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Prior to enrolling in courses at this language level, students must have completed or tested out of a minimum of four semesters (or six quarters) of college-level Spanish at their home university in the U.S.

The group as a theoretical object and social psychological intervention tool. The study of different ways of human groups operation. Relation between individual and group, groups and social context. Constitution of the groups. Main group phenomena: leadership, cohesion, processes of change. The systems of stability and balance. Structures of hierarchy and group mobility. Forms of communication. Conflict and frustration. The disintegration of groups.