Programme Title

PgDip Political Psychology

Final Award
(exit route if applicable for Postgraduate Taught Programmes)

Postgraduate Diploma

Programme Code

PSY-PD-PP

UCAS Code

HECoS Code

100498

ATAS Clearance Required

No

Health Check Required

No

Portfolio Required

Interview Required

Mode of Study

Full Time

Type of Programme

Postgraduate

Length of Programme

1 Academic Year(s)

Total Credits for Programme

120

Exit Awards available

Awarding Institution/Body

Queen's University Belfast

Teaching Institution

Queen's University Belfast

School/Department

Psychology

Framework for Higher Education Qualification Level 
www.qaa.ac.uk

Level 7

QAA Benchmark Group
www.qaa.ac.uk/quality-code/subject-benchmark-statements

Psychology (2010)

Accreditations (PSRB)

Does the Programme have any approved exemptions from the University General Regulations
(Please see General Regulations)

N/A

Programme Specific Regulations

N/A

Students with protected characteristics

N/A

Are students subject to Fitness to Practise Regulations

(Please see General Regulations)

No

Learning Outcomes: Cognitive Skills

On the completion of this course successful students will be able to:

Critically evaluate and comment on theoretical and empirical literature in political psychology.

Teaching/Learning Methods and Strategies

Cognitive skills are developed in the lectures, seminars, class exercises, homework assignments, project work, and training workshops.

Methods of Assessment

Informally assessed through class discussion and exercises. Formally through coursework such as Essays, literature reviews, presentations and policy briefing.

Critically evaluate the contributions and limitations of political psychological theories and methods to particular topic areas.

Teaching/Learning Methods and Strategies

Cognitive skills are developed in the lectures, seminars, class exercises, homework assignments, project work, and training workshops.

Methods of Assessment

Essay, literature reviews, proposal, presentations.

Critically compare theories and research findings to develop integrative theoretical frameworks to understand socio-political issues.

Teaching/Learning Methods and Strategies

Cognitive skills are developed in the lectures, seminars, class exercises, homework assignments, project work, and training workshops.

Methods of Assessment

Essay, literature reviews, proposal, presentations.

Critically evaluate political psychological research including the choice of methods employed.

Teaching/Learning Methods and Strategies

Cognitive skills are developed in the lectures, seminars, class exercises, homework assignments, project work, and training workshops.

Methods of Assessment

Assessments of campaigns

Critically reflect on how research can inform theory development in an iterative fashion.

Teaching/Learning Methods and Strategies

Cognitive skills are developed in the lectures, seminars, class exercises, homework assignments, project work, and training workshops.

Methods of Assessment

Class discussion/presentations

Critically reflect on how theory and empirical research can inform practices and applications on socio-political issues.

Teaching/Learning Methods and Strategies

Cognitive skills are developed in the lectures, seminars, class exercises, homework assignments, project work, and training workshops.

Methods of Assessment

Lobbying task

Make informed choices about effective communication.

Teaching/Learning Methods and Strategies

Cognitive skills are developed in the lectures, seminars, class exercises, homework assignments, project work, and training workshops.

Methods of Assessment

Presentations

Learning Outcomes: Transferable Skills

On the completion of this course successful students will be able to:

Communicate ideas, principles, theories and research findings by oral and written means.

Teaching/Learning Methods and Strategies

Transferable skills are promoted via class work in lectures, seminars, workshops and the dissertation. Students are explicitly guided to be increasingly self-regulating throughout the duration of the course and to demonstrate initiative, self-efficacy and personal responsibility/accountability in the way they conduct themselves towards members of staff and towards their peers as well as in the pursuit of their academic and practical tasks.

Methods of Assessment

Coursework.

Elicit high quality information and data from field sources.

Teaching/Learning Methods and Strategies

Transferable skills are promoted via class work in lectures, seminars, workshops and the dissertation. Students are explicitly guided to be increasingly self-regulating throughout the duration of the course and to demonstrate initiative, self-efficacy and personal responsibility/accountability in the way they conduct themselves towards members of staff and towards their peers as well as in the pursuit of their academic and practical tasks.

Methods of Assessment

Class work and coursework.

Use information technology (eg WWW, bibliographic data bases such as Psychinfo, word processors, statistics packages).

Teaching/Learning Methods and Strategies

Transferable skills are promoted via class work in lectures, seminars, workshops and the dissertation. Students are explicitly guided to be increasingly self-regulating throughout the duration of the course and to demonstrate initiative, self-efficacy and personal responsibility/accountability in the way they conduct themselves towards members of staff and towards their peers as well as in the pursuit of their academic and practical tasks.

Methods of Assessment

Class work and coursework.

Conduct oneself in a professional (accountable, responsible, ethical) self-regulated and constructively critical fashion.

