PY4107 - Group Project Part 2 of 2

Available to psychology students who have completed three years of study and who have been accepted into the Graduate Diploma of Psychology. Except with the approval of the Head of School/Associate Dean, all subjects in a chain must be studied in consecutive teaching periods

Students are required to conduct a group project that culminates in a thesis. This subject involves regular meetings with a research supervisor throughout the course of the year; participation in professional orientation and development seminars and the presentation of a paper based on the group's research at an annual mini-conference.

Learning Outcomes

• communicate a clear, coherent and independent exposition of knowledge and ideas through well- developed written and spoken English language skills;
• use information technologies and appropriate techniques to analyse, interpret, and report research findings and data and generate solutions to problems in psychology as evidenced by conducting a group research project under the supervision of a member of staff;
• exercise critical thinking and judgement in the conduct of scientific investigations to address psychological questions.

Subject Assessment

• 0% hurdle - group project presentation (%)
• integrated assessment across subject chain (%).

Note: Minor variations might occur due to the continuous Subject quality improvement process, and in case of minor variation(s) in assessment details, the Subject Outline represents the latest official information.