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Social Sciences
Psychology
BA Psychology
3 years
€3000 pa
Programme profile
Psychology is the study of behaviour and mental processes, and includes individual and social, human and animal, normal and abnormal aspects. Most people find psychology intrinsically interesting. Even a little knowledge of psychology is useful in most career paths.
Programme content
First year Psychology is taken with two other subjects selected from the extensive Arts menu. Second year and third year (the final year) of the BA in Psychology involve only courses in Psychology.
Year One: Cognitive Psychology; Theories of Personality; Research Methods; Social Psychology; Psychology of Learning; Developmental Psychology; Biology and Behaviour
Year Two: Developmental Psychology; Experimental Psychology; Qualitative Research Methods; Biological Psychology; Psychology of Learning; Social Psychology; Forensic, Abnormal and Clinical Psychology; Applied Organisational Psychology; Perception, Attention and Performance; Research Methods in Psychology; Psychology, Science and Pseudo-science; Human Sexuality
Year Three: Applied Behavioural Analysis; History of Psychology and Current Issues; Psychological Measurement: Theory and Practice; Developmental Psychology; Advanced Research Methods in Psychology; Memory and Cognition; Issues in Cognitive Neuroscience; Health Psychology; Research Project; Relational Frame Theory; Psycholinguistics
Progression
This programme satisfies the requirements for graduate membership of relevant professional societies (the Psychological Society of Ireland and the British Psychological Society), and the degree qualifies graduates for entry to specialist postgraduate professional programmes in Ireland, the UK, the US and elsewhere
Entry Requirements
Students must present six subjects of which two must be at grade C or above at Advanced GCE (A-Level. Others must be at least at grade C or above on GCSE or Advanced Subsidiary GCE (AS) papers. The six subjects above must include:English, Mathematics and a language other than English.
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Leaving Cert/A-Levels/IB scores will be converted into points. Entry points for 2015 were 515
05 November
01 May
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