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2009(Spring)
Course Announcement – Fall Semester 2009
Psychology of Small Groups
Instructor: John Levine and Dick Moreland
University of Pittsburgh
Course Number: Psychology 2155
Time: Thursday, 9:30 – 12:00 (beginning 9/3/09)
Location: TBA
Overview: The goal of this course is to provide students with a critical overview of theory and research on small groups. A seminar format will be used, in which class members read and discuss papers from several disciplines that focus on a variety of small group phenomena. Topics include group composition; group structure (e.g., status systems, norms, roles); group dynamics (e.g., conformity and deviance, leadership, cooperation/competition); group performance (e.g., productivity, decision making, socially shared cognition); and the ecology of groups. Students are expected to read and comment on papers, participate actively in class discussions, and write a research proposal on a topic relevant to the course.
Students interested in taking the course should contact J. Levine (jml@pitt.edu) before enrolling.
