Teaching

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Course Aims

The course is aimed at introducing students to the exam of how people (citizens, militants, leaders) interact with politics. Special attention is devoted to the issues of political communication and persuasion through the media. These will be dealt with in seminars related to the official course.

Course Contents

1. Scope and relations with other disciplines

2. Political knowledge and attitudes

3. Ideological orientation and socio-political values

4. Identity and social categories in politics

5. Conflict and integration between groups

6. Collective action

7. Voting choice

8. Political communication and persuasion

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Course Aims

The course aims to provide the basic theoretical and empirical knowledge for interpreting the main characterising phenomena of perception and social relations from a psychosocial point of view. Through the presentation and discussion in class of empirical research, students will learn how to interpret and comprehensively investigate a series of psychological processes that regulate people's relationships with the social world, as well as individual and collective behaviour.

Course Contents

1. Concepts of social psychology

2. Methods of social psychology

3. Social thought

4. The Self

5. Attitudes and relationship with action

6. Social influence

7. Prejudice and intergroup relations

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Course Aims

The course examines the issue of lifestyles focusing on the specific realm of nutrition. It will look at how nutrition, health and wellbeing are interrelated, as well as the importance of identity and values in making nutritional choices (biological, vegetarian, sustainable etc.) and also the individual and collective significance of matters such as overabundance and shortage of food, nutritional security and food wastage. The main theoretical reference point is social psychology. Psychosocial concepts are supplemented by concepts and information borrowed from other fields of study, with special reference to the nutritional properties of different types of food, eating habits among the population, and marketing/information about food produce.

Course Contents

1. Lifestyles: yesterday, today and tomorrow

2. Nutritional choices, health and wellbeing

3. Nutritional choices and identities

4. Nutritional choices and values

5. From attitudes to food to nutritional behaviour

6. Communication and nutritional choices