PSY6075 - Critical Psychology

Objectives:

Assessment tasks are designed to enable students to demonstrate the Learning and Employability outcomes for the relevant level of study. Level Learning Outcomes are embedded in the assessment task(s) at that level. This enables a more integrated view of overall student performance at each level.

Content:

Critical exaimation of cognitive-experimental psychology. Key infuences in critical psychology (e.g. Marxism, Post modernism, Feminism, Psychoanalysis, Social Constructionism, Discursive Psychology). Application and analysis of these influences on areas of difference and inequality such as gender, sexuality, race, social class, health, mental health, criminality and work.

Learning and Teaching Information:

Formal scheduled learning and teaching activities
Hours: 25
Intended Group Size: 200

Guided independent study
Hours: 125

Further details relating to assessment
The report will be comprised of a critical discourse analysis on one of the topics covered in the module. Students will source material from the media/popular culture, on which they will conduct a discourse analysis. This assessment will be supported by formative feedback in taught sessions, where students will work on examples in groups on analysing content in the public domain.

Assessment:

Fact File

Module Coordinator - Candice Whitaker
Level - 6
Credit Value - 15
Pre-Requisites - NONE
Semester(s) Offered - 6S2

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