New York: Psychology Press.. 2004
Leonie Huddy, David O. Sears, and Jack S. Levy . The Oxford Handbook of Political Psychology . Oxford University Press. 2013
Osborne, Danny and Sibley, Chris G. . The Cambridge Handbook of Political Psychology. Cambridge University Press. 2022
S. T. Fiske, D. T. Gilbert, and G. Lindzey. Handbook of social psychology. Hoboken, NJ: Wiley. 2010

The course syllabus may change due academic events or other reasons.