Rather than my usual blog of tales of my life, I decided to focus
this one on what it is like studying psychology and my personal experience of the
models I did in my first year, so then if anyone is thinking of choosing psychology
for their degree it’ll (hopefully) give them a bit more of an insight to it and what it's actually like. (Although don’t let my experiences put you
off....everyone is different after all, and all have different interests!!)
Year One (Fresherrssss).
This was made up of 4 modules; 3 compulsory ones and 1 we
could choose. And was spread over 3 days
(Monday, Tuesday and Friday) with 7 hours of lectures and 5 hours of seminars.
The modules were:
Academic and Personal
Development (30 Credits).
This in my opinion was probably the easiest module of them
all....this one involved working on a lot of the basic skills needed to study
psychology, such as literature searchers, essay writing as well as filming a
video of us conducting a psychology experiment. This module was helpful as it
allowed us to practice our key skills and as I found the assignments relatively
easy, this module helped to boost my overall grade for the year.
This module was literally what it says on tin, an
introduction to psychology; luckily for me I did A level psychology, so I
already had a fair bit of knowledge about the key psychology studies, such as
Milgram, Zimbardo etc...which helped me a lot with this side of this course,
although saying that this was probably the one that I had to work the hardest foras
there was just so much information that we had to remember, especially when it
came to the mini tests or the final exam.
Research Methods (30
Credits).
Counselling (30
Credits) or Applied Psychology (30 Credits).
But I passed.....so I guess that’s all that matters, and I
we don’t have to do it in second or third year, so thats a big yaaaay from me
:D.
On the other side of things, we were also able to choose to
do applied psychology, which looks at the application of psychology in the real
world. The thing my friends loved about doing this module was the fact that there
is no exam for it...it’s all coursework based, which had I known before I would
have been really tempted to choose this instead, as I hate exams!!!!
But
yeah.....Thats pretty much my first year in a nutshell....I’ll write another
one about second year sometime in the future. ...but for now I hope this blog
will shed some light on what psychology is really like as a degree.
Soooo
goodbye for now xx
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