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POLITICAL PSYCHOLOGY COURSE IDENTIFICATION AND APPLICATION INFORMATION

Code	Name of the Course Unit	Semester	In-Class Hours (T+P)	Credit	ECTS Credit
PSY332	POLITICAL PSYCHOLOGY	5	3	3	5

WEEKLY COURSE CONTENTS AND STUDY MATERIALS FOR PRELIMINARY & FURTHER STUDY
Week	Preparatory	Topics(Subjects)	Method
1	-	Definition of political psychology, its history, interests and implementation	Lecture, Question and Answer, Exemplification, Demonstration
2	Literature review	Misuse of psychology: psychology as a tool of status quo	Lecture, Question and Answer, Exemplification, Demonstration
3	Literature review	Psychoanalysis and political psychology	Lecture, Question and Answer, Exemplification, Demonstration
4	Literature review	Identity, ethnic/social identity	Lecture, Question and Answer, Exemplification, Demonstration
5	Literature review	Trauma, selected trauma, selected victory, bereavement	Lecture, Question and Answer, Exemplification, Demonstration
6	Literature review	Bias	Lecture, Question and Answer, Exemplification, Demonstration
7	Literature review	Ethnic conflict	Lecture, Question and Answer, Exemplification, Demonstration
8	-	MID-TERM EXAM	-
9	Literature review	Public opinion	Lecture, Question and Answer, Exemplification, Demonstration
10	Literature review	Public space - private space	Lecture, Question and Answer, Exemplification, Demonstration
11	Literature review	Political psychological meaning of migration and its results; being a guest worker, diaspora, refugee psychology	Lecture, Question and Answer, Exemplification, Demonstration
12	Literature review	Modern nation state, nation-building, national unity	Lecture, Question and Answer, Exemplification, Demonstration
13	Literature review	Political culture dominant in Turkey	Lecture, Question and Answer, Exemplification, Demonstration
14	Literature review	Political communication and political psychology	Lecture, Question and Answer, Exemplification, Demonstration
15	Literature review	Political psychology fields of application; problem solving	Lecture, Question and Answer, Exemplification, Demonstration
16	-	FINAL EXAM	-
17	-	FINAL EXAM	-