Browse Hierarchy PSYC4007: Psychology and Contemporary Issues

The module aims to introduce students to the contribution psychology can make to our understanding of and approach to contemporary issues. These will vary year on year but will be limited in number to ensure student have time to both engage with the topics and also develop skills in practical and workshop sessions. The topics covered will depend on what is current in the media and also staff interests and expertise but can be expected to include some issues of worldwide concern (such as health related matters where cultural issues are significant). The topics selected will allow the students to address the consequences of media-promoted lay theories of behaviour. It will bring together recent reporting of topics in the media and the psychological research and theory that relates to them. It also aims to encourage students to take a critical and evidence-based approach to ideas that have general currency but may not be well understood by non-psychologists.