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Arts or Science?

  • 01-10-2006 2:56pm
    #1
    LundiMardi
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    So, applying for a full time course, what is the difference between studying Psychology through science, as appose to Arts?

    i'm confuzzed. :)


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  • #2
    John
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    I guess the difference is you get to take arts subjects with psychology in first year if you do it through arts and science subjects if you do it through science. It being a science (with a large biology content), I'd recommend doing it through science if you can.


  • #3
    Valmont
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    I'm doing a Bachelor of Arts in Behavioural science at the moment and to be honest it has its' good and bad points.

    Throughout my degree I will have taken electives in Sociology, English, philosophy, cultural anthropology and physiology(more a science I know).
    In my opinion these subjects are very complementary to psychology(intentionally). I took an English comp elective in my first semester and we covered report writing, literature reviews and covered the complete A.P.A referencing sytem which was very handy. Sociology is similar to psychology in some respects and it was interesting to get a different perspective on the workings of society as opposed to what we learned in Social Psych.

    The bad point in my opinion is the language elective we have to take for four semesters. I had to start anew at Spanish which was demanding to begin with and towards the exams I felt annoyed at having to study a subject which wasn't related to my course.

    For me studying Psychology through arts gives a more well rounded education in addition to the focus on psychology despite the language. The last three semesters of the course (1 and half years) is focused primarily on Psychology. Which gives further time to specialise and focus on the most important aspect of the course.

    http://www.amcd.ie/programme.php?id=4

    This is the curriculum for the course.

    I'm obviously biased but I don't think it makes too much of a difference as long as the course is accredited by the PSI and Hetac. Thats whats most important when considering a degree in Psych.


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