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.
Category: Psychology
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.