Career Path

[Shirosaki]

Career Path

Since I was young I always wanted to learn about psychology, what makes people tick and how to read them and be inside their mind. I want to learn about kinesics (body language), deception training (micro-expressions and subtle-expressions), as well as some psychiatric stuff.

Since I'm going to college in September I want to know what sort of courses to take in future, and if any of you can be bothered, which universities in the UK teach them. At college I'm going to do psychology, sociology, history and law. This is cause the college doesn't have any specialities in any of the relevant subjects.

So, if any of you need me to answer some questions to help you help me, feel free to ask. And yes, I'm getting you to do the work for me which I should really be doing, but there's some shiny rep in it for you.

 

[Relinquished Reality]

Re: Career Path

This is one of those things that everybody but myself seems to know... Psychology does seem like a cool course tho.

 

[Walker]

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So, wait, your college doesn't offer a psych degree? Or it doesn't offer the specific things you're interested in?

 

[Shirosaki]

Re: Career Path

So, wait, your college doesn't offer a psych degree? Or it doesn't offer the specific things you're interested in?

I live in the UK, colleges teach A level subjects, and then you go on to university which teaches at degree level.

 

[Walker]

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I only just looked at your age. You're a young'un, man*! So this college you speak of is more high school, episode two, in my terms.

Er... yeah, can't help you, sorry.

I don't know if this is an any way useful (I'm guessing... no) but these are the requirements the University of Maryland has to be granted a psych degree.

Students must complete 11 courses (35 credits) in order earn their degree in Psychology. The courses are:

• PSYC 100 – Introduction to Psychology
• PSYC 200 – Statistical Methods in Psychology
• PSYC 300 – Research Methods in Psychology
• A minimum of 2 courses from each of the three thematic areas:
  • Mind, Brain, & Behavior
  • Mental Health and Interventions
  • Social, Developmental, & Organizational Processes
• Two 400 level non-lab courses
• Two 400 level lab courses

Yeah, I'd suggest you pray for a fellow Brit to drop in. That right there is what you'd be getting at university. And is probably pretty gibberish-tastic.

If you wanted, I could get the course descriptions, but, that'd still be US psych.

*Please don't be insulted. It's just that you're a year younger than my younger sister and a year older than my youngest sister and the same age as my younger cousin. So, yeah, that seems young. Even though it's only a six-year age difference.

 

[Arseface]

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I think you should sit down and talk with a career's counsellor or something to sort out what your options are.

 

[Shirosaki]

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I only just looked at your age. You're a young'un, man*! So this college you speak of is more high school, episode two, in my terms.

Er... yeah, can't help you, sorry.

I don't know if this is an any way useful (I'm guessing... no) but these are the requirements the University of Maryland has to be granted a psych degree.

Yeah, I'd suggest you pray for a fellow Brit to drop in. That right there is what you'd be getting at university. And is probably pretty gibberish-tastic.

If you wanted, I could get the course descriptions, but, that'd still be US psych.

*Please don't be insulted. It's just that you're a year younger than my younger sister and a year older than my youngest sister and the same age as my younger cousin. So, yeah, that seems young. Even though it's only a six-year age difference.

Post up the descriptions if you want, everything helps. And no offence taken, even though I am indeed young I've been getting served in pubs since I was 12 due to my facial hair so being called a young'un is flattering ^_^

 

[Necromancer]

Re: Career Path

psychology, sociology, history and law

WANT OXFORD COMMA NAO

 

[Shirosaki]

Re: Career Path

WANT OXFORD COMMA NAO

My bad, I forgot about that thread.

 

[Walker]

Re: Career Path

I considered actually posting the descriptions, but I figured this would be easier. Sure, it's every damn psych course UMD offers, but you can search for 100, 200, and 300 easy enough.

Oh, and just so you know, everything above the 400 level is grad student courses. Though I don't know how things work with the Brit system, those are the classes for people getting master's degrees or Ph.D.'s or whatever.

And you're welcome, though I don't think it really helps you that much.

 

[Angel]

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My sister is doing a psychology degree and, to be perfectly honest, a lot of it will be marginally more in depth than your A Level course. A lot of writing, referencing material and talking about social constructions and the like. Mix it with your sociology (I did that at A Level myself) and the two intertwine quite a bit using some of the same material and references.

If you can pick a special area of psychology specifically you might get more joy - criminal psychology, given your law A Level, would be a good one. Psychiatry is where you get to meet the most interesting people in terms of mental instability, in my view - there are a few courses available for that sort of thing.

Most psychology stuff is identifying behaviours according to different theories, discussing cognitive behaviour and asserting traditional and unconventional roles within the family such as parent-child. Not mind-blowing stuff but maybe the higher-end degree work, post-graduate etc, will be more specific to what you want to get involved with.