Instructor: Steve Kilianski
Email: skilians@rci.rutgers.edu
Office:  Tillett Hall 527
Office hours: Monday 2-5, or by appointment

Required text: Aronson, E., Wilson, T., & Akert, R. (2006).  Social Psychology (6th edition).
  Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice-Hall.

Course pre-requisite: PSYC 101 (General Psychology)

Course requirements: Three hourly examinations (70 questions each) and a comprehensive final exam (100 questions).  The lowest of the 3 hourly exam scores will be dropped. No makeup exams will be permitted unless (1) I have been notified in advance of your absence by email or phone and (2) documentation (i.e., a note from an M.D. or confirmation of death in the family) is provided.  Make-up examinations may be in written answer format.  Special provisions can be made to take exams early (e.g., due to documented multiple exam conflicts).

Attendance is not mandatory, but is highly recommended, since many exam questions will be derived from lecture material not covered in the text.

Grading method:  Your total points scored on your 2 best hourly exams and the final will determine your course grade in accordance with the following schedule:

                                                216-240           (90-100%)       A
                                                204-215           (85-89%)         B+
                                                192-203           (80-84%)         B
                                                180-191           (75-79%)         C+
                                                168-179           (70-74%)         C
                                                144-167           (60-69%)         D
                                                Below 144       (< 60%)           F

Your total points on these exams are the sole determinant of your course grade.  The cutoffs apply without exception!

RUTGERS UNIVERSITY
SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY - 830:321:08
SPRING 2008
EXAM SCHEDULE AND CRITICAL DATES

Note: Using Sakai for web-based course support

A more detailed class calendar (with reading assignments, etc.), all MS PowerPoint slides used in lectures, practice quizzes to help in preparing for exams, important announcements, links to topically relevant websites, etc., will be available here.  You get to the site by entering the address https://sakai.rutgers.edu, and logging in with your eden userid.  The course should appear (as a tab near the top of the page) if you are on the roster - you just click on the tab for it and you are in.  If you have many tabs (because you’re a member of many Sakai sites) you may have to use the ‘drop down’ box to see them all.  Once you are in the site, click on ‘Modules’ to access the syllabus or the lecture slides. Files will be in MS Word, MS Excel, or MS PowerPoint format, so you need to use a computer that has these programs on its hard drive in order to open or download them.  All of the PCs in the labs on any RU campus are so equipped.      You can also view a class calendar with specific text reading assignments by clicking on ‘Schedule.’