Graduate Diploma in Psychology
Units of study table
| Unit of study | Credit points | A: Assumed knowledge P: Prerequisites C: Corequisites N: Prohibition | Session |
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Intermediate Units |
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| Students must complete 24 credit points from the following: | |||
| PSYC2010 Brain and Behaviour |
6 | P PSYC1002 N PSYC2011, PSYC2911, PSYC2910 |
Semester 1 |
| PSYC2910 Brain and Behaviour (Advanced) |
6 | P A mark of at least 75 in PSYC1002 N PSYC2011, PSYC2911, PSYC2010 |
Semester 1 |
| PSYC2012 Statistics and Research Methods for Psych |
6 | A Recommended: HSC Mathematics, any level P PSYC1001 OR PSYC1002 |
Semester 1 |
| PSYC2013 Cognitive and Social Psychology |
6 | P PSYC1001 and PSYC1002 |
Semester 2 |
| PSYC2014 Personality and Psychology Assessment 1 |
6 | P PSYC1001 and PSYC1002 |
Semester 2 |
| NB: PSYC2010/2910 replaced PSYC2011/2911 from 2017. | |||
Senior Units |
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| Students must complete 24 credit points from the following: | |||
| NB: For students who have not completed PSYC2010/2910 at the intermediate level, these 24 credit points must include PSYC3018. Students who want to be eligible for entry to the Honours program must also include PSYC3010. | |||
| NB: For those intending to take the theoretical thesis option in Psychology Honours: HPSC3023 is needed as a prerequisite. | |||
| PSYC3010 Advanced Statistics for Psychology |
6 | P PSYC2012 plus at least one other Intermediate Psychology Unit of Study from PSYC2010, PSYC2910, PSYC2011, PSYC2911, PSYC2013, PSYC2014 |
Semester 2 |
| PSYC3011 Learning and Behaviour |
6 | P (PSYC2011 or PSYC2911 or PSYC2010 or PSYC2910) and PSYC2012 N PSYC3911 |
Semester 1 |
| PSYC3012 Cognition, Language and Thought |
6 | P PSYC2012 and PSYC2013 |
Semester 1 |
| PSYC3013 Perceptual Systems |
6 | P (PSYC2010 or PSYC2910 or PSYC2011 or PSYC2911) and PSYC2012 N PSYC3913 |
Semester 2 |
| PSYC3014 Behavioural and Cognitive Neuroscience |
6 | P [(PSYC2010 or PSYC2910 or PSYC2011 or PSYC2911) and 6 credit points from (PSYC2012 or PSYC2013 or PSYC2014)] OR [(PSYC2010 or PSYC2910 or PSYC2011 or PSYC2911 or PSYC2013) and (ANAT2010 or ANAT2910) and PCOL2011] N PSYC3914 |
Semester 2 |
| PSYC3914 Behavioural and Cognitive Neuroscience Adv |
6 | P [An average mark of 75 in (PSYC2010 or PSYC2910 or PSYC2011 or PSYC2911) and 6 credit points from (PSYC2012 or PSYC2013 or PSYC2014)] OR [An average mark of 75 in (PSYC2010 or PSYC2910 or PSYC2011 or PSYC2911 or PSYC2013) and (ANAT2010 or ANAT2910) and PCOL2011] N PSYC3014 |
Semester 2 |
| PSYC3015 Personality and Psychology Assessment 2 |
6 | P PSYC2012 and PSYC2014 |
Semester 1 |
| PSYC3016 Developmental Psychology |
6 | P PSYC2012 and PSYC2013 N PSYC3916 |
Semester 2 |
| PSYC3017 Social Psychology |
6 | P PSYC2013 |
Semester 1 |
| PSYC3018 Abnormal Psychology |
6 | P (PSYC2010 or PSYC2910 or PSYC2011 or PSYC2911) and PSYC2014 |
Semester 1 |
| PSYC3020 Applied Psychology |
6 | P 12 credit points of junior psychology and 12 credit points in Intermediate Psychology N PSYC3019 |
Semester 2 |
| HPSC3023 Psychology and Psychiatry: History and Phil |
6 | A HPSC2100 and HPSC2101 P (12 credit points of Intermediate HPSC units) OR (Credit or greater in an HPSC Intermediate unit) OR (12 Intermediate credit points in Psychology units) |
Semester 1 |