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University of Hawaii at Manoa
Department of Psychology
2430 Campus Road Honolulu, Hawaii 96822
Cable Address: UNIHAW
October 28, 1976
MEMORANDUM
TO:
Undergraduate Studies Committee
FROM:
Professor Leon A. James
RE:
Proposal for "PSY 324"
Brief Summary of Appended Proposal
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This is a new
course proposal to extend the undergraduate work in Social Psychology. |
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The course content deals with developing skills in the recording, transcribing,
and analysis of talk in naturalistic settings (e.g., dinner-time
conversations, dyadic face-to-face talk, telephone conversations, talk in
public places, classrooms, etc.)
These skills allow the students to become more objective in their perspective
on the self as a member of an ethnic-social group. Such skills provide real
information about how the social environment is organized, in particular, the
talk that goes on everywhere on the "Daily Round" of a person.
Students attend regular class-discussions and lectures (3 hours) during which
their class work is explained and put into the context of the theories of
contemporary psychology, psycholinguistics, and the analysis of discourse.
Student work is evaluated on the basis of six assignments to be completed as
the course requirement. Examples of types of assignments include:
--Recording and analyzing situationally located talk;
--Micro-analysis of bandscripts which are specially prepared
segments of tapes in which timing and rhythms are investigated;
--Topic development in interactions and in written text
through available methods of textual analysis and indexing.
Currently, there are no courses that undergraduates at the UHM can take that
teaches them the skills and theory behind the objective analysis of situated
talk from the perspective of behavior in social settings
Undergraduate Studies Committee
October 28, 1976
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The prerequisite for the course should be any previous psychology course at the
200-300 level, so as to make this course available to the majority of the
undergraduates.
A special feature of this course is that student laboratory assignments always
include the gathering, recording, and classifying of naturalistic records of
talk, conversation, and discourse.
It is hoped that the course would appeal to a lot of undergraduates since large
class sizes are to the advantage of the laboratory atmosphere of the course. In
this way, rather than size being a disadvantage, students have the opportunity
of maximizing their learning through variable comparisons with many others
whose "daily roundt' circles or community membership varies.
The class-laboratory, therefore, assumes a character that is more nearly
representative of the cultural macro-cosm outside. Efforts are being made to
accumulate these naturalistic records prepared by the students. These Data
Banks will be available for all students (not just the students of the course
itself) as well as scholars, for information, study, and entertainment.
This course is intended as a large, undergraduate service course in the area of
Social Psychology-Psycholinguistics. Professor James, whose specialty deals
with this area, will be teaching the course on a regular semester basis. No
special costs are anticipated.
(Note: Assignments similar to those to be required for
this course have been piloted during the past two semesters by Professor James,
and assisted by co-worker and co-author, Dr. Barbara Gordon, Visiting Colleague
in Psycholinguistics. These are available for inspection upon request.)
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Professor Leon James Department of
Psychology, UHM
Suggested Catalogue Description
PSY 324 Applied Psycholinguistics in Social
Psychology (3 credits)
Techniques of descriptions of one's day to day
behavior. Students carry out assigned projects and submit periodic reports
which describe various features of their own behavior in natural social
settings: e.g., transcripts of talk and conversation; classification of
recording practices in the community; objective methodological plans for
interpreting and understanding categories of one's experience. Student projects
are filed for use by other students and scholars.
Pre-requisite: Psy 322 or consent of
instructor.
1. This proposal is for a new undergraduate
course to be identified as "Psychology
324." The
purpose of this course is to provide students with an opportunity to acquire
skills related to the field of Social Psychology.
Currently, Psychology 322 is offered as the
"Introduction to Social Psychology;" it is a large course and part of
the core program in Psychology (2 sections of 200 enrollees each, this
semester). The originator of this proposal is Professor of Psychology and has
taught Psychology 322 since 1971. Additionally, he is member of the division in
the Psychology Department of the Social- Personality Area in which he directs
the sub-specialty program known as Psycholinguistics/Ethnosemantics
Student Projects
(a) Recording, transcribing and analyzing a
10-minute segment of a conversational exchange in which the student
participates. (Excellent results; 200 students submitted several thousand
typed pages and thoughtful commentaries in which they objectify
themselves and express their observations in functional terms.)
