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School of Psychology

INFORMATION FOR VISITING STUDENTS

Introduction

This page contains resources for Visiting Students registered to attend courses at NUI Galway during academic year 2012/2013, particularly those intending to take classes in Psychology*. We offer a range of modules covering a variety of subject areas within academic psychology, including areas of pure and applied psychology. Below you will find links to the current timetable(s) for Visiting Students, as well as a list of available modules and links to their respective online module descriptions.

We welcome you to Galway and wish you the best of luck in your studies.

Dr Gerry Molloy
Visiting Students Co-ordinator, School of Psychology

[*Note: The information here is for students enrolled on the general NUI Galway Visiting Students programmes. Students attached to the Salzburg and Maastricht exchange programmes should consult Dr Mark Elliott and Dr Denis O'Hora, respectively, for additional information].

What is Psychology?

Psychology is the study of behaviour and mental processes, and includes individual and social, human and animal, normal and abnormal aspects. Most people find psychology intrinsically interesting. Even a little knowledge of psychology is useful in most career paths. Students might consider taking psychology if interested in: becoming a professional psychologist in an applied areas such as clinical psychology, the health services, education or industry; lecturing in psychology in a third-level college; carrying out psychological research in a university or other research centre; or improving their general education by studying an interesting and useful discipline with careers of a more general type in mind, for example, the media, information technology or management.

Modules Available to Visiting Students

For full details please see the University Calendar. Please note that these modules are not guaranteed to be timetabled separately. As attendance at classes is a course requirement for all modules, it is not permitted for students to enrol for modules where classes clash on the timetable. Please consult the latest timetable (below) before planning which modules to choose.

Semester 1, 2012/2013

PS214 Developmental Psychology (Co-ordinators: Dr Caroline Heary & Dr Mike Hogan)
PS220 Psychology of Learning (Co-ordinators: Dr Ian Stewart)
PS320 Memory and Cognition (Co-ordinator: Dr AnnMarie Groarke)
PS322  Health Psychology (Co-ordinator: Ms Anne Marie Keane)
PS334  Applied Behaviour Analysis (Co-ordinator: Dr Geraldine Leader)
PS342  Introduction to Positive Psychology (Co-ordinator: Dr Mike Hogan)
PS403 Biological Psychology (Co-ordinator: Ms Anne Marie Keane)

Visiting student handbook for semester 2 is available here. Page 18 contains details about Psychology however the most up-to-date list of modules will appear on this page. Please check with the course co-ordinator if you are unsure about the availability of a module.

Semester 2, 2012/2013 (Correct 12th September 2012)

PS124 Introductory Psychology 2 (full year students only)
PS317 History of Psychology & Current Issues
PS338 Theories of Personality
PS339 Behavioural Medicine
PS343 Paediatric Clinical Behavioural Interventions (Dr Olive Healy & Dr Jennifer Holloway)
PS345 Applied Developmental Psychology N.B. Revised times Thursday 2pm -3pm (SC003) and Friday 10am -11am (AM150)
PS415 Perception, attention & performance
PS416 Applied Organisational Psychology
PS418 Issues in the Cognitive Neurosciences
PS419 Relational Frame Theory, Language and Cognition
PS427 Forensic, Abnormal and Clinical Psychology
PS428 Social Psychology (Dr Kiran Sarma)

Timetables

Semester 1, 2012/2013

Semester 2, 2012/2013 (Note revisions above)

Please note that Applied Organizational Psychology (PS416) is not being offered in Semester 1 this academic year.

Examinations

Information on examinations will be posted on the University website in due course. However, please note that Semester 1 Written Examinations are scheduled to take place in the period 3 December to 14 December 2012 (see here).

Please note that several modules include a compulsory end-of-term Written Examination. As such, you are required to be present in Galway to sit the examination whenever it is scheduled. If your modules include end-of-term Written Examinations, then please do not plan to travel away from Galway during the Examinations period as it will not be possible to reschedule examinations or to set alternative forms of assessment (students who are absent from an examination are given a score of zero for that examination).

School of Psychology
National University of Ireland, Galway, University Road, Galway, Ireland.
Phone: +353 (0)91 493101 | Fax: +353 (0)91 521355 | E-mail: Psychology or Webmaster
This page was last updated Wednesday, January 16, 2013