Psychology Y4 Honours 2016-2017

Course Organiser: David Carmel dave.carmel@ed.ac.uk Room F16 (7GS) Important Contacts Course Organiser: David Carmel dave.carmel@ed.ac.uk Room F16 (7GS) Teaching Coordinator: Kasia Banas kasia.banas@ed.ac.uk Room G10 (7GS) Course Secretary: September: Stephanie Fong, S.Fong@ed.ac.uk After September: Toni Noble, Toni.noble@ed.ac.uk Room G.06 (DSB)

Careers Talk: 23rd September Dr Janet Forsyth from the Careers Service Room F21, 7 George Square Friday 23rd September, 1pm

Course structure (Single Honours) Six option courses (10 credits each) Some options assessed by exam in May Some courses assessed in other ways Automatic wait list (for everyone, not just single Hons) Tutorial Course (10 credits) Small group teaching in blocks 2 and 3 Assessment through 1000-word written work OR PowerPoint presentation OR poster at end of each block General paper (10 credits) Dissertation (40 credits) Highlight feedback opportunities

Joint Honours 2-4 option courses, which may include the tutorial course (10 credits each) Joint honours students don’t do general paper. Joint honours students usually choose to do dissertation in psychology (needed for BPS accreditation) For BPS accreditation, you need to make sure that your courses across years 3 and 4 cover the 5 BPS core areas: Social, developmental, cognitive, differential, biological also Methodology 1 & 2

Junior Year Abroad Students If you are interested in BPS accreditation, you need to make sure that you take courses in the 5 core areas across your JYA and year 4. If you didn't take a stats course in your overseas institution, or didn’t take a comprehensive enough stats course, you should register for RMS2 and/or RMS3 this year. If you are unsure about which methodology courses you should take, contact Tom Booth!! tom.booth@ed.ac.uk Stay here after this meeting for a few words with Kasia

Medical students Four options from Psychology 4 (10 credits each) (Not five!) Two options from Psychology 3 (10 credits each) RMS 1 (20 credits) Dissertation (40 credits)

New online handbook All handbook materials are now online Still new… Might contain bugs (let us know!) FAQ needs filling up Links, updates and news will be posted in the online handbook – you’ll get emails alerting you to changes http://www.handbooks.psy.ed.ac.uk/psych ology-4

Dissertations Students usually work in pairs Most projects have already been allocated, but you can still change to another available Deadline for finalising project (title+supervisor) is Thursday 6th October, 4pm [an upload link will be available in the ‘Dissertation’ section of the Year 4 handbook from Thursday 29th September] Dissertation deadline: 4pm, Wednesday 29th March 2017

Dissertation poster day Make a poster presentation of your poster, and receive staff feedback and give/receive peer feedback (unassessed) Coordinator Kasia Banas: Kasia.Banas@ed.ac.uk Talk on poster preparation: Friday 7 October, 1pm Probably in F21 (but watch out for emails) Poster day: Wednesday 23 November, concourse

Psychology General Paper The General Paper is a 10 credit module, assessed by exam in May In the exam, you need to answer two essay-type questions on general topics in Psychology There is no specific teaching for the General Paper, but general paper topics are often covered in tutorials. Examples of past questions can be seen in the on- line exam papers (accessed via library website)

Y4 Reps for SSLC The staff-student liaison committee (SSLC) needs 2 student representatives 2 meetings per semester Collect student comments, feed back to staff and vice versa. (see email 4 August) Send your application to ppls.sso@ed.ac.uk by 30 September

What you have to do now Finalise your choice of courses. Any changes to timetable Requests for course changes should be directed to the course secretary, Stephanie Fong S.Fong@ed.ac.uk Finalise your choice of dissertation project

Psychology Outreach Program Course part of Geosciences, with Psychology angle Student ‘Consultants’ work with community ‘Clients’ to develop a ‘Product’ Run over 2 semesters Semester 1: Skills workshops, identifying clients Semester 2: Product design & delivery, write-up Legacy Products Teaching materials, videos, pamphlets, apps, events, etc Gain transferable skills

Psychology Outreach Program Assessment Continuous: Interim project report (December) and presentation to peers (February) – 15% Summative: Final product – 40% Technical report – 20% Reflective diary / journal and project timeline – 15% Personal reflective document and project flyer – 10% Contact Dr Bonnie Auyeung at bonnie.auyeung@ed.ac.uk