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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 2011/2012, 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 Brian Hughes
Visiting Students Co-ordinator (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].

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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.

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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 2, 2011/2012

PS214  Developmental Psychology 1 (Co-ordinators: Dr Mike Hogan & Dr Caroline Heary)
PS320  Memory and Cognition (Co-ordinator: Dr AnnMarie Groarke)
PS415  Perception, Attention & Performance (Co-ordinator: Mr Mark Glennon)
PS418  Issues in Cognitive Neuroscience (Co-ordinator: Dr Denis O'Hora)
PS427  Forensic, Abnormal & Clinical Psychology (Co-ordinator: Dr John Bogue)
PS428  Social Psychology (Co-ordinator: Dr Kiran Sarma) 
PS336  Psychology, Society, and Human Values (Co-ordinator: Dr Brian Hughes)
PS419  Relational Frame Theory, Language & Cognition (Co-ordinator: Dr Ian Stewart)
PS338  Theories of Personality (Co-ordinator: Dr Jonathan Egan)
PS339  Behavioural Medicine (Co-ordinator: Dr Jane Walsh)
PS343  Pediatric Clinical Behavioural Interventions (Co-ordinator: Dr Olive Healy) 

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Timetables

Semester 2, 2011/2012

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Examinations

Information on examinations will be posted on the University website in due course.  However, please note that Semester 2 Written Examinations are scheduled to take place in the period  23 April to 18 May 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).
    

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