Aims of the course:
- To introduce the field of psychology.
- To show participants how psychology can be applied to the understanding of everyday life settings.
- To illustrate how various psychological approaches contribute to our understanding of everyday life settings.
Course content overview:
- This course will begin with an introduction to psychology by outlining various approaches within psychology and their potential application in everyday contexts.
- Participants will be introduced to the breadth of psychology in the first teaching week and will then see how various psychological approaches help our understanding and contribute to explaining human behaviour in the following weeks.
- While each week will draw on multiple psychological disciplines, there will be a different focus each week on one particular approach, to enable a greater depth of learning.
- Participants will discuss the application of psychology in contexts such as personal relationships, the work place and in health.
- Participants will be expected to recognise the multiple psychological perspectives that help our understanding of human behaviour in context.
Schedule (this course is completed entirely online):
Orientation Week: 7 - 13 January 2019
Teaching Weeks: 14 January - 17 February 2019
Feedback Week: 18 - 24 February 2019
Each week of an online course is roughly equivalent to 2-3 hours of classroom time. On top of this, participants should expect to spend roughly 2-3 hours reading material, etc., although this will vary from person to person.
While they have a specific start and end date and will follow a weekly schedule (for example, week 1 will cover topic A, week 2 will cover topic B), our tutor-led online courses are designed to be flexible and as such would normally not require participants to be online for a specific day of the week or time of the day (although some tutors may try to schedule times where participants can be online together for web seminars, which will be recorded so that those who are unable to be online at certain times are able to access material).
Unless otherwise stated, all course material will be posted on the Virtual Learning Environment (VLE) so that they can be accessed at any time throughout the duration of the course and interaction with your tutor and fellow participants will take place through a variety of different ways which will allow for both synchronous and asynchronous learning (discussion boards,etc).
A Certificate of Participation will be awarded to participants who contribute constructively to weekly discussions and exercises/assignments for the duration of the course.
What our students say - January 2016
"This was a very well designed course that introduced me to the key topics of psychology in an engaging and informative way"
"The content was informative and challenging, and the discussions engaging and interesting"
