About the Minor
The graduate minor has a structured curriculum that provides a foundation in basic areas in Political Psychology: social attitudes and cognition, judgment and decision making, group relations, personality and leadership, mass communication, public opinion, mass political behavior, and political socialization.
In addition to providing students with a background in Political Psychology, the program trains them in theory and methods useful to this field. This program is also intended to facilitate interactions among graduate students and faculty involved in research in Political Psychology. The faculty for the program are drawn from ten programs within the Graduate School and Law School.
The Setting
The Political Psychology program's facilities are located on the Minneapolis campus of the University of Minnesota -- Twin Cities. The University of Minnesota is located in the Minneapolis-St. Paul metro area, which hosts a wide array of outdoors, cultural, and sporting opportunities.
The Center for the Study of Political Psychology * 1325 Social Sciences Tower * 267 19th Avenue South * Minneapolis, MN 55455 * 612-624-0864 * ppcenter@umn.edu