Psychology is the favourite science for students who want to get into the depths of human feelings. This is considered to be the science of mind and behaviour. More specifically, psychology wants to explore the way people think, act, and feel, by appealing to the emotional side of people.
Passion can lead students to choose this specialisation. It is not considered a difficult one, but it is not very easy to approach, as the theoretical elements of the discipline are combined with the practical ones.
After studying Psychology, students choose to specialise in a particular sub-field. Depending on their preference, they can choose between Biological Psychology, Cognitive Psychology, Comparative Psychology, Developmental Psychology, Personality Psychology and many others.
Psychology is a great opportunity to get to know each other better and to get to know others. Thus, students who are looking to understanding human behaviour, feelings and mind gain an inside vision of what these notions really mean and what determines people to make certain decisions and act under different circumstances.
The employment rate among Psychology graduates has grown in recent years. Salaries are satisfactory, and young people can focus either on psychological services in schools, hospitals, treatment centres, clinics, depending on the specialisation chosen. Furthermore, Psychology graduates can integrate a career in social media, marketing, and advertising, as they understand best the reasons why people choose to make decisions according to what they see in real life.
In the four years of Bachelor studies, graduates acquire the necessary knowledge to practice Psychology, initially learning the underlying theoretical notions. These notions become an important starting point in their career, seeing later how practice blends very well with theory. It should be noted that on the labour market, students who hold a Bachelor’s degree are much more appreciated and have an advantage over those who follow simple courses.
A Master’s program usually lasts between 2 and 3 years, coming as a complement to the Bachelor’s courses. Master courses have a much more loaded curriculum and a great deal of information. A Doctoral program is dedicated to students who want to do research in Psychology in various institutes or to become teachers. This has a duration of between 5 and 7 years.
I’m early on in my program but my university is large. And local. So many people from my high school go there that it almost feels like high school still. It’s so local. I love this and I hate it cause I have a close friend in each of my degrees (I study two: Commerce and Psychology), but I also see people I would rather leave in the past. The program is as interesting as it can be, though studying in university is, in essence, studying in high school without the fun, unless you have friends in your course. It’s learning all content without a laughter break. They do ice breakers for the first class of each subject, but most of us change our classes around for the first month so you end up not knowing anyone anyway and since there’s barely any time to talk, most of the time you’re sitting alone or sitting with people and not talking. Despite this, socialising outside of class is made quite simple with the vast array of clubs available to join and the events planned by each. There’s a career newsletter released weekly and coupled with my double degree I feel employment prospects are bright. There are international students but I’ve yet to meet them, coupled with covid issues I think they may be predominantly online.
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