Psychology at Kent
Final Year Options for
2017-18 Academic Year
Dr Joseph Brooks
Director of Education
Your Programme
For those on 4 Year degrees:
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Applied Year (counts towards classification)
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Year Abroad (not towards classification but must pass)
Stage 1
Stage 2
Stage 3
Core Psychology Content
Option Modules
Statistics & Methods Teaching
Applying Psych
Research
Sp300 Pracs & RPS
Sp500 Pracs & RPS
Final Year Project
Stages 2&3 count toward final degree classification!
Looking forward to 2017-18
• Choice in modules and project topic
• Closer links with academic staff
• Specialist modules with experts on the topic
• Transferable skills for employment and/or postgraduate
study
• Apply knowledge from prior years in a real project
Stage 3 - Core Modules
Stage 3
• Everyone takes these
Option Modules
SP633: Applying
Psychology
Final Year Project
• SP633: Applying Psychology (Spring)
• Final Year Project (Both Terms) :
• SP581
Psychology and Law Joint Honours
• SP582
Psychology Project
• SP583
Psychology Project for “with Clinical” students
• SP600
Psychology Project (all other Joint Honours)
SP633: Applying Psychology
Convenor:
Dr Michal Chmiel
Lecturers:
external & internal speakers
Assessment :
• Portfolio 50%
• Exam 50%
SP633: Applying Psychology
• showcases psychological science in action
• psychology in tackling social problems and offering solutions
• Example Topics:
– Body image, public relations, sports psychology, sexualisation, prejudice in
children, applied face recognition, neuropsychology, assessment
• Illustrates wide application of psychology for social policy,
organizational life, university life, media, health & medicine, the
global environment, etc.
Final Year Project
(SP581, SP582, SP583 and SP600)
Convenor:
Dr Kirsten Abbot-Smith
FYP Supervisor:
A member of academic or
research staff
Final Year Project Options
• Approximately 80-100 different
projects on offer
• A chance to focus, in depth, on
a topic
• Close work with member of staff
• Apply your knowledge
• Transferable skills
– Project management
– Working with others
– Statistics, writing, critical thinking
FYP - Signing up for a project
• Dr Abbott-Smith will give a presentation on the FYP next
week (Friday; see your timetable)
• Will discuss details of FYP module and link to list of
projects and process for signing up
• If you do not sign up for a project by 30 April, you will be
randomly assigned to one.
SP597/598 Clinical Psychology
(core for those on ‘with Clinical’ programmes)
Convenor:
Dr Paraskevi Triantafyllopoulou (Vivi)
SP597: Clinical I (Autumn)
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classification of psychological
disorders
theoretical models
Clinical research methods
professional issues/ethics
Assessment:
Essay (20%) + Exam (80%)
SP598: Clinical II (Spring)
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Recent approaches to assessment and
treatment
Delivered mostly by practicing clinicians
Assessment:
Essay (20%) + Exam (80%)
Your 2017-18 option choices
• Each degree programme has different requirements
• Please see middle of your booklet for ease of reference
• Two Groups, with modules in Autumn and Spring Terms
• Share modules evenly between terms
Group 1 - Autumn
SP566: Cognition in Action
Convenor:
Dr Zara Bergström
Assessment:
• Seminar report (2,000 words) 20%
• Extended essay (3,000 words) 80%
SP566: Cognition in Action
• Hot and/or critical topics in cognitive psychology building
upon theories and research assimilated in Stages 1 and 2
– Free will; False memories; Imitation; Unconscious memories
• Focus on emotion, memory and language. In particular the
role of emotion in attention, language and memory, and the
impact of labels on thought and actions
• Practical applications and relevance to a general
understanding of behaviour will be emphasised throughout
SP580: Advanced Developmental
Psychology
Convenor:
Dr Lindsey Cameron
Assessment:
• Exam 60%
• Essay (2,000 words) 40%
SP580: Advanced Developmental
Psychology
• Critically review recent research into key topics within advanced
developmental psychology
• Example topics:
– Development of the social self in childhood and adolescence
– Social and peer exclusion in childhood
– Language and children
– Family life and conversation
– Childhood pragmatics
– Prejudice development and reduction in childhood and
adolescence
SP612: Attitudes and Social Cognition
Convenor:
Dr Mario Weick
Assessment:
• Exam 60%
• Research proposal in poster-format (1,500
words) 40%
SP612: Attitudes and Social Cognition
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Study the processes that underlie human judgments, behaviour
and decision making in real-life contexts
how can these issues be applied with benefits for individuals,
groups and society
How do individuals form and maintain an understanding of
themselves, other people and the world they live in?
