POL36070 Political Psychology
This module introduces concepts from psychology (e.g. beliefs, emotions, or personality) to better understand politics (e.g. elite decision-making, voting behaviour, or popular uprisings). Topics will be structured around three types of methods that are frequently applied in psychology: experiments, surveys, and interviews. You will gain first-hand research experience by working in small teams to evaluate primary data on a topic of your choice (e.g. right-wing voting, state decisions to go to war, or emotional effects of terror attacks). Ideally, the research you will conduct in this module will provide you with a basis for an undergraduate/ master’s thesis, or for an essay to convince your future employers of your research skills.
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You sit at roundtables with other groups and frequently discuss lecture content, and do three assignments together. Content felt unrelated to political psychology, and the textbook is the worst textbook I've ever laid my eyes on. She also doesn't make delivery clear. However, the assessments are easy, even if you have a crap group. She does group people up based on attendance, but this doesn't have a strong correlation with performance. Keep in mind, she will dock you a grade point for every class missed, so you MUST attend this. The exam is an MCQ with no negative marking. I can't see it being too difficult. Overall, I don't recommend it if you care about the actual content, as it's not related and delivered poorly; but, if easy assessments are what you're after, then this module is fine.