Undergraduate Module Descriptor

POL3136: Political Psychology

This module descriptor refers to the 2019/0 academic year.

The course is roughly organized around “20^th Century” and “21^st Century” approaches to questions in Political Psychology:

20^th Century approaches

Psychoanalytic Approaches

Rational Choice Theory

Philip Converse and His Legacy

Schema Theory

The Online Model

Racial Attitudes

Zaller’s RAS Model

21^st Century approaches

Affective Intelligence

Neuropolitics

Evolution of Machiavellian Intelligence

Genopolitics

Race and Neuroscience

Physiological measures

This table provides an overview of how your hours of study for this module are allocated:

Scheduled Learning and Teaching Activities	Guided independent study	Placement / study abroad
49	251	0

...and this table provides a more detailed breakdown of the hours allocated to various study activities:

Category	Hours of study time	Description
Scheduled Learning and Teaching Activities	44	22 x 2 hour seminars
Scheduled Learning and Teaching Activity	5	5 x 1 hour lab sessions
Guided independent study	163	Completing assessment tasks: Reading, research and writing
Guided independent study	88	Preparing for seminars: Reading and research

This module has online resources available via ELE (the Exeter Learning Environment).