Students will have an opportunity to propose new research to
address an unanswered research question
Group 1 - Spring
SP608: Motivation
Convenor:
Dr Arnaud Wisman
Assessment:
• Group presentation (20%)
• 10 weekly Moodle quizzes (20%)
• Extended essay (3,000 words) 60%
SP608: Motivation
• An opportunity to study the literature on motivation, focussing on
social-cognitive perspectives on human motivation
• We will consider:
– what is experimental existential psychology?
– does the unconscious exist?
– the body, sex, and death
– drive, needs and motives plus much more
• Address terror management theory, attribution theory, control
theory etc.
• Applications to applied settings will be discussed
SP611: The Neuroscience of
Cognitive Disorders
Convenor:
Dr David Wilkinson
Assessment:
• Short answer written exercise 20%
• Seen exam/extended essay (4,000 words) 80%
SP611 The Neuroscience of Cognitive
Disorders
• neuropsychological deficits acquired through stroke
– hemi-spatial neglect
– Prosopagnosia
– aphasia and amnesia
• Examines how different strands of neuroscientific
research (behavioural, cognitive, structural,
physiological) have advanced understanding of
neuropsychological disorders and informed
intervention
SP616: Language and Communication
Convenor:
Dr Kirsten Abbot-Smith
Assessment:
• Exam 60%
• Essay (2,000 words) 40%
SP616: Language and Communication
• An opportunity to learn about the methods, techniques and
issues involved in the study of language and communication
• Will highlight the interplay between theory, research and
application, focusing on core theories and research
• Each class will review the historical development of a subject
before introducing current theories and methods
Group 2 - Autumn
SP601: Understanding People with Learning
Disabilities
Convenor:
Dr Rachel Forrester-Jones
Assessment:
• Poster 25%
• Essay (2,500 words) 75%
SP601: Understanding People with Learning
Disabilities
• Provides intro to important issues in learning disability and can be taken
either as a stand-alone module or as a pre-requisite to SP602
• Examines definitions and attitudes to people with, for example, Autism
and Down’s Syndrome
• Explores difficulties that people with learning disabilities experience
(including communicating and establishing social and sexual
relationships) and resultant problems (such as sexual abuse and
challenging behaviour)
• Considers social policy initiatives and how services might implement
policy objectives (such as social inclusion and adult protection)
SP636: Evaluating Evidence: Becoming a Smart
Research Consumer
Convenor:
Aleksandra Cichocka
Assessment:
• Essay (max 2,000 words) 25%
• Quality and quantity of in-class participation
25%
• Exam (half multiple choice, half short
answer) 50%
SP636: Evaluating Evidence: Becoming a
Smart Research Consumer
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The module will systematically explore common logical and
psychological barriers to understanding and critically analysing
empirical research.
Major topics to be considered include:
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misleading statistical and graphical techniques
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common fallacies of reasoning,
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judgmental heuristics relevant to evaluating empirical research claims,
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establishing genuine associations,
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the role of inferential statistics for identifying illusory associations,
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essentials of causal inference, and
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threats to the validity of experimental and non experimental research.
