Project Title: Heads Up! Piloting a Pre-arrival Course for Mature Students Studying in the Humanities and Social Sciences
Project Leader(s): Jenny Smith, Georgina Spencer and Verity Aiken
Heads Up! Piloting a Pre-arrival Course for Mature Students Studying in the Humanities and Social Sciences by Jenny Smith, Georgina Spencer and Verity Aiken, Keele University is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.
Project Title: Developing a Diploma in Applied Psychology
Project Leader(s): Sue Sherman and Nicky Edelstyn
The main aim of this proposal is to develop a Diploma in Applied Psychology. This would involve a placement year between the 2nd and 3rd undergraduate years during which time students would work in a Psychology related setting, eg., with a clinical psychologist, in a prison, in a school etc. Ultimately if the scheme is successful, we would hope to evolve it into a new 4 year degree course (BSc (Hons) in Applied Psychology). The Diploma is being developed with the support of Dean of Natural Sciences and in discussion with him and Elaine McFarland – Natural Sciences QA Link.
The Diploma represents a major new direction for Psychology. It will help to increase the employability skills of Psychology undergraduates in line with the recent drive by the University (University Learning & Teaching Strategy), in addition to addressing the Curriculum Annual Review Development (November 2007).
This initiative will place a high demand on existing resources such as staff time and administrative costs since in order to develop the Diploma, we need to identify additional placement providers and explore with them and other colleagues the issues that we can pre-empt and deal with. We will then be in a position to roll the Diploma out to the first cohort of students and evaluate their experience.
Developing a Diploma in Applied Psychology by Sue Sherman and Nicky Edelstyn, Keele University is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.
