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Professional Writing and Discussions: The Language of Psychology
DozentIn: Andrew Jones, B.A., M.Phil.
Veranstaltungstyp: Seminar
Ort: 11/115
Zeiten: Mo. 10:00 - 12:00 (wöchentlich)
Beschreibung: This is an advanced graduate course designed for students who have completed their B.A. and are enrolled in the M.A. program. Professional Writing and Discussion classes are designed to allow students – under the guidance of their course instructors – to undertake a more active and independent development of their language skills by applying them to a specific topic area. Ultimately, the central aim of these courses, whatever topic area and skills focus you choose, is to facilitate your transition into a self-sufficient and proficient user of the English language. You will continue to train your productive and receptive language skills, you will further expand your lexico-grammatical knowledge in connection with the specialist language used in the course, and you will acquire supplementary cultural knowledge on English-speaking countries. You will be expected to attend class regularly and contribute actively and intelligently. Furthermore, you will need to complete oral and written tasks during the course of these classes and will need to submit a final written task by the end of the teaching semester.
In this particular course, we will focus our attention on the field of psychology. We will start by building up a vocabulary bank of the most important psychological terminology before analysing selected paradigm-changing experiments, many of them from the field of social psychology, as this provides direct links to many of your future chosen career paths. For example, we will hold sessions focussing on conditioning, cognitive dissonance, conformity, authority, and the bystander effect. We will also touch on further interesting fields of theory and practice, such as clinical, developmental, differential and personality, forensic, educational and organisational psychology. As the course develops, we will read and discuss various studies so that you are able to establish and discuss the impact of psychology on our everyday and professional lives, including the way we learn, process and interpret language. An electronic reader will be made available before the start of class.