SP637: Forensic Psychology: Theoretical and
Applied Perspectives
Convenor:
Dr Emma Alleyne
Assessment:
• Multiple choice exam 30%
• Extended essay (3,000 words) 70%
SP637: Forensic Psychology: Theoretical and
Applied Perspectives
• This module provides an in-depth examination of theory and
application of forensic psychology to the criminal justice system
• It examines:
– Law development
– Types of offending
– Police and forensic profilers’ responses to offending
– Eyewitness credibility and police interview process
– Aims of punishment and prisoners’ responses to imprisonment
– Theories of rehabilitation and the implementation of the sex offender
treatment programme plus much more
SP639: Psychoanalysis
Convenor:
Professor Janet Sayers
Assessment:
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Mid-term essay (1,500 words) 20%
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Essay or Exam 80% (subject to change)
NB: There is a maximum quota of 40 students for this module
SP639: Freud and Post Freud
• Critical introduction to Freudian and post-Freudian psychoanalytic
psychology
• Evaluation of theory, method and data in relation to fundamental
concepts in psychoanalytic psychology – e.g. the unconscious, infantile
sexuality
• Application of concepts to specific clinical conditions (e.g. neurosis,
depression, autism, schizophrenia); to adult and child psychotherapy; and
more generally to society (including social and cultural issues such as
sexism and art)
Group 2 - Spring
SP602: Researching People with Learning
Disabilities
Convenor:
Dr Michelle McCarthy
Assessment:
• Literature review (1,500 words) 30%
• Project report (3,500) 70%
Prerequisite : SP601
SP602: Researching People with Learning
Disabilities
• Direct contact with people with learning disabilities
• Valuable experience for those considering work in this field
• Complete a project based on interviews with people with learning
disabilities
• There will be teaching sessions on research, interview construction,
recording and analysis
• Practical work involves visiting a person with learning disabilities at their
place of work and conducting a recorded interview
• A series of clinics designed to assist students in analysis, interpretation
and presentation of the project work will follow
SP602: Researching People with Learning
Disabilities
Initiative: http://www.mcch.org.uk/tuckbytruck/index.aspx
Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TmIyWdBpD8E&feature=youtu.be
SP641: Mental Health: Diagnosis, Interventions and
Treatments
Convenor:
Dr Lydia Kearney
Assessment:
• Poster 20%
• Critical review (3,000 words) 80%
SP641: Mental Health: Diagnosis, Interventions
and Treatments
• Examines origins and identification of different forms of atypical cognitions
and behaviours and investigate the psychological and social impact for
patients
• Covers some of the major mental health disorders, focussing primarily on
what research has to say about their social/cognitive/biological bases
and the implications they have for treatment
• Describes several methodological approaches and ask fundamental
questions about the meaning of normality
• Historical developments will be examined and current interventions and
treatments feature highly
SP643: Psychology of Music
Convenor:
Dr Michael Forrester
Assessment:
• Essay (3,000 words) 50%
• Exam 50%
SP643: Psychology of Music
• This course will introduce students to a wide range of areas in the field of
the psychology of music
– psychoacoustics and auditory perception
– the development of musicality
– the cognitive neuroscience of music
– relationship between music and emotion.
• Explore different theoretical approaches and research
methodologies employed in the psychology of music in order
to understand this most interesting aspect of human
experience.
• Mixture of internal & external speakers
What do I do now?
• Online module registration opens on Monday, 13th March 2017
– Closes 4 PM on 24 March, 2017
– Relevant for all going to stage 3 (final year) in 17-18
– www.kent.ac.uk/hsugo/omr/stage2.html
• …use the booklet to guide you.
• Ask us now if you need help.
• Read the booklet to see how many modules you can choose
from which groups, for your Programme of Study.
• STUDYING ABROAD or ON PLACEMENT NEXT YEAR?
– Wait until next year to make your selections
In the meantime…
• Open Drop-ins: No appointment required
– Wednesdays: 13:00-14:00 (drop-in)
– Thursdays: 12:00-13:30 (drop-in)
KS9
KS9
– https://www.kent.ac.uk/psychology/events/apdworkshops.html
• Student Learning Advisory Service
– Workshops and one-to-one sessions
– http://www.kent.ac.uk/learning/index.html
• Engage and stand out!
– Speak to your lecturers after class
– Ask questions
In the meantime…
• APDW Topic Workshops – Wed 12:30-1 – KS9
– https://www.kent.ac.uk/psychology/events/apdworkshops.html
• Academic Adviser
• Psychology Student Advisor
Best wishes for the rest of
Stage 2 and please get
in touch if you have any
questions about your
Stage 3 choices
[email protected]