(b) Cataloguing exercises for "daily
round" behaviors: e.g., keeping track by writing down the questions
one asks in the course of a day, or, in the course of a lecture; keeping track
by indexing and classifying naturally occurring events in units
that participants themselves keep track of: e.g., topics, rituals, records,
almanacs, schedules, notes, and so on, these being the whoof and fabric of social
interactions in real settings.
(c) The application of ethnosemantic methodology
as a pragmatic and personally usable framework or intellectual tool for
objectifying experience. That is, a key pedagogic function of Social
Psychology must be the theory and practice of objectifying personal experience:
e.g., by learning how to differentiate between the functional features of their
behavior (in brief, their role behaviors and status perspectives) on the one
hand, and on the other, the subjective and personally familiar world of the
experiencing individual. The projects of "Psychology 324" will all
have this character, namely as an adjunct in personal but objectified terms, to
the abstracted generalizations discussed in Psychology 322.
2. None of the courses listed in the
current catalogue for Psychology or related fields parallels this new course or
overlaps in specific intent or instructional technique. Existing courses focus
on reading and familiarizing oneself with the theoretical and experimental
literature in specific areas of psychology. When laboratory work is involved,
it is either focused on experimental paradigm research or focused on a
particular project. None is exclusively and particularly concerned with the
carrying out of a program of projects involving a naturalistic methodology. Nevertheless,
these other existing courses complement the overall intent of an undergraduate
major or concentration in Social Psychology.
3. Consistent with the department's objectives for
its undergraduate program development, this new course proposal is part of a
long?range plan to strengthen and substantiate a comprehensive undergraduate
program in Social Psychology. In the near future, it is planned that an
Introductory course in Social Psychology will be proposed at the 200-level
(perhaps "Psychology 222"), followed by a re-organization of the
current Psychology 322 course into a more advanced course, perhaps
"Special Topics in Social Psychology." Thus, there will be three core
courses forming a concentration in Social Psychology: "Psy 222, 322,
324," viz. "Introduction, Special Topics, and Applied
Psycholinguistics in Social Psychology. This planned undergraduate
concentration in Social Psychology can be used to anticipate the department?s
graduate program in the Social/Personality Area.
4. This new course is designed as a social science
core?program course, and especially for a concentration in the special area of
Social Psychology; specifically to go along with the existing Psychology 322
(3). It also has a pre?requisite which includes other core courses with 3
credits. (See also above.)
5. This course entails the review and discussion
of projects where class time is spent reviewing, practicing, and learning
methods of reporting observations made in naturalistic settings through which
the student moves on his daily round. Each project is mandatory instructional
assignment which the student must formally submit, then re-submit after the
instructor's evaluation. The evidence of student learning and acquisition of
skills is to be found objectively in the projects and reports that the student
prepares as the work for the course. These project reports have, in our pilot
projects, been quite carefully and exhaustively prepared by our students
according to standards specified for them and which follow the scientific
register in Social Psychology. These projects are original, usable, empirical
data and can be examined and used by other students, colleagues, researchers,
and even, the public. The projects of the students of "Psychology
324" will thus accumulate over the semesters into a usable Data Bank or UH
Archives. This unique and special feature of this course will add greatly to
its value and importance demonstrating that undergraduate students are capable
of playing a role in the actual production of scientific data. Furthermore,
this course takes advantage of the fact that it is a large?size class: rather
than being a disadvantage, students have the opportunity of maximizing their
learning through variable comparison with many others whose daily round circles
or community membership varies and more nearly represents the macro?cosm
outside.
6. The requirements for teaching this
course are the same as those involving Psychology 322, i.e., a thorough
familiarity with the field of Social Psychology and with the standard accepted
methodologies of the social sciences governing the objectivity of data
gathering procedures and the style of reporting. There must also be a
willingness on the part of the instructor to forego the lecture-style mode and
to be able to function comfortably in a workshop atmosphere with large (200+)
groups. Professor James is planning to teach the new course every semester
along with members of the Social/Personality Area, current and probably future,
are capable of handling this course. In fact, given its empirical character,
professors may vie against each other for the opportunity of teaching
Psychology 324.
7. Since this is intended as a large, service
course it will add to the department's capacity to handle the increasing student
load. Currently, the Psych-logy Department is carrying out steps to reorganize
its offerings of advanced quality courses at the undergraduate level,
particularly its major and Honor's program. The intent is to try to cut the
size of these advanced?quality courses. This is possible, in the present case
of the new "Psychology 324" inasmuch as it incorporates
individualized projects and reports into an exchange plan where students profit
from the others:
the more the better, restricted only by the size
of the classroom.
8. This new course has not been offered before,
but as indicated above, the method has been piloted under the framework of
Psychology 322. The success of the method is readily evidenced by examining the
projects in our files, available upon request.
Applied Psycholinguistics in Social
Psychology
I. Projects Relating to the
Nature and Character of Talk
II. Projects Relating to
Cataloguing-Practices on the Daily Round Projects Relating to Objectifying
Personal Experience
Brief Notes
I. The projects related to
the nature of talk are designed to familiarize you with (a) the functional
components or "units of talk" (e.g., utterances, displays, arguments,
claims, positioning, moves, etc.: these being events that occur in talking),
and (b) the setting features that form a context for the occurrence of
events in talking and to which these events are related or connected through
socialization and assimilation practices of the community.
IA. Situationally Located
Talk (Student prepares tape recordings and transcriptions of portions thereof;
analyzes transcripts and writes up report.)
lB. Bandscript Analysis
(Student makes a micro?analysis of a small segment of a tape recording using stopwatch;
records length of displays and silences; analyzes inter?relationships through
graphic and notational transformations (e.g., charts and statistical
comparisons).
Topicalization Dynamics
(Student analyzes a segment of discourse text (reading material or transcript
of talk) and breaks it down into its "ARGUMENT COMPONENTS" according to
techniques of analysis practiced in class (e.g., in ethnosemantics, applied
tools exist: Color Coded Wisdom; ES-Probe Technique for Investigating Topic
Domain Fragmentation; these techniques are practiced in class and students in
the past have quickly learned to use their own knowledge to innovate specific
applications).
II. The projects relating to
cataloguing-practices on the daily round are designed to bring you to the
realization that experiencing is a culturally given medium (see
"enculturation/socialization/assimilation/standardization") and
therefore, experiencing includes the process of designing experiences.
Students keep track and tabulate events and occurrences on their daily round.
The Daily Round character of an individual is a function of his schedule and of
the circles or locales through which he moves. Students compare,
contrast, and annotate each others' reports and write up their findings within
the focus of "What is ETHNICITY? How is it characterized through
contrastive analyses of records of students who move various socio?ethnographic
circles (see "family background, neighborhood character, value
expressions, behavioral rituals," etc.).
The
projects relating to objectifying personal experience are designed to give you
practice in preparing objectified and theoretically oriented models, schemas,
and paradigms in Social Psychology and in Ethnosemantics (e.g., Conceptual
Arrays, Glossaries, Charts, Formal Notations, Contrastive Distributional
Analysis, and the like, which are methods that will be practiced in class.
Thus, for example, one project piloted this semester, involves students going
into the ocean every day for two weeks and carrying out a series of
observational exercises in which they report the ontological steps of their
acclimatization to the new medium in specified categories:
fears, imaginings, skills, routines,
innovations, sensations, movement characteristics, interpersonal exchanges in
the water, etc. These are then presented and analyzed in an overall report at
the end of the two weeks. Other examples include the micro-description of
interactional exchanges of brief duration (e.g., a handshake).
Student grades will be assigned after each
project report has been (a) submitted, and (b) resubmitted following instructor
evaluation. Pre requisite: Psychology 322 or any other course in Psychology
(except Psy 100 and 110) that deals with theoretical and experimental
literature in learning, personality, or development).