SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY

This course unit will introduce to students how Social psychologists commonly use experimental and other scientific methods to dissect the sources, variations, and implications of everyday behaviors. As students critically assess social psychology's accomplishments and weaknesses they will inevitably reflect on their own lives. What social behaviors do they assume are natural, inevitable, desirable, or fair? Where did their own assumptions and behavior patterns come from, and what are the consequences of what they believe to be true? If they succeed, by the end of this course they may understand themselves and others a little better. Perhaps they will become more thoughtful about the choices they make as individuals and as members of society.