SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY: A SOCIOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVE

Prerequisites & course information

Requisites: Sophomore standing Course Designation: Core GenEd - Social & Behavioral Science Breadth - Social Science Level - Intermediate L&S Credit - L&S Liberal Arts and Science Repeatable for Credit: No Last Taught: Fall 2026 Learning Outcomes: 1. Use the basic principles of critical thinking to understand, evaluate, and critique or justify the multitude of positions one might take in social psychology or any other field of inquiry. Audience: Undergraduate 2. Become broadly familiar with the field of social psychology, including its theories, methods, and controversies, and to see how social psychology may fit into broader sociological research. Audience: Undergraduate 3. Learn to read, summarize, and evaluate research in social psychology critically and intelligently, and to write on it clearly. Audience: Undergraduate 4. Become more reflective by identifying the various social influences on their own attitudes, behaviors, and personalities, including family, friends, mass media, groups, and culture, and by analyzing their own everyday interactions using social psychology theories and research. Audience: Undergraduate Learning Outcomes: 1. Use the basic principles of critical thinking to understand, evaluate, and critique or justify the multitude of positions one might take in social psychology or any other field of inquiry. Audience: Undergraduate 2. Become broadly familiar with the field of social psychology, including its theories, methods, and controversies, and to see how social psychology may fit into broader sociological research. Audience: Undergraduate 3. Learn to read, summarize, and evaluate research in social psychology critically and intelligently, and to write on it clearly. Audience: Undergraduate 4. Become more reflective by identifying the various social influences on their own attitudes, behaviors, and personalities, including family, friends, mass media, groups, and culture, and by analyzing their own everyday interactions using social psychology theories and research. Audience: Undergraduate