Teaching/Learning Methods and Strategies

Transferable skills are promoted via class work in lectures, seminars, workshops and the dissertation. Students are explicitly guided to be increasingly self-regulating throughout the duration of the course and to demonstrate initiative, self-efficacy and personal responsibility/accountability in the way they conduct themselves towards members of staff and towards their peers as well as in the pursuit of their academic and practical tasks.

Methods of Assessment

Class work and coursework.

Use interpersonal and social skills as appropriate.

Teaching/Learning Methods and Strategies

Transferable skills are promoted via class work in lectures, seminars, workshops and the dissertation. Students are explicitly guided to be increasingly self-regulating throughout the duration of the course and to demonstrate initiative, self-efficacy and personal responsibility/accountability in the way they conduct themselves towards members of staff and towards their peers as well as in the pursuit of their academic and practical tasks.

Methods of Assessment

Class work and coursework.

Use analytical skills in a problem solving context.

Teaching/Learning Methods and Strategies

Transferable skills are promoted via class work in lectures, seminars, workshops and the dissertation. Students are explicitly guided to be increasingly self-regulating throughout the duration of the course and to demonstrate initiative, self-efficacy and personal responsibility/accountability in the way they conduct themselves towards members of staff and towards their peers as well as in the pursuit of their academic and practical tasks.

Methods of Assessment

Use analytical skills in a problem solving context.

Pursue continuous improvement via self-reflection and other forms of professional and personal development activity

Teaching/Learning Methods and Strategies

Transferable skills are promoted via class work in lectures, seminars, workshops and the dissertation. Students are explicitly guided to be increasingly self-regulating throughout the duration of the course and to demonstrate initiative, self-efficacy and personal responsibility/accountability in the way they conduct themselves towards members of staff and towards their peers as well as in the pursuit of their academic and practical tasks.

Methods of Assessment

TBC

Learning Outcomes: Knowledge & Understanding

On the completion of this course successful students will be able to:

Political psychology at an advanced level as an evidence-based science.

Teaching/Learning Methods and Strategies

Outcomes are acquired through lectures, seminars, talks and workshops.

Methods of Assessment

Essays, literature reviews and presentations.

The historical development of political psychology from different epistemological, ideological and disciplinary perspectives.

Teaching/Learning Methods and Strategies

Outcomes are acquired through lectures, seminars, talks and workshops.

Methods of Assessment

Essays, literature reviews and presentations.

Current theoretical debates within political psychology.

Teaching/Learning Methods and Strategies

Outcomes are acquired through lectures, seminars, talks and workshops.

Methods of Assessment

Essays, literature reviews and presentations.

The practical applications and action implications of social and political psychological theories and empirical findings.

Teaching/Learning Methods and Strategies

Outcomes are acquired through lectures, seminars, talks and workshops.

Methods of Assessment

Class tests and proposal.

Basic and advanced research design and methods of investigation, data analysis and techniques and how they relate to theoretical and applied issues.

Teaching/Learning Methods and Strategies

Outcomes are acquired through lectures, seminars, talks and workshops.

Methods of Assessment

Research proposal and ethics.

The ethical conduct of research with human participants.

Teaching/Learning Methods and Strategies

Outcomes are acquired through lectures, seminars, talks and workshops.

Methods of Assessment

TBC

Effective means of communicating research to specific audiences.

Teaching/Learning Methods and Strategies

Outcomes are acquired through lectures, seminars, talks and workshops.

Methods of Assessment

In class work

Learning Outcomes: Subject Specific

On the completion of this course successful students will be able to:

Show competence in a range of methods to analyse both quantitative and qualitative data using statistical packages, if appropriate.

Teaching/Learning Methods and Strategies

Outcomes are acquired through lectures, seminars, talks and workshops.

Methods of Assessment

Coursework assignments and in class discussions

Show specialist competence in the methodology and analyses.

Teaching/Learning Methods and Strategies

Outcomes are acquired through lectures, seminars, talks and workshops.

Methods of Assessment

Coursework assignments and in class discussions

Write well-structured and well–argued prose, using style and conventions appropriate for publishing in the psychology literature.

Teaching/Learning Methods and Strategies

Outcomes are acquired through lectures, seminars, talks and workshops.

Methods of Assessment

Coursework assignments and in class discussions

Design and evaluate theoretically informed interventions to deal with socio-political issues.

Teaching/Learning Methods and Strategies

Outcomes are acquired through lectures, seminars, talks and workshops.

Methods of Assessment

Coursework assignments and in class discussions

Make a successful application for ethical approval.

Teaching/Learning Methods and Strategies

Outcomes are acquired through lectures, seminars, talks and workshops.

Methods of Assessment

Coursework assignments and in class discussions