Welcome to our Topics: Prosocial Behavior course! This course will study the research and theory on why we help. We're going to look at several different theoretical perspectives, including social, personality, and developmental psychology. Then we'll actually integrate two approaches to better understand a complex problem related helping.
This is our class blog. I will post different musings about the class when appropriate. But you will also be given the opportunity to contribute to our blog! Excellent Missions (and sometimes Article Summaries, if they are extra excellent) will be posted to the blog throughout the semester. If your work is chosen, I will let you know. You'll be given a few days to make any changes to your assignment, and you may also submit pictures, etc. that I will include for you on the blog.
This class will have different types of assignments:
This class is going to be a good deal of independent work... and interdependent work, too! But it should be a lot of fun if we are all contributing regularly. I am looking forward to having a fantastic semester with everyone.
-Submitted by Dr. Beechler on January 12, 2013
This is our class blog. I will post different musings about the class when appropriate. But you will also be given the opportunity to contribute to our blog! Excellent Missions (and sometimes Article Summaries, if they are extra excellent) will be posted to the blog throughout the semester. If your work is chosen, I will let you know. You'll be given a few days to make any changes to your assignment, and you may also submit pictures, etc. that I will include for you on the blog.
This class will have different types of assignments:
- Article Summaries - You will be reading original articles and book chapters. There is no textbook for this course. To help you understand the articles, you will complete Article Summaries, in which you highlight the hypotheses and findings from each of the studies. You must be prepared to discuss these articles in class.
- Missions - You will complete six mission assignments over the semester, in which you perform different types of prosocial behaviors and then report on your experiences. We will discuss in class the results of your missions.
- Presentation - You and another student will work together in integrating two areas in psychology to help answer a question about prosocial behavior that may be too complex to be understood with just one perspective. These will be formal presentations - so look nice and rehearse! Your presentations will be posted under the Student Presentations tab.
This class is going to be a good deal of independent work... and interdependent work, too! But it should be a lot of fun if we are all contributing regularly. I am looking forward to having a fantastic semester with everyone.
-Submitted by Dr. Beechler on January 12, 2013
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