Full-time
For the full-time delivery, in Semester 1 learners will begin three, 10 ECTS linear modules, Personal Development and Stress Management, Survivorship and Professional Issues and Ethics in Applied Psychology in addition to three, 5 ECTS modules in Advanced Quantitative Research Methods and Analysis, Advanced Qualitative Research Methods and Analysis and Addiction and Rehabilitation. All of these modules are assessed by a range of continuous assessments across the 24- or 12-week period.
In Semester 2 learners will continue with the linear modules while taking an additional three, 5 ECTS modules in Public and Community Health, Global Health and Occupational Health Psychology. The continuous assessment for the linear modules is completed in Semester 2. The 5 ECTS modules are assessed by continuous assessment across the 12-week semester with Public and Community Health and Global Health also assessed by a terminal exam during the scheduled examination period.
In Semester 1, the programme offers a choice of elective capstone pathways (Capstone 1 or Capstone 2, each 30 ECTS) that provide an opportunity for the learner to integrate accumulated learning and make the necessary connections in the context of the discipline. This is achieved through the process of research placement and the production of a research placement project/minor dissertation, or through independent research and the production of a major research dissertation. The assessment for each of these modules continues over 3 semesters with learners submitting their proposal at the end of Semester 1, completing the First Meeting assessment and commencing research placement or independent research engagement in Semester 2, with submission of the final artefact in July of Semester 3.
For the part-time delivery, in Semester 1 learners begin Personal Development and Stress Management, Survivorship and Professional Issues and Ethics in Applied Psychology in addition to Addiction and Rehabilitation. All of these modules are assessed by the same range of continuous assessment across the 24- or 12-week period as in the full-time delivery.
In Semester 2 part-time learners continue with the linear modules while also taking Occupational Health Psychology. The continuous assessment for the linear modules is completed in Semester 2 as on the full-time delivery. In addition, part-time learners commence the Capstone 1 or 2 pathway in Semester 2, completing their proposal by the end of the semester.
The part-time programme continues into the second year of delivery in which learners in Semester 3 take four, 5 ECTS modules: Advanced Quantitative Research Methods and Analysis, Advanced Qualitative Research Methods and Analysis, Public and Community Health and Global Health. As on the full-time programme, these modules are all assessed by continuous assessment across the 12-week semester, with Public and Community Health and Global Health also assessed by a terminal exam during the scheduled examination period. The Capstone 1 or 2 pathway continues in Semester 3 with part-time learners completing the First Meeting assessment and commencing research placement or independent research engagement.
Semester 4 of the part-time programme has no taught modular component and allows the learner to fully engage solely in the Capstone 1 or 2 pathway, culminating in the submission of assessment requirements by the end of the semester.
This is a multimodal programme. Learners are therefore timetabled to be in class or online. They will also have mandatory on demand content as contact hours that they can do in their own time and place.
Assessment methods
Assessment is approached creatively with a range of assessment strategies including essay writing, in-class presentation, graded group dissertation and examination. Instructions and guidelines for all assessments are clearly communicated to students.