PSYC 210 Social Psychology (5 credits)
Distribution Area Fulfilled Social Sciences; General Transfer Elective
Formerly PSYCH 210
Course Description
Explores the social behaviors of individuals and groups of individuals and their relationship to social context. Topics covered fall into four areas: social influence (e.g. reciprocity, cognitive dissonance), social thinking (e.g. attribution theory), social relations (e.g. prejudice, leadership, cooperation, institutional forces, conformity, obedience), social identity (e.g. culture, race, ethnicity, stigma)
Course Content
A. Research Methods in Social Psychology
B. Social Thinking: such topics as self-esteem, attributions, cognitive dissonance, stereotyping, and how the structure and content of media impact these processes.
C. Social Influence: such topics as automated vs. controlled processing, reciprocity, cognitive dissonance.
D. Social Relations: such topics as romantic relationships, prejudice, conflict and conflict resolution, helping behavior, obedience, conformity, leadership, small group dynamics
E. Social Identity: such topics as identity, culture, and ethnicity.
F. Applied Areas of Social Psychology: topics in health psychology, forensic psychology, political, or organizational psychology.
Student Outcomes
1. Identify major concepts in social relations, social thinking, social influence and social identity and apply them to individual and group situations.
2. Integrate factors and processes from multiple concepts to real-world situations to show the amount and kind of social force present.
3. Evaluate the usefulness of the application of scientific research to current issues in course topics.
4.Contextualize the social structures that support discrimination and oppression with those used to move society toward equality and equity.
5. Compare and contrast the uses of social psychology in management and marketing as a tool for helping individuals with its use as a social control mechanism.
6. Reflect on course concepts to develop values and plans around influencing and being influenced by others, understanding and expanding one’s view of the social world, and participating in and managing group processes.
Degree Outcomes
Social Sciences FAK
Graduates analyze and interpret social phenomena using social science theories and methods.
Core Abilities Outcomes
Information Literacy
Graduates will be critical users, creators, and disseminators of information by examining how information is created, valued, and influenced by power and privilege.
Intercultural Engagement
Graduates demonstrate self-efficacy in intercultural engagement to advance equity, diversity, and inclusion through reflections and expressions of cultural humility, empathy, and social and civic engagement and action. Further, graduates examine how identities/positionalities such as races, social classes, genders, sexual orientations, disabilities, and cultures impact perceptions, actions, and the distribution of power and privilege in communities, systems, and institutions.
Lecture Contact Hours 50
Lab Contact Hours 0
Clinical Contact Hours 0
Total Contact Hours 50
Potential Methods
A. Research projects / papers
B. Essays
C. Objective exams
D. In-class presentations
E. Class discussions
F. Group activities
G. Journals / reflective essays
H. Program proposals – interventions to change some attitude or behavior based on social psychological principles
I. White papers – policy statements
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