2017-2018 Academic Catalog 
    
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2017-2018 Academic Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

PSYC 221 - Research in Social Psychology


Fall 2015:

Undergraduate students in this course will have the opportunity to conduct research in Professor Randi L. Garcia’s lab on various projects related to sexual objectification, the dynamics of diverse group interactions, and the gender division of household labor. Research projects in this lab examine the consequences of sexual objectification for both women and men in the workplace, how stereotyping and discrimination play out in diverse versus homogenous groups, and the complexities of the gender division of household labor using an intergroup relations framework. Students in this course will engage in a variety of task including, but not limited to, literature review, research design, survey development, data collection, the coding of videotaped interactions of “first dates” and small group interactions, data analysis, and scientific writing.

Prerequisites for this course require a grade of C- or better

This course fulfills the Lab/Research requirement of the Psychology major

Prerequisites: PSYC 101  ,

 , and Instructor’s permission.

Anticipated Terms Offered: Offered every year