2025/6, Trimester 2, In Person,
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| Occurrence: | 001 |
| Primary mode of delivery: | In Person |
| Location of delivery: | SIGHTHILL |
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| Member of staff responsible for delivering module: | Michael Stirrat |
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| Student Activity (Notional Equivalent Study Hours (NESH)) |
| Mode of activity | Learning & Teaching Activity | NESH (Study Hours) | NESH Description |
| Face To Face | Lecture | 11 | The lectures provide you with an opportunity to develop your real-time note-taking skills whilst being introduced to key contextual information about the module and its content. They also offer an opportunity for you as 1st year students to become familiar with lecture-style delivery and large class sizes. |
| Face To Face | Tutorial | 11 | Weekly 1-hour tutorial classes will see further discussion on lecture and reading material |
| Online | Guided independent study | 178 | You will follow weekly Moodle guidance to access sign-posted resources in order to develop and enhance knowledge of Social Psychology. You may make use of software delivered via AppsAnywhere to support your learning. You are actively encouraged to identify your individual learning needs and to make appropriate use of Academic Skills and Library resources. |
| Total Study Hours | 200 | |
| Expected Total Study Hours for Module | 200 | |
| Assessment |
| Type of Assessment | Weighting % | LOs covered | Week due | Length in Hours/Words | Description |
| Class Test | 30 | 2~4 | Week 6 | HOURS= 40 minutes | Two short MCQ tests equally weighted (Week 6 and Week10). The tests are designed to encourage you to engage with the module content on regular basis and also to test your understanding of the content. The tests will have to be completed in the week after the material on a given core area of psychology is covered. Each test will take 20 minutes and have 20 questions that will be related to the content covered in the lectures and in the tutorials. |
| Discussion/Participation | 10 | 1~2~3~4~5~6 | Week 11 | HOURS= 10 minutes x 10 | Tutorial Quizzes. Short set questions related to required weekly reading to be answered for credit within tutorials.This assessment consists of 10 quizzes on the tutorial readings, which you will be expected to prepare before attending the tutorials. The quizzes will consist of 5 questions each which will generally assess your understanding of the reading. Some of the quiz questions may be open questions while others may follow a multiple choice format. The quizzes will be done online and are to be submitted before the tutorial meetings where those readings will be discussed; you will have unlimited attempts to get the test correct. You can take the quiz anywhere you want, but you will have to have access to the reading. The quizzes will take place throughout the trimester and you will be informed from the beginning of the term which readings, and in which weeks, you have to answer the quiz. You will receive 1% per completed quiz. After the completion of each quiz, you will be provided with the correct answers and a brief explanation for each answer in the weekly tutorials. This way you will be able to identify strengths and weaknesses in your understanding and attendance will allow correction of any errors. |
| Centrally Time Tabled Examination | 60 | 1~3~5~6 | Exam Period | HOURS= 1500 words | A 2-hour essay-based exam. Examination paper consists of six questions (two questions from each topic). Examinee should answer a selection of three questions. |
| Component 1 subtotal: | 40 | | |
| Component 2 subtotal: | 60 | | | | |
| Module subtotal: | 100 | | | | |