Psychology with Gaelic

Programme Structure & Content

Courses are available from first to fourth year. There is a British Psychological Society (BPS) accredited Honours degree and a Designated degree. Application for entry to Honours occurs at the end of second year, and is based on academic performance achieved during second year. Students not continuing to Honours may complete the Designated degree.

Gaelic language courses are included from first through fourth year.

First Year

There are lectures on:

• Biological Psychology
• Developmental Psychology (human development from infancy to old age)
• Health Psychology
• Cognitive Psychology
• Perceptual Psychology
• Social Psychology

Second Year

There are lectures on:

• Ageing & Individual Differences
• Developmental Psychology
• Behavioural Neuroscience
• Cognition (modelling and explaining the higher abilities of the mind)
• Quantitative Methods (design of experiments and elementary statistics)
• Organizational Psychology
• Perception
• Social Psychology

Third & Fourth Year (Honours)

In third year, there are lectures and tutorials on:

• Biological Psychology
• Developmental Psychology
• Human Memory
• Methodology
• Perception
• Psychological Assessment
• Social Psychology

In fourth year, students carry out and report an empirical investigation. They also select four options, currently from the following list:

• Health Behaviour
• Psychology, Law and Eyewitness Testimony
• Human Neuropsychology
• Applications of Cognitive Neuroscience
• Abnormal Psychology
• The Cognitive Neuroscience of Person Perception
• Human Evolution
• Neuropsychology of Visual Awareness
• Perspectives on Social Attribution
• Stress and Disease
• Studying the Stream of Consciousness

Teaching & Assessment

Teaching is by means of lectures, laboratory practicals, workshops and tutorials, with more extensive experimental projects in third and fourth year. Assessment is by means of examination and continuous assessment.