The Caulfield/Peninsula section of the department offers sequences of subjects in the BA and BSc. An honours year and a Graduate Diploma of Applied Psychology are also available.
Subjects are available full-time and part-time on Caulfield and Peninsula campuses. Evening classes are offered on Caulfield campus only.
First-year subjects, APY1010 and APY1020, provide a general introduction to psychology as a science, with practical work programs to augment the material provided in the lectures. In second year, APY2010 provides a core program in developmental psychology supplemented by study modules in physiological psychology, and research design. This subject is offered in first semester. In the second semester, APY2020 offers programs of study in personality, social psychology and research design.
There is no choice of subjects in first and second years, and subjects must be completed in the order APY1010, APY1020, APY2010, APY2020.
First-year subjects carry a points value of six points each, and second-year subjects a value of eight points each.
In third year, the subjects offered develop the applied nature of psychology in several different fields. APY3010 deals with psychology in the industrial setting, with programs of study in psychological assessment and classification, education and training, and psychological aspects of technological systems. APY3020 deals with vocational development and choice, and organisational behaviour. Students must also complete APY3040, the central themes of which are theory, research and experimental methods in psychology. A sequence in psychology consists of APY3011 (made up of APY3010 and APY3040) and APY3022 (made up of APY3020 and one of the options APY3030, APY3050, APY3060, APY3070, APY3080 or APY3090). APY3011 and APY3022 are twelve point subjects.
Entry to the honours year APY4000 requires at least an average of credit in third-year subjects.
Further information may be obtained from the Caulfield/Peninsula section - telephone 903 2247.