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Semester 1

Moral Psychology in the Real World (PSYL10177)

Subject

Psychology

College

CAHSS

Credits

20

Normal Year Taken

3

Delivery Session Year

2023/2024

Pre-requisites

Visiting students must be studying Psychology as their degree major, and have completed at least 3 Psychology courses at grade B or above. We will only consider University/College level courses. **Please see Additional Restrictions below**

Course Summary

This course examines how we can use moral psychology to address real world problems. Throughout the course we will take several global issues and examine the psychological theory and findings that can impact our understanding of these issues, as well as possible ways to address them.

Course Description

This course examines how we can apply moral psychology to global problems. Throughout the course we will address a number of problems, for example global poverty, factory farming, and climate change. For each, we will examine the psychological literature that informs our understanding of these problems including (a) barriers to solving these problems and (b) mechanisms to overcome these barriers. **The goals of the course are to: (a) Understand the scope and impact of world problems; (b) Learn about theory and findings in the scientific literature that inform our understanding of world problems; (c) Identify limitations in available knowledge and propose research questions/programs to address these limitations; (d) Apply knowledge of literature and limitations to propose methods to address these problems. **The course will develop students' critical analysis and writing and offer transferable skills (applying scientific literature to real-world problems).

Assessment Information

Written Exam 0%, Coursework 100%, Practical Exam 0%

Additional Restrictions

Unless you are nominated on a Psychology exchange agreement, visiting students are only permitted to enrol in one 3rd year Psychology course each, per semester, before the start of the relevant semester’s welcome period – and spaces on each course are limited so cannot be guaranteed for any student. Enrolment in a second course from this group will depend on whether there are still spaces available in the September Welcome Period, and cannot be guaranteed. It is NOT appropriate for students to contact staff within this subject area to ask for an exception to be made; all enquiries to enrol in these courses must be made through the CAHSS Visiting Student Office. This is due to the extremely limited number of spaces available in this very popular subject area.

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