Open Society University Network Media Literacy Module compiled by Daniel Calingaert and Meggan Houlihan The attached Media Literacy Module is a 1-hour and 20-minute class originally designed to slot into OSUN Online and Network Collaborative Courses. Aimed at introductory and intermediate students, it provides context on how news spreads on social media and drills down […]
Category: Psychology
This mini-project invites students to choose a work of popular culture of interest to them and then analyze the psychological issues and themes present in it.
This assignment, given in the context of a Social Psychology course, introduces key concepts on the cognitive and emotional roots of prejudice as a setup to a three-class unit, and gives students the opportunities to analyze and integrate information in reading, lecture and video formats, to consider the benefits and limits of different methodologies, and to apply course content to novel situations.