HS 207 Social Psychology

Course Description

An introductory course on social psychology. Since it is an introductory course, no prior background of Psychology is expected.

The course begins by describing what social psychology is and how its knowledge helps individual and society in general. It talks about basic human emotions, various theories in social psychology like Fundamental Attribution theory, social comparison theory, Framing effect, balance theory etc. Heuristics , Schemas, Attitudes, Dissonance, Prejudice, Persuasion are some of the concepts introduced in the course. Work of a lot of social psychologists is covered in class. The course is pretty much application oriented and concepts introduced in the class are supplemented by papers put up on moodle which introduces to various case studies done in the field

Course pattern & logistics

A presentation by a group of 2 is to be presented for one of the weekly papers put on moodle.

Exams- 30% -  Internal Assessment (1 Presentation + Class Participation + 1 HW)

70% - Midsem + Endsem. 35% each.

Comments on Instructor

(Mrinmoyi Kulkarni)

Prof is very good and makes classes interesting. She likes the class to be interactive and hence gives importance to attendance. She ensures that people who attend the classes are in advantage as the lecture notes are merely enumeration of topics covered in class with no explanations.

Who will find it interesting

Students who have slightest of interest in Psychology can explore this course. The course becomes pretty intriguing as one begins to see things from lens of the concepts taught in the course.