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Political Psychology
Module POL3136 for 2022/3
Module POL3136 for 2022/3
- Overview
- Aims and Learning Outcomes
- Module Content
- Indicative Reading List
- Assessment
Undergraduate Module Descriptor
POL3136: Political Psychology
This module descriptor refers to the 2022/3 academic year.
Module Content
Syllabus Plan
The course is roughly organized around “20th Century” and “21st Century” approaches to questions in Political Psychology:
20th Century approaches
- Psychoanalytic Approaches
- Rational Choice Theory
- Philip Converse and His Legacy
- Schema Theory
- The Online Model
- Racial Attitudes
- Zaller’s RAS Model
21st Century approaches
- Affective Intelligence
- Neuropolitics
- Evolution of Machiavellian Intelligence
- Genopolitics
- Race and Neuroscience
- Physiological measures
Learning and Teaching
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 |
Online Resources
This module has online resources available via ELE (the Exeter Learning Environment).
ELE – http://vle.exeter.ac.uk/