PSY-20052 - Module Specification
School of Psychology
Faculty of Natural Sciences

Programme/Approved Electives for 2024/25

Available as a Free Standing Elective

Co-requisites

None

Prerequisites

None

Barred Combinations

None

Description for 2024/25

You will learn about individual and group level processes that energize and sedate social change. You will be exposed to a wide variety of contexts from across the world and work of researchers from these contexts. You will then apply your knowledge to and learning to analyze and understand current events, protests, demonstrations, and larger social movements and provide recommendations to decision makers.

The module aims to 1) provide opportunities and a learning experience that enables students to critically engage with key social psychological theories on collective action and social change; 2) provide a basis for the more advance modules on social change (Psychosocial Engineering and Psychology of Climate Change) as well social and political MSc stream; 3) enable students to apply the key theories and concepts to different contexts, e.g. protest behaviour, political decision making, environment, and health.

Intended Learning Outcomes

Critically discuss psychological theories and concepts with relevant to collective action and social change.: 1
Apply psychological theories and concepts to explain behaviours related to collective action and social change.: 1
Apply evidence from empirical research to evaluate the effectiveness of collective action incidents.: 1
Critically discuss a wide variety of contexts from across the world and work of researchers from these contexts.: 1
Critically reflect on how existing social structures and differences across the world are reflected in the curriculum: 1

Study hours

10 x 2 hours classroom sessions
30 hours independent study
20 hours asynchronous content
80 hours assessment writing

School Rules

None

Description of Module Assessment