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PSYC 325/04 (Winter 2025): FUNDAMENTALSS OF SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY

This 3-credit course is intended to provide you with an overview of the main perspectives, theories, and research methodologies that typify social psychology. Social psychology is the scientific study of how people come to understand individuals, groups, and themselves as social entities. Social psychological processes influence how we perceive, evaluate, remember, and behave towards people. These processes shape, and are shaped by, our social expectations, social roles, social goals, and social interactions. Topics include impression formation, stereotyping and prejudice, and close relationships. As with any survey course, we will not cover every aspect of the field, nor will we be able to study any aspect in great depth. Rather, this course is intended to prepare you for more advanced study on topics in social psychology and related fields that are of interest to you.

 Because we will be discussing key contributions to the field, including ideas that were/are racist or sexist, or offensive in other ways, it is important that these discussions be undertaken most respectfully by everyone in the class. These ideas in no way reflect the views or values of the University or the Instructor.