SPRING  2018
EDP 5285-01
GROUP PROCESSES ONLINE (3 hours credit)
CLASS NUMBER 2608





DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATIONAL PSYCHOLOGY & LEARNING SYSTEMS

We examine group dynamics in: education, communication, industry, sports, the military, family life, and more. Topics include: group structure, social roles, social identity, cohesion, teamwork, interaction processes among peers and between leaders and members, decision-making, conformity, persuasion, leadership, and intra- and inter-group relations. We have a section on how to study groups (e.g., focus groups, "brainstorming")
and the role of groups in assessments and evaluations. Group processes have considerable power to address individual recruitment and membership maintenance and contributions to persuasion processes and maintaining morale.

Groupsprocesses have considerable explanatory power, not only to address how individuals are recruited and maintain membership in diverse groups, including sports teams, classrooms, cults and political cells, but also how groups contribute to persuasion processes and to maintaining morale under difficult circumstances. They might even give some hints on how Congress can work together!

         For more information, see the 2017 OVERVIEW HERE
         Or enter this url: http://myweb.fsu.edu/slosh/GroupsOverview.html
 

 
Our course site will be available by the first week of class. Meanwhile feel free to browse the readings, overview, and assignments interlinked Web sites from Spring 2017 which are publicly available via the myweb online system.

Useful for students in:

Our two major sources for the semester will be:

Donelson Forsyth
Group Dynamics: SIXTH Edition (2014)
Wadsworth-Cengage
9781133956532

which is more "generic"

and

David W. Johnson and Frank P. Johnson
Joining Together: Group Theory and Group Skills (ELEVENTH Edition, 2012/3)
Prentice-Hall
9780132678131

which is more applied

Used copies of both are available on sites such as Amazon and locally.

For further information please contact me:
Dr. Susan Carol Losh
Department of Educational Psychology & Learning Systems
Florida State University 32306-4453
The best way is email:
slosh@fsu.edu

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