Psychology and a European Language - BA (Hons)

University of Stirling

On this module you will develop and consolidate reading and writing skills of complex and interesting contemporary Spanish-language texts. You will also investigate modern Spanish and Latin American socio-historical realities, by focusing, in particular, on key themes of particular contemporary interest and relevance. Seminars and assessment will be carried out in Spanish to improve your oral and written expression in the target language.

The aim of this 2nd year course is to explorethe biological underpinnings of neurological, neuropsychological and psychological disorders. The course will begin by reviewing the structure and function of the nervous system, and then introduce the biological bases for several common and important clinical disorders of behaviour, cognition, and affect. Classes for this course will include lectures and laboratory practical sessions.

This module continues to develop the linguistic and analytical skills fostered by the previous module FREU9A3. It comprises two components: language and culture. It focuses on the culture and history of the French and Francophone world from the 1960s to the contemporary period. You will explore the way Francophone societies in Europe and North America changed following the Second World War and the beginning of the period of decolonisation, through the study of literature and film as durable forms of cultural expression. The aim of studying these cultural artefacts is to develop your intercultural understanding of those nations and individuals who are French-speaking; it is also an opportunity to further expand your language proficiency, enabling you to build on your comprehension of spoken and written French and acquire new vocabulary and linguistic structures.

This foundational module aims to explore management as an essential component and function of all organisations. This module will introduce students to a wide range of themes important for all aspiring managers and business leaders, but equally relevant to everyone who intends to work in business organisations.

This is an intensive course which builds on the foundations laid by courses FREU9B1 and FREU9B2. This module is the last module prior to joining the Advanced stream (FREU9A4) from which point there is no further differentiation between former-Beginners and non-former Beginners. In order to aid with the transition into FREU9A4 and the rest of the Advanced stream, the structure of FREU9B3 reflects the structure of our Advanced stream modules with streams in language and culture. This will be the first introduction to French & Francophone culture through examination of a number of texts/films.

This module will expand your knowledge and understanding of key themes of contemporary Spain through the study of texts understood in a broad sense (literature, film, photographs, other visual expressions and/or cultural artifacts), while also developing essential skills to analyse film and literature. You will also progress in your proficiency of Spanish texts and grammatical structures at an intermediate level. Seminars will be taught fully in Spanish, so be prepared for an immersive experience!

PSYU914 Research Methods will develop your understanding and application of research methods and data analysis in Psychology. Actually, the module aims to make statistics pleasant and easy for everyone. Statistics is easy. Even advanced statistics is easy (and advanced).

This module will expand your knowledge and understanding of key themes of contemporary Spain through the study of texts understood in a broad sense (literature, film, photographs, other visual expressions and/or cultural artifacts), while also developing essential skills to analyse film and literature. You will also progress in your proficiency of Spanish texts and grammatical structures at an advanced level. Seminars will be taught fully in Spanish, so be prepared for an immersive experience!

There has been a worldwide expansion of organisation since the industrial era. It is almost impossible now to do anything without relying on, or at least interacting with, an organisation. Try to think about how many different organisations have entered your day-to-day activities just today and how many of them were necessary for you to get something done. This makes the study of organisation more important than ever.

In this module we will look at human social behaviour from a psychological perspective. Humans are a highly social speciesand our interactions are extremely complex. In this module we will consider how and why this complex sociality evolved, and we will look at the cognitive and physiological mechanisms underlying these behaviours. Taking a comparative perspective, we will consider which aspects of human sociality and communication are unique, and which are shared with other species. In doing this we will look at behaviours including nonverbal communication (such as facial expressions), linguistic communication, and social cognition (such as theory of mind and imitation).

This module continues to develop the linguistic and analytical skills fostered by the previous module FREU9A2. It comprises two components: language and culture. It focuses on the culture and history of the French and Francophone world during the period from the start of World War II to the main period of French decolonisation in the early 1960s. This is achieved predominantly via the study of film and literature as durable forms of cultural expression. The aim of studying these cultural artefacts is to develop your intercultural understanding of those nations and individuals who are French-speaking; it is also an opportunity to further expand your language proficiency, enabling you to build on your comprehension of spoken and written French and acquire new vocabulary and linguistic structures.

