Syllabus Poll

Social Psychology - Sociology 3500

In order to co-create the syllabus as a learning community, we are going to answer the following questions as a community. This will be an anonymous poll.

• What is your major?
• Why did you want to take this course?
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• Please choose THE most interesting course topic to you (topic choices below)
• Please choose the 2nd most interesting course topic to you
• Please choose the 3rd most interesting course topic to you
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• How many times in a quarter do you typically visit profs office hours

Course Topics

1. Social Cognition - How We Think About the Social World
2. Social Perception - How We Come to Understand Other People
3. The Self-Understanding Ourselves in a Social Context
4. The Need to Justify Our Actions - Costs/Benefits of Dissonance
5. Attitudes and Attitude Change-Influencing Thoughts/Feelings
6. Conformity - Influencing Behavior
7. Group Processes- Influence in Social Groups
8. Interpersonal Attraction - From First Impressions to Close Relationships
9. Pro-social Behavior - Why Do People Help?
10. Aggression - Why Do We Hurt Other People? Can We Prevent It?
11. Prejudice- Causes, Consequences, and Cures
12. Making a Difference with Social Psychology
13. Social Psychology and Health
14. Social Psychology and the Law