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2025 Fall
Nov 19, 2025 |
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| PSYC 890BX - Social Identity and Categorization |
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This directed readings course will feature a selection of articles from classic psychological experiments pertaining to social identity and psychological essentialism. By the end of the course, the student should be able to identify likely mechanisms of social categorization, explain the limitations of current research paradigms in understanding group-related phenomena, describe the role of social identity in categorizing others, and critically evaluate the consequences of these phenomena in the real world. Topics will include: social complexity theory, intersectionality, the VUCA Challenge, and racial essentialism.
3.000 Credit hours 3.000 Lecture hours Levels: Graduate Schedule Types: Directed Reading Psychology Department Restrictions: Must be enrolled in one of the following Levels: Graduate |
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