The study programme in a nutshell
Within our Psychology programme, we educate using small scale, team based and activating forms of education. In small groups, you will analyse real life problems by looking for information in books, journals and digital media. Class discussions on scientific literature will strengthen your bond with fellow students and encourage you to succeed. You will also develop professional skills which aim to minimise the gap between university and the workplace and prepare you for your career path.
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First year
During the bachelor programme in Psychology, you will learn about all the subject areas related to the field. In the first year, you will gain a good overview of the basic and most fundamental disciplines in psychology. Together with your peers you will learn and discuss the various theories and concepts related to a certain type of behaviour. In addition, you will learn practical psychological skills which are required to handle this behaviour. For example, during your course ‘Personal Differences’, you will investigate as to why our personalities make us behave in different ways. Parallel to this, you will undergo, analyse and report on personality questionnaires as part of the ‘Psychodiagnostics’ practical. In other words, what you learn throughout the course is applied in the practical meetings, gearing you up for working life.
You will also follow classes in statistics, research methods and academic and professional skills. You will learn, for instance, how to conduct professional conversations. Furthermore, you will learn how to conduct experiments. Sometimes, you will act as a test subject yourself. Finally, the last quarter of Year 1 is dedicated to gaining a more critical understanding of contemporary psychology from a historical and cross-cultural perspective.
Please note that mathematics (statistics) is an important part of this study.
Second and third year
In the second year, you will follow more advanced courses in the fundamental topics as well as courses in the applied fields of Educational Psychology and Work and Organisational Psychology. After the third quarter of the second year of your bachelor, you will have familiarised yourself with all the subareas of psychology, after which you will chose for one of the bachelor specialisation tracks that will start in the last quarter of Year 2.
In the third year of the bachelor, you will have the opportunity to broaden your horizon. In the first quarter of Year 3 you will follow a minor, which can be organized either by our own University or another University in the Netherlands. The minor allows you to explore topics beyond the realm of psychology. The second quarter of Year 3 is dedicated to elective courses, which link naturally to the bachelor specialisation track that you have chosen and to different master tracks our department offers. Examples are “Forensic and Legal” and “Mind in Society (Brain and Cognition)”. This can help you to choose your master and thereafter the career you wish to pursue. You can also spend the first periods of Year three on exchange at a foreign university.
The second half of the third year will again be dedicated to specialization courses in the specialisation area of psychology that you chose. You will conclude your bachelor’s degree with a thesis in which you address a psychological research question in a scientific manner.
Please note that mathematics (statistics) is an important part of this study.
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Bachelor 1
Bachelor 2
Block 4 Fan out and specialise
Bachelor 3
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