Level 3 Module Choices 200708

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Level 3 Module Choices2007-08

• Dr Lorna Bourke
• Psychology Department

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On-Line Registration

• www.hope.ac.uk
• Information Portal
• On-line selection of optional modules (F/T ONLY)
• 19th April 2007 26th April 2007
• No extensions
• Students will be allocated to modules by staff if
  they have not registered
• Timetable available July 2007
• You must decide this semester which route you
  want to take next year. The modules you can
  select will depend on the route you select.

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What does route mean?

• Your route refers to the overall balance of
  modules across subjects. There are three types
• Single
• 1 subject, eg BSc Psychology
• Dual
• 2 subjects, equally balanced eg BSc Psych
  Health
• Major-Minor
• 2 subjects, with more time devoted to the major
  than the minor eg BSc Psychology with Health

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What route changes are possible?

• If you are currently taking a dual route
• you can normally choose to stay on a dual route
  60 credits per subject or to change to a
  Major/Minor route 90 credits of your major and
  30 credits of your minor or to change to a
  Single Major route 120 credits of your major.

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What route changes are possible?

• If you are currently taking a single route or a
  major-minor route
• you will normally stay on that route

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Im a full-time student how do I change from
dual to major/minor or single major ?

• See your subject tutors for advice about
  availability of major/minor and single major in
  your subject and to discuss the modules you may
  want to take.
• Log on to your student portal between 5th 30th
  March and follow the instructions for changing
  route. No extensions will be possible under any
  circumstances, although there will be an
  opportunity to request a change from July, when
  the timetable has been published.

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Im a full-time student howdo I choose modules?

• Full-time students on Combined Honours and Single
  Honours degrees will choose optional modules via
  the student portal from 19-26 April. No
  extensions will be possible under any
  circumstances, although there will be an
  opportunity to request a change from July, when
  the timetable has been published.
• Compulsory modules will be added automatically
  and you can view these. If all modules are
  compulsory, you will not choose any modules.

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Im a part-time student what do I do?

• See your subject tutors for advice about
  availability of major/minor and single major in
  your subject and to discuss the modules you want
  to take.
• Select modules change route via the Change of
  Course Details Form, available from the
  Registrars Office webpages and the Information
  Area FML101.
• The completed Form MUST be submitted to the
  Registrars Office Posting Box no later than 0900
  on 2 April. No extensions will be possible under
  any circumstances, although there will be an
  opportunity to request a change from July, when
  the timetable has been published.

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British Psychological Society

• Modules conferring eligibility for Graduate Basis
  for Registration (GBR) of the BPS
• PSYH001 Dissertation
• PSYH002 Human development, personality and
  individual differences
• BSc Single Hons Psychology/Sport Psychology
• Take both modules

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Qualifying Exam for BPS

• Guides our curriculum for BPS accreditation and
  GBR
• Areas to be covered during Years 2 3
• Cognitive Psychology
• Psychobiology
• Research Methods
• Social Psychology
• Human development
• Individual differences
• Conceptual and Historical Issues
• Practical Work

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Year 3

• BPS Taught Curriculum
• Human development, personality and individual
  differences
• Different psychological approaches to human
  development, personality and individual
  differences.
• Historical and contemporary understanding of
  personality, individual differences and human
  lifespan development explored along with the
  methods used to derive and research these topics.
• Cognitive development
• Gender socialisation
• Identity development
• Language development
• Moral development
• Contrast and explore biological, constructivist,
  socio-cultural and information-processing
  approaches to human development.
• Psychological testing (personality and
  intelligence)
• Conceptual architecture of the major paradigms
  of personality (e.g. psychodynamic,
  socio-cultural, existential humanist, learning,
  trait, biological)
• Practical fields of application (e.g. Education,
  Health, Business, Industry).

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Year 3

• BPS Curriculum
• Practical Work
• Dissertation (Opportunity to identify a topic for
  research)
• Systematic, critical review of research
  literature in specific area
• Design and conduct a study to address a specific
  research question
• Demonstrate an awareness of ethical issues
• Apply certain data analysis techniques and
  interpret their outcome
• Write a full and clear report of your study in a
  format acceptable within Psychology.

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Year 3

• Non-BPS Curriculum
• PSYH010 Memory
• (Taken by BSc Single Hons in Psychology)
• Models of memory
• Executive functioning
• Connectionist modelling
• Visual
• Brain-imaging techniques
• Prospective memory
• Neuropsychology
• Application to real-life
• Clinical
• Education
• Health
• Forensic

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Year 3

• Non-BPS Curriculum
• Perspectives on anomalistic experiences
• Anomalous experiences and phenomena
• Exceptional abilities (e.g., psi, out-of-body
  experiences, haunting experiences, mediumship,
  healing, alien contact experiences)
• Application of psychological theory and
  methodology
• Awareness of alternative explanations
• Topics to be covered
• Defining of anomalous experience and approaches
  to the study of anomalous phenomena
• Historical developments (from early spiritualism
  to experimental parapsychology)
• Rhetoric, metaphor, and debate in the study of
  anomalous phenomena
• Altered states of consciousness and anomalous
  experiences
• Psychokinesis
• Healing
• Personality and anomalous experience and beliefs
• Psychophysiology and anomalous experience
• Spirituality and anomalous experience
• Science and pseudo-science

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Year 3

• Non-BPS Curriculum
• Psychology and Education
• Educational applications of developmental,
  cognitive, behavioural and social psychology
• Principles of assessment and testing
• Consider the role of an Educational Psychologist
• Topics to be covered
• Developmental psychology Implications for
  teaching reading, writing and mathematics,
  learning difficulties and development of
  reasoning skills in adults
• Cognitive psychology Instructional applications
  of the principles of memory, perception and text
  comprehension
• Social psychology Self concept and educational
  achievement, studies or classroom interaction
• Behavioural psychology Applications of behaviour
  modification and behavioural analysis
• Testing and assessment Principles and procedures
  in education and educational psychology
• Professional issues The developing role of an
  educational psychologist

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To recap

• BA/BSc Combined Hons
• Do I want to do the BPS route?
• Yes
• Dissertation
• Human development, personality and individual
  differences
• Additional Modules
• Perspectives on anomalistic experiences
• Psychology and Education
• BSc Single Hons Sport Psychology
• You will be following BPS route
• Dissertation
• Human development, personality and individual
  differences
• BSc Single Hons in Psychology
• You will be following the BPS route
• Dissertation
• Human development
• You will be selecting the following distinct
  module for your programme
• Memory
• You will have a choice of one of the following

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What if I need further help or advice?

• If you need further help or advice about any
  changes described in this presentation, you
  should first speak to subject tutors and course
  leaders
• If you would like further advice about the
  academic implications of your choices, please
  contact the APAS Office on 0151 291 3687 and ask
  for an appointment with an adviser.