Undergraduate Course: Applications of Psychology (PSYL10191)
Course Outline
| School | School of Philosophy, Psychology and Language Sciences |
College | College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences |
| Credit level (Normal year taken) | SCQF Level 10 (Year 3 Undergraduate) |
Availability | Available to all students |
| SCQF Credits | 20 |
ECTS Credits | 10 |
| Summary | This course will focus on putting in action both transferrable and career-specific skills possessed by Psychology graduates. These workplace skills will be showcased with reference to four different types of career: in organisations, healthcare, research, and education.
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| Course description |
The course will allow students to learn about career pathways in applied psychology and their core knowledge and skill requirements, while simultaneously better understanding and identifying the skills they are gaining through their Psychology degree. Thus, this course will highlight pathways towards employability, and help students to identify potential career options ahead of their final year.
The course will be composed of four blocks delivered throughout the academic year (two blocks per semester), each focusing on one of the following four career paths: organisational psychology, health and clinical psychology, research, and educational psychology. Three of these careers (organisational, clinical/health, and educational psychology) require an undergraduate degree accredited by the British Psychological Society.
The course has hybrid teaching materials. Each block has an in-person lecture along with a set of pre-recorded lectures and self-study materials related to this career domain, and either a live or recorded interview with a professional psychologist hosted by the Course Organiser and focused on a detailed overview of their roles and skills.
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Information for Visiting Students
| Pre-requisites | Visiting students should be studying Psychology as their degree major and have completed at least 3 Psychology courses at grade B or above. We will only consider University/College level courses. Enrolment is also at the discretion of the course organiser, and students must contact the course organiser for the course to seek their permission to enrol in the course, then send that written confirmation to the Visiting Student Office for consideration. Applicants should note that, as with other popular courses, meeting the minimum does NOT guarantee admission.
**Please note that upper level Psychology courses are high-demand, meaning that they have a very high number of students wishing to enrol in a very limited number of spaces.** These enrolments are managed strictly by the Visiting Student Office, in line with the quotas allocated by the department, and all enquiries to enrol in these courses must be made through the CAHSS Visiting Student Office. It is not appropriate for students to contact the department directly to request additional spaces.
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| High Demand Course? |
Yes |
Course Delivery Information
| Not being delivered |
Learning Outcomes
On completion of this course, the student will be able to:
- Understand and explain the training requirements for accredited psychological career pathways.
- Critically engage with and write about professional ethics in psychology.
- Evaluate the role of psychology in organisations, in clinical contexts or in relation to mental health, and in education.
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Reading List
Indicative Reading List:
In all of the blocks, there are various resources or further readings that that relates to BPS and career service resources.
In Research outside of academia block. Some useful readings that relates to research outside of academia include:
Carole J. Lee, C. R. S. (2013). Bias in peer review. Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 64(1), 2¿17. https://doi.org/10.1002/asi.22784
Richard Van Noorden. (2013). Open access: The true cost of science publishing. Nature News, 495(7442), 426¿429. https://doi.org/10.1038/495426a
Marc A. Edwards, S. R. (2017). Academic Research in the 21st Century: Maintaining Scientific Integrity in a Climate of Perverse Incentives and Hypercompetition. Environmental Engineering Science, 34(1), 51¿61. https://doi.org/10.1089/ees.2016.0223
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Additional Information
| Graduate Attributes and Skills |
This course provides students with some of the skills needed when looking for jobs and when working in certain sectors. The first assessment asks students to apply their psychology knowledge to critically evaluate a real-world psychology problem. Students will develop their ability to synthesise across multiple sources of information to make recommendations for improvement and present their verdict by writing clearly and concisely for a non-technical audience. In the second assessment, students will learn how to independently find jobs and analyse them using psychological frameworks. Students will learn how to analyse the requirements of the role using a psychological model and use this information to self-reflect on their own strengths and areas for improvement. They will present their findings in a short, pre-recorded presentation that closely reflects current trends in interview formats. Students will develop their analytic, presentation
and public speaking skills and will hopefully develop a concrete idea of what they would like to do after their degrees. In both assessments students will learn how to communicate with limited word counts or time, a key skill in the workplace, and adapt their communication style to one appropriate for a non-psychological audience. Both assessments may be different to any that students have done before and they will learn how to adjust their expectations and adapt to a new way of working.
Core skills gained on this course:
Independence, research skills, taking initiative, critical analysis, problem solving, self-reflection (identify strengths and areas for improvement), clear written communication, presentation skills, public speaking, writing, and presenting within word counts or time limits, resilience.
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| Keywords | Not entered |
Contacts
| Course organiser | Mr Muhammad Aliff Asyraff Mohd Sharif
Tel:
Email: mmohdsh@exseed.ed.ac.uk |
Course secretary | Ms Fiona Thomson
Tel:
Email: fthomso3@ed.ac.uk |
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