As a current Undergraduate student you will find all the information you should need on the School of Psychology MyDundee pages (login required), for example relevant year handbooks, degree regulations, timetables and general procedures. In addition to this you also have the following facilities as a current Undergraduate Student:
This is your Undergraduate Reading Room/Common Room to use for study or quiet chats with fellow Psychology students. It has WiFi facilities, comfortable chairs along with study tables. It’s a good place to form study groups and meet fellow students.
Scrymgeour Building, Annexe Lab - Mainly used by Level 1 and 2 for Workshops, Lectures and studying whether you bring your own laptop or use one of the many computers available.
Scrymgeour Building, Level 3/4 Lab - Mainly used by Level 3 and 4 Workshops, Labs, Lectures and studying with many computers available.
Communicating with our students is important to keep everyone informed of what’s going on. We have dedicated Notice Boards for each year and a please subscribe to our FREE news feed on our homepage. This way you will keep upto date with what’s going on in the school of psychology.
If you need to contact the coordinator of the year you are participating on the following members of staff are the contacts:
Level 1 provides the fundamental grounding for our four-year course. In lecture sessions, you will learn about social behaviour, memory and cognition, child development, the biological basis of behaviour, and human abilities and personality. You will also learn how to design experiments, carry out them out, and analyse the collected data in such a way as to enable you to draw valid conclusions about the results of those experiments. In practical classes you will participate in using this knowledge to carry out experiments that exemplify important findings described in the lectures.
Armed with fundamentals, you can now explore more detailed aspects of psychology. You will learn how we perceive the world around us and carry out skilled tasks within it, what happens when things go wrong in the brain, how children develop psychologically, and how we learn and use language. You will also acquire more advanced research skills including methods for statistical analysis and you will have more opportunity to practice these skills in laboratory classes.
L3 consists of six compulsory, "Core" modules: Cognition, Individual Differences and Abnormal Psychology, Biological Psychology, Language, Social Psychology, and Developmental Psychology.
Each Core module is supported by a programme of Practical work, which contributes to the final mark for each paper, and by a compulsory Research Skills course, which involves studies of experimental design and statistical methods.
The educational aims of L3 are to:
At this last stage in your training as a psychologist you will not only learn about topics at the forefront of current psychological knowledge, but also be able to contribute to this fast-moving research community. You will be able to choose three advanced and specialised option courses, taught in small group seminars, which address topics at the frontiers of contemporary psychological research. You will also carry out an investigation of a topic of your choice, under the guidance of a member of staff, which you will write up as a dissertation. The research can take place 'in the field' (for instance, schools, hospitals, business) or in laboratories specialised in the study of brain activity, eye movements, perception, motor control, reading, communication, infant behaviour and group dynamics.
Welcome to DUPS! Like psychology? Interested in finding out a bit more? Fancy gaining some experience volunteering with different organisations? Or maybe you just love social events like pub crawls?!! Whatever you're looking for, DUPS should have something for you. From pub quizzes and movie nights to academic talks and volunteer workshops. DUPS is packed with week by week activities that all students are welcome to attend. You can also attend our fundraiser "Welcome to Hogwarts" on Thursday 6 December in the Union, or come along all dressed up to our annual Psychology Ball in the second semester.
Benefits from joining the society are:-
It's only £4 for a membership which lasts you the whole year!! With over 200 members, and 2 events in a row to be nominated for the most successful of the year, it really is a society worth joining.
All students are welcome to join, so get psyched and sign up!!
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