1. Psychology Y4 Honours

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

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

5. 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

6. 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

7. 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!!
Stay here after this meeting for a few words with Kasia

8. 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)

9. 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 s alerting you to changes
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10. 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

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

12. 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)

13. 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 4 August)
Send your application to by 30 September

14. 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
Finalise your choice of dissertation project

15. 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

16. 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