This module focuses on understanding the psychology of physical and mental health. It considers two distinct, but related, areas: clinical and health psychology. Throughout the module, topics are considered and applied in the context of practice by clinical and health psychologists.

The Cognition module provides an overview of what we currently understand about the processes of perception; object, word and face recognition; attention; memory; language; judgement, and consciousness. Students will also have the opportunity to design, conduct and report upon their own group research project. The module therefore aims to teach the subject of human cognition, with particular emphasis on methodological issues, reinforced by experience of original project work.

The module will provide an introduction to what we currently understand about typical child development, in particular cognitive development, social development, language acquisition, emotional and moral development. Historic and current knowledge is covered in the lectures. Theoretical learning is complemented by workshops in which students learn how to read and interpret developmental literature critically. Students will have the opportunity to design, conduct and report as study with children in our on-site Kindergarten. This module draws together, theory, research and practical abilities in the field of child development, with particular emphasis on developing practical and research skills for working with typically developed children.

This dedicated language module builds on the linguistic skills, written and oral, you developed during the second year. It is intended to be relevant to all students and it deals with general skills of comprehension, writing and speaking. The blogs and passages you study each week are selected as relevant examples of journalistic and discursive prose which feature a variety of registers; they are also chosen to provide you with an awareness of current affairs in the French-speaking world which will be of benefit in writing blogs and compositions, and in your spoken language classes. In dealing with the longer passages, you will be invited to improve your skills in extracting the gist of an argument in French, and you will prepare for your own compositions by noting and examining how the articles are structured. Writing blogs and compositions in French are interlinked components of the same fundamental skills, and the class will allow you to develop your accuracy, range, and the ability to exploit the possibilities of your written French.

The objective of the module is to increase your understanding of the Spanish language and Spanish and Latin American culture. Authentic texts of different genres introduce you to important topics and features of contemporary Spanish and Latin American society, politics and culture. The study of these themes is embedded in learning grammatical and discourse elements used in the creation of coherent, formal texts. Introductory materials to life in Spain help you to familiarise yourselves with the country where you will study. Oral classes also enable you to gain more confidence in speaking and expressing yourselves formally.

Individual differences are what most people probably consider psychology to be about: what are people like and what makes them that way? Much of it comes under the heading of personality, though there are other important differences between individuals ? in intelligence, in memory ability, in perception etc. It's important to know how to assess such differences reliably, so the practical component of the module is through workshopswhere you will engage with qualitative and quantitative research methods relevant to the developmentand use ofquestionnaire measures.

An essential module to understand an increasingly internationalised business world.

This module will deliver teaching on the core skills required to succeed in the workplace, combined with the subject-specific skills required by Languages graduates. These will include instruction on decoding job adverts, tailoring CVs and cover letters, and interview techniques in the target language, as well as careers workshops on future job opportunities. At the end of this module you will be aware of the requirements expected of Languages graduates, and will be equipped to meet those requirements

This module concerns social behaviour and its social and biological underpinnings. The module addresses the complexities of real-world social phenomena (attitudes and behaviour, social influence, emotion, prejudice, helping behaviour, intergroup conflict) and how these phenomena can be studied scientifically (experiments, self-report questionnaires, and naturalistic research). The aim of the module is to use science to understand important aspects of the social world.

In this module, studentswill have the opportunity to provide research assistance (as RAs) in laboratories of members of research staff, provide teaching assistance (tutoring) in other Psychology modules, become a member of the final-year Psychology conference committee, or deliver student-led electives to theirpeers. Throughout these activities, studentswill have the opportunity to develop key transferable employability skills, including teamwork, leadership, communicating, planning, organising, and teaching, as well as experimental design, data collection, and statistical analysis. Upon successful completion of an experiential learning activity, studentswill also be able to reflect on theircollaboration with your peers, the challenges theyencountered and how theyaddressed those, as well as the skills theyacquired. These experiential learning activities are unique, and available to single-honours final-year Psychology students.

This dedicated language module builds, not only on the foundations of grammar, syntax and lexical range laid down over the preceding years of study, but also on the advanced language skills of translation, composition and oral debate and presentation honed in your final semesters of study. The module incorporates advanced skills of written and oral expression and comprehension, through translation into English, composition in French and oral/aural work including individual presentations. Through the module you will develop an in-depth understanding of and engagement with political, social and cultural topics of relevance to France and the wider Francophone world.

This is a dedicated language module which builds on the linguistic skills developed during in the preceding years of study. The module deals with advanced skills of written and oral expression and comprehension, as well as with translation of both journalistic and discursive prose. The topics covered in written and oral classes also aim to further develop your awareness of French and Francophone current affairs, through in-depth engagement with advanced written and oral/aural materials including editorial-style journalism, online media coverage and journalistic blogs.

On this module you will develop practical language work in Spanish at a progressively more advanced level. You will be expected to reach a high degree of accuracy and fluency in written language work, and to demonstrate comprehension of a variety of registers of written Spanish. There is also an emphasis on writing skills for employability and on translation from Spanish to English. In advanced oral classes you will be expected to demonstrate a fluent command of spoken Spanish idiom in a variety of situations, to present opinions and arguments, and to defend them in discussion.

The module centres on Spanish as a world language. You will study different forms of Spanish which are spoken in Spain and the Latin American countries, studying their historical development and contemporary aspects. The topics may include languages in context, with particular emphasis on Spanish; the language attitudes towards and characteristics of the language in Latin America and the United States. You revisit linguistic aspects of the language you have already learned during your studies and contextualise these in a broader framework of consciousness about Spanish in the world and language use in general. Conversation classes enable you to perfect your proficiency in speaking and communicating formally. The awareness of the complexity of the Spanish language provides you with the opportunity to contribute to the module, based on your own learning and experience gathered at university and when studying abroad.

This module offers a number of practical electives that studentscan choose to attend. These electives are intended primarily to give studentsthe opportunity to acquire and practice highly transferrable skills rather than simply acquire knowledge. For example, students will be able to develop skills involved in Psychology research and teaching, such as programming and conducting statistical analysis in R, or designing and preparing to teach theirown student-led elective on a topic of theirinterest, or interviewing researchers on a specific topic and generating a podcast. Class sizes are kept small (< 20students) to facilitate group discussion and cohesiveness.

This module seeks to offer opportunities for the development of key transferable skills, personal attributes and reflective practice, thereby enabling students to become more employable. These skills will be of use in any future career, irrespective of whether or not this is within the field of psychology.

This modulegives students the opportunity to undertake a piece of original research under the supervision of an experienced researcher.Students willcontribute to the design of the research and be expected to execute the study and analyse the data. The final outcome of the process will be a dissertation in the style of a journal article describing the background to the research, the procedure, analysis and conclusions.

This module provides our final year students with an opportunity to apply what they have learned throughout their psychology degree in a work context and to explore potential career paths. The core of this module is a 50 hour work placement with a business, charity, or organisation. The placement is completed between October and April and during this time, students also attend supporting workshops designed to help them develop transferrable skills, confidence, and knowledge of the job market for psychology graduates.

This is a capstone module delivered in the final year and aims to equip students with a good grasp of strategic issues facing organisations operating in the private, public and not-for-profit sectors.

This module hosts a broad range of electives that studentscan choose to attend. Each elective covers a particular research topic in Psychology at an advanced level. Topics pertain (but are not limited) to Comparative, Developmental, Health, Cognitive Psychology, Psycholinguistics, Neuroscience, and Neuropsychology. Taught electives are short courses that typically comprise 6 class meetings. The classes are small seminar discussion groups. In these electives, studentswill be able to demonstrate a basic understanding of the topic area, of the processes involved in generating new research in that topic area and a critical understanding of the strengths and weaknesses of that research. Studentswill also develop key transferable skills, including literature research, critical thinking, oral and written communication.

This module hosts a broad range of electives that studentscan choose to attend. Each elective covers a particular research topic in Psychology at an advanced level. Topics pertain (but are not limited) to Comparative, Developmental, Health, Cognitive Psychology, Psycholinguistics, Neuroscience, and Neuropsychology. Traditional electives are short courses that typically comprise 6 class meetings. The classes are small seminar discussion groups. In these electives, studentswill be able to demonstrate a basic understanding of the topic area, of the processes involved in generating new research in that topic area and a critical understanding of the strengths and weaknesses of that research. Studentswill develop key transferable skills, including literature research, critical thinking, oral and written communication.