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Advances and Developments in Social Psychology

Wed. 12-12:50, Lang 10

Helen C. Harton, Professor

Course description: This course is a formalization of the social brownbag series. Students and faculty from UNI and elsewhere will do informal presentations of research related to social psychology. The research projects may be completed or in progress. Presentations may also take the form of discussions of research articles or statistical or methodological techniques.

Student expectations: Students are expected to come to and participate in each class session. Participation entails listening critically and responding to the information presented, offering helpful suggestions, observations, and critiques. Students are also expected to make one or more presentations per semester. First year students will present their first year project sometime in the first year, and in the second year, present their thesis.

Grading criteria: Students who fulfill the obligations above will pass the class; students who do not, will not. You may miss one class for good reason (e.g., illness, conference presentation), but if you do, you will be required to read and complete written critiques of 3 social psychological articles from major journals on the topic to be discussed that day.

Talk schedule (titles tba):

January 14	Andy Gilpin
January 21	Chris Larimer, Political science
January 28	Jennifer Waldron, HPLS
February 4	SPSP—no class on the 4th, but makeup requirement is to go to presentations on 2/12 and/or 2/13
February 11	Kevin Blankenship, ISU
February 12	Darwin Days presentation, Helen Harton, 11am, room tba
February 13	Interdisciplinary Research Symposium: 8am posters, 9am keynote (locations tba)
February 18	Dwight Peterson
February 25	Priyanka Joshi
March 4	Taylor Wadian
March 11	Wind Goodfriend, Buena Vista University
March 25	Duoc Nguyen
April 1	Heather Caspers
April 8	Erin Lane
April 15	Ryan Betts
April 22	Dan McCarthy
April 29	No class—MPA, but double class exam week
May 4 (Monday 1-3)	Leslie Cak tba