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Psychologimacal student

  • 13-09-2007 2:04pm
    #1
    SamHamilton
    Closed Accounts Posts: 280 ✭✭


    Hello.:D
    I'll be studying English and Psychology as part of TSM and was just wondering if anyone out there has done the course.
    I put psychology down on a whim but I'm sure I'll enjoy it, it sounds really interesting. I'd just like to get a feel for the course. What stuff is covered etc. Also what's studied in the practicals, methology and statistics module? The website's okay but it doesn't really answer any of my questions.
    I'm biting my fist in anticipation for October. Why can't it be here now?!:)

    On a side note, I know I'm not supposed to mention it to college students but...what are the job prospects like for psychology graduates? Before and after a postgrad?

    Thanks.


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  • #2
    claire h
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,056 ✭✭✭claire h


    Check out this thread for some info.

    PMS - as a TSM student you'll have it split over the first two years (so you do part 1 of PMS1 in Michelmas - autumn - term in first year, and part 2 of it in Hilary - spring - term in second year). It's a lecture and a two-hour (I think) lab or seminar per week, where you're taught how to use SPSS (a statistics computer program) to analyse data obtained in experiments, usually short experiments that you'll do in class, and play about the results until they become meaningful in some way. There are charts and graphs and other such exciting things. And you look at things like validity and reliablity in psychological experiments, how psychologists actually go about getting their test results, what counts as a 'statistically significant' difference from the norm, and other such groovy things. Basically a 'here are the skills you need!' sort of class. :)

    As for job prospects - pretty much the same for other arts/social sciences degrees, which is to say that if you want a job within that field, postgrads are usually necessary, but that there are always jobs out there where simply an honours degree will do as a basic qualification.


  • #3
    SamHamilton
    Closed Accounts Posts: 280 ✭✭SamHamilton


    Cool. Thanks.


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