COURSE UNIT TITLE

: INTER-GROUP RELATIONSHIPS: INTER-GROUP CONFLICTS AND CONTACT II *

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
PSI 4044 INTER-GROUP RELATIONSHIPS: INTER-GROUP CONFLICTS AND CONTACT II * ELECTIVE 3 0 0 5

Offered By

Psychology

Level of Course Unit

First Cycle Programmes (Bachelor's Degree)

Course Coordinator

PROFESSOR DOCTOR ABBAS TÜRNÜKLÜ

Offered to

Psychology

Course Objective

The aim of this course is reading research based article about dynamics of intergroup relations, intergroup conflicts, and intergroup contact with students in classroom. In this course research articles about intergroup relations will be examined. This course will offers a critical engagement with major theories in intergroup relations such as social identity theory, self-categorisation theory, and intergroup conflict theory, intergroup contact theory. It considers how social categorisation leads to prejudice and discrimination, how prejudice can be reduced, how minorities can influence social change, why intractable conflicts are hard to solve, helping in an intergroup context, how people behave in crowds, how crossgroup friendships are formed, how crossgroups integration maintain in host environment. It further explores applications of the social psychology of intergroup relations in real life settings. The focus in this course will be reading and examining research based article.

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   To be able to understand intergroup relations theories and concepts
2   To be able to understand foundations of intergroup conflict
3   To be able to understand social identity
4   To be able to understand a common ingroup identity
5   To be able to understand intergroup contact and direct contact
6   To be able to understand indirect contact: extended and vicarious contact
7   To be able to understand cross-group friendship among children and adolescents
8   To be able to understand collective action and intergroup conflict

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description
1 1. Reducing intergroup bias through intergroup contact: Twenty years of progress and future directions
2 2. Reducing intergroup bias through intergroup contact: Twenty years of progress and future directions
3 3. A New Perspective on Promoting Cross-Group Friendship Among Children and Adolescents
4 4. A New Perspective on Promoting Cross-Group Friendship Among Children and Adolescents
5 5. Investigating Positive And Negative Intergroup Contact
6 6. Investigating Positive And Negative Intergroup Contact
7 7. Improving intergroup relations with extended contact
8 8. Midterm Exam
9 9.Improving intergroup relations with vicarious contact
10 10. Improving intergroup relations with imagined contact
11 11. Acculturation
12 12. Acculturation
13 13. Practice: Developing intergroup contact activities for school, society and working life
14 14. Practice: Developing intergroup contact activities for school, society and working life
15 15. Practice: Developing intergroup contact activities for school, society and working life
16 16.Final exam

Recomended or Required Reading

1. Allport, G. W. (1954). The nature of prejudice. Cambridge, MA: Addison-Wesley.
2. Bar-Tal, D. (2011). Intergroup conflicts and their resolution: A social psychological perspective. New York: psychology Press.
3. Brewer, B. M. (2003). Intergroup relations (2nd edit.). New York: Open University Press.
4. Brown, It., & Hewstone, M. (2005). An integrative theory of intergroup contact. Advances in Experimented Social Psychology. 37, 255-343.
5. Davies, K., Tropp, L. R., Aron, A., Pettigrew, T. F., & Wright, S. C. (2011). Cross-group friendships and intergroup attitudes: A meta-analytic review. Personality and Social Psychology Review, 15, 332-351. doi:10.1177/1088868311411103
6. Dovidio, F. J., Gaertner, L. S., and Saguy, T. (2007). Another view of ``we : Majority and minority group perspectives on a common ingroup identity. European Revıew Of Socıal Psychology, 18, 296 330

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

1. Lecture
2. Presentation
3. Answer-Question
4. Discussion

Assessment Methods

SORTING NUMBER SHORT CODE LONG CODE FORMULA
1 MTE MIDTERM EXAM
2 FIN FINAL EXAM
3 FCGR FINAL COURSE GRADE (RESIT) MTE * 0.40 + FIN * 0.60
4 RST RESIT
5 FCGR FINAL COURSE GRADE (RESIT) MTE * 0.40 + RST * 0.60


Further Notes About Assessment Methods

None

Assessment Criteria

They will be evaluated by questions in the midterm and final examination.

Language of Instruction

English

Course Policies and Rules

1. Attendance must be at least 70% for the lectures.
2. Attendance to the lectures and discussions will be considered in the assessment

Contact Details for the Lecturer(s)

abbas.turnuklu@deu.edu.tr

Office Hours

To be announced.

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Activities Number Time (hours) Total Work Load (hours)
Lectures 13 3 39
Preparations before/after weekly lectures 13 3 39
Preparing assignments 1 6 6
Preparation for midterm exam 1 12 12
Preparation for final exam 1 14 14
Midterm 1 1,5 2
Final 1 1,5 2
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 114

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

PO/LOPO.1PO.2PO.3PO.4PO.5PO.6PO.7PO.8PO.9PO.10
LO.15
LO.25
LO.35
LO.45
LO.555
LO.6
LO.7
LO.85