- Administration
- Welcome (5 mins)
- Contact details
- Attendance book
- Essay process (10 mins)
- Introduction / Rationale (10 mins)
- Summarise/discuss
Philosophy &
Method and a
Descriptive Overview
- Learning names is an important goal and part of healthy
group development
- Several group activities each week will be conducted until
everyone knows everyone else's name
- Name Tags (5 mins)
- First name (or preferred nick name)
- Write in a way that illustrates who you are
- Going beyond names and learning about one another via
meaningful interaction is another important goal and part of
healthy group development
- Open discussion about what occurs for the group and
individuals in the group is vital
- Sometimes bringing forward feelings and responses to the
group won't be easy
- By taking on various group tasks and attempting to respond
authentically within a group setting, many important SP
principles can be illustrated and experienced
- One of the secondary goals of the tutorials is for group
members to learn skills and activities which are useful for
being group leaders in other settings.
- Engagement & Contribution
- Establish a "Group contract" about what constitutes
"engagement & contribution" (worth 10% of final grade)
- Mind-map
the group's understanding of "engagement & contribution" in
tutorials and bulletin-board postings
- Refine through discussion & make final decision about
evaluation criteria for each tutorial
- Evaluation criteria to include a 2 page summary
self-assessment of "engagement & contribution" during semester
to be handed in by each student in the W15 tutorial
- Group Activities
- Icebreakers
-
People Bingo (10 mins)
- Wallet-exercise (20 mins)
- Small groups of 4-5
- Each person takes it in turn to show the group his/her
wallet/purse and to show/explain a couple of his/her favourite
contents and why he/she carries these items
- Brain-storming & Mind-mapping What We Know & What We Want to
Know in Social Psychology (20 mins)
-
Brainstorming &
Mind-mapping
- What we know about social psychology
- What we want to know about social psychology - questions to be
answered
- Briefing for Genocide & Prejudice (10 mins)
- the reason we are examining the Rwandan genocide is that
illustrates almost all the main topics in social psychology in
an applied, real-world, major social event
- be on time or early since the movie is 120 mins
- visit the
PBS "Ghosts of Rwanda" website and get familiar with the
timeline and what happened
- the movie contains emotional / graphic / violent
- some amount of post-traumatic reaction is expected
- for these reasons attendance voluntary
- intended absence should be explained/discussed with tutor
- the alternative activity is read the PBS site in depth and
contribute to the bulletin board
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