LITHUANIAN UNIVERSITY OF EDUCATIONAL SCIANCES
Study programme
The code of the study
programme
The title of the study programme
DESCRIPTION OF STUDY SUBJECT
ECTS code
1. Name of the subject
SOCAL AND COMMUNICATION
PSYCHOLOGY
Faculty
Department
UMF
Department of Didactics of Psychology
2. Teacher
Dr., Assoc. Prof. ALA PETRULYTĖ
3. Course scope and location in the program
ECTS credits
3
Semester
Spring
Language
English/Russian
4. Objectives of the course
The studies of social and communication psychology will present students with phenomena of psyche that occur in
human communication and interaction, will enable them to systematize knowledge about interaction regularities of
individuals, groups and peculiarities of their social behaviour in different communities and improve their communication
skills.
5. Subject annotation or abstract
Social and communication psychology analyses, identifies and forecasts phenomenon and regularities of social behaviour
and perception in educational and other communities. During practical classes, students will get acquainted with
problems and regularities of social roles, social perception, self-perception and self-evaluation, attitudes and stereotypes,
group structure and development, interpersonal conflicts and their practical application.
6. Subject outcomes, methods of studying, methods of achievement assessment
Results of the study
programme
Results of the study
subject
Study methods
Practical competencies
- ability to recognize the
psychological
phenomena of various
human behaviors
- ability to comply with
professional and
communication ethics
Students will be able to
understand the factors of
conventional life in society
with ethical principles, to
recognize, analyse the
regularities
of
social
psychology
while
communicating
in
different communities.
Students will be able to
apply
social
and
communication
psychology
regularities,
will
improve
their
communication skills and
get ready to effectively
cooperate in educational
and other communities.
Information based
(lectures,
demonstration).
Operational
(practice of problem
raising and looking
for
solution
in
groups; presentation
of
empirical
research results).
Creative (work with
scientific literature,
problem
oriented
discussion according
to the theme, project
preparation in small
groups, roleplaying
in group).
Interpersonal
competence
The ability to recognize
individual people's
needs and effectively
communicate with them.
7. Topic and contents of the subject
Evaluation
Examination (in writing) - 50%
Intermediate knowledge testing:
performance of a teacher-led tasks 25%
Preparation essay - 25%
. Nr.
Academic
hours
Topic
1.
Object and methods of social psychology (focus on the theories explaining social behaviour,
interdisciplinary approach, combination of research methods and ethical aspects).
22
2.
Social psychology phenomena and their regularities (analysis of social roles, self-evaluation, self-image
and aspirations, attitudes and stereotypes, social perception and others, focusing on the theories that
explain their functions, mechanisms of their formation, subjectivity, adequacy of their cognition and
evaluation, links with behaviour).
34
3.
Interpersonal communication in different groups (analysis of complex variety of group interaction
phenomena and factors: types of groups, their structure and development, psychology of leadership; social
influence; social perception, cultural and gender peculiarities of communication, etc).
32
Total
80
8. Assessment criteria
Achievement level (required knowledge and abilities)
Subject outcomes
Low (grade 5-6)
Average (grade 7-8)
High (grade 9-10)
Students will be able to
understand the factors of
conventional life in society
with ethical principles,
to recognize, analyse the
regularities
of
social
psychology
while
communicating in different
communities.
Students can comprehend
social psychology
phenomena, their main
methodological aspects and
regularities.
Students have a good
knowledge and skills to
identify social psychology
phenomena, their
methodological aspects
and taking into account
different social needs of
people and with ethical
principle
Students are highly skilled to
independently comprehend
and apply methodological
aspects of social psychology
phenomena, taking into
account different social
needs of people, surrounding
context as well as following
ethical principles
Students have completed
the all independent work
assignments.
Student have a good
ability to communicate in
a group.
Students have perfectly
performed in all independent
work assignments.
Student have a perfect group
(team) cooperation skills.
Students will be able to apply social
Students
andhave completed an
communication psychology independent work
regularities, will improve
assignment.
their communication skills
Ability to communicate in
and get ready to effectively a group.
cooperate in educational
and other communities.
9. Student assessment procedures
Nr.
1.
2.
3.
Content
Hours for one
task
Number of
tasks
Total
Midterm: performance of a teacherled tasks by subject topics
6
2
12
Preparation essay
12
1
12
Preparation for the exam (in writing)
12
2
24
Term
Regularly
exercises in the
classroom
Last week of
semester
Exam session
The
percentage
of the
evaluation
(%)
25
25
50
10. Recommended reading
Eil.
Nr.
1.
2.
Eil.
Nr.
1.
2.
Main
Petrulytė A. Bendravimo psichologija. (2008) Mokymosi priemonė. Vilnius. VPU
Petrulytė A., Balnionytė R. (2010) Socialinės ir bendravimo psichologijos praktikumas: metodinė mokymo(si)
priemonė, Vilnius, VPU
Additional
Aronson E.,Wilson T.D., Akert R.M. ( 2005) Social psichology.
New York:Worth Publishers, 2005.
Lamarter J., Myers D. Social psychology.
4
3.
4.
5.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0495812978/ref=ox_sc_act_
title_1?ie=UTF8&m=ATVPDKIKX0DER
Johnson D.W., Johnson F. P (2006) Joining together. Group theory and group skills. Boston: Pearson Allyn an
Bacon
Krauss R. M., Fussel S.R.(1996) Social psychological models of interpersonal cmmunication. In: Higgins E.T.,
Kruglanski A.W. (eds) Social psychology: Handbook of basic principles. Guilford Press, New York.
Toseland R.W., Rivas R.F (2004) An introduction to group work practice. New Jersey: Allyn and Bacon.
European Journal of Social Psychology;
Journal of Community & Applied Social Psychology,
Personality and Social Psychology Review;
Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin (Sage Journals Online)