Psychology with Gaelic Studies

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.

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
• Gaelic Studies

Two other subjects are studied, one of which is science-based.

Second Year

There are lectures on:

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

A selection of other subjects are studied, the majority of which are science-based.

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, there are Gaelic Studies courses and students carry out and report an empirical investigation. They also select four options, currently from the following list:

• Health Behaviour
• Stress and Disease
• Psychology, Law and Eyewitness Testimony
• Human Neuropsychology
• Abnormal Psychology
• The Cognitive Neuroscience of Person Perception
• Human Factors
• Human Evolution
• Visual Awareness
• Applications of Cognitive Neuroscience
• Perspectives on Social Attributions

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.