Final Honours Psychology 20082009

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Final Honours Psychology 2008/2009

• Welcome!

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Outline of Meeting

• Final honours year structure tutorials, courses,
  dissertation, exams
• Dissertation
• 4th year options updates
• Things you need to do as the semester starts
• Careers talk
• Student-staff liaison committee

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Final honours year structure

• Lecture courses 3 blocks of teaching, 5 weeks
  each
• Tutorials 3 blocks of 4 sessions, each with
  different tutor
• Dissertation due in March
• Psychology exams in May

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Dissertation

• If you do not have a project yet, need to find a
  supervisor
• All students - register name of supervisor and
  project by week 3
• Extra dissertation available (max 2 students)
• Dr Jonathan Delafield-Butt (Perception Movement
  Action Research Centre) ltjtdb_at_holyrood.ed.ac.ukgt
• infant gesture and communicative expression, with
  mothers

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Course updates

• No longer available Current Issues in Human
  Mental Ability Differences
• Many have emailed Martha already about making
  course changes
• M.Whiteman_at_ed.ac.uk
• All changes will be made from the end of first
  week

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Freshers Week appointments?

• I have a sign-up sheet this week (and also next
  week) if you need to discuss any matter that
  needs the course organisers attention

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Things you need to do as semester starts

• Read your handbook Health safety, course and
  contact information
• First lectures begin Monday 22nd
• If still trying to decide on courses, safest to
  go along until course change is official
• Sign up for first block of tutorials Wednesday
  24th (week 1)?
• Register dissertation title/supervisor week 3
  (further reminder will follow)?

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Exams in May

• All psychology courses examined in May (none in
  December)?
• The exams also include a General Paper, also
  taken in May (tutorials often used to prepare for
  this)?
• No teaching in 2nd half of 2nd semester
  dissertation and revision time

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Social events

• Psychology Society
• Wine reception after seminars on Mondays
  (Seminars 5-6.30pm, F21, beginning 29th
  September)?

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Careers Talk

• Reviewing your options by Sharon Maguire,
  careers advisor.
• Tue 23rd Sept (week 1)
• 10am-10.50
• F21
• P.S. You might also want to consider postgraduate
  study at this or another institution (talk to a
  lecturer whose work interests you)?

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SSLC

• Student-Staff liaison committee needs two reps
  from 4th year.
• 2 meetings per semester
• If interested, contact Caroline Watt
  Caroline.Watt_at_ed.ac.uk Room S33
• First come first served

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Contact details

• 4th year course organiser Dr Patrick Sturt
• patrick.sturt_at_ed.ac.uk
• Office G29
• Course secretary Mrs Anna Sim
• Anna.Sim_at_ed.ac.uk
• Office G7