Wikipedia:Canada Education Program/Courses/Present/Contemporary Research in Personality (John Zelenski)/Course description

Course description
As the course’s title implies, it will provide a survey of current personality research and theory. That is, we will consider current accomplishments, questions, and controversies in personality psychology. The content will provide significant breadth in that we will touch on most prominent approaches in personality (i.e., traits, goals, motives, emotions, the unconscious, genetics, physiology, culture, evolution, development and change, etc.). My experience and expertise often leads to examples in relation to happiness and sustainability, but curiosity and fascinating findings will take us well beyond these topics. I encourage students to bring their own lines of research to the course, and they will have opportunities to consider new ways that personality might fit with their interests.

This course will also participate in the Association for Psychological Science’s new Wikipedia initiative with assistance from the Canada Education Program. That is, a significant portion of students’ coursework and writing assignments will involve creating and/or editing widely read Wikipedia pages to reflect the state of the art in psychological science. (Previous Wikipedia experience not required!) Compared to more typical coursework where there is a single reader, students in this course will enjoy knowing that many people will ultimately read and benefit from their work.

The course syllabus is available here, and details of the Wikipedia project and schedule are below.

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