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PSY-20052 - Module Specification
School of Psychology
Faculty of Natural Sciences

For academic year: 2024/25 Last Updated: 04 May 2024

PSY-20052 - Collective Action and Social Change
Coordinator: Huseyin Cakal Tel: +44 1782 7 32945
Lecture Time: See Timetable...
Level: Level 5
Credits: 15
Study Hours: 150
School Office: 01782 733736

Programme/Approved Electives for 2024/25

None

Available as a Free Standing Elective

No

Co-requisites

None

Prerequisites

None

Barred Combinations

None

Description for 2024/25

You will learn about individual and group level processes that energize and sedate social change. You will be exposed to a wide variety of contexts from across the world and work of researchers from these contexts. You will then apply your knowledge to and learning to analyze and understand current events, protests, demonstrations, and larger social movements and provide recommendations to decision makers.

Aims
The module aims to 1) provide opportunities and a learning experience that enables students to critically engage with key social psychological theories on collective action and social change; 2) provide a basis for the more advance modules on social change (Psychosocial Engineering and Psychology of Climate Change) as well social and political MSc stream; 3) enable students to apply the key theories and concepts to different contexts, e.g. protest behaviour, political decision making, environment, and health.

Intended Learning Outcomes

Critically discuss psychological theories and concepts with relevant to collective action and social change.: 1
Apply psychological theories and concepts to explain behaviours related to collective action and social change.: 1
Apply evidence from empirical research to evaluate the effectiveness of collective action incidents.: 1
Critically discuss a wide variety of contexts from across the world and work of researchers from these contexts.: 1
Critically reflect on how existing social structures and differences across the world are reflected in the curriculum: 1

Study hours

10 x 2 hours classroom sessions
30 hours independent study
20 hours asynchronous content
80 hours assessment writing

School Rules

None

Description of Module Assessment

1: Assignment weighted 100%
2000 word Field Report
Students will be provided a selection of collective action incidents/protests/helping. They will then asked to prepare a field report on the event focusing on the problem, link the event to the literature, evaluate the process of the incident, link this to theory on the module, and provide recommendations for future actions. During the module students will undertake a formative assessment in which they will have an opportunity to provide a short (e.g., 300 word) formative Field Report and receive peer and tutor feedback using assessment specifications, grading criteria, and indicative answers.

Please note that for the 2022/23 Academic Year programmes may be adapted to operate in accordance with a flexible, digital approach. This means that there may be some changes made to how modules are delivered and assessed. The latest information will be provided to you by your School in module handbooks. We endeavour to give you as much notice as possible of any changes and details about the circumstance in which changes are made to programmes can be found in the Student Agreement, available at: https://www.keele.ac.uk/student-terms-and-conditions/

Last Updated: 04 May 2024