Course Details Language of Instruction English Level of Course Unit Bachelor's Degree Department / Program PSYCHOLOGY Type of Program Formal Education Type of Course Unit Elective Course Delivery Method Face To Face Objectives of the Course Goal 1: Knowledge base of psychology Identify the theoretical perspectives of social conflict to explain a wide variety of thoughts, emotions, and behaviours in conflict contexts. Goal 2: Scientific Inquiry and Critical Thinking Demonstrate scientific reasoning and problem solving, including effective research methods. Goal 3: Ethical and Social Responsibility Develop ethically and socially responsible behaviours for professional and personal settings. Goal 4: Communication Demonstrate competence in written, oral, and in interpersonal communication skills. Course Content This course offers general theories in political psychology by focusing mainly on the social aspects of interpersonal, intragroup, and international conflict. A prospective learner who considers taking this course does not need any prior knowledge and course engagement in the field. Participants who successfully complete this course will be able to gain the learning outcomes, correspond to the AGU Psychology Program aims. Course Methods and Techniques This course is designed as a non-departmental elective course (recommend to penultimate or senior students) for all students (except psychology major), allowing them to explore social aspects of interpersonal, intragroup, and international conflict from a psychological perspective. In this course, you have been expected to analyse scientifically humans wide variety of behaviours related to social conflict from a social and political psychology perspective. However, you have also been expected to develop some vital career skills such as being a team member, functioning as an individual within a collaborative work environment, management group productivity, time management, and leadership. In this course, therefore, you will be randomly grouped (since we all should value the diversity of each group [ref ethical debate in below], manual manipulation by me would be possible) and will follow the below requirements as both a group member and individual. You will work in teams throughout the semester. You will decide your group name, then following the "COURSEWORK" items as your named group. To illustrate the format yet, the smallest five student teams are called Base Teams (BATs). The BATs will sit together in the virtual classroom and discuss tasks together. Five BATs comprise a Case Team (CAT) which means all class participants. Most of the time, the progression of discussions will be in the following order. First, the issue will be discussed in the BATs, the BATs outcomes will be unified in the CAT, and a different CAT representative (e.g., discussion leader of the week) for the corresponding week will moderate the CAT s discussion. To access more resources regarding group work and soft skills, please follow the news and events provided by the Teaching and Learning Centre. What is a BAT? BATs are base teams consisted of five students. What is a CAT? CATs are case teams that are consisted of five BATs. Before each class, participants will be required to read the article for the week. Before the class discussion, each student involves the written discussion by writing their questions about the article. Students are assigned to moderate the class discussion. Participants will give a proposal on a due date (TAB), not more than 300 words. The proposal can include one or more ideas to develop. Each given proposal will be graded and provide feedback to develop the term paper. Each week out-class activities will be taken about 2-3 hours depends on individual differences. In response to the developing situation with the Covid-19, my course may be offered in an online format unless it is allowed to be provided as a campus course. For asynchronous sessions, CANVAS and synchronous debate sessions on Zoom and class meetings will be used. We will be using various tools for active learning to take place. It is a student-driven course. It is your responsibility to participate actively in class discussions. The requirements of each student will be as follow: Discussion Questions: All students will read a set of papers (listed in the syllabus and posted on CourseWorks on the "Modules" page) prior to each class meeting. Each student will submit a set of discussion questions to their Discussion Board of BAT on CourseWorks no later than 24 hours preceding the class meeting for each of the readings. It will allow the discussion leaders time to organise their plans for the discussion after taking into account the questions and issues raised by other groups. Appropriate questions include but are not limited to those that address critical aspects of the research methods or theoretical perspective, those that relate different readings to each other (either reading from the same week or a prior week), and those that address the implications of the findings. Discussion Leadership: Each BAT s leader of the week should be responsible for organising discussions questions of their team and sending to CAT s discussion leaders of the week (the first Prerequisites and co-requisities None Course Coordinator None Name of Lecturers Asist Prof.Dr. AHMET ÇOYMAK ahmet.coymak@agu.edu.tr Assistants None Work Placement(s) No Recommended or Required Reading Resources Canvas All lecture notes are sent to the students as handouts on CANVAS portal. Canvas Portal